Sentence examples for no one could pretend from inspiring English sources

No one could pretend that learning Polish is easy.

And no one could pretend that all social workers abide by these golden rules.

No one could pretend to believe in two of the most debilitating myths of womanhood, then current – woman's endearing frailty, and the seemliness of her ways.

The cut was less than feared but chair Paul McKeever said no one could pretend it would not be "extremely challenging".

No one could pretend anything was normal, not with the Bruins players meeting and thanking the first responders from Monday's scene, emergency personnel who used Wednesday's game as a chance to exhale, writes Les Carpenter on Yahoo.com.

He became joint deputy chairman (1974-79), though while he enjoyed his spell at Central Office, no one could pretend the tenure did not have its pitfalls and frustrations.

On the latter reading, most philosophers agree that one could imagine without pretending, and that one could pretend (that is, act-as-if) without imagining.

So, instead of destroying enemies, one could pretend to be creating explosions.

However, it is possible that one could pretend to be happy to please others or get through a tough situation in life.

Now no one on Earth could pretend they were not at risk, either from the vastly more threatening hydrogen weapons themselves, or from radioactive fallout that caused cancer, a disease which the public at that same time was just beginning to openly talk about and fear.

Calling home meant waking up in the night, standing under the stars and pretending that no one could hear you or that foreign intelligence services weren't listening in.