Giles Deacon

People often think that the world fashion is so full of a certain pretense that it can't just be about going for something because it suits you and looks great, and it's nicely cut and is made of beautiful fabric. You know, if it has a bit of lightness and playfulness to it, then I think people just respond to that really well.

British Designer

Arianna Huffington

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

American Journalist

William Adams

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

English Explorer

Sarita Choudhury

See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.

English Actress

Zebulon Pike

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

American Soldier

Tony Gilroy

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

American Writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

Peruvian Writer

Tennessee Williams

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

American Dramatist

John Buchan

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Scottish Politician

Vikrant Massey

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

Indian Actor

Pretence often implies a purposeful deception.

Deceptive Intention

While often associated with deceit, pretence can be used humorously or benignly.

Not Always Negative

Pretence involves displaying emotions or reactions that are not genuinely felt.

Hollow Emotions

In legal contexts, pretence can involve criminal activities like impersonation.

Legality Issues

Pretence might mean falsely claiming a right, often to authority or property.

Claiming False Rights

Pretence can refer to actions under false motivations, with an intent to deceive.

False Pretenses

 While the researchers planned to observe how syphilis would progress with minimal treatment, participants were told they would receive free drugs and care for their condition. At first, researchers gave the men existing treatments, but these were soon replaced with placebos. Under the false pretense of providing a special remedy,

Ugly History: The U.S....

 Flooded with requests for change, she authored a new constitution. But before she introduced it, the so-called “Committee of Safety,” a new organization that consisted of many Missionary Party members, hatched another plot. Under the false pretense that this new constitution

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 they miss you you be intrigued by that that may be their costume designer got it wrong that's kind of interesting I think it gets you a little closer to the film to the making of the film and and and the creativity of the people engaged if a movie has no pretense of getting

Scientific Accuracy in...

 on the pretense of checking for typhus outbreaks. At first, her group worked to smuggle in resources with the help of sympathetic Polish officials and the medical underground. But as desperate parents began sending their children through sewers and over walls,

How one person saved...

 They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think, and they grow up -- and this is the worst thing we did to girls -- they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 Will the heavens open and "We are the World" play over the restaurant sound system? Probably not. Because ubuntu work is slow, and it's difficult. It's two people dropping the pretense of being know-it-alls.

Take "the Other" to...

 the truth of the matter the truth of the matter is that a Fineman sandwich had a load of ham but absolutely no baloney we're fine men hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense phone

My friend Richard...

 sergey brin no this this was the problem transparency free from pretense or deceit easily detected or seen through readily understood characterized by visibility or accessibility of

The greatest TED Talk...

 This is was the transparency -- free from pretense or deceit; easily detected or seen through; readily understood; characterized by visibility or accessibility of information,

Morgan Spurlock: The...

 The truth of the matter is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense --

Pretence

An attempt to make something seem true even though it's not, commonly to deceive others.

Often appears as...

The act of pretending or false show of something.

Often appears as...

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Not Always Negative

Hollow Emotions

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