Sentence examples for his pretence from inspiring English sources
A dutiful wife may feel obliged to bolster his pretence.
Even if he initialled them without reading them, his pretence that he never knew was fatuous.
If Gordon Brown continues his pretence, as in the Commons and his Sunday Mirror article, no one will listen.
Even if Waldheim had initialled the reports without reading them, his pretence that he never knew was fatuous.
The Resolution Foundation exposes his pretence that raising the tax threshold compensates low paid workers for his cuts: most low to middle earners will lose out, again.
His wrongness is not a matter of opinion, it is a fact, and his pretence at data-driven neutrality is not just irritating, it's also hard to admire.
He began touting his successful record in ten years as finance minister under Mr Chrétien, casting aside his previous pretence that the two men (who abhor each other) had no links.
Django himself, in posing as a "Mandingo" trader of slaves trained to fight, is sickened by his own pretence as a collaborator.
That sentence captures much of the Wodehouse magic - what PN Furbank called his "comic pretence of verbal precision, an exhibition of lexicology".
In J'Aimerais Bien Etre Mon Chien, Frederik Mey admits that sometimes he wishes that he could be his dog, and live his life without pretence.
Honest, at ease in his skin, without pretence, he turned a moving story of his immigrant parents into the reason why he is drawn to give back to British society some of what its welcome gave to all of them.
