Sentence examples for drop the pretense from inspiring English sources

When the workday ended, she could punch the clock, drop the pretense and don the ornamentation.

Let's drop the pretense that he stands for a new type of politics".

There is only so much we can read this way before we are overwhelmed by the desire to drop the pretense.

Let's drop the pretense, is the message, and serve up some down-home chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and chuck the tautog with celery root routine.

Not only would it have to pay more than is justified by the cost savings it has promised, but it would also probably need to drop the pretense of its merger of equals.

He and the Republican leaders in the House and Senate should drop the pretense that tax-break giveaways to corporations and the wealthiest Americans are the key to reviving the economy.

Now they have dropped the pretense.

Mitt Romney, who used to try to sound like a moderate on immigration, has dropped the pretense.

If Zuckerberg wants to regain the public's trust, he can start by dropping the pretense of neutrality.

"Unsung Heroes" finally starts to sing in the closing stories, partly because Poirier drops the pretense that the book is really "about" American inventiveness somehow.

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.