Sentence examples for of pretence from inspiring English sources

Her appeal is her lack of pretence.

But McCullin is incapable of pretence.

They are structures of pretence and willed ignorances.

It's a little bit of pretence that then sticks".

After witnessing a violent crime, Ty is forced into witness protection and a life of pretence.

And who better to hurl a few pages of pretence in the Nymphomaniac star's general direction than Professor James Franco.

The traditional bogeymen of the information age – pornographers, pirates, mafias and terrorists – now head a list of pretences for locking down the information society.

On others, I would head for a town on the most spurious of pretences, like Rovaniemi, simply because it had produced Lordi, the bonkers Finnish Eurovision winners.

There is a sense of wintry urgency about Unless - of any pretence of charm being dropped in order to get things said.

(He cites the vision of Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, as an example of this pretence of local journalism).

Possibly the greatest treat is the dialogue, cramming in plot detail at the expense of any pretence of realism.