Sentence examples for of the pretense from inspiring English sources

A few songs in, the masks came off, and so did some of the pretense.

This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art.

The annual Billboard Music Awards carry little of the pretense of other award shows.

Years ago a friend, sensing in Sarah an absence of the pretense that plagues so many "normal" people, described her as "a rose with the thorns removed".

If you engage in an imaginary tea party with a young child where you pour imaginary tea into a series of cups out of an actually empty teapot, the children are perfectly ready to agree that the cups are full in the context of the pretense.

And it's the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretense, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits.

Mr. Assad has attacked many of them on the pretense of attacking Nusra fighters.

Suddenly there was no pretense of hiding the pretense of photography.

I guess.... ..... Then she paused, her face sort of falling, the pretense of effort dropping away.

Then she paused, her face sort of falling, the pretense of effort dropping away.

"We exchanged e-mails sort of under the pretense of she could give me advice on getting grants," said Mr. Ryan, who is something of an anarchist.