Sentence examples for which pretends that from inspiring English sources

But the unfairness of the old expectations does not justify a new double standard, which pretends that only men are responsible for virtual sex that may prevent or wreck real-life relationships.

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.

For years it has seemed to us that the silliest all educational theories is the one which pretends that higher matematics, even if it leaves your head the minute you graduate, is essential to clear and orderly thinking.

One of the particularly shaming aspects is that we have a parliamentary system and a democracy which pretends that we extend equal treatment to both sexes and yet still expects men and women, fathers and mothers, to work all day and all night and continue to function as effective politicians and parents the next day.

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".

And then she recognized the grain of truth in the woman's perception of her and the ways in which pretending that she wasn't a bitch ran her life and was her M.O.

"The play is a kind of luxury, in which you pretend that James Joyce was there in Zurich at the same time as Lenin and Tristan Tzara.

\u201cThe play is a kind of luxury, in which you pretend that James Joyce was there in Zurich at the same time as Lenin and Tristan Tzara.

Ian Parker suggests that 'any approach which pretends to be Foucauldian is also necessarily historical, to do with the time of phenomena, how they have come into being, how they maintain themselves, and what forces may eventually lead to them disintegrating and disappearing altogether' (Parker 2013, p. 231).

Nobody pretends that is easy.

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