Sentence examples for pretense that from inspiring English sources

It's all pretense — not the kind of pretense that brings us fake Georgian or fake Renaissance but the pretense that the hoopla is somehow connected to a meaningful architectural idea.

For Walton, what distinguishes the two cases is simply the kind of pretense that makes the relevant sentence fictionally true.

Any pretense that they want to seriously track down war criminals is a farce.

Any pretense that may have existed about the ties between Fox News and the Republican Party has been ripped violently away.

There is no pretense that this is a real trip.

Now, I make no pretense that these are my concerns.

"Danny knows what his material is, and he has no pretense that it's important or serious.

Gone was the pretense that he will be a president of all Americans.

And no one makes much pretense that the situation is otherwise.

Miller makes no pretense that her work is about art, as opposed to commerce.

Both conflicts were entered into under pretenses that were later widely discredited.