1. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.

2. A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made no pretense of academic subtlety.

3. The result is a passionate(Sentencedict.com), deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history.

4. Let's cut out the pretense.

5. To make a pretense of; feign: Counterfeited interest in the story

6. Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.

7. True, her manner could not have been called Boisterously joyful, and indeed she made no pretense of the kind

8. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense.

9. Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.

10. Conchie: Leaders have got to lead without pretense

11. You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

12. Satan still uses religion that makes a pretense of being Christian, moral, and enlightening in order to make people live by his standards rather than God’s.

13. Abandoning any pretense at politeness, they ran for the door.

14. 4 You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

15. Pretense cannot sustain blind power. Dejan Stojanovic 

16. We need not continue this pretense any longer, Miss Donati.

17. The narcissist adopts a pretense of grandiosity and self-Aggrandizing behavior

18. The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

19. There is no pretense that anything but sex is being offered, which is just fine for people with louche tastes looking to avoid polite society.

20. Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

21. Arguments were subsumed under the pretense that they had not been heard.

22. The word then took on the figurative sense of hypocrisy, dissimulation, or pretense.

23. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.

24. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense -- phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.

25. Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.

26. Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.

27. Synonyms for Affectations include air, affectedness, posing, posturing, pretense, pretence, pretension, pretentiousness, superiority and arrogance

28. There was not even a pretense of a free press, freedom of assembly or free speech.

29. 4 Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.

30. Synonyms for Charlatanism include charlatanry, quackery, flimflam, deceit, fraud, imposture, deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness and pretense

31. Restatement: pretense and adversity are inversely proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

32. Cao Cao is using the pretense of winter hunting to hold the Emperor hostage at Ye City

33. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. 

34. 14 It makes no difference to us, makes no mistake about it.

35. But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion.

36. Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion.

37. That makes no sense.

38. It makes no difference.

39. Acquittal makes no difference.

40. Seeing through the pretense, my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.

41. John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential.

42. She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

43. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. 

44. Seeing through the pretense,[Sentencedict.com] my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.

45. This makes no sense, right?

46. One flower makes no garland.

47. That makes no biological sense.

48. It makes no fucking sense.

49. 7 Prettiness makes no pottage.

50. Betst products makes no warranty

51. “The Japanese have dropped all pretense of religion and turned Christmas into a strictly commercial operation,” reports the Washington Daily Record.

52. I make no apology or make no bones about being partisan.

53. Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one.

54. 24 She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

55. But Judas’ gesture was only a pretense to identify Jesus to those who had come in the night to arrest him.

56. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.

57. Under the pretense of holding a conference with the Bear, it will approach that animal craftily and eat it up.

58. + 10 Despite all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, only in pretense,’ declares Jehovah.”

59. No decisions to make, no conscience, no agony of free will... nothing.

60. She can also be insecure, but is very intelligent, despite her fashionable Southern-belle pretense at ignorance and helplessness around men.

61. Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Ayn Rand 

62. Don't make no sense.

63. He makes no pretension ( s ) to skill.

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

65. These Asides, spoken in an undertone by the characters, allow the audience to know the true feelings and thoughts of these characters rather than the pretense of feeling that they make to others

66. The Eyeties make no mepacrine.

67. Architectura - Make No Small Plans

68. No one makes a move unless I say.

69. No, he's in no shape to make phone calls these days.

70. The words 'Afforded' to me makes no sense

71. No, she makes a living on her " needlework ".

72. The present law makes no provision for this.

73. Yet your report makes no mention of airsickness.

74. This company makes no distinction between the sexes.

75. Or when an abusive man mistreats his wife and children in private but in public puts on the pretense of being a model family man.

76. 29 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy. 

77. The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life.

78. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.

79. Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character. James Russell Lowell 

80. ‘The men in this neighborhood made no pretense about who they thought were Beddable.’ ‘He had trouble with women as equals - women to him were either Beddable or they weren't.’ ‘He was a honey-voiced charmer, as effective with judges as with voters and Beddable women.’