Sentence examples for professional pretense from inspiring English sources

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" began with a band of colorless colleagues, either smoking or carrying cups of foul coffee, entering a dingy room, scarcely bothering to greet one another, and expert only in a life of professional pretense.

Rose is an attorney, her professional status the pretense for connection with Vic, concerned less with Vic's legal salvation than with a more transcendent degree of redemption: "Keeping up a relationship with a condemned man is beautifully asymmetrical as burlesque, an offer of freedom sans future, while also binding her by restoring the past".

Under the eye of Carl McCoy, the proprietor, the dining room staff is calmly professional, utterly free of pretense and attitude.

Weinstein invited d'Amore to New York City under the pretense of professional networking and booked only one hotel room, where d'Amore says a young Weinstein raped her. .

She imagines Christopher hitching a ride with the same driver who carts her off to meet a professional mourner, under the pretense of working on a book about mourning herself.

Unlike many sportswriters, for whom detachment is a point of professional pride, Simmons makes no pretense of neutrality.

But perhaps that "professional feeling" is just a pretense?

Instead of engaging in the pretense that these other professional basketball players actually know and like him, he slips away into the locker room.

As an informal space without the pretense or expectation of a professional studio, Sacred Walls provided the optimal conditions for Szun Waves' improvisations to take root and grow.

I really liked "Caught in the Act". Any high-flown pretenses were left to the professional pretenders in question.

Examples from the past five years have thoroughly disproved the pretense that lethal injection is a professional procedure.