| 单词 | pretense |
| 例句 | It is highly unlikely that he was considering passing up the hundred-grander for the Widener, but he thought the pretense might help in the touchy matter of weights. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene before me was a hollow pretense of grandeur and gaiety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Briony, who had been on her knees in a pretense of prayer, stood and turned to face the procession as it reached her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The captain was piqued, but managed to carry on with a pretense of optimism. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I answered in a polite tone, dropping my pretense. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys stopped short, exchanged looks and dropped all pretense of innocence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds like a great idea,” Stella told him, steering clear of his pretense at knighthood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Finally Scrimgeour said, with no pretense at warmth, “I see. You prefer — like your hero, Dumbledore — to disassociate yourself from the Ministry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that Joan, hearing where I was, had engaged a room at the asylum on pretense, simply as a joke. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z There is nothing resembling predation, and no pretense of an adversary stance on either side. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to this camp under false pretenses and lies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was convinced that his worry, now, was only a pretense; he was just frustrated that she was not doing what he wanted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The cat had stopped short and was licking one paw with a pretense of nonchalance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the variety of animals I keep in cages in the garden I have four monkeys and a bat-eared fox that will escape on the slightest pretense from the boy who cleans out the cages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A moral freeze: I couldn’t decide, I couldn’t act, I couldn’t comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not even a pretense that we had to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d managed to convince him to give her a tour under the pretense of extreme boredom—when, in fact, she’d used every moment to plot a dozen escape routes from her room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He no longer looked at me, no longer made any pretense of telling the truth. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Turtle paused in a pretense of letting the heirs mull over her last words, trying to figure out what to do next. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Ollie brought me here under a false pretense, and I've finally learned a piece of information that could be useful, but he's told me help is impossible without really explaining why. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Meg drew her aside, under pretense of pinning up a loose braid, and said approvingly, “It was dreadfully provoking, but you kept your temper, and I’m so glad, Jo.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe then we could drop the pretense of Joan and get down to work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I liked the move because for the first time I didn’t have to share a room with Jim, who never made any pretense of liking me or wanting me around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She decided not to call him; she resented his behavior, his silence, his pretense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After tea he wandered off on the pretense of carrying out some fictitious task. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I’m in,” Toby said, wanting to skip all the pretense. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When she gets to me, Fauzia drops the pretense of her cold smile. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The thought of you, still, white, cold ... to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses ... it would be unendurable.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I hate pretense, but here I am pretending. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She should drive down to the capital on the pretense of seeing the exhibit at the Colombian embassy and refuse to leave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones I know have no time for pretense. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When Julia went home to Chicago, I stopped trying to fool people with my pretense of being okay. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z At the table there was always the pretense of trying to give the envelopes back. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Leo stops by under the pretense of saying farewell to the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had spent the afternoon preparing, leaving the office on a pretense of illness to avoid having to attend the celebration. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The wedding feast was a pretense of celebration. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You are right, sir,” Polly said, continuing the pretense that none of them knew what they were actually discussing. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She answered him in monosyllables, as though he had betrayed her by breaking the rules of her pretense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Granny was an ardent member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God, which was her exaction for my keep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His relationship with Kainene might well not last long, but the moments of being with her, knowing he was not weighed down by lies and pretense, would make the brevity worthwhile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But I can tell both of us are only half listening, and by the time we reach the corner, I drop the pretense. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The new county sheriff dropped even a pretense of investigating the crimes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Houseguests pushed into the room to see, all pretense of manners forgotten, and in the corner, Clara crossed her arms, watching and waiting just as she had since Mrs. Caruthers had killed her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Abandoning all pretense, Ron pushed his chair backward, as far away from Moody’s desk as possible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Jefferson style was to evade, maintain pretenses, then convince himself that all was well. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s a sensation I’ve come to love as I’ve traveled more, the way a new place signals itself instantly and without pretense. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He spent the longest time at Kang’s stall, and the other potters gave up all pretense of indifference. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The insurance salesman dropped by the houses of various suspects, under the pretense of hawking policies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The pretense, and how she ached to expose it! Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I came into your house this way. Under false pretenses,” Molly says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As our team streams offstage, I excuse myself on the pretense of needing the bathroom. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He even said hello to her now and again as one element in his pretense. