Sentence examples for is pretence from inspiring English sources

The basic principle established by Hutchinson in his great coup de theatre at the Bailey - that drama is pretence and illusion and cannot be treated legally as if it were real - seems once again to be in doubt.

It recognises the incomprehensibility of the situation by asking how anyone could feel so lonely, it doesn't hide from the fact that performance is pretence ("Smiling, having fun / Feeling like a number one") but it doesn't blame the audience for the anomie.

Speak if this be pretence!" is just one of the many choice phrases that, somehow, this assured cast is able to make sound natural.

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It is without pretence or pretensions.

The problem is the pretence at localism.

But now it is this pretence that is a lie.

There is no pretence to unity within the British right.

There is no pretence that this is rational.

It is its pretence simultaneously at calm and radical change.

Certainly there is no pretence his is a long-term formula.