Sentence examples for pretence without from inspiring English sources

Less aggressive, more accommodating and quicker to smile than your average group of men, they call attention to the pretence without offering any insight in return.

A single scene in Akbari's films, shorn of sympathy or pretence, without closeups, montage or stirring music, can unfold, unedited, for between 10 and 20 minutes.

It is without pretence or pretensions.

"I like that song," he says, without pretence.

The buzz: "This is freak-rock, nursed on psychedelia and prog, but without pretence".

He is a man without pretence – not even a tracksuit manager, but a jeans-and-T-shirt trainer.

In J'Aimerais Bien Etre Mon Chien, Frederik Mey admits that sometimes he wishes that he could be his dog, and live his life without pretence.

In other words, France must have "a balanced policy, without pretence or hypocrisy .In this section Why Gerhard Schröder has gone out on a limb Back to square one A new balance Unusually tight End of an era?

Like the other restaurants on El Hierro, the food is entirely without pretence: when you order queso y tomate, that's what you get – a plate of sliced cheese and tomato, without garnish.

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.

Honest, at ease in his skin, without pretence, he turned a moving story of his immigrant parents into the reason why he is drawn to give back to British society some of what its welcome gave to all of them.