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He could not even fall back on the pretense that he had come to borrow the dictionary, because in that case Julia’s presence was impossible to explain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And yet he felt guilty, knowing that he was accepting the kid’s admiration under false pretenses, that he wasn’t cool at all, not at all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom gave up the pretense that we’d ever own a house or even find an apartment with more than one bedroom. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I sent her away from him on every pretense I knew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The clothes weren’t even secondhand, so much as third- or fourth-hand. There was a pretense here. It’s like she went to a thrift shop and searched for Eighties Prep. I mean, a monogrammed sweater?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But he knew that if he stayed he would not be able to keep up the pretense. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s because he’s big,” Bast said matter-of-factly as he gave up the pretense of sweeping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could not know that for all my pretenses—my makeup, my new clothes, my china place settings—this is who I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It’s all I can do to keep up the pretense that Papa is making sense. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose we all come under false pretenses one way or another, don’t we? It was best not to tell me. I probably wouldn’t have let you in.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And it will work because, more and more, he wears his hatred on his face, losing the pretense of civility. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After school, Twig invited me back to her house, which we figured we could get away with under the pretense of doing our frog lab reports. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She persisted in the pretense that her shy demeanor in the presence of boys prevented her from dating them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if they know that he was an Erudite once; that under all the pretense of Dauntless recklessness and even brutality, he is more like an Erudite than anything else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “It explains,” he says, gritting his teeth, “why, under a pretense of neutrality—as if such a thing is possible!—you have left us to die at the hands of the Erudite.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a pretense, his dithering refusal—he was one of the most confident people she had ever met. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Abandoning pretense, Harry said, “And it wasn’t Sirius? Or you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He abandoned any pretense of even being my friend. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He made no pretense of not understanding me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all prose should be classic, and not all writers can carry off the pretense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her mom had never put up any pretenses about being overly religious. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon he and Ron escaped Hermione’s baleful presence again, and under the pretense of scouring the bare hedges for nonexistent blackberries, they continued their ongoing exchange of news. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z On Smith Island to the south of us there was no high school, not even the pretense of one that we had on Rass. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to hold it together, because leadership requires at least a pretense of grace under pressure. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Inside, the house held a different kind of pretense. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth sits in the back and dangles his oar in the water under the pretense of steering. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It appropriates billions, as directed by the President, on the pretense of helping the poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton believed that keeping to some pretense of normal routine would calm the men’s nerves and settle their fears. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I ducked, shocked the gardener would go so far as to throw a stone just to keep up his pretense. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Jemmy made the pretense of blazing up with impatience. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z It was broad daylight I remember, there was no longer any pretense that the drawn curtains hid the sun. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She and I might be interacting under false pretenses right now—it’s a kick to the uterus every time she thanks me for being “so cool about this”—but I’ll certainly take that over nothing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Great Ellen, more than any other ghost, had shed all pretense of mortality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You dare keep up this pretense, after what you have done?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He offered me a seat and without pretense asked if I wanted to see the questions he planned to ask me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I explained that I didn’t like her because she was mean and petty and full of pretense. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What was needed—what Emily needed—was a woman emancipated from pretense, a woman who could show herself to be a man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis and I sate awkwardly in silence, the pretense of tuition abandoned; knowing that the coming lesson would be but a simulation of learning; and being unwilling to begin this pretense without an audience. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Turning on his side he kept up the pretense of sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They were not a political party; they made pretense to no formal religion. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Following the same instinct that had prompted me to lie to Mike, I called Jessica on the pretense of wishing her luck at the dance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His amiability to the crab, I feared, was merely a pretense to stop our running. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was no time for fear or pretense, because it could never be this way with anyone else. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Chronicler sat at a nearby table, making a pretense of finishing a bowl of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was no pretense at hedges here, no pretense at separation or privacy, just low buildings side by side amid a scattering of stunted shrubs and cashew trees. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She scorned pretense, and she believed in plain speaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the other hand, I'm relieved that we can stop the pretense of being friends. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Two days later, on a Wednesday, I left home on the pretense that I was headed for school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We have gone through a pretense of truce and reformation, straight into deadlock. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It differed from a bullfight in that there was no element of skill or pretense of two equally matched opponents. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z No pretense, which is funny since all they do outside these doors is pretend. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As the daughter of the groom, I could hardly keep up the pretense that I spoke only Ayorthaian. