Sentence examples for pretense is over from inspiring English sources

The pretense is over.

The lack of pretense is almost insulting.

But his pretense isn't convincing.

His lack of pretense is so complete that it is practically a pretense.

The pretense is constructive; perhaps she even believes it.

Finally, that pretense is dropped, but others remain.

Everything is mercenary, and all pretense is gone.

All pretense is shed at a crab house spread.

That pretense is evaporating.

An iterated fiction (or pretense) is one that has a fiction (or pretense) embedded within it.

Armour-Garb and Woodbridge say that what characterizes extrinsic pretense is that we could take the utterance made literally, whereas in cases of intrinsic pretense, "the pretense is integral to the utterance saying anything at all".