Sentence examples for in pretence from inspiring English sources

From the start the concept was coated in pretence, sustained by the golden age of Whitehall consultancy.

Guinness was an actor, not an entertainer or vaudevillian like Peter Sellers, who specialised in pretence and adopting other personas.

She is as swathed in pretence as her husband, but the difference is that she knows it.

It is conceivable, for example, that there might be machines that, as a result of moral considerations, refused to lie or to engage in pretence.

The tribute act, then, is a sanctioned retreat into the world of fantasy, an opportunity to indulge in performance and pretence in an environment in which every participant – both active and passive – is as willingly involved as everyone else in the positive-deception.

Religious leaders not only connive with this hypocrisy, but also attempt to revel in the pretence of a unique identity, in which minor differences are heightened – the complete antipathy of shared humanity, which is supposedly the essence and fundamental belief of all faiths.

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".

Mathematical theories should be viewed as invitations to participate in games of pretence, in which we act as if certain mathematical entities exist.

The scandal lay in the pretence that Grace was an amateur, and in the treatment of professionals who stayed in separate hotels, ate separate meals, changed in separate dressing rooms and walked on to the field through separate gates to the amateurs.

The Libyan revolution of 2011 was always something of a phoney, not in the sense that Gaddafi was popular, but in the pretence that he had been overthrown by an armed opposition of Libyans and with NATO only playing a subsidiary role"  .

Now they have made a land grab for Labour policies in a pretence that they hold our values.