Nowadays, people way too often buy into Euro-centrism and are ready to accept corporate branding initiatives, such as Facebook's flag function, in the pretense of possessing human compassion.
The mid-century debate over the figurative and the abstract — which Greenberg's coining of the term "post-painterly abstraction" did much to further — aligned the figurative with illusion: the illusion of depth in a canvas, and the pretense of three-dimensional human life on what was, in truth, an inert, two-dimensional surface.
These nations were united not in the spirit of eradicating racism, but in playing to the cheap seats, using the pretense of anti-racism as a human shield in the furtherance of anti-Zionism.
Not only do these free V-Bucks never appear, these sites often try to collect people's Fortnite usernames and passwords or have them take surveys where they submit personal data under the pretense of verifying that they're human.
What was overturned at Harrisburg was not science, whether of the 18th or any other century, but pseudo-science - the pretense that the actions of tens of thousands of human beings can be regulated with the precision of scientific theory.
Complaisantly or matter-of-factly they strip away layers of human protective disguise, whether of fabric or pretense.
François Hollande of France dropped diplomatic pretense and openly met with Tshisekedi, declaring that Congolese conditions were "totally unacceptable in terms of human rights, democracy, and the recognition of the opposition".
There was no pretense of "expertise" in any particular field, just one human being talking to another (well, sort of) over high-speed cables.
But because it was unable to afford the pretense of individuality present in more recent subdivisions, Levittown has been able to reflect its human history in a stark way that few other communities have.
