Sentence examples for which pretended from inspiring English sources

Forget "Oz," the soft-core S&M soap opera on Home Box Office, which pretended to offer an authentic portrayal of life behind bars.

In the same section of his essay, Kant wrote that "it would be quite different if a state, by internal rebellion, should fall into two parts, each of which pretended to be a separate state making claim to the whole.

5.56pm: Kenny Perry and Lee Westwood are all square through one after both players had birdie putts which pretended they were going to enter the cup, only to tease their masters and choose to stay just by the hole.

Five years later, Andrew D. White, an American diplomat in Russia, had a conversation with Tolstoy about Mormonism, in which the great novelist reportedly said that "on the whole he preferred a religion which professed to have dug its sacred books out of the earth to one which pretended that they were let down from Heaven".

But real story was the 18 months when no-one wanted to investigate the story, when "the checks and balances that are supposed to exist in society failed" - police, parliament, the regulator - the Press Complaints Commission which "pretended to do an act of regulation without the means or perhaps the will to do so" - and the press "with notable exceptions".

Ireland now witnessed a bloody and protracted tussle between two governments – the UK and an Irish Republican "counter-state" – each of which pretended to be the legitimate authority for the whole island, and attempted to govern as much of it as was practicable.

(That's why counterfeits, which pretend to be original products, are illegal).

Highlighting 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek for praise, Engdahl slammed novels which "pretend to be transgressive", but which are not.

The NBA All-Star Game isn't like the MLB All-Star Game, which pretends to be about rewarding the most deserving players, or the NFL Pro Bowl, which pretends that it has any reason to exist.

What has changed is the culture, which pretends to take a dimmer view of what they do.

He said: "People don't need a new measure which pretends they are better off, they need a new government to make them better off.