Sentence examples for is merely a pretext from inspiring English sources

In France, according to the writer Anouilh, everything - from weddings to duels - is merely a pretext for a good dinner.

"Masurca Fogo" was created for Expo '98 in Lisbon, and one senses that Lisbon is merely a pretext.

And some of the anxiety about mining stocks is merely a pretext to preach the merits of actively managed funds, with higher fees.

Some analysts would leave it there and say that you don't need to get into the nature of conservative ideology; that ideology is merely a pretext for taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

But Jephtha's victory is merely a pretext for his torturous dilemma: having promised God that if he were to return victorious, "what, or whoe'er shall first salute mine eyes, shall be forever Thine, or fall a sacrifice," the conquering hero is ebulliently greeted by his daughter.

What we are witnessing is not the rise of neo-anti-communism per se, even if it seems that way on the surface; instead, anti-communism is merely a pretext for state terrorism and heightened control in the larger, and a more concerning scheme of a re-militarisation of government.

For Bosnian Serbs, the murder was merely a pretext for Austria-Hungary and Germany to attack Serbia.

Mr. Bocca caught the music's lilt, but the steps, essentially leaps and cabrioles, were merely a pretext for dancing.

Prince Bandar's assertion — that the talk of peace was merely a pretext for some hard selling — is difficult to dismiss.

"Will they support it, or will it turn out the lack of limits on tactical nukes was merely a pretext for saying no to New Start?" he asked.

Captain-General Aguilar has been ordered to suppress at any cost the Bilbao movement, which is frankly revolutionary, the labor dispute being merely a pretext.