Sentence examples for its pretext from inspiring English sources

But the piece transcends its pretext and can be understood in human terms.

Disney is using this summer's football World Cup as its pretext for cutting short Alice's theatrical run.

It is the importance of the freedom of navigation and of overflight that has given America its pretext for louder involvement.

Mitch is out for Mitch, and God save the rest; imagine a berserk Will Ferrell or Zach Galifianakis running his hustle in your home, a hustle that happens to have as its pretext the care and nurture of your newborn.

A long and complex process to try to remove Mr. Wahid from office began at the start of this year with corruption charges as its pretext but political power as its driving force.

And it's possible that the packed audience was in fact entertained by the dance, which is given its pretext by a barely-there story: Two tribes remaining on a parched Earth after some sort of catastrophe are saved by the arrival of a pure soul who reconciles them and brings rain.

Its initial pretext was to protest against alleged fraud in oil-export accounts, but its ambitions have widened.

In spite of or because of its morbid pretext, the show has been a hit here, with more than 160,000 visitors in its first three months.

"Black Swan" is no more about the behavior of ballerinas than its central pretext, "Swan Lake," is about the habits of birds.

Seen Saturday night, the production offered a souped-up veneer over its narrative pretext, a twist on the myth of Orpheus's search for Eurydice in the underworld.

You might then begin to see how I was duped by Edward Norton single-handedly winning a three-on-three basketball game that's shot and edited like a fucking Reebok commercial, despite the fact its narrative pretext is a racially motivated turf war with the Crips.