Sentence examples for show pretext from inspiring English sources

I hardly – I don't know them... Doesn't that show pretext?" As a Latina woman, she was aware that circumstances, including poverty and racial profiling, make it unlikely that a black person would not have a relative who had been arrested, so with such a question, prosecutors are effectively able to keep black people off juries.

The show's pretext may be Mr. Armani, but its real subject is autoerotica, and the perverse generosity of which extreme narcissists are capable.

This show makes no pretext of being comprehensive.

She could have stayed, but left the show on the pretext that her mother was ill.

In spite of or because of its morbid pretext, the show has been a hit here, with more than 160,000 visitors in its first three months.

With sixty-seven mostop-drawerawer paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Picasso and sixty-six by Matisse, the show hardly needs a pretext, but it has one: a running dialogue of mutual attractions and abrasions between the twin godheads of modern painting.

On the pretext of showing him that she was actually well fleshed, she took off her clothes and stood before him naked.

On the pretext of showing her some documents for China's vice premier, the letter says, Mr. Hurd invited Ms. Fisher to his room at the Ritz-Carlton, where Mr. Hurd propositioned her.

There is in this unending, often pathetic, chronicle of horror a way of neutralising the conscience; and, on the pretext of showing us the face of the criminal, a way of blinding us to what makes it so revolting.

Plans to display the restored sculpture supplied the pretext for a larger show.

The famous cigarette-holder was just a wooden prop "to show hostility", and as a pretext for keeping her right hand raised to hold attention.