Sentence examples for it was pretense from inspiring English sources
He knew he wasn't coming and he was just, it was pretense.
There were no seals; it was a pretense.
She had seen, Emerson writes, "the absurdity of her life before, that was nothing new, but now there was no reason to ever believe in her own usefulness again, and it was this pretense which she so needed.
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 all pretense — not the kind of pretense that brings us fake Georgian or fake Renaissance but the pretense that the hoopla is somehow connected to a meaningful architectural idea.
Their strength is pretense.
So they acted in the world, but it was all a pretense.
When Philip Roth took the stage, it was under the pretense of reading from the great novel -- what many say is among his best -- Sabbath's Theater.
