Sentence examples for absence of pretense from inspiring English sources

The character people see on TV — the charming smile, the earnest words and an absence of pretense — is usually who he is in person.

The Modern's Lartigue prints -- featuring the boy's family at play, in motion, often in or around water are phenomenal for their freshness, their sense of agility and openness and offhand precision, and their absolute absence of pretense.

But the best part is the absence of pretense around taking these photos.

Years ago a friend, sensing in Sarah an absence of the pretense that plagues so many "normal" people, described her as "a rose with the thorns removed".

The actors at the National are a smart and raffish lot, full of high spirits and self-mocking humor, with a disarming absence of snobbery and pretense.

One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin February 8 , 2012One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.

There is not a lot of pretense.

But he was a great satirist of pretense and convention.

Hampson sang magnificently, with a welcome lack of pretense.

The lack of pretense is almost insulting.