Sentence examples similar to it a pretense from inspiring English sources
It's a pretense, it's a legal fiction, that there are remedies".
It gave him a pretense to break off all communication with the union; he has refused to meet personally with Keshishian or her deputies since.
It helps if you do it with a pretense.
There were no seals; it was a pretense.
Later, Raj enters Baldev's shop after closing time, and fakes a strong headache, using it as a pretense to get the shop open to buy beer.
Of course, the reason the neo-conservatives made this "Islamofascists" word up is so they could compare Iran and Ahmedinejad to the Nazis and use it as a pretense to attack Iran.
On this account, our mental architecture contains not only a "belief box" in which believed content is "stored"—it also contains a "pretense box" for holding imagined or pretended content.
It was a pretense-free, almost wholly unfashionable performance that in many ways smelled of the 1970s, the decade of decline and digging in again.
His lack of pretense is so complete that it is practically a pretense.
So they acted in the world, but it was all a pretense.