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Garrett, who had insisted he was okay sleeping in his room, had, at some point, surrendered all macho pretense and crawled in with me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Eventually he stopped with all pretense of auditioning or looking for a job. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Garcia was very busy, but he never let a day go by without seeing Alba, alternating unbridled violence with the pretense that he was her good friend. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The only result was that the horse broke into a kind of pretense of a trot for five or six paces and then subsided into a walk again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z She had no compunctions about the lie and getting the doll under false pretenses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “What?” he snarls, all pretense of manners gone. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It’s why I often tried to introduce myself with a hug, to slow down the moment and shuck some of the pretense, landing us all in the flesh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “No, I really must go now, thank you, thank you,” I say, glad I remembered how the pretense goes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We will learn every lesson of accent and idiom, we will dismantle every last pretense and practice you hold, noble as well as ruinous. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We ceased even the pretense of slumber, and he whispered, “The morning star ariseth.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was far less pretense in the New York City school system than there is today. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When I didn’t respond, he snuck an arm past my shoulder, on the pretense of sorting through my work, and pressed me into his chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When he became a father, he no longer even thought much about his predicament as a gay man living a life that was in part a pretense. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Orr asked with a pretense of pensive curiosity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We just need to keep the pretense up in front of the grown-ups. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z She liked that Two Step didn’t feel like he had to keep up some pretense of bravery around her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The reality was all too social, he knew; other men were pursuing him, but he had comfort in a pretense, and a rhythm at least for his feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And I can’t even blame him, because it’s not pretense; it’s just being a nice guy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z When I heard Greg and his pals stir in their tents next to ours, I finally gave up all pretense of sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I diverted my stare to the wall and made no pretense that I was paying attention to her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She didn’t know how long she could stand this queer pretense that nothing had happened between them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Salon's Melanie McFarland reacted to the victory by writing that "in addition to 'Parasite' being a parable about wealthy and social standing, it's also a story about the power of pretense." Trump criticizes "Parasite" Best Picture Oscar win because it's South Korean 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It is a logical tautology, which is defined as “a self-reinforcing pretense of significant truth.” Gene Weingarten: I gave this Beatles classic another listen. Big mistake. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The visit turns hostile, though, once the husband returns home from work and sees through Don’s pretense. 'Mad Men' Recap: 'Lost Horizon' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It is basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But this is merely a pretense for a renewal of the same old feuds and selfish plots—the same attempts to give each other scares and teach each other terrible lessons. “Arrested Development” Is Back Where It Started 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Under the pretense of holding a yard sale, he lives there -- at but not in his own house for several days, sleeping on a Naugahyde recliner and drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon by the case. "Everything Must Go": Will Ferrell's dazzling serious role 2010-09-13T20:30:00Z "I ask short questions, I have no pretense at intellectuality, I don't pretend to know it all," King said years ago in explaining his style. After 25 years, King is giving up his CNN throne 2010-12-16T14:46:04Z As with others in Lomborg’s camp, there’s the pretense in this book of balance and reference to careful studies. Are We Overreacting on Climate Change? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If you charge a man to build him one, you’re taking money under false pretenses. Crooked Psychics and Cooling the Mark Out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z No pretense, in other words, just a down-to-earth invitation to enjoy some wine. This bold red wine blend is delicious, straightforward and just $15 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Bush may have started the Iraq War on false pretenses, but at least he hadn’t inspired an insurrection that turned the U.S. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z With no pretense to objectivity, Vertov strove to capture life in all its sensory particulars, a compulsion that remains central in debates about documentary form and technique. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z Nick can see through Gatsby’s pretense, but he warms to the native gentility, the dogged hopefulness behind the affected airs and dirty business deals. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z “Having pretenses is a fool’s game,” he said. Redux: Older, Wiser and Still Very Much in Love 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It raises a question that will thrill studios and filmmakers as much as it’ll terrify cinema purists: How long until we get a movie that just does away with any pretense at story altogether? Will The Bourne Legacy Usher in the Story-Less Movie? 2012-08-15T12:00:17Z That’s true even before the final 20 minutes of the show, when the filmmaker plot is summarily abandoned and, with it, any pretense of plot. Review: In ‘KPOP,’ Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z In person, Ms. Fey is briskly funny and without pretense — unprompted, she showed off a 3-D ultrasound of her baby. Arts & Leisure: Producer, Writer, Star and One Funny Mama 2011-04-13T20:03:14Z So the intrigue of this show lies more in its reflections on cultural deception than any pretense of artistic worthiness. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z Byrne and his 11 musician-cohorts, all dressed in identical, monochromatic gray, are the entirety of the stage furnishings, their bare feet signaling a serendipity and lack of pretense. Review | David Byrne brings his entertaining brain to Broadway in ‘American Utopia,’ and it’s totally dope 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Ben Lerner’s new novel, “10:04,” which comes out in September, holds up his fiction to his meta-fiction—or just abandons the pretense of fiction, depending on how seriously you take jacket copy. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z That sentiment is in the air: This season "South Park" cut into the pretense of foodies for an entire episode. Foodie fatigue 2010-12-27T06:00:00Z The most inexplicable aspect of the show is the intended pretense of why the people involved are competing for a date at all. What Is It About Dating Shows Where Contestants Can’t See Each Other? