Sentence examples for pretence and from inspiring English sources

Pretence and prevarication are gradually stripped away.

They are structures of pretence and willed ignorances.

Mr Thorpe perfectly captures the inconsequential nature of adolescence heart-thumping intensity, cadolescence heart-thumpingnesty.

They're just having a nice time, dropping the pretence and having fun".

But it was all a pretence and journalists - as distinct from managers - knew that.

No one can interact meaningfully with a monocultural, political-performance factory, riddled with pretence and convention, because it means nothing.

He is charged with buying the guns under false pretences and conspiring to support terrorism.

Indeed, they could fairly easily lead us into wars under false pretences and through contentious evidence, despite widespread public opposition.

Kerviel's lawyer, David Koubbi, filed two lawsuits before the hearing, accusing SocGen of obtaining a verdict under false pretences and of tampering with evidence.

NDCS had acquired Naari's drugs through a middleman, who had, the company argues, taken them under false pretences, and the drugs should be returned.

I lured him there on 25 February under false pretences and, just as he began to suspect that something was up, I went for it.