Sentence examples for pretends to show from inspiring English sources

The first scene, a clever movie within the movie, pretends to show a hand-spliced Super 8 blockbuster made by a boy using toys, a pet dog and limitless ingenuity.

This paper pretends to show the advantages of sequential injection moulding, and the importance of the feeding system design, to be able to get all the best of this technology.

This paper pretends to show the adequability of using a fast and reasonably inexpensive survey technique such as in situ gamma-ray portable detectors, to access the radiometric response of the systems in study by providing the radiometric mapping of the areas.

But those shows never pretend to show the entirety of Jersey or Southern California life, just a clichéd corner of it.

Workers pretend to show employers proof of citizenship or work visas and employers pretend they do not know the proof is fake.

There to score political points by pretending to show solidarity with city workers even as he viciously attacks them with his pension-reform measure, he's a cad.

(He once pretended to show a reporter his vibration dampener and then hit him in the crotch, gasping, "That's a basic joke of tennis! Sorry," as he doubled over in hysterics).

In the course of today's conversation, two issues may come up, treated in what is now called a trolling tone — pretending to show concern but actually standing in the way of real argument.

"The Museum of Natural History was complicit in all of this, in sponsoring and subsidizing the explorers and in pretending to show respect for the cultures and native peoples it studied," he said.

Pretending to show us a president as he really is, "The Contender" instead creates an image of the president as we wish he really were -- sexy, to be sure, but also sexless.

The metallic visual texture is not only obtrusive but also baffling, since it undercuts the pseudo-documentary touches that are central to the conceit of pretending to show a "real" JCVD in his real homeland.