用“pretense”造句大全，pretense造句

Yet, in most cases, those giving out grant money want at least the pretense of a long-term research plan.

My own hunch is that even babies have some limited grasp of pretense, and you can see this from casual interaction.

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.

"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.

What you see is what you get, no pretense.

Developmental psychologists have long been interested in children's appreciation of the distinction between pretense and reality.

I make no pretense that I can predict how long it will take for the apple to fall.

But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

The pretense of a useless shell.

Moreover, many might argue that the 'pretense' of objectivity is just that, a pretense and an ideal.

"We have a farm upstate," he says, leaning forward a bit, picking up his wineglass without the least bit of theater or pretense.

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.

There was never any pretense, even after she made it big.

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.

The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.

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.

The senseless senator's pretense of consensus caused a sensation.