Sentence examples for great pretence from inspiring English sources

"He makes a great pretence of being chaotic.

He also recognised that the media, which had always made a great pretence of objectivity while embracing a liberal social agenda, could be turned into a Republican weapon.

Power distribution and continuous fuel transportation to produce the electrical energy for these areas pretences a great challenge.

American psychologist William James had already made the point with regard to the taxonomy of the emotions that "its subdivisions are to a great extent either fictitious or unimportant….Its pretences to accuracy are a sham".

It's basically a guessing game with money in different boxes, but the great joy of it comes from Noel's pretence that it's possible to have a strategy.

This desire for such large scale planning is a Pretence of Knowledge.

Aeschines claims that Demosthenes made money out of young rich men, such as Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, whom he allegedly deceived with the pretence that he could make him a great orator.

The SA-SCAT has the pretence to measure social capital at the individual level.

A higher cap would allow greater differentiation, thus helping to remove another flaw: the pretence that a degree of a particular class (a first, say) from one university is equivalent to the same class from any other.So all is not lost yet in the battle for quality in what will be on offer to future freshers.

The greatest dangers to the spread of HIV/AIDS are ignorance, pretence, silence, denial and a combination of these," said Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Representative in Azerbaijan.

The basic principle established by Hutchinson in his great coup de theatre at the Bailey - that drama is pretence and illusion and cannot be treated legally as if it were real - seems once again to be in doubt.