Sentence examples for amount of pretence from inspiring English sources
D'Este wrote that "No amount of pretence can conceal that the real object had been a short pincer movement to outflank Caen".
David Runciman's argument, in his book Political Hypocrisy, that "liberal democratic politics are only sustainable if mixed with a certain amount of dissimulation and pretence" would have been incomprehensible to Benn.
When Johnson followed a day later, "after a huge amount of heartache", the audacity of the pretence that he was acting on deeply held anti-EU conviction fooled nobody.
Her appeal is her lack of pretence.
But McCullin is incapable of pretence.
They are structures of pretence and willed ignorances.
It's a little bit of pretence that then sticks".
And who better to hurl a few pages of pretence in the Nymphomaniac star's general direction than Professor James Franco.
This lack of pretence extends to the very structure of the narrative.
More infuriating still was the amount of air time given to claims from the leave campaign that were either grotesque distortions or flagrant lies – the fiction that EU membership cost £350m per week; the pretence that Turkey was close to EU membership and the denial that the UK had a veto on that point.
