He oozes confidence in his ability to please, without any of the boastful pretense that a human with his charms would inevitably have. |
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It appears that the communicative competence is better displayed when children engage in pretense situations. |
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It seems too intellectual to keep up any blusterous pretense to the contrary. |
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His brand of barroom rock 'n' blues caught on huge at a time when punk, new wave and metal were stripping down the pretense of prog rock. |
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The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense. |
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The men in this neighborhood made no pretense about who they thought were beddable. |
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The weather seemed to be a pretense for a storm, windy and hinting toward a tempest. |
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I ordered him to scram, under the pretense of changing into warmer clothes. |
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With a deftness of touch reminiscent of Chaucer, Map achieves a high degree of realism through the pretense of reporting direct speech. |
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Besides, he has no tolerance for the pomp, pageantry and pretense of the whole show. |
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The real scandal is that a newspaper that once had some pretense to quality now prints ignorant drivel like this. |
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There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye. |
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The main reason I feel this is that when you date, pretense and airs are, well, up in the air. |
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Increasingly, government representatives are jettisoning any pretense of opposition to war. |
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I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
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In 1675 Maryland abandoned the pretense of a militia and shifted to reliance on paid rangers, though they rarely called upon them. |
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Frighteningly, some conservative commentators are now dropping any pretense that this is not the case. |
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Was he also taking a sly dig at the Canadian pretense that we don't engage in American dreaming? |
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In a way it's a story of letting go of expectations and pretense, of breaking down facades and accepting what's beneath as beautiful. |
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I envied the animals for their absolute lack of pretense and their unwillingness to intellectualize. |
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It's reminiscent of other press gleanings, except that he makes no pretense that his work is objective. |
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I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity. |
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The peace-seeking pretense was dripping with charade in the months before the invasion. |
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The suggestion that people are arbitrarily reliving the past and exploiting it under the pretense of creating art strikes her as an affront. |
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I love the lack of pretense in East Boston, which is why now I still visit the old hood because it's still home. |
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This gap refers to the lack of opportunities to engage in pretense and exploration with language that occurs through free play in the classroom. |
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The young Light Lord interrupted, without ceremony or pretense of politeness. |
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These works maintain a quiet, inviting tone all the more captivating for their utter lack of pretense. |
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The matte finish created by the pattern and the use of wood for the seat frame and spindles further the countrified pretense of the chair. |
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What pleased everyone, too, was that, in the simplicity of his way, no word or work of his ever showed a trace of insincerity or pretense. |
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Few books about spirituality are so devoid of portentousness or pretense. |
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For the mock attack must be recognized as being only pretense, and with strangers one cannot be sure. |
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Both actions would throw light upon the darkness of the black market and thus reduce America's gross national pretense of virtue. |
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One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good. |
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Ten years passing only heightens his status as a true street poet, devoid of current bling-bling pretense and full of scathing wit and sharp charm. |
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For a gang that purported to hate pretense, its hard to think of a group more intent on self-exaltation. |
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Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. |
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We have to get past that false pretense that the Liberals were going to do more. |
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Most identity fraud offences relate to some form of deceit, false pretense or false application. |
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Have you ever committed credit card fraud, identity theft, or any other form of false pretense over the Internet? |
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We resist what newcomers and young people bring us, under the false pretense that we are protecting Canadian values. |
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Something about the speed and cold-bloodedness, the absolute lack of even the pretense of solidarity in today's game is chilling to me. |
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From an unwatchable morning, to an unwatched daytime, to a minimal performance primetime, CNN lacks any pretense of … well, television. |
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Don Quijote's pretense at madness and further references to Mambrino's basin, is starting to convince Sancho that his master is indeed batty and he tells him so. |
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It abdicated its responsibility and covered its absence of action with bluster, pretense and misrepresentation. |
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It's rock'n'roll the way it was meant to be played, not with boogie or pretense, but just straight freshness and intense energy. |
