Sentence examples for on a pretense from inspiring English sources

You cannot carry on a pretense of being a type of person you're not for long when you live with a person day in and day out.

Du Bois supported Spingarn's training camp, but was disappointed when the Army forcibly retired one of its few black officers, Charles Young, on a pretense of ill health.

"On the outside, I put on a pretense, I took on a stronger countenance.

Salt Lake Police Detective Jeff Payne initially put on a pretense of patience in the burn unit.

He doesn't put on any pretenses.

Woodbridge and Armour-Garb (forthcoming) recently argued that a deflationary view of truth is best understood in terms of semantic pretense (a hermeneutic fictionalist perspective), and on that basis offered a pretense account of the semantic paradoxes.

Mustering her formidable dignity, Ms. Deneuve puts on a good pretense of imagining herself in a stately period piece.

In the late 1980s he had been a student at Beijing University and, after the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, where he would have been on the day tanks opened fire if his parents hadn't lured him home on a false pretense, he determined to leave China.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

This included not only a war fought on false pretenses but also a system of torture and indefinite detention that, in far too many cases, ran against our laws and values (and was only partially checked by the Supreme Court).

A country's ruling party leads the nation into a war fought on false pretenses, fails to protect the nation from terrorists and engages in a cover-up when a terrorist attack does occur.