Sentence examples similar to pretended loyalty from inspiring English sources
"Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen mouldering the dust". .
"In classic noir novels," he writes, "you had an outsider hero who embodied the virtues the mainstream pretended to honor — loyalty, courage, ingenuity — but rarely demonstrated".
For "Pietra," about a wealthy count who tests his sycophantic friends' loyalty by pretending to have lost all his money, Pier Luigi Pizzi, the director, created a Bauhaus-style villa, complete with pool and an army of servants.
His Boston accent results in the odd attachment of the letter "s" at the end of words where it does not belong, and he does not even pretend to drop his loyalty to the Red Sox, even though his baseball interests seem marginal at best.
I've always been suspicious of the nature of blind loyalty to bands anyway, because loyalty means you have to pretend to like their awful albums, too.
This was awful, but loyalty required us to pretend that it was not.
