Sentence examples for i cannot pretend from inspiring English sources

I cannot pretend to know.

There Sacks wrote: "I cannot pretend that I am without fear.

I cannot pretend to have been unaware of the relevance now.

At his diagnosis Oliver Sacks wrote, "I cannot pretend I am without fear.

Writing about this incomparable production, I cannot pretend to the tranquillity in which emotion should properly be recollected.

Still, I cannot pretend to be particularly adventurous: Earl Grey, Ceylon, Darjeeling, mint, Yorkshire Gold (vast quantities of Yorkshire Gold) – these are my staples.

Having met the late Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer, only twice in my life, the occasions separated by some 36 years, I certainly cannot pretend to any friendship or even acquaintance.

I loved his verse ("You want imagination but you cannot pretend…"), and we began a dialogue about where it should go.

I'm not saying the fat ones on the bus are important to me, but one cannot pretend the fat ones aren't there.

We cannot pretend that it is.

We cannot pretend that nothing has happened.