Sentence examples for pretense of concern from inspiring English sources

It's an uncomfortable but real truth that we are not all in this together; America's top-down class warriors lost big in the election, but now they're trying to use the pretense of concern about the deficit to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Today's Republican Party has no pretense of concern for those institutions.

LGBTQ family law experts who spoke with VICE were mystified that social conservatives appear so dedicated to stigmatizing same-sex couples that they've abandoned all pretense of concern for child welfare.

"They hate me," I said to Val. "Under his pretense of being concerned for my future, he really hates me.

In his 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics lecture titled "The Pretense of Knowledge" concerning larger economic issues, F.A. von Hayek stated "…[economists]…have… little cause for pride: as a profession [we] … made a mess of things" [93].

So, too, evangelical leaders — the GOP's partners in shame — have abandoned any pretense of morality or concern for presidential conduct.

Tehran made a deal this month with U.N. inspectors to resolve questions over its nuclear program that is just another pretense of addressing international concerns.

Even this pretense of concord now seems gone.

If you could have Mitt Romney dress in a costume, what should he be for Halloween?" If nothing else, shouldn't a concern for his own dignity lead Brinkley to have at least a pretense of adversarial substance?

EI is especially concerned that "privatisation and commercialization" of education threatens public control and offers a pretense of affordability.

Pretense of disappointment.