Sentence examples for type of pretence from inspiring English sources

Another type of pretence involves imagining an object that isn't even there in the first place, such as when children (or adults) play air guitar.

In some extraordinary circumstances, non-human animals have been known to feign interest or emotion, a type of pretence, in order to distract a rival from food or a mate.

One kind of pretence involves imagining that one object, such as a banana, is actually a second type of object, such as a telephone, or imagining that a lifeless object such as a doll is actually animate – both of which were observed with Kakama.

Her appeal is her lack of pretence.

But McCullin is incapable of pretence.

They are structures of pretence and willed ignorances.

It's a little bit of pretence that then sticks".

And who better to hurl a few pages of pretence in the Nymphomaniac star's general direction than Professor James Franco.

After witnessing a violent crime, Ty is forced into witness protection and a life of pretence.

This lack of pretence extends to the very structure of the narrative.

The game's central pretence – you are a vigilante, clean up the streets – is power fantasy hokum, the type of tone-deaf ludicrousness which video games, given what seems to be their mission from God, to massage the egos of benighted men, love to indulge.