Oiticica seems to have been without pretense, and this allowed his work to be vulnerable.
It is, without pretense or apology, a genre movie, an action-revenge fantasy in which four tough Americans investigate a crime and collect some payback.
For those who aspire to better leadership, this poem provides a wonderful prescription in the words Salinas uses to describe his father: "a worker and provider, | who learned the simple facts | in life and lived by them, | who held no pretense". The true leader can learn much from these lines, and this poem: courage is without pretense, simple and powerfully connected to daily life.
We were without pretense.
I was looking for something familiar a place that was safe, a place that felt like mine, where I could be the man I wanted to be without restraint or pretense.
It seemed to me that by inventing a setting and inventing a man based on El Cid but clearly not him, I would be declaring, without pretense and ab initio, that I did not know what that real man was like nine hundred years ago, how he related to his wife, his children, his friends, his enemies.
She was very tense, though she pretended not to be as she sat with her legs kicked out in front of her; she was without the pretense of a book this time.
He was utterly without pretense and he also was a talented researcher.
Rabin was utterly without pretense.
Both dishes were delivered without pretense, with minor, quiet ceremony.
