Sentence examples for refusing to pretend from inspiring English sources

The lobby is hung with fuzzy blowups of old sepia postcards of young La Prade inmates refusing to pretend they're having a good time.

Anti-Trident replacement might gain support, but Corbyn's unilaterally declared unilateralism, refusing to pretend he'd press the button, rules him out of No 10 in too many voters' eyes.

When a family member of mine was in an abusive relationship, it helped me enormously to speak such sentences, and years later, when she finally left her boyfriend, she thanked me for refusing to pretend his behavior was normal, even while she did.

It's more than unfortunate that students are shamed and punished for refusing to pretend to care when they don't.

The EU has refused to pretend that there is no Irish problem.

But on this occasion, I refused to pretend that he knew better.

But Moya refused to pretend that Bemelmans v Edmund could ever have provided a credible climax to the tennis calendar.

Gee refuses to pretend that chasms aren't there, but neither will she accept that they're unbridgeable.

He refused to pretend that he was anything other than an American tourist, although he was extremely impressed by even the seamiest aspects of London.

He refuses to pretend he's anything but well raised, talking freely about the train rides he took into Manhattan to see theater (he knows all the words to "Rent"), his love of golf (he has an 8 handicap) and his post-college days, when he and Wood eked out a living as struggling actors.

It is only from the life that needs redeeming that we can learn about redemption, and his struggles to overcome his ghastly upbringing, his addiction, his suicidal impulses, are worthwhile and helpful to anyone else who might have felt the same way, precisely because he refuses to pretend he's anything other than he is.