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Starting on December 8th, they may use the pretense of a Washington economic conference to launch a second lame-duck session of Congress. |
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Action taken by the Conservative government proves that its newly found interest in the environment is nothing more than pretense. |
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Under the pretense of setting a 19th-century table, children are asked to find mystery utensils in the exhibition. |
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As disagreeable as it may be to contemplate, the dishonesty I encounter in the world is a reflection of my own pretense. |
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Indeed, it suggests a pretense for ignoring evidence of record pertaining to subsidiary costs. |
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In the eyes of non-Serbians, the JNA had abandoned all pretense of objectivity, and was abusing its powers by becoming a Serbian force. |
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It is the inward peace and relaxation that counts in your health, not the pretense assumed to create an impression. |
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Some critics were turned off by Williams' bombastic, proclamatory emceeing, which often made no pretense of rhythmic consistency or tonal variety. |
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Meeting a life partner on television is not the best way to go about that process, duh, but the show keeps up the pretense. |
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In the portraits, sitters appear shorn of pretense and disguise. |
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Under conditions in which it will not defend even its own members, the AFL-CIO's pretense that it is building a movement to represent the unemployed and unorganized is absurd. |
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There the fool enjoyed special license to ridicule pretense and turn upside down social rituals and solemnities, including the dignity of the king himself. |
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In Iraq and Syria, unlike in Libya, there is no pretense that this is anything less than war in the constitutional sense. |
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We would perhaps be tossing out any pretense of traditional baseball in exchange for popular thrill-a-minute spectacle. |
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They are winning incremental battles under the pretense of health regulations and parental consent. |
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But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have an aficionado's sincerity. Grey didn't like him. |
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I prefer a sincere great sinner to the false pretense of virtue. |
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Finally, that pretense is dropped, but others remain. |
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Especially repressible is the pretense of the racists to be acting on behalf of the soldiers. |
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But the results in Nevada confirm again: this is a Barack-Hillary fight that will run at least through February 5th, and the voters are making Mr Edwards's pretense look increasingly more pathetic. |
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I was immediately drawn in by his lack of pretense and humbleness. |
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Her harried mother and older sisters are exasperated but go along with her pretense, even when she leaves school and is seen as a mental case. |
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Custom and pretense replace realness in our relationships. |
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The resulting movies, individually and as a group, make no pretense to definitiveness — blues fanatics, and even normal music fans, will notice omissions. |
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In the early Empire, the pretense of a republican form of government was maintained. |
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Under the pretense of recovering a statue of pure gold in the nearby Yucay valley, Manco was able to escape Cuzco. |
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Under the false pretense of respecting the freedom of expression of users we can even be denied original authorship, never mind the right of demanding even minimal compensation. |
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Instead of being obedient to God, they turned to other religious observances and began to worship Baal, a sun god, but they did so in the pretense of serving Jehovah-the Eternal God. |
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He began a kindly pretense of remonstration. |
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It is not ethical, by today's selling code, to sell a person anything that he cannot use to advantage, any more than it would be to sell goods under false pretense as to their quality. |
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And no one quite has his knack for stripping them of all pretense and exposing their essential funniness. |
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An offensive intrusion can be anything from, say entering an individual's house under false pretense, to setting up hidden cameras in order to spy. |
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But Democrats maintain that the gap is due more to poor planning by the LePage administration than to growth in Medicaid enrollment and that Mr. LePage is using a false pretense to push an ideological agenda. |
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He resolves moments of confusion without pretense or condescendence. |
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There is not even the pretense of actual interaction with voters. |
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There was a pretense that the Taliban, Saddam, Gaddafi, or Assad were demonically evil and without any true supporters. |
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While our goal of price stability can foster a favorable environment for business investment, we make no pretense to being able to control how that plays out in the stock market. |
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This project required an educating Community and Rosa, without pretense and well before its time in history, offered to the Church the model of the Apostolic Religious Community. |
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No, it developed the pretense of a heart, and there's a difference. |
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All along, Orman never made any pretense about her sexuality. |
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Along with Noam Chomsky, Norman exposed how the dominant culture asserts its hegemony through a corporatized media whose credibility derives from its pretense of objectivity. |
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But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have an aficionado's sincerity. |
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