Sentence examples for with pretense from inspiring English sources

Finally in the paintings of magnolia blossoms, Heade dispenses with pretense: space itself has become actual size.

There is, actually, one thing about Tarkanian that I do prefer: he seldom insults us with pretense.

On Thursday night, W. extolled simple Midland values -- humility, spirituality, a sense of community and an impatience with pretense.

But when a production – in this case "Antigone Unearthed" – seems more concerned with pretense than storytelling, head-scratching is sure to ensue.

This background leaves more than an accent, it leaves an outlook: Optimistic, impatient with pretense, confident that people can chart their own course in life.

But she doesn't obscure her work with pretense; the first goal is to entertain, and in her best efforts she achieves even more.

He's about starting parties, wherever they may be, with pretense-free tunes to which you can lose inhibitions.

But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.

He'd expected him to call on the phone with congratulations, with the pretense of congratulations, in order to say more outrageous, electric things.

Let's dispense with the pretense that this has anything to do with policy or politics.

Suspicious that Mike is spending the night with Edie, Susan enters Edie's home uninvited with the pretense of borrowing sugar.