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"Yes, " she said, and she began to giggle again, sheepishly, and with a pretense of being coy.

Filmmaker: And giving up the pretense to objectivity must be part of that sense of freedom.

The collapse of Fannie and Freddie took with it the pretense that the government could do so at no risk to taxpayers, he said.

so, it is not necessary to worry about this. complaining is a pretense of the failure.

But last week's message said the South may use the Cheonan incident as a pretense for war, Hyun said.

It would be unkind to say that Taft took the presidency under false pretense .

He said what was true, without any pretense, no matter what the consequences.

But under all of his fancy pretense and expensive garb, he was just a big fat slob.

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

It needed to be fully itself, with no pretense or gesture of compromise toward the natural predilections of the male libido.

apparently he used that as a pretense to leave the barracks .

It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought nor a promise proposed.

They make no pretense in trying to replicate a Marshall sound or a Fender sound.

Not the pretense of the saints, who pretend, incomprehensibly, inhumanly, to never even have those urges at all.

I'm sick of your pretense. You sold me down the river to the public. How dare not you, you traitor!

To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless.

I'm sick of your pretense. You sold me down the river to the public. How dare you, you traitor!

Integrity leads to purity. And none of it is pretense. It is integrity of heart.

Tuomas: I also tried to avoid the kind of pretense that often plagues concept albums.

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

I do not get to go outsides and hang around talking to the other smokers at regular intervals on the pretense that I'm having nicotine fit.

But if they do, they had better live up to the expectations that such pretense creates.

Ghoshal suggests that the exaggerated 'pretense' of knowledge leads to sloppiness in theorizing, research design and prescription.

Both actions would throw light upon the darkness of the black market and thus reduce America's gross national pretense of virtue.

"One firm, " is to focus strongly to the transformation as a pretense for shanty towns and other illegal policies, and phenomena.

40 Who devour the widows'houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater judgment.

But if we had any pretense at all to being just, fair and democratic nations, we would not tolerate it.

But then the pretense of a voluntary restructuring could not be maintained.

I'm sick of owe pretense. You sold me d have the sea to the public. How dare not you, you traitor!

No matter how unsatisfied Germans are with the present situation, no one will ever use this pretense to defend the Berlin Wall ever again.

Methods: Select the extract technology of Trifolium pretense L by Orthogonal Test techniques, the isoflavone Component is target.

Subtle cheating may involve sham moralistic aggression, sham guilt, sham sympathy, and pretense for awakening sympathy.

hypocritical pretense to give up in order to win the sincere friendship .

They immediately burned all their bridges behind them and abandoned any pretense of making a peace with Chiang Kai-shek.

We're just living in the pretense of a marriage , responsibility and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live .

A pretense of gratitude is better than honest ingratitude.

Please note that there are also risks of dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretense.

fine with me ! this pretense of civility wad exhausting.

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

Conclusion: This technical process is suitable for extract isoflavone in Trifolium pretense L.

Thus appealed to, Teems gave up further pretense of not having overheard the conversation and furrowed his black brow.

Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no. different.

Drug deals are often conducted openly, without even a pretense of cover-up.

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

Religion rewards image and pretense; relational life demands honesty and reality.

In Akira Kurosawa's representation, the story of this period of history is presented without affectation or pretense.

"Under the pretense of progress, morality is collapsing, " he wrote in his confiscated diary.

Because of this, their fantasies can confidently be brought to life through fiction without any pretense or unnecessary apologies.

It follows that whereas ordinary partions typically override or bypass reason there will be no pretense to being responsive to reason.

Should America and Europe abandon any pretense of even wanting to promote democracy abroad?

The "old" soul needs no pretense for the ego in any way but lives naturally and goes with the flow.

These adjectives mean genuine, honest, and devoid of hypocrisy or pretense.

An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.

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

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.

Authorities say that they are pursuing this case because they believe that the financial aid he got was under false pretense.

I shirked going to work on the pretense of being ill.

And to love it would be pretense.

Effectively, you stop all pretense of caring what happens.

Though hasty, but it must overcome the straightforward, simple and obvious pretense, barriers such as excessive emotion.

You will be more alluring to a date when you remove your mask and be yourself without the pretense.

So here it is, no hype, no glass, no pretense.

They scarcely made a pretense of hiding the bug in your hotel room.

Absence of affectation or pretense.

We plan on entering their hive under the pretense of negotiating our surrender.

When you are wronged, the most virtuous thing you can do is forgive the offender without pretense.

A look that was naked of all pretense.

It's a look that was naked of all pretense.

Don't I feel, I don't need that fake pretense.

He collected money under the pretense of patriotism.

With her own life held together with lies and pretense, who is she to question Fai's desperate will to do anything to achieve his goals?

Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves?

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

Pretense hovering, I was confused. Which one is the lie?

bravadoA pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.

I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God , which was her exaction for my keep .

It is merely a pretense.

and hence It is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy.

And hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. ~George Bernard Shaw

you answered me with no pretense

Effect of Slow-Release Fertilizers on Yield and Quality of Trifolium pretense in Different Soils

Under this pretense, they asked them to write short essays about a time in their lives when they had ostracized someone;

The Latest Studies on Children's Developmental Cognition of Pretense

pretense a professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext:

A Research of Pretense Play: Its Past, Present and Future

Some by old words to fame have made pretense

the house was decorated without any pretense of showiness