Sentence examples for as pretense from inspiring English sources

There was a truth behind their performances, as well as pretense.

Instead, the Patriots exposed as pretense the Jets' boast to be Super Bowl contenders and, for the second consecutive season, handed them their third loss of the season at Gillette.

Asked what he thought of Mr. McCain's concession speech on Saturday, in which he used such words as "pretense" and "an empty slogan of reform" to describe the Bush campaign, the governor said, "All of us have to react to our victories and defeats in our own ways".

Metarepresentational accounts maintain that pretense involves representing the contents of the pretend episode as pretense, and thus holds that those who engage in pretense behavior must possess a concept of pretense (Leslie 1987, 1994).

In the film, talking with the journalist Chuck Klosterman, Murphy discusses the impossibility of becoming one of his own heroes, David Bowie, and wanting to dispense with as much pretense as possible.

Famously, after the Umpqua Community College mass shooting in 2015, reporters found that local sheriff John Hanlin had previously shared content on his personal Facebook page suggesting the feds may have staged the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting and even the 9/11 terrorist attacks—as pretenses to disarm the public by way of gun control laws.

Desserts, like a jelly-filled, peanut butter-frosted cupcake, are best suited to those who want their sugar buzz delivered with as little pretense and refinement as possible.

When used selectively as a pretense, to be lauded as sublime because of verbose language suggesting superiority, Ayn Rand's principle of reason bears little distinction from the malleable rules behind any other religious belief system -- ones that are always self-sustaining, that won't tolerate doubters and that tend to favor the predispositions of the leaders making the rules.

As devoid of pretense as she was of makeup, Ms. Gross dutifully edged into the throng.

For substantially less, he said, "you get this, and much less pretense as well".

Transparency As a starting point, the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines transparent as: "free from pretense or deceit; easily detected or seen through; readily understood; characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices".