Sentence examples similar to thin pretense from inspiring English sources

Nowhere is this pretense stretched more amusingly thin than on the waters of the lake.

All my pretense of having a "normal" life vanished into thin air.

There was no "universal civilization," Huntington had observed; this was only the pretense of what he called "Davos culture," consisting of a thin layer of technocrats and academics and businessmen who gather annually at that watering hole of the global elite in Switzerland.

#SoBlessed, while the thinner of the pair, both literally and figuratively, pretty much drops all pretense of a character in one of its longer chapters, "On The Road," which deals with touring.

No pretense".

Just no pretense".

Their strength is pretense.

Others offered no such pretense.

She was allergic to pretense.

No pretense of having tickets.

Pretense usually loses.