Sentence examples for pretense about from inspiring English sources

But the Arizona law had no pretense about its homophobia.

I got to stand by and there was sort of no pretense about it.

There is no pretense about them, no self-importance, no airs at all.

For one thing, the electronic driving aids and displays make no pretense about what they're doing.

"None of these guys have any pretense about them," Mr. Witt said.

Rafael Palmeiro, for example, made no pretense about not wanting to play when Johnson pitched against his team.

She had no pretenses about her romance career, which she began a decade ago after abandoning screenwriting.

Even the world of art painting, though it is no less a victim than that of music to Appreciation rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged quality, is more penetrable to reason in this regard, since such values, or the pretenses about them advanced by investing collectors and museums, are more easily unmasked as efforts to influence market prices.

The only thing you need to make false pretenses about the relationship of a company with another, is indicate you work there as well as obtain full access to the profile settings – I couldn't make Google the parent company of say, Skype, even if I pretended to work there because I don't have a valid e-mail address and/or the necessary rights.

Unless international consensus emerges for such an undertaking, one must not harbor pretenses about destroying ISIS.

"I don't have any pretenses about being some powerful figure, no," he added.