Sentence examples for pretence to intelligence from inspiring English sources

It makes no pretence to intelligence.

There is no pretence to unity within the British right.

Healey, rather like Alan Johnson, made no pretence to economic expertise.

Johnson made no pretence to be scouring the English-speaking world for dialectal words and variants.

"I don't have the pretence to say I will do as Ridley Scott.

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

What I can't take seriously is Pippin's pretence to be a comment on life.

Encouraged by his teacher (Khanjian again) he carries on the pretence to his classmates.

Finally, its pretence to be ending the war is a sham.

Its pretence to be a computer company was going badly: sales of the Pixar Image Computer were slow.

Over the telephone she managed to keep up the pretence to her mother that her life was going well.