Sentence examples for is only a pretense from inspiring English sources

The new admissions system is only a pretense at nondiscrimination.

But the thought must be directed toward a higher entity, for the ego's willingness to attack itself is only a pretense.

The controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is only a pretense to express the hate that was already there.

However, if they are conducting surveillance without cause, and "got in by fraud and deception" if their bathroom visit was only a pretense, "that is trespassing," she said.

The Wall Street CEO admitted that his goal is to eliminate the already critically weak Dodd-Frank Act and return to an era when there was only a pretense of financial regulation.

But perhaps that "professional feeling" is just a pretense?

In this sense, the pretense of form -- that it is a serial -- is simply a pretense.

They are views according to which the apparent loss of divine attributes is only pretense or illusion.

Today, both the Right and the Left, and various identity groups, have turned social media into their own self-sustaining silos, where discourse is only pretense.

Only years later did Sequoia come to believe that all this was just a pretense for Wandering Eagle to assert control over the lost souls he had collected.

Asking was just a pretense.