Sentence examples similar to quantity of pretense from inspiring English sources

But the aspirants must grow comfortable with a certain quantity of awkward pretense.

There is not a lot of pretense.

But he was a great satirist of pretense and convention.

Hampson sang magnificently, with a welcome lack of pretense.

The lack of pretense is almost insulting.

A place without a lot of pretense.

Add to this a sheen of pretense.

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

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.

The service is free of pretense and amateurism.

Mr. Vreeland was struck by the Dalai Lama's lack of pretense.