Sentence examples for his pretense from inspiring English sources

But his pretense isn't convincing.

It's just like his pretense that he's a conservative," Mr. Gingrich said on CBS's "The Early Show".

"They hate me," I said to Val. "Under his pretense of being concerned for my future, he really hates me.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin abandoned his pretense of being prime minister and returned to his real job as president.

That is all it takes to knock him off his unsteady perch, to puncture his pretense of being at ease.

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

He had married Margot, a poor, dowdy woman, because she was different, and lent herself to his pretenses.

Mr. Murfi provides much of the antic comic relief as the awkward Patsy, who keeps returning to the sisters and their story, a pile of fish his absurd pretense, as if called by fate.

The bigger reason was his absurd pretense for allowing protesters to occupy Zuccotti Park in the first place.

But I've seen this good man up close, his utter lack of pretense, his respect for the people who work for him, and his devotion to his family".

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.