Sentence examples for level of pretense from inspiring English sources

Here, audiences will typically watch the play, not as a play within a play, but as having 'one level of pretense', and those playing Bianca and Katherina will (typically) be pretending to be Bianca and Katherina, not pretending to be actors pretending to be Bianca and Katherina.

Priebus sticks to the script, which includes pretending that money was "stolen" from Medicare -- which also involves a second-level of pretense: Priebus actually does not want Medicare to have money, anyway, in the main.

We felt safe in our love and we allowed each other to function at a level of honesty and honor without pretenses.

It's a rigid, non-negotiable expectation; rarely is there any pretense that the level of service dictates the tip.

It is clear that the work under way here is on the highest level of artistic achievement, so much so, in fact, that the principals' relative youth and lack of pretense is almost disconcerting.

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.

A place without a lot of pretense.

Add to this a sheen of pretense.