1. You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

2. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.

3. Let's cut out the pretense.

4. Abandoning any pretense at politeness, they ran for the door.

5. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense.

6. Pretense cannot sustain blind power. Dejan Stojanovic 

7. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.

8. Seeing through the pretense,[] my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.

9. She was an adventuress, unabashedly ambitious, totally without pretense, searching for fame.

10. Arguments were subsumed under the pretense that they had not been heard.

11. Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.

12. But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion.

13. Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.

14. Absence of pretense artificiality, full creative intent unforced.

15. False pretence or us false pretense.

16. The house was decorated without any pretense of showiness.

17. Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.

18. Restatement: pretense and adversity are inversely proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

19. The result is a passionate, deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history.

20. Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Ayn Rand 

21. Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character. James Russell Lowell 

22. Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion.

23. Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. George Bernard Shaw 

24. John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential.

25. Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one.

26. She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

27. The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

28. What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the World Wide Web is an ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness .

29. Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

30. But let's for a moment abandon our Harvard savoir faire, our imperturbability, our pretense of invulnerability, and try to find the beginnings of some answers to your question.

1. You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

2. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.

31. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretense.

32. A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made no pretense of academic subtlety.

33. If thy pass for Christians they are guilty of obtaining respect under false pretense.

34. There was not even a pretense of a free press, freedom of assembly or free speech.

35. Under the pretense of holding a conference with the Bear, it will approach that animal craftily and eat it up.

36. This study was to explore the possible relations between preschoolers' false belief understanding and their general verbal ability[sentencedict .com], and the using of mental terms during pretense play.

37. He said that the globalization of financial markets was built on a "false pretense" that financial markets could be left to their own devices and said global regulation was needed.

38. Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves?

39. There is no pretense that anything but sex is being offered, which is just fine for people with louche tastes looking to avoid polite society.

40. Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.

41. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.

42. Red Clover ( trifolium pretense ) helps restore and balance hormonal function.

43. Red Clover ( trifolium pretense ) restores and balances hormonal function and nourishes the uterus.

44. But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

45. "We have a farm upstate, " he says, leaning forward a bit, picking up his wineglass without the least bit of theater or pretense.

46. Objective : To screen the best method of extraction of total isoflavones from Trifolium pretense L.

47. A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made as pretense of academic subtlety.