| The suggestion that people are arbitrarily reliving the past and exploiting it under the pretense of creating art strikes her as an affront. |
| With a deftness of touch reminiscent of Chaucer, Map achieves a high degree of realism through the pretense of reporting direct speech. |
| The peace-seeking pretense was dripping with charade in the months before the invasion. |
| It's reminiscent of other press gleanings, except that he makes no pretense that his work is objective. |
| Frighteningly, some conservative commentators are now dropping any pretense that this is not the case. |
| I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
