Sentence examples for that pretense from inspiring English sources

Now that pretense has nearly vanished.

Mr. Romney has, however, done away with that pretense.

It has been hard shouldering all that pretense for so long.

KELLER -- So we come to the subject of Ned's complicated character: acerbic, narcissistic, vulnerable, charming and completely candid -- or is that pretense?

That pretense was abandoned seven years ago when in the wake of Great Recession China thought its time had come to claim its place as controlling "all under heaven," or tianxia in Asia.

It's hard to think of any good reason to pretend that Romney has it in the bag — unless that pretense gets you one last big slug of business before Election Day.

If courts reflexively defer to that congressional pretense, in what sense do we have limited government?

Beyond that, the pretense that the question at hand was religious liberty, not contraception or sex, didn't get much support.

Just like that, no pretenses or airs — genuinely and motherly.

South Vietnam then underwent a succession of coups d'état that undermined all pretense that the United States was defending democracy.

That lack of pretense, though, cannot mask the team's competitiveness.