Sentence examples for central pretence from inspiring English sources

The game's central pretence – you are a vigilante, clean up the streets – is power fantasy hokum, the type of tone-deaf ludicrousness which video games, given what seems to be their mission from God, to massage the egos of benighted men, love to indulge.

Because when you take away romance, a swoon-worthy central figure, and the pretence someone might actually fall in love, interesting things fill the void.

And of course, that's a central theme, the squiggly line between truth and lies, integrity and pretence.

Schoon was described as "the central player" in the operation, which saw a fleet of fully taxed and insured ambulances created in the Netherlands under the pretence of transporting patients to the UK.

No pretence".

Cut the pretence.

Promises, pretence, subterfuge.

But the pretence is slipping.

But the pretence is wearing thin.

It makes no pretence to intelligence.

It is time to end the pretence.