Sentence examples for without pretences from inspiring English sources

I'm standing here without pretences, it is up to parliament and the voters".

It is without pretence or pretensions.

"I like that song," he says, without pretence.

Totally without pretence, Bill disliked pomposity and ceremony, and underestimated his own achievements, sometimes painfully so.

That there was a magnificent art form without pretence or gimmicks - flamenco.

The buzz: "This is freak-rock, nursed on psychedelia and prog, but without pretence".

He is a man without pretence – not even a tracksuit manager, but a jeans-and-T-shirt trainer.

In J'Aimerais Bien Etre Mon Chien, Frederik Mey admits that sometimes he wishes that he could be his dog, and live his life without pretence.

In other words, France must have "a balanced policy, without pretence or hypocrisy .In this section Why Gerhard Schröder has gone out on a limb Back to square one A new balance Unusually tight End of an era?

Whether the immense carnivores courted like oversized albatrosses, offered gifts of semi-rotted triceratops meat, or simply got down to business without pretence is a vignette lost to Cretaceous time.

Like the other restaurants on El Hierro, the food is entirely without pretence: when you order queso y tomate, that's what you get – a plate of sliced cheese and tomato, without garnish.