Sentence examples for on pretense from inspiring English sources

"It's Mr. Izzard's war on pretense," Ron Wertheimer wrote in The New York Times.

Modern entertaining is high on strategy and style, low on pretense and work.

Family relations and cross-cultural mishaps might be the stuff of Hollywood cliche, but Delpy whisks it all into a delightfully eccentric comedy, here, big on laughs, low on pretense, exaggerated but emotionally sincere – not least in Delpy's dealing with the death of her mother (in real life as well as in the movie).

With the increase in popularity of the home computer (and more importantly, the home-educated computer programmer) a subculture began to develop of "hacker" types that viewed their craft with less focus on pretense and more emphasis on wit, skill, and purpose.

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.

In being deliberate your life is not set up on pretenses.

He doesn't put on any pretenses.

Actually, rigorously examining the government's conduct of a war started on false pretenses is the best sort of patriotism.

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).

Our war in Iraq was fundamentally a war of choice, and it was the wrong choice -- a war fought on false pretenses and for false purposes.

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