Sentence examples for some pretence from inspiring English sources

There was a time when there was at least some pretence of ethics and "doing the right thing".

A couple of years back, when TV programmers first decided people with obsessive compulsive disorders were going to be the new big thing in voyeuristic reality shows, they did make some pretence of acknowledging their subjects were suffering from a recognised mental illness by including the odd shrink as a talking head.

He has somehow turned "MEN-zeez" into "MING-eez" on some pretence of obscure Celtic phonetics.

On some pretence, such as a peace-keeping mission, thousands of troops would gather on the border.

And the selling point wasn't some mock pretence at supernatural power, or the standard tease of stock illusionists thumping hollow cabinets.

Some wanted excitement, some liked killing and made no pretence about it, some were escaping from their past, some were too eccentric for the ranks; all had to be fit, alert, crafty, ruthless if required and dedicated to the mission.

Should the surrender be total and unconditional, or should there be an effort to escape with some vestige of a pretence that it is parliament, not a bunch of foreign judges, that has decided this matter?

In some instances, there was little pretence at hiding that resort to pressure – at least within US government circles.

Even though he has been going out with his fiancee Shreena for quite some time, traditions require a pretence that he has never seen her before when he takes his vows.

"Any pretence that this is some sort of legitimate correction of an ecological problem is just nonsense," he said.

Smith regards the YPLA's approach – that entitlement need not be cut if it can be funded some other way – as "mealy-mouthed pretence".