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Dear Don’t Want: Unfortunately, if you get taken in by false pretenses — “catfished,” in Internet lingo — a broken heart could be the least of your problems. Ask Amy: College grad returns home to a hoarder Midmorning he slid his computer off his lap, picked me up and held me until the air buzzed and we couldn’t keep up the pretense of distance. Modern Love: A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten 2012-12-06T19:38:13Z As shtetl fever takes hold, Kaiser cases the drab structure at Malachowskiego 12, and then, under the cringeworthy pretense of writing an academic history of the building, he interviews a resident. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Both seem to have underestimated the consequences of their pretenses and actions. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z There was no pretense of her trying to prove anything, trying to compete with anyone. Israel's Anat Cohen plays Jazz Alley April 27-28 2010-04-22T21:15:00Z This is no different in the case of Mrs. Clinton, but she surrounds herself with pretense and engages in full-scale discombobulation. Hillary: The perfect one 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z I’m an actor, I’ve worn prosthetics before, but the pretense of that didn’t jive with me. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s not very often done in rock and roll that you shed any pretense of coolness or hipness and just make a song about being happy. R.E.M.?s Mike Mills on Saying Goodbye After Three Decades 2011-11-14T12:00:31Z And there are all these skills of pretense and artifice. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Then she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband — and they keep up the pretense. What’s on TV Wednesday: A ‘Dirty Dancing’ Remake and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The “King” drops all pretense and tells her the real story of how he became the group’s leader. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Carol and Morgan Find Refuge 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z She said that museums should abandon the pretense of a united front. Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The plus side of that is that there’s no pretense. Critical Shopper: Ale et Ange, a Men’s Store — Critical Shopper 2012-08-08T18:56:53Z It is the version one uses when one wants to drop the pretense that this is about America at all and just acknowledge that it’s about reveling in someone else’s pain and perceived humiliation. Perspective | ‘Make liberals cry again’ became the battle hymn of the Republicans under Trump 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Despite its lack of pretense, there are actually layers of intelligent subtext curling beneath the standard horror plot, which is only superficially related to H.G. Review for "The Invisible Man" 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The Met would have been better off dropping the pretense of saying something new and opening the season with “Aida,” which rumbled onstage two nights later. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But our book makes no pretense to offer policy prescriptions, or tell U.S. officials how to do their jobs. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z That said, as her manager, I believe she interviewed under false pretenses. Work Advice: She left for a better gig soon after starting. Is that okay? 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z In an episode in which nearly everyone, even Sally, operates under false pretenses, Betty stands out for rejecting what she sees as a fraud, a delusion, a sham. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “I’m such a mom-nerd,” she apologized, as if sensing the pretense of Hollywood Glamour melt with each dab to her flush, freckled cheeks. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z This false modesty conceals the colossal success of the Marvel series in the pretense that an image, however fabricated or illusory, doesn’t itself constitute a reality for some subset of its viewers. Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z We also have two California wines following a refreshing trend I highlighted recently with Mary Taylor Wines and Obvious Wines — showing their wines’ origin and character at an affordable price without pretense or ego. A $13 organic red wine with verve and spirit? Pour us a glass — or two. 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But the series, in which Mr. Trump starred from 2004 until 2015, when he announced his campaign, was based on a carefully constructed, stage-managed pretense: that Mr. Trump was already on top of the world. Donald Trump Was the Real Winner of ‘The Apprentice’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Stone may now feel that his 1987 "Wall Street" made its piles of money under false pretenses, or at least that it failed to deliver the lesson he thought it would. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z Mr. Dubourdieu was an enemy of pretense and impatient with the traditional secretiveness of the Bordeaux wine trade. Denis Dubourdieu, Who Elevated Bordeaux White Wines, Dies at 67 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z I didn’t tell people why I’d moved to Incline, preferring vague pretenses; I’d learned that when I mentioned C.F.S., they either became skeptical or joked that they probably had it, too. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z So he adopts three orphan sisters to infiltrate Vector's laboratory on the pretense of selling him Girl Scout cookies. Despicable Me Review: It's Pickable! 2010-07-09T09:05:00Z Tuesday’s stirring performance by the Philharmonic with the Westminster Symphonic Choir, under the assured direction of the British conductor Andrew Manze, laid no pretense to being a religious ritual. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z At the Korean spa, there are basic rules of conduct: No makeup, no pretense, and no clothes. Naked with strangers, finally unafraid 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z To play Wallace, he said he worked to strip away any vanity or hint of pretense or self-satisfaction, and strived, moment by moment, to be as honest and empathetic as he could be. Jason Segel Makes a Career U-Turn as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z That is clearly what great literature has done for Dylan, and he makes us feel it, too, in the way that he writes about the books he loves, with a passion stripped of any pretense. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z At other times, the actors drop the pretense of playing characters altogether, to step outside the text and offer commentary on, say, the failures of the contemporary theater. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z His is an artfully composed morphology, one without pretense or the sly retouching that portends that the faux is real. T Magazine: Jean-Paul Goude's Bodies of Work 2011-11-15T15:30:02Z “There wasn’t any pretense of any kind, no duplicity and no agendas.” Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z Such framing became unnecessary as the cup forms, broken down into modular cubes or stacks of craggy planes, lost all pretense to utility, making them sculptures for sure. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z By the end, most of these pretenses are shattered—most vividly when Harrow, who knows a lot about masks, presents Doyle to Nucky like an offering. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Buon Fortuna 2012-10-01T12:00:47Z Like most CBS procedurals, this one is mainly interested in seeing how much perversity and fear it can serve up while maintaining the pretense of clinical distance. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z It’s true that the space race of the fifties and sixties was a military-industrial throwdown with the Soviet Union, but the feeling of mind-blowing scientific breakthrough was no pretense. Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But in Callahan's case, there's no sense of pretense or deliberate evasiveness. 'Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film': Musician is still a mystery 2012-09-06T20:24:12Z Yet, ironically, Hanson's utter lack of pretense of the performance made her, I thought, the greater, purer, more believable Beckett figure. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z There was little pretense of great artistic ambition here. Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala - Music Review 2011-10-06T12:00:06Z In this world, album releases are just pretenses — or more to the point, album releases are what’s required for the fulfillment of record company obligations. Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In 1917, his “Fountain,” a urinal laid on its back and remounted on a pedestal, was his first volley against the art market’s intellectual pretenses about art. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z When does the pretense become the persona, and the persona the person? TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z “It’s about hilarity. He was a kidder. He made it fun. He was debunking the pretense of the museum,” he said. Washington couple donates personal Duchamp collection to the Hirshhorn 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Making no pretense of balance or objectivity, Vivien Lesnik Weisman’s excitable documentary “The Hacker Wars” is a forceful indictment of the United States government’s surveillance and prosecution of computer hackers and journalists. ‘The Hacker Wars,’ a Documentary About Prosecutions 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Think about it, she wasn't on Jay Leno to talk about the Gotti film: that was just a pretense to talk around the real interest we have in Lindsay as a failed human being. Why Lindsay Lohan won't be winning an Oscar by 30 2011-04-27T13:15:00Z A Movieland reporter, visiting Gardner at home in 1949, declared the rooms small and cozy, with “nothing of formality or pretense.” Leading Ladies 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s little more than a lure, and also a pretense. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-28T23:26:01Z The stories about Weinstein’s behavior appear to fit a pattern: Under the pretense of discussing film or TV work, he would invite women to a private place, often a hotel suite. Sexual harassment and rape accusations pile up against Harvey Weinstein 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z This is vegetable charcuterie that makes no pretense of imitating meat. Charcuterie With All of the Smoke but None of the Meat 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The pretense of this being about more than another photogenic person in a different setting? What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z He seemed to view the social world as a phantasmagorical mechanism, running on posture and pretense. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It is a novel that feels completely of our time and, without strain or pretense, carries forward the power of our literary tradition. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Amundsen, on the other hand, “did not even offer a pretense of science to mask his polar ambitions,” Larson writes. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z Or rather, people who get what they want do so under false pretenses, because they are literally living a lie. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z But some critics were put off by its pretense and air of detachment. Nomination surprises: ‘The Mandalorian,’ Quibi get Emmy love 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z On that fateful day, however, Carolyn See — a critic, novelist, nonfiction writer and Californian, who died Wednesday — cut through all the New York-centric pretense. Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z “The ease, the comfort, but more than anything, the complete lack of artifice and pretense.” Pining for the Intimacy of Pandemic Pods 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Dropping the pretense about your marriage, and living well and authentically will be the best revenge. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman ponders grounds for divorce 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z But unlike at the Country Music Association Awards, which were held last week in Nashville, there was no pretense that the pandemic didn’t exist. The Latin Grammys, Still Over the Top in the Shadow of the Pandemic 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Her family escaped to West Germany when Alicja was 8 years old, under the pretense of attending a relative’s wedding in France. On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z More than a few reporters made no pretense of objectivity. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Weeks after the wedding, she asked Andrew for drinks under the false pretense that she was gathering information on Cornell University for her college-bound brother. A failed double date leads to romance, a break-up and two weddings 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Amid the chaos, she takes on the role of reluctant oracle or interpreter, dogged by glimpses of revelation, yet hesitant to accept, or impose, any pretense of coherence. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Bobcat Goldthwait is something like the id underbelly of Michael Moore, with every pretense of journalistic objectivity and reasonableness stripped away. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z Perhaps the most preposterous part of the reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,” the first season of which concluded on VH1 last week, was the recurring pretense that actual music was being made. Omarion and K. Michelle, on Parallel Tracks, Release Albums 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The pretense of writing one — especially when widely rumored to be wanted by the US government and an international cause célèbre— would probably have garnered Assange more attention. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z Here was an artist with nothing to hide, with no concert-protocol pretenses. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z We both were taken by the friendliness and lack of pretense of the winemakers here. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z There was no pretenses, no putting on airs to impress him. On Love: David Soo and Jerold Callam 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As readers of Kundera’s essays know, he greatly admires Sterne, Diderot and other practitioners of those tricksy meta-fictions that make little pretense of being “real.” Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It is pure action adventure with very little pretense of being anything else. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He doesn’t bother with the pretense of sportsmanship. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z Diogenes viewed the animals as models of productively antisocial venality, exposing the pretense and hypocrisy of high society. A Dog’s Purposelessness: Alleged torture on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose” is disgusting, but unsurprising 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z “Will & Grace,” returning Thursday after eleven years, makes little such pretense. Review: The World Changed. NBC’s ‘Will & Grace’ Hasn’t. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The pretense of a logic, the fantasy of a solution. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z This is because satire is "parasitic" – a satirist appropriates formal features of an existing genre, person or event to create a pretense of authenticity and sincerity. