Sentence examples for behind the pretense from inspiring English sources
For a time, the facts of the incident, which took place after a press conference at one of Trump's resort properties in Jupiter, Florida, were disputed, and Trump could hide behind the pretense that this was case of "he said, she said".
It may not be modified for the sake of protecting the special commercial or political interests often hidden behind the pretense of public interest.
Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine felt that the album was not a huge leap forward for Gaga, but provided "small, if fleeting, glimpses behind the pretense".
Amanda may be hiding behind the pretense of teaching Nikita a lesson, but I think that deep down, she knows she can't destroy her greatest creation.
Writing under pseudonyms and hiding behind the pretense of satire, they churned out lies, dressed them up as news, and then let Facebook's platform do their dirty work, spreading their deliberate falsehoods far and wide.
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.
For the most part, Shawcross stays in the background, lurking behind the arras, dropping the pretense of objectivity only when anyone on the left clamors for attention.
He strips away the pretense behind social graces, revealing the ugly scaffolding, the same way the brothers do when they rip the set apart in "A Night at the Opera".
They lured her into the woods behind the home, under the pretense of seeing a fort the couple was building, and savagely attacked her.
It may also be because Bigelow and Boal, whose behind-the-headlines thrillers have been marked by a certain ideological distance, have cast aside any pretense to neutrality here.
But for Jakie in 1925 New York, the pretense allowed him to hide behind the mask and the music of another long-suffering people (even if that people's suffering was distressingly romanticized by minstrelsy itself).
