A roundtable of female executives left the pretenses behind and got down to the root of it.
But none of the intellectual pretense behind it matters except to help rationalize the art's elusive aura, which should speak for itself.
For a time, the facts of the incident, which took place after a press conference at one of Trump's resort properties in Jupiter, Florida, were disputed, and Trump could hide behind the pretense that this was case of "he said, she said".
It may not be modified for the sake of protecting the special commercial or political interests often hidden behind the pretense of public interest.
Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine felt that the album was not a huge leap forward for Gaga, but provided "small, if fleeting, glimpses behind the pretense".
Amanda may be hiding behind the pretense of teaching Nikita a lesson, but I think that deep down, she knows she can't destroy her greatest creation.
Writing under pseudonyms and hiding behind the pretense of satire, they churned out lies, dressed them up as news, and then let Facebook's platform do their dirty work, spreading their deliberate falsehoods far and wide.
Arbitrarily shoehorning a woman in, either to avoid a lawsuit or to avoid the mere possibility of homoerotic subtext, is cowardly, lazy writing, conveniently hidden behind the pretense of the producers attempting to be "inclusive" in writing strong female characters.
But for Jakie in 1925 New York, the pretense allowed him to hide behind the mask and the music of another long-suffering people (even if that people's suffering was distressingly romanticized by minstrelsy itself).
For the most part, Shawcross stays in the background, lurking behind the arras, dropping the pretense of objectivity only when anyone on the left clamors for attention.
