Sentence examples for through the pretence from inspiring English sources
Unlike emerging democracies - Zimbabwe, say - locals here don't go through the pretence of electing a head of state.
In the end it's that sense of cutting through the pretence and game of art, of escaping style into truth, that is the point of Velázquez.
Most players who were charged on the weekend did little but execute a tackle without going through the pretence of lifting their arms.
He is not, like the hero of Max Bialystock's Hamlet musical, a "funny guy", more a pensive intellectual with a gift for cutting through the pretence that surrounds him.
Mariella Frostrup Broadcaster Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Faber £16.99) offers muscular prose and a story that whips its way from Sydney to New York through the pretence of the art world, asks interesting questions and offers a rollicking adventure.
And all that's before you consider the genuinely unsavoury elements of PSP's marketing, such as that mischievous appeal to racial stereotypes in Belgium, or the "All I Want For Christmas" astroturfing campaign of 2006 ("Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever," quipped an evidently super-penitent Sony of America after SomethingAwful users blew through the pretence).
They should not be dragged through the courts on the pretence that they set out to do harm, nor punished as a way to send a message.
But it was this honesty and ability to see through the facile pretence of mainstream America represented by the likes of Letterman that endeared him to so many.
She and her officials believed that Catholics would go through church rituals and keep up the pretence of belief.
It turned out that Abrahams had paid her to pose as his wife and had promised to put her son through private school if she kept up the pretence.
Not just because it will need SNP votes to get its business through, although I think Nicola Sturgeon will keep up the pretence of being "constructive" at least until the Scottish Parliament elections in a year's time.
