Sentence examples for old pretence from inspiring English sources

The same old pretence that it is inevitable, and whatever is "inevitable" is good.

These objections, incidentally, seem to me largely philistine or dishonest (the old cultured pretence that sex is "boring" and beneath one's notice).

But it turns out that even 2- and 3-year-olds are very good at telling pretence from reality.

In 2008, when he was 17, Reynolds invited a 16-year-old girl to his home on the pretence of her helping with a media project.

Obviously everyone who works in the poncy old arts suffers from this inferiority complex – all pretence of intellectual supremacy vanishes when confronted by the reality of what is required, cerebrally, to understand say, the Dirac equation – but I think I have it worse than most.

In Townsville, decades prior, five-year-old Sandra Bacon was lured into his home under the pretence that Hadlow had a collection of books to offer her.

I can still hear the cries of the children and old people dragged from their homes at night, on the pretence that they were being called up for a work camp.

In the art world, there's still this pretence of solo authorship - which seems surprisingly old-fashioned for otherwise innovative works of art".

A case that readily comes to mind occurred in 2008 when a 14 year old pupil in Walewale was taken away by her father under the pretence of attending her grandfather's funeral.

So do the mighty – and any pretence of academic rigour or freedom of thought – quiver when the 29-year old Ms Manning enters the halls of power.

The guest presented himself as a 20-year-old who's never seen Star Wars, and we put him on air under that pretence.