There was never any pretense, even after she made it big.
"We have a farm upstate," he says, leaning forward a bit, picking up his wineglass without the least bit of theater or pretense.
Linda’s mother had just taken out an ad in a local newspaper asking readers to send Linda get-well and sweet-sixteen cards. Linda was disgusted by the pretense that her health would improve.
The pretense of a useless shell.
Moreover, many might argue that the 'pretense' of objectivity is just that, a pretense and an ideal.
I make no pretense that I can predict how long it will take for the apple to fall.
As if she were the immense pity he felt spread out around him, made flesh, diligently, without pretense, playing the part of a poor old woman whose fate moves men to tears.
What you see is what you get, no pretense.
Yet, in most cases, those giving out grant money want at least the pretense of a long-term research plan.
To save the agenda for which he was elected, he must give up the pretense of being a postpartisan professorial president and start acting like an Oval Office tiger.
Developmental psychologists have long been interested in children's appreciation of the distinction between pretense and reality.
But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.
The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.
The senseless senator's pretense of consensus caused a sensation.
"If you are more capable than me, then fine, I highly respect you. If not, I just turn up my nose at you without any sort of pretense," he said.
Time to throw all pretense aside, and just KILL YOU!
The week had been filled with meetings and bluster, the zealous singing exchanges of her business, the pretense of certainty where in fact there was none at all.
My own hunch is that even babies have some limited grasp of pretense, and you can see this from casual interaction.
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