Sentence examples for idle to pretend from inspiring English sources

Fiscal prudence is hard and it is idle to pretend otherwise.

It is, of course, idle to pretend that editing the Spectator is comparable to running London.

It would be idle to pretend that Cameron doesn't have talents as a leader.

But it would be idle to pretend that there is here anything so fresh and inevitable as Gershwin's Summertime.

"It would be idle to pretend everybody liked them or understood [the readings]," she acknowledged in her book, Broadcasting (1933).

Takeley, however, is a one-off, and it is idle to pretend that the pressures that favour standardised buildings will go away.

To pretend.

We like to pretend.

We got to pretend".

"And I had to pretend.

So we had to pretend that we're Muslims.