Sentence examples for pretence not from inspiring English sources
He is a man without pretence – not even a tracksuit manager, but a jeans-and-T-shirt trainer.
It was lack of pretence, not colossal might, that excited a lot of people, including me, about his idea to build a giant white horse as a public sculpture for Ebbsfleet.
Tony hosts a 'girls' night' in the flat at No 10, during which Tessa Jowell and Margaret McDonagh deplore his pretence not to know how to work the dishwasher.
This pretence – not the same thing as the delusion that Britain could or should solve the world's problems – has been marked in the Ukraine crisis and in the Greek debt row, on which eurozone ministers were locked in talks on Friday.
That pretence does not come without cost.
If Dr Rangel is right, though, pretence may not be the true explanation.
But that pretence did not last, and the following year he admitted that he had been on steroids for eight years.
What's interesting about Trump, of course, is that he's thrown off any pretence of not talking about what he's talking about".
Capital punishment will be reintroduced for people who listen in on your conversation in public places without even making a feeble pretence of not doing so, occasionally irritably asking you to speak up.
Another may have been that, to keep up the pretence of not being directly involved, Mr Prodi spent most of the campaign outside Italy, wrapping up his messages to voters in Euro-speak.But a different interpretation may be that voters are going cold on the affable, yet less than electrifying, Mr Prodi.
Always up for a laugh, genuinely witty, with no pretence and not a trace of arrogance, he was pot-bellied but ludicrously talented – the kind of player who would dribble round the defender, wait for him to get up and dribble round him again.
