Sentence examples for pretence as from inspiring English sources

She is as swathed in pretence as her husband, but the difference is that she knows it.

But it was as flimsy a pretence as any economic miracle based on consumer credit and an insanely inflated London house market.

There's no puppyish pitch for audience approval, nor even any pretence (as per standup convention) that the comedy is spontaneous: Crimmins refers to a crib sheet throughout.

Freaky though the music may be, it's delivered without pretence as Byrne tackles the subject of – cue the worst word of modern times – "curating" London's Meltdown festival.

Django himself, in posing as a "Mandingo" trader of slaves trained to fight, is sickened by his own pretence as a collaborator.

No one now tries to sustain the pretence, as they did then, that there were not colossal and toxic rows between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

I make this pretence to myself – as well as to others.

Sometimes, though, the pretence at normality goes out the window, as demonstrated by the outfit she sported on January 20.

There was a sense at one point that Pérez was stockpiling attackers and abandoning any pretence at defence, even if names such as Sergio Ramos, Walter Samuel and Jonathan Woodgate were brought in.

On some pretence, such as a peace-keeping mission, thousands of troops would gather on the border.

Unlike Charlotte, however, I am on the autistic spectrum, and this has led to me feeling unable to find the right words, play the right game, and undergo the pretence of social interactions as smoothly as others.