Sentence examples for is only a pretence from inspiring English sources

For example, he claims that the familiar terrorist excuse that they had no alternative in the face of oppression is only "a pretence".

The squadron leader and the pilot officer tried to persuade me to use the bayonet as it was only a pretence.

For where the injured Party may be relieved, and his damages repaired by Appeal to the Law, there can be no pretence for Force, which is only to be used, where a Man is intercepted from appealing to the Law.

David Runciman's argument, in his book Political Hypocrisy, that "liberal democratic politics are only sustainable if mixed with a certain amount of dissimulation and pretence" would have been incomprehensible to Benn.

They – although there was no "they", just an automated message sent from a cold place where there is no feeling only a mechanical pretence of feeling – were actually asking me to "review" as a customer who had recently bought some items, including the latest Charlie Haden album, Sophisticated Ladies.

Fifth year graduation is not just a pretence it degrades the value of a real graduation.

What is more, this babe is making a pretence at gesturing like a king.

They are bouncy, they are chipper - and, no, it is not a pretence.

It is a pretence that can be indulged.

It would just be a pretence, thinking that they understood the implications.

But it was all a pretence and journalists - as distinct from managers - knew that.