pretense

IPA: pritˈɛns

Examples of "pretense" in Sentences

But the biggest pretense is that Georgia is supported by the West.
That's the sound of hot air escaping after pretense is punctured by a pointed question.
The free enterprise pretense is today, again, providing profit to a small number of people and corporations.
I could think of no better way to communicate than with a poem, where pretense is stripped away, leaving only what is beautiful and vital.
There are people out there who, in pretense of a dark cloud around him are hiding their racist attitudes and I hope you are not one of them.
What should they have done, one of those fake long sloppy kisses in pretense done by couples that probably haven't touched each other in years?
In many Middle Class homes the pretense is enforced as hard or harder than it is in public, in an effort to "prepare one for the big bad world".
The pretense is the result of terror of rejection, just as it is in the Middle Class form, though reasons for possible rejection are worlds apart from the Middle Class conditioning.
Another article in the "mainstream" media criticizing President Obama, in which the pretense is about an "open media" and "transparency," but the subtext is obvious – racism, pure and simple.