Sentence examples for standard pretense from inspiring English sources

A public amnesia, an avowed lack of history, is the standard pretense of the costumed superhero.

Afghanistan's currency woes are only the most visible manifestation of an economy that has given up any pretense to international standards.

The standard Vanquish has no two-plus-two pretenses, but $4,545 converts a rear parcel shelf into a semblance of a back seat.

By sixteenth-century standards, Montaigne had produced a best-seller, although he maintained the pretense that he wrote only for himself or, at most, "for a few men and a few years".

Clearly, Committee Democrats saw through the pretense and recognized that these bills would codify loopholes in existing rules and weaken the standards that apply.

No pretense".

No Pretense.

Just no pretense".

Their strength is pretense.

Others offered no such pretense.

She was allergic to pretense.