Sentence examples for more pretense from inspiring English sources

There was no more pretense of mulling what comes next and enough glorious noise, from Old Black, his ancient Les Paul, to drown out would-be requesters.

"Experience indicates that [the Defense Department's] repeated promises of access to [task force] files are more pretense than promise," the report stated.

When he did reemerge he often did so holding a glass of booze in an act that was more pretense of being cool while he delivered jokes that were often flat.

"I was much funnier, more natural, no pretense".

The Tibetan statement said the defendants were given no more than a "pretense of a fair trial".

But when a production – in this case "Antigone Unearthed" – seems more concerned with pretense than storytelling, head-scratching is sure to ensue.

Put differently, can the race for the Mississippi Republican Senate nomination look any more like playground pretense of what a political campaign should be?

Nowhere is this pretense stretched more amusingly thin than on the waters of the lake.

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

She dreaded the smiling pretense even more than the bleak truth.

But the book veers into thoroughly unappealing territory when the authors insinuate, in a chapter all the more lurid for its pretense of sympathy, that Rove's adoptive father, Louis Rove, left Karl's mother because he was gay.