Sentence examples for that pretence from inspiring English sources

Yesterday he broke that pretence, speaking about and to IRA volunteers and activists directly.

It's all in the mild delivery and that pretence of reasonableness.

But that pretence did not last, and the following year he admitted that he had been on steroids for eight years.

Mr Cameron must maintain that pretence for the next six weeks, even though most senior Tories admit privately their best hope is being the largest party in a hung parliament.

But this appearance fades, Ryle explains, when we realize that pretence is a notion partly constitutive of notions such as cheating, acting a part, make-believe, shamming being ill, and hypochondria.

That pretence does not come without cost.

This time it would wrong if the show just went on, because there would be the pretence that nothing had happened, that the game was what mattered.

But that does not require the pretence that all the new proposals are either right or reasonable.

The bite is one thing, but it is actually the pretence that it never occurred afterwards that tells us more.

I realised that the pretence of non-genetic families is my issue.

In a coruscating note entitled "The night they killed Santa", he fretted that any pretence of fiscal probity had been discarded.