Sentence examples for their pretense from inspiring English sources

For Cromer, Tynan and Welles were, first and foremost, human beings; he wanted us to smell their perspiration, feel their pretense and their worries.

But "don't expect much understanding from academic journalists," he warned, "who, for all their pretense at civilization, have learned little but wicked opinion".

"Unfortunately many of our good Hispanic people are confused by their pretense and they are leading many away from the Catholic Church".

The rising mist continued to unveil the nearby trees, the bare cliffs behind them, and portions of a silver sea, while the smooth evening air poured in around the table, and they continued their pretense of eating, trapped in the moment by their private anxieties.

Patient-centered deontological theories might arguably do better if they abandoned their pretense of being agent-neutral.

They abandon their pretense in friendly settings, as ID proponents did at an August 2007 symposium for science teachers at Biola University, an evangelical Christian school that was founded as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

But the Bills' location — their pretense-free 35-year-old stadium is dug deep into the earth, so the upper deck does not loom too high over the residential neighborhood a few hundred feet away — has always been part of the team's charm, a cozy tableau from a bygone era when football teams could be founded for $25,000.

We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety.

Scully started: "We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety".

What makes Flynn so fearless a writer is the way she strips her characters of their pretenses and shows no mercy while they squirm.

Rather than depending exclusively on quantitative analysis, this method relies on a "theory of mind" — defined by cognitive scientists as humans' innate ability, evolved over millions of years, to judge others' changing thinking, their understandings, their intentions, their pretenses.