It's a foolish, ahistorical approach, in my view, based on a naive reading of baseball history, but at least it avoids the pretense that our current level of knowledge about who used steroids in the 1990s — knowledge that's based on a mix of hearsay and haphazard investigative proceedings — is somehow sufficient to separate the sheep from the goats and keep the Hall untainted.
Arbitrarily shoehorning a woman in, either to avoid a lawsuit or to avoid the mere possibility of homoerotic subtext, is cowardly, lazy writing, conveniently hidden behind the pretense of the producers attempting to be "inclusive" in writing strong female characters.
(Magazines usually buy the photos through an agency, partly to avoid the appearance of directly paying celebrities for access, though publishers and editors no longer bother with any pretense about where the money goes).
I prefer credit to cash transactions, just to avoid my pretense of counting change, and I'm still balancing my checkbook by instinct and the grace of God.
The concept of general semantics for second-order logic avoids any pretense that the power-set operation is a fixed well-understood resource.
"By being consciously -- almost self-consciously -- democratic, by avoiding all pretense to exclusivity, it has become one of the most smashingly successful places in the city, attracting everyone from movie stars to restaurateurs to -- yes, even the fabled Brooklyn secretary.
Whereas candidates used to rely on political "dog whistles," or polite ways to say impolite things, Trump avoids any pretense to civility.
Through all he sought simplicity, quiet & peace, avoided pretense and always tried to find and speak the truth; dearly loved God and family & friends; truly a servant, always gave from an unselfish nature.
It allows members of Congress to avoid responsibility for their actions through a cutout committee, a spending limit and the pretense that this Congress can tell the next one what to do.
Later, the pretense was dropped.
