Sentence examples for for pretence from inspiring English sources

The diction is too blunt for pretence.

Given the difficulty of parking the real thing, many directors have understandably opted for pretence or suggestion.

On this occasion, we decided that the time for pretence was over.

There is no need for any pretence because there is so much original material.

Jago's character, as written and as acted by Christopher Eccleston, is too transparent, so obviously slimy that it is hard to believe Othello would fall for his pretence at friendship.

For instance, Hall argued that mainstream mass media in the US effectively proselytised for the notion that democratic pluralism was a reality rather than a façade, arguing for "the pretence that society is held together by common norms, including equal opportunity, respect for diversity, one person-one vote, individual rights and rule of law".

Stronger praise came in an October 1960 issue of Kine Weekly, which commended Crossroads to Crime for being "refreshingly free from pretence" and added, "The film's moral is lofty, its tender domestic asides encourage feminine interest, and the climax is a corker".

The traditional bogeymen of the information age – pornographers, pirates, mafias and terrorists – now head a list of pretences for locking down the information society.

Alston accused the UN's Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) for coming up with a "patently artificial and wholly unfounded legal pretence for insisting that the organisation must not take legal responsibility for what it has done".

Even western elites who want you to maintain this pretence for their interest can only go along with this for so long.

Grijzenhout kept up the pretence for several months.