Sentence examples for about the pretence from inspiring English sources

As for the post-debate spin room, the rise of the machines there cannot come soon enough, not least because one of the most pointless and toxic spaces in modern public life could be sanitised, and turned into a sort of automated precinct, where political protocol droids would move methodically about, the pretence that any of this is in the public interest having been humbly eradicated.

He described the US as a "Leviathan security state" and went on to say: "What's most disturbing about this is the pretence of counter-terrorism or the pretence of the war on terror or the pretence of even proper cause is not even in this.

He had been asked to supply them with gunpowder about a year earlier, under the pretence that it was for William Stanley's regiment in Flanders no longer an illegal operation due to the recent Treaty of London —but otherwise provided no funds for the conspiracy.

In describing the difficulties, in his own experience, of seeking objective supervisor ratings across a wide range of jobs, Guion (2006) says, "Perhaps, indeed, we should abandon the pretence about 'objective'truerue', or 'hard' criteria of proficiency in performance" (pp. 268 269).

In the interview, Judd says that she was summoned by the unnamed mogul from a rival studio to his hotel room several times, under the pretence of talking about roles in his movies.

If you wanted to talk to those people about mental health, you could, because the pretence that exists when you meet someone new is no longer there.

You get to nose around different houses, but without the pretence of being taught about DIY.

Some participants claimed they had been duped into taking part under the pretence it was a series about community spirit.

Her persecutors discussed how best to fulfil the aim of driving "SJWs" from gaming while maintaining the pretence that the campaign was about corruption.

But it's the fake neutrality that's most offensive – the pretence that it's all about getting young people to vote, for whatever party.

As an aide to Biden in various capacities, Connaughton watches Washington slough off the last vestiges of the pretence that politics isn't all about the money.