| The pretence that they have somehow achieved unity among workers gives them a pretext to speak in the name of workers every year on May Day. |
| It is good to know, at long last, that the party is ready to drop the pretence and face reality. |
| Eventually, any pretence of a plot is jettisoned in favour of romantic wish fulfilment. |
| Although the others see through him, and his lies, Kirk persists in keeping the pretence going. |
| But so powerful did they prove themselves as wealth generators that investors in them soon abandoned any pretence of willfully winding them down. |
| Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade? |
