Sentence examples for pretense for a from inspiring English sources

Existentialist The "body" is no longer a useful pretense for a modern society in which "authenticity" has been rendered a farce.

The "masque" was a quasi-dramatic entertainment, primarily providing a pretense for a group of strangers to dance and sing before an audience of guests and attendants in a royal court or nobleman's house.

THIS THING OF OURS This is the new downtown, a clothing store that reads as part gallery, part personal closet, part pretense for a group of friends to have a place to hang out.

But critics have assailed the commission as a pretense for a voter-suppression effort to benefit Republicans and said that it will produce a report with exaggerated claims of voter fraud.

However, it is enough for us to say that they are far from showing that innocent conduct has been laid hold of as an arbitrary pretense for an arbitrary punishment.

I neglected to ask them where these rumors came from: I know a useful pretense for an expedition when I see one, and that was enough for me.

One possibility is that he wants to use a temporary crisis as a pretense for engineering a permanent increase in the size and scope of the government.

The parishioners at the first church reluctantly accepted the removal, but those at St. Thomas Aquinas felt the diocese was overreacting and using a simple misunderstanding over paperwork as a pretense for removing a priest with whom the bishop disagreed.

Supposedly we were fighting for God but, of course, as you may guess, this was mostly a pretense for maintaining a status quo, hence the power of white men.

In an op-ed published in The Australian this week, Maurice Newman, chairman of Abbott's business advisory council and an unabashed climate change denier, accused the United Nations of using climate change as a pretense for establishing a "new world order".

As someone who's covered local politics for two decades, I'm realistic enough to know that local elected officials use a lot of winks and nods to get around the Brown Act, whether giving a pretense for going into an illegal closed session or conducting a serial meeting to forge a consensus before a public meeting.