Sentence examples similar to whose pretense is to from inspiring English sources
Questions about the relation between imagination and pretense are to some extent terminological.
Well, launching a war on false pretenses is, to say the least, a breach of trust.
But the real brain work is sparked by exchanges between Dalziel, whose pretense at being a loutish country bumpkin masks a penetrating intellect, and Pascoe, who can deliver a classical riposte with the grace of a fencing master but isn't above a blunt gladiatorial blow to the groin.
All that posturing about the deficit was obvious flimflam, whose purpose was to hobble a Democratic president, and it was completely predictable that the pretense of being fiscally responsible would be dropped as soon as the G.O.P. regained the White House.
Agents, whose activities are to be "transparent".
Nichols and Stich (2007) confirm the fact that young children bring action to their imaginary play: "perhaps the most obvious fact about pretense is that pretenders actually do things…they engage in actions that are appropriate to the pretense" (p.8).
Armour-Garb and Woodbridge say that what characterizes extrinsic pretense is that we could take the utterance made literally, whereas in cases of intrinsic pretense, "the pretense is integral to the utterance saying anything at all".
This seems simple, but sometimes this sort of pretense is all you need to get a better price.
Part of this pretense is wishful thinking.
The lack of pretense is almost insulting.
