Sentence examples for least pretense from inspiring English sources

It is quite another thing for it to rubber-stamp the ascent of a Supreme Court justice without the least pretense to independent deliberation.

There is always the promise, or at least the pretense, of dinner.

It was important, however, to maintain at least the pretense of peaceful intentions, so the British crown allowed privateers to do its dirty work.

That's why Jack is continually reinvented, particularly in the movies, where the scanty facts fuse with fiction to create at least the pretense of closure.

When things went bad there was at least a pretense that the company bore some responsibility for the worker's fate.

To reach the goal required years of slogging, and at least the pretense that you were willing to subordinate your selfish interests to those of the group.

If you could have Mitt Romney dress in a costume, what should he be for Halloween?" If nothing else, shouldn't a concern for his own dignity lead Brinkley to have at least a pretense of adversarial substance?

Given this history, one might have expected him to show some contrition -- to promise to change his ways and to offer at least a pretense that Congress would henceforth have some say in how money was spent.

But then money has always played a bigger role in New York than it has in London or L.A. Maybe it's just the aura of inclusiveness and maybe it won't last, but it does seem that even the coolest kids on the block are gravitating to a new kind of populism, or at least the pretense of it.

I like to mix my vice with at least a vaporous pretense of virtue.

This change was predicated on race or at least on its pretense.