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z In “On the Razzle,” first produced in the early 1980s, Stoppard gleefully abandons any pretense of intellectual heft. Few sparks in 'On the Razzle' at Theatre West 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z She has no maternal affection towards the daughter and no interest in looking after anyone but herself, even if her life might depend on such pretense. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z There was some pretense of his having "retired" in 2012, but as he speaks jovially and robustly from Melbourne, he seems to consider that some sort of joke. Australian Ballet reintroducing itself to L.A. with 'Swan Lake' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z In a film that makes no pretense at the plausibility of any of the action, its makers are counting heavily on audience involvement with Cruise and Diaz. Cruise crashes in nonsensical "Knight and Day" 2010-06-20T19:34:00Z The disillusioned gaze sees through everything, sees all the lies and the pretenses we concoct to give life meaning, the only thing it doesn’t see is its own origin, its own driving force. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The implications of siccing the police on a black man under false pretenses are far more horrifying than appealing to male authority to take care of a hotel booking. Perspective | ‘Karens’ try to make unequal power structures work for them 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The old democratic promise of travel, that everyone might have an adventure, isn’t maintained even as a pretense. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “Tom Verlaine is the guitarist to mention these days if you’re a young rocker with some pretense to intelligence and originality,” Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote in 1987. Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z She emits, for minutes on end, shrill, spitty whistles without even the pretense of a tune. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z In a traditional romantic comedy, that guy, the one that calls her on her pretenses, would turn out to be the guy for Lola. Lola Versus: Alone and Adrift, In Need of a Smaller Screen 2012-06-07T10:45:10Z There is no pretense of objectivity in her work, he says, resulting in a “sincere” representation. New Museum Puts Spotlight on Art From the Arab World 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z By the essay’s end, Watkins has shrugged off any pretense of disinterest or mere observational curiosity, instead offering “some ideas” that gather a force akin to the preacher’s fire. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He would receive the news of our world with a jolt of pleasure at the dropping of some pretense of false modesty and a shock of recognition at the evolution of athleisure. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z What seemed misguided, however, was the pretense that one could easily bridge the gap between the two. In a New Velvet Underground Exhibition, a Gritty Subculture Meets the Corporate Moment 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z What happened: According to Hay House operations manager Cliff Sims, the shoot was booked under "false pretenses." What's real in "Borat 2"? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z “You need to create something of a closed system so that it’s repeatable. But that’s kind of a useful pretense because nothing is a closed system.” Whiteboard? Check. Lab Rats? They’re the Actors. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Service is a plus: the staff is cheerful, brisk and devoid of pretense. Collections Café a congenial addition to Seattle Center 2012-09-20T20:45:03Z That they are “actual’’ pleas for presents and money without any of that annoying pretense of enjoying the company of the loved ones who purchased them. Perspective | Miss Manners: Learning the social rules of the playground 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Nowadays, however, even right-wing pundits feel the need to cloak their attacks with false pretenses and evoke sexist stereotypes through insinuation, rather than the frank misogyny they would have used in the past. Women's World Cup was a triumph — and totally triggered the right-wing snowflakes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z There was no pretense or edge to him. Joe Klein on Working With Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The V.M.A.s strip away the pretense and make this plain. MTV Video Music Awards Are the Anti-Oscars, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z This movie doesn’t bother with the legal pretenses of “Just Cause.” ‘Outbreak’ Was a Hit in 1995. Now We’re Living the Sequel. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z He gives up any pretense of anonymity with the documentary, which gives him the biopic treatment. Sundance 2015: Writers Made Photogenic, Crazy Tales Made Poignant 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z He is furious at the legendary duo for luring his ship, the Titan, to a dangerous situation under false pretenses and is now facing a superior enemy ship. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Family Secrets 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet even Sal is guilty of marrying a woman under false pretenses and making her feel inadequate when he doesn’t love her the way she does him. Why "Mad Men" is bad for women 2010-07-23T11:01:00Z As they scheme and scream and suffer, the actresses go along with Mr. Snyder’s pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z But those relationships were based on false pretenses. "Intersex is a beautiful thing": Despite having surgery forced upon her, this activist found healing 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z “As a pretense,” he says, “they might be interested.” Ethiopian cuisine is unlike any other. Why are some chefs trying to modernize it? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The abuse accusations exploded any pretense of rectitude and instigated one of the most stunning reversals of a public figure’s reputation that modern America has ever experienced. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z That said, for a chef who serves 23-course tasting menus that last four hours, he seems to cringe instinctively at the faintest whiff of pretense. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z I then went on to Joseph Conrad’s sardonic novel of pretense and betrayal, “The Secret Agent,” E.F. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z But the pretense of dramatic equality collapses if you look at what's actually happening on-screen, and what got marginalized or omitted. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z NO real farmer or rancher would condone this; and the fact that it is being done with our tax dollars, under the pretense of 'helping producers make a profit' is nauseating. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z But her talent has been a good pretense for people who don’t pay much attention to jazz to marvel at its bright new hope. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z Second, he knows Musgraves to be a loyal friend, but also allergic to pretense. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z When Don returns to work, he decides to call Rachel, under the pretense that he wants to discuss panty hose and department stores. “Mad Men” Premiere: Another Day at the Office 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z There was a problem with the public voting, the host, Steve Jones, announced midway through the show, not even making a pretense of giving details or a reasonable explanation. