Sentence examples for a pretense of subversion from inspiring English sources

The timidity of "Planet 51," which doesn't even make a pretense of subversion, owes partly to its being pitched to a younger audience and partly to its creators' paucity of wit.

Instead, it should be accompanied by a pretense of humility.

And permanence, by its nature, offers a pretense of truth.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

"He was not an angel; he never made a pretense of being one," she once said.

Today, he said, prisons have taken over the job, with barely a pretense of treatment.

After a pretense of independence, Henry again joined the former; the Scots promptly joined the French.

Lawmakers in Albany never even made a pretense of considering it.

Or at least they should make a pretense of actually using these books to raise kids.

Had Roberts considered ObamaCare constitutional, perhaps Pandora could retain hope and a pretense of limited government.

This is not a time to keep up a pretense of wealth and "anything goes".