Sentence examples for it was a pretense from inspiring English sources

If it was a pretense.

There were no seals; it was a pretense.

Although Pepusch's "In grateful chorus" seems to indicate the choir's contentment, their positioning is still scattered, implying that it was a pretense, covering up unresolved yearnings to connect to a higher realm .I was glad" presents the optimism that such a connection is possible and segues into the solemn hope that God will not remember offences.

Even if it was a pretense, this gesture of political foresight thrilled me.

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.

It's a pretense to start a conversation with a passing stranger, or a shopkeeper, or someone sitting next to you on a bench.

It's a pretense, it's a legal fiction, that there are remedies".

That's why Friedrich Hayek argued – rightly – that central planning is impossible: it's a pretense of exact knowledge.

His relation to the court and to the parties is tainted in its origin; it is a mere pretense and sham.

It's a silly enough pretense for keeping Lowe alive long enough for him to reconsider, for many also rather clunky reasons, his original murderous mission, but the scenes between the men are affecting enough to justify forgiveness.

So they acted in the world, but it was all a pretense.