Sentence examples for without any pretense from inspiring English sources

Without any pretense at courtship, he had simply asked her to marry him.

He is happy to discuss his religion, his sport and their intersection, without any pretense.

A third fan, the actor Dennis Farina, narrates without any pretense of objectivity.

"I thought, this is absurd," she said, "Let's do it honorably -- without any pretense.

The proposal came without any pretense on her part of servility or of discretion in how she would portray him.

Without any pretense of writing a complete, balanced account, he stresses those forces and incidents that he believes pointed most clearly toward that climax.

Or have we now truly entered — or returned to — the age of Kissingerian realpolitik, and actually want the military there to crack down hard and forever, without any pretenses?

Or have we now truly entered or returned to the age of Kissingerian realpolitik, and actually want the military there to crack down hard and forever, without any pretenses?

The company's new goal is to become known as a purveyor of refined, comfortable luxury cars without any racetrack pretense.

Pandora's Box Vol. 02 simply wants to showcase the music, the early era of the art of making "musical collages," the influences of DJs and producers at the time, and the overall musical aesthetic without any pretense of judging whether the songs were "good" or "bad," nor on the vocal quality of these young people.

And it's the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretense, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits.