Sentence examples for through the pretense from inspiring English sources
Yet one element in the movie broke through the pretense — the sight of an actor having a good time.
She saw through the pretense, and accepted it with a shrug, saying, "It's a long, drawn-out proposition, ain't it?" Thanksgiving has changed.
To cut through the pretense of dating and connect people to friends-with-benefits or more.
Clearly, Committee Democrats saw through the pretense and recognized that these bills would codify loopholes in existing rules and weaken the standards that apply.
And all that's before you consider the genuinely unsavory 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 pretense).
Journalists of course will be scoffing all the way through, as the pretense of the interview between Rock and Dawson seems to come and go as needed and the working-world dynamics of celebrity-centric journalism are disregarded.
With a blandly dismissive anti-romanticism, the director sees through the pretenses of civility to find the mediocrity, disappointment, venality, gullibility, duplicity, and boredom that pass for daily life.
They should not be dragged through the courts on the pretense that they set out to do harm, nor punished as a way to send a message.
Neither Israel nor the United States will ever witness real peace through the crosshairs of an M16 or towering walls erected on the pretense of security.
Instead, the agency has established a double standard under which rules to enhance investor protections and market stability face onerous cost-benefit requirements, while rules to roll back investor safeguards can be rushed through without even the pretense of analyzing the consequences.
Later popes were not convinced by the pretense.
