Sentence examples for layers of pretense from inspiring English sources

Hong's drypoint style of long takes (five minutes and more) and brisk, decisive pans and zooms blends with his febrile gamesmanship to peel layers of pretense, indifference, and self-deception off characters whose confidently self-asserted identities are dubious and to restore the integral identity of the one character whose integrity was, despite appearances, intact to begin with.

That's a lot of layers of pretense, even for advertising.

But the all-out effort to raise the status of comfort food is a sentimental fraud, swaddled in a thick layer of pretense and nostalgia, a very bad combination.

But the direction and self-direction of those figures is more daring — in cinematic invention and in emotional revelation; they also appear to peel away, with those bold mechanisms, layer after layer of pretense and defense, until they fuse onscreen with their own visions of horror and self-loathing.

That human point seemed worth remembering, even amid the layers of campaign pretense.

All the sound and fury signify little to him besides Americans' extraordinary talent for wrapping their bloodletting and money-making in thick layers of moralistic pretense.

But, having established Blanche as a patronising intruder, Close almost literally strips away the layers of affectation and pretense.

There is not a lot of pretense.

But he was a great satirist of pretense and convention.

Hampson sang magnificently, with a welcome lack of pretense.

The lack of pretense is almost insulting.