Sentence examples similar to semblance of pretense from inspiring English sources

There is not a lot of pretense.

The lack of pretense is almost insulting.

A place without a lot of pretense.

Add to this a sheen of pretense.

But he was a great satirist of pretense and convention.

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

Hampson sang magnificently, with a welcome lack of pretense.

The lack of pretense.

Metarepresentational accounts maintain that pretense involves representing the contents of the pretend episode as pretense, and thus holds that those who engage in pretense behavior must possess a concept of pretense (Leslie 1987, 1994).

The Assumption of Pretense, Insurgence (Series).

For me, that lack of pretense is exactly the point.