Sentence examples for the pretense of from inspiring English sources

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as the pretense of

about the pretense of

beneath the pretense of

function in the pretense of

the guise of

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The pretense of no manipulation is completely manipulative.

The New Yorker

It's self-promotion under the pretense of hiding.

The New York Times - Books

There was not even the pretense of stealth.

The New Yorker

The fictitious part is the pretense of procedure.

The Washington Post

The pretense of a logic, the fantasy of a solution.

The New Yorker

John F. Manning, Without the Pretense of Legislative Intent, 130 Harv.

Harvard University

As Menéndez showed, the pretense of the New World's moral exceptionalism was unfounded from the start.

The New York Times

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

The New Yorker

Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Under the pretense of closeness, they expanded the distance between us.

The New York Times

Clearly, with that message the pretense of identity politics alone won't save the Republican Party.

The New York Times

More suggestions(19)

the facade of

the claim of

the pretension of

the subterfuge of

the presumption of

the aspiration of

the contention of

the justification of

the argument of

the premise of

the rationale of

the reason of

the comedy of

the signboard of

the charade of

the alibi of

the smokescreen of

the pretence of

the excuse of

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