Sentence examples for less pretense from inspiring English sources

And this season, established chefs and restaurateurs are offering more choices with less pretense than ever.

For substantially less, he said, "you get this, and much less pretense as well".

It's too salty, too demanding and, frankly, too chichi for wines made with less pretense.

As we waited to be radiated, waited to be artfully poisoned toward the hope of being cured, there was less pretense, less opportunity to deny our cancers.

There's no other holiday with less pretense than this one.

Although a grueling experience -- any runway model will attest to the intensity behind the quick changes that have to go just right -- in some ways it's easier since it requires a bit less pretense.

"It sure has worked to their advantage that the initial hype that they helped create has gotten hundreds of developers to start working on building applications for them under more or less false pretense".

With the increase in popularity of the home computer (and more importantly, the home-educated computer programmer) a subculture began to develop of "hacker" types that viewed their craft with less focus on pretense and more emphasis on wit, skill, and purpose.

In that sense, they were no less inspired by the "pretense of knowledge" than the Keynesians' advocacy of fiscal policy in the 1960s, which Hayek condemned so forcefully.

The sulfur content in fuels is continuously being reduced by regulations, however increasingly low levels in several countries, currently the U.S.A. and Europe require a maximum of 50 ppm with a pretense reduction to less than 10 ppm of the end of 2010 [ 11].

"At the time we started, we were under the false pretenses that we would have less work to do," says Thompson.