Sentence examples for barely pretend from inspiring English sources
What Wednesday's vote on the health and social care bill shows more clearly than anything is that many, if not most, of the political elite no longer care whether they are carrying out the wishes of the electorate, and barely pretend that we are any longer a democracy.
In the mushy middle is this summer's forgettable "Pearl Harbor," a spectacle about Hollywood box office that barely pretends to be about war.
But he barely pretended to be a singer, and the simplicity of those songs lulled so many of us into thinking we could do that, because, hey, there wasn't even a third chord on "Heroin," just two!
"And yet now the embarrassment can't be missed — he mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it; he barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly".
But that will not happen for months; meanwhile, the ban should come into effect 30 days after it is signed by the mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.If the law is implemented, many residents will be happy to see the back of outlets that often barely pretended to be providing medical services.
Even 60,000 or 90,000 more American troops couldn't have solved that problem because the surge was incapable of addressing, and barely pretended to face, the true conundrum of the invasion and occupation: any American-directed version of Iraqi "democracy" would invariably usher in Shia-majority dominance over a largely synthetic state.
The lion's share is taken up by leftish rants that barely even pretend to be comedy.
But it has barely even pretended that these might lead to a political settlement.
