Sentence examples for as it pretends to from inspiring English sources

Mme Verdurin ends up, in her third (at least) marriage, as the Princesse de Guermantes, at the top of the tree, and this, I think, is something that the novel secretly celebrates as it pretends to throw up its hands.

The disappointment is that the film is never quite as hardboiled as it pretends to be.

Ukip is not as separate from the system as it pretends to be.

The good news is that France is not quite as French as it pretends to be.

"Creature Comforts," which makes its debut tonight, is an unusually snooty show for CBS even as it pretends to be something else.

Like all the Peterson-funded groups, Fix the Debt seems much more concerned with cutting Social Security and Medicare than with fighting deficits in general — and also not nearly as nonpartisan as it pretends to be.

Ireland was not as comfortable with its stereotype as it pretended to be for its own survival, he said, and there is little nostalgia for the misty past.

In any case, it was well done and, I suspect, not something the U.S. was nearly as appalled by as it pretended to be.

Walsh's first novel is a smart and knowing satire that is probably all too on target as the survival guide it pretends to be.

Or is it merely rattling its cage, as it pretends still to be a power in the region in spite of being locked into an unwinnable war in Iraq?

I'd rather succeed or fail as myself than do it pretending to be someone else, or worse, do it without infusing any of myself into my work.