When tardy publishers set a spanking pace One of the reasons why many publishers will go extinct is the medieval absurdity of their pretence that 12 or 18 months must elapse between receipt of a manuscript and its release.
How long will they continue their pretence?" he said.
An especially hoary trope is the notion of divided allegiances or plain disloyalty, as if, whatever their outward pretence, Jews really serve another master besides their country.
Despite their onstage pretence to be close friends and inextricably linked, walking on hand in hand and singing to each other, Fleetwood Mac's shawl-loving singer Stevie Nicks revealed that her relationship with bandmate and ex-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham remains tense.
Their paramount pretence has prevailed in more contexts than often acknowledged.
If Ayckbourn's plays operated on the social rather than the personal scale, his techniques might be described as Brechtian – drawing attention, in an anti-illusionist way, to their own theatrical pretences.
States, "for their own security," writes Hobbes, "enlarge their dominions upon all pretences of danger and fear of invasion or assistance that may be given to invaders, [and] endeavour as much as they can, to subdue and weaken their neighbors" (XIX 4).
These "Arians" were aggressively denounced by Athanasius, who argued (in the summary of a recent scholar) that their "appeal to reason is sophistic, their appeal to Scripture a pretence, and their appeal to tradition an insult" (Wiles 1996, 9).
