Sentence examples for for pretense from inspiring English sources

In design, just as in cooking, Eberhard Mller and Paulette Satur have no patience for pretense.

"A total disregard for pretense, a sense of nature, loving the trees, the green, the flowers," she says.

"Pay for pretense" may be a better name for it, given some of the accounting shenanigans that have emerged.

Teen-agers today have to move past embarrassment quickly, and, because there's little time for pretense in the digital arena, many are producing music with unusual honesty.

Richard Ross, a Sacramento political consultant who managed Mr. Freeman's unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign for the State Assembly from Santa Monica last year, said Mr. Freeman "has no tolerance for pretense".

They include the best, funniest fox-hunting scene since Trollope, and also display some of Trollope's social observation and comic shrewdness, his eye for pretense, hypocrisy and self-deception.

The tale of Falstaff is the actor's tragedy — the story of a great man who is great only for his power of pretense, for his transparent self-aggrandizement, a mask which is modelled closely on an actual grandeur.

But while the film teases Leroy for his pretense, it also honours him for his passion.

I take exception to the counsel in Walter Isaacson's July 14 Op-Ed article for a "pretense of humility" in our relations with France ("Poor Richard's Flattery").

Mr. Bondy had scoured the work, it seemed, looking for every pretense to flesh out, literally, the eroticism of the lovers and the lecherous kinkiness of Scarpia.

In a morning briefing for foreign reporters, Mr. Morsi warned the ruling military council against using the violence as an excuse to delay the elections, reflecting a widespread fear that the council is looking for a pretense to retain power.