In "Disinheritance", Jhabvala saw herself locked "in a double pretence" of being Indian and Anglo-Saxon: "I exited India on a double lie - one it took me 24 years to manufacture".
These assumptions, though in Mr Ghoshal's view badly flawed, were simple enough to allow business-school academics to develop grand theories of management supported by elegant mathematical models and empirical analysis that appeared scientific, and thus earned their subject academic respectability, but were, in fact, a pretence of knowledge where there was none.In this section Bad for business?
I was still kidding myself that we were in control – a pretence which, 10 minutes later, I was forced to abandon.
However, if proposing that a believed-false proposition become common ground can mean engaging in and sustaining a "pretence," possibly in order to communicate truths, then it is not clear that this counts as making an assertion.
Believe me: this book is about the most fun it's possible to have while still maintaining the pretence – perhaps it's not a pretence in your case – that one is an intellectual.
The latest screw-tightening immigration bill going through parliament removes support from thousands more, in a vain pretence that the state has a grip on the war-driven refugee crisis.
What I found in each case was greenwash – a pretence of concern about climate but policies dictated by fossil fuel special interests.
Such uses of "need to" thus represent, paradoxically, both a pretence of authority (in the diagnosis-at-a-distance of the person's "need") and an avoidance of authority, such as would be implied by the use of "should" or "must".
"Christianity should be taught about and taught about well but not, as at present, to the exclusion of other approaches to life and not in any pretence that it is relevant to the developing beliefs, values and life stances of most young people, over two-thirds of whom have non-religious worldviews".
