Sentence examples for sort of pretense from inspiring English sources

It is exactly this sort of pretense -- the hallmark of civilized interactions -- that is increasingly difficult in a world where every glance and gesture can lead to a lawsuit.

The same holds true of the account in Everett 2005, which says that both authors and literary critics engage in some sort of "pretense".

This seems simple, but sometimes this sort of pretense is all you need to get a better price.

You would have thought that with her magnificent gifts for role-play husky Glenda could have assumed all sorts of pretenses and persuaded various factions that she was on their side, while secretly pursuing a plan for world domination.

I got to stand by and there was sort of no pretense about it.

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.

I guess.... ..... Then she paused, her face sort of falling, the pretense of effort dropping away.

Then she paused, her face sort of falling, the pretense of effort dropping away.

"We exchanged e-mails sort of under the pretense of she could give me advice on getting grants," said Mr. Ryan, who is something of an anarchist.

Thus, according to fictionalism, arithmetic is something like a story, and it involves a sort of fiction, or pretense, to the effect that there are such things as numbers.

For its sheer lack of pretense, we sort of liked New York magazine's Intel blog's approach to the story.