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: A Glitch and Then the Singers Are on Their Own 2011-12-08T06:00:10Z “Irishmen permitted tenancies as estate workers often resented the sectarian intolerance, anti-democratic politics and the pretense of social elitism of their putative colonizers,” said Ruan O’Donnell, senior professor of history at the University of Limerick. Sale of Old Masters Sets Off an Outcry in Ireland 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Dix takes home a hat-check woman from a movie-industry haunt, on the pretense that she can tell him about a novel that he is supposed to read and potentially adapt. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z That said, Mr. Charles made no pretense of faking knowledge of lyrics that had slipped his mind, which was frequently the case. Music Review: Gregory Charles at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-13T20:12:21Z We were both healing from relationship traumas and done living lives of pretense. When a Summer Hookup Lasts 12 Years, It’s Time to Reassess 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z But I cannot countenance a rejection of climate science under the pretense that, because everything isn’t understood, nothing is known. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The staffers, who were kind and reassuring and made no pretense of maintaining the whole pirate thing, pushed our boats to a spot on the opposite bank. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It also includes a sleek balcony with unobstructed ocean views, which they regard as an escape from the frenzy and pretense of Chelsea. Taking the a Train to Summer 2011-06-15T21:30:41Z But by the end of the interview, Yang had given up on this pretense. ‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z When it came to politics, though, he dropped the pretense of casualness. Tom Petty, an Unfussy Rock Star Who Kept His Tenacity Under Cover 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Patiently, with no pretense, he unlocks one safe deposit box of memory and emotion after another — safe deposit boxes you’d forgotten you’d owned. Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z That old saying was always more pretense than rule, but this week, it’s in the trash bin. Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Even for the encore, there was no pretense of coyness. LCD Soundsystem, Split Up in 2011, Joins the Reunion Circuit 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z And this discomfort is not even taking into account how Skelton's character is there under false pretenses, putting on an atrocious Spanish accent after a case of mistaken identity. Why this "Baby, It's Cold Outside" update works, where others have failed 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Some of these witnesses had been in a position to see Joseph “pretend” to do these things because they were with him, hoping that the pretense would pan out. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z Unlike many actual museums, “Museum of the Americas” wisely makes no pretense of being objective. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Unfolding in a world of constant pretense, “Chameleon Street” demands an alert and self-aware viewer. ‘Chameleon Street’: The Art of the Con 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z We all have to put up pretenses at times when moving through the world. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 11: Off With His Head 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z She’s going door to door collecting funds “for the Cancer Society,” but her pretenses are false: She isn’t affiliated with any such organization; she simply has the disease herself. In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z So much of the latest cooking trends are indeed drowning in pretense and priced accordingly but who doesn't love to eat and escape into our dreams. What’s Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Could a child be more swiftly thrust into the world of adult pretense, adult prevarication? A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z This point is strongly emphasized in The Onion's brief: killing the satirical pretense kills the satire. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Once or twice I even asked my next-door neighbor to look in on them under pretense of a breaking news emergency at the newscast where I worked. I Had to Know if He Was Seeing Someone Else 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Beauty, a state beyond crime, manipulation or pretense, simply is where it is ... or it isn’t. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z They all liked to puncture fine-art balloons of pretense with jokes and puns. ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980’ Review: A Celebration of the Weird 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z It takes a true skill set and a distinct pop sensibility to turn a large-scale commercial property with no pretense to art and a great many moving parts into a smoothly enjoyable diversion. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Moreover, an appearance on Stewart’s program wouldn’t be unfounded; O’Reilly has made a handful of appearances on the show in the past, almost always under the pretense of discussing new books he’s written. 10 “Daily Show” villains we’d love to see roast Jon Stewart on his final episode 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Second proof positive, the character of Josh, who has been wedged into Jamie's Ohio River Valley existence on the slimmest of sitcom pretenses. Love & Other Drugs: Anatomy Lessons with Anne Hathaway 2010-11-24T07:00:00Z Because I am an American barbarian, I did, that evening in France, abandon all pretense and pick up my tarte flambée, fold it, and eat it New York pizza style. Tarte flambée is the cozy 10-minute French pizza you've got to try 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, the story is firmly focused on the trio and how they grow as their journey strips away their defenses and pretenses – eventually becoming actual friends and acknowledged equals. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z In a project conducted and funded by Duke University, researchers sent 98 people to a theater on the pretense they were participating in a study about what draws consumers to movies. Stale popcorn shows why old habits die hard 2011-09-26T19:16:04Z “Without pretense or show, Mrs. Cleveland kept up pleasant conversation with men who are leaders in theology, medicine, finance, railroads,” an observer noted. The first celebrity first lady: Frances Cleveland Devoid of hipster pretense, Rock in Rio USA on Friday night was real, it was raw and it featured lots of drunken revelry. Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z During several subsequent meetings, the narrator continues to probe his own motives, peeling back the layers of his pretense to expose what need is really motivating him. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Even if it disrupts everything, even the night before, that’s better than allowing him to marry you under the false pretense of your being 10 months away from starting a family. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Well before the wedding bells, get on the same page about children 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z When Chotiner persists in asking why on Earth she would join a network that constructed its success in sowing fear and division along lines of race and class, Brazile drops the pretense of diplomacy: Can Fox News really change its belligerent stripes? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z In 2008 he finally tracked Mr. Baker down and phoned him under the pretense of profiling him for Rolling Stone. A Documentary Looks at the Drummer Ginger Baker 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z There is no pomp or pretense in the serene landscapes, either, be it the seaside villages or fields anchored by ancient castles. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The ethical point of view has its inspirational and novelty value, but the aesthetic POV — the pretense that most of what we see is “found footage” — borders on the ludicrous. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z “There was no pretense on the album, no commercial ambition whatsoever in its creation,” said the Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal, who found the record in a YouTube wormhole while searching for Alaskan vacation rentals. After 43 Years, Mossy Kilcher’s Folk Songs for Alaska Get a Second Life 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z What impressed us about the places we visited was the lack of pretense: These were well-executed establishments filled with passionate people who wanted to share their knowledge. In Willamette Valley of Oregon, Organic Winemaking 2010-04-29T22:15:00Z The great threat to American democracy isn’t “policy” but the pretense of normalcy. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z These doctors and parents are talking about something different: providing the drugs without pretense to students who are flailing for reasons related to their schools and their environment, not their brain chemistry. Motherlode Blog: Pills for the Struggling Student 2012-10-09T19:17:00Z But there’s something touching, too, about Segel’s utter guilelessness in that moment, an almost childlike lack of pretense in the way he pleads for her affection. Everyone’s amiable goofball takes a big leap 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z All are rooted in the pretense that transphobes are a noble people, protecting comedians from perceived cancellation, cis women from violence, and language from inconvenient change to be inclusive. Dave Chappelle and the warped self-victimhood of transphobes 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Flaubert stated that he wanted to write the moral history of his generation, to excavate passions that he declared were, despite the romantic pretenses of French society, “inactive.” He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z As Dostoevsky reminds us in “The Gambler,” the entire milieu was fake and designed to attract fakers, and the biggest fakery of all was the pretense that this was all respectable. MGM’s $1.4 billion casino is a cruise ship to nowhere 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Unlike “City of No Reply,” however, “Dirty Projectors” was released without any pretense of being about anything but Longstreth’s breakup with Coffman. “City of No Reply”: Can Amber Coffman escape the Dirty Projectors? 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The revelations about Louis C.K. and others are killing any pretense that any of this is objective. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Wegman’s ineluctable lack of pretense is perhaps most complex and intriguing in the show’s paintings, where he deftly combines the roles of professional, amateur and illustrator. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z It takes a while to realize that Emre has gotten you hooked under arguably false pretenses, but what she finally pulls off is so inventive and beguiling you can hardly begrudge her for it. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z She considers herself a "nonjudgmental, liberal Christian," and sees the characters' religious pretense as "a sendup." Kristin Chenoweth: 'GCB' is 'not trying to be Shakespeare' 2012-05-04T03:15:05Z But with Republicans going all-in on an ex-president who tried to overturn an election on false pretenses, and many Democrats increasingly fed up with compromise-minded moderates, American politics is no boat party. Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The annual Billboard Music Awards carry little of the pretense of other award shows. Nicki Minaj’s Empty Obsession with Being No. 1 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In such a world, only acting feels honest, only magic feels real: “It was not the theater that was false, no, everything else was pretense, disguise and frippery, everything that was not theater was false.” When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The documentary, which opens Friday, is intensely personal, tapping the eldest of Yogi’s 11 grandchildren to serve as a narrator with no pretense to objectivity in fighting for her grandfather’s legacy. Yogi Berra on the Field: The Case for Baseball Greatness 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z What “The Expectations” does accomplish is the wholesale abandonment of the pretense that fancy, name-brand education has anything to do with academic or personal excellence. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z As docile inhabitants wait for the work to be done, they solemnly wave the empty bottles in a pretense of scientific seriousness. | 'Tales From the Golden Age': ?Tales From the Golden Age? - Review 2011-08-25T23:16:18Z The menu is exciting and without pretense—this is, after all, stall food. Our Year in Meals 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Now that the newspaper business model is collapsing like a Jenga stack in an earthquake, some news organizations have dropped even the pretense of trying to distinguish ads from their own work. Weingarten: Going native According to Mr. Campany’s book, Léger’s “hard-won intelligence and complete lack of pretense appealed to the young Klein, who has maintained a pragmatic ethos.” After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Mazur, whose memoir serves as the source material for the film and whose voice and appearance remain protected, explains that those friendships, though pursued under false pretenses, were a particularly trying part of the job. Bryan Cranston Explains How to Break Up a Drug Cartel 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “Outlander’s” first season, in the highlands of Scotland, was rather gritty; in France, any pretense of being more than luxurious wish-fulfillment has been abandoned. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It assembles a talented, quick-tongued bunch of performers and happily dispenses with the pretense that they are playing anything other than themselves. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z Despite his pretense of nonbelief, Basilius is disturbed by the oracle’s dark words and decides to outrun misfortune by getting out of Arcadia. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Unlike the documentary pretense of “The Office,” which is being shot by outsiders and intended for broadcast, Zach’s cameras are purely for his own vanity. Television Review: ‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous,’ With Bo Burnham on MTV 2013-05-01T22:08:15Z She added that Ms. Higdon’s music is “very immediate, authentic, sincere and without pretense.” Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z Williams saw heroism and artistry in such poses and pretenses. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to be captivated by Tosi’s lack of pretense. ‘Milk Bar Life,’ reviewed: guilty pleasures, sweet and savory alike 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z On the pretense of dining or having a drink at the legendary restaurant Windows on the World, we’d simply step into the express elevator, press 106 and be launched into the sky. Atop New York’s One World Trade Center, a rush of hope and memories 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But after that, the pretense begins to fall away, and Mr. Ellis lets his relationships collapse, and he sounds even warmer, more sympathetic, more understanding. New Music: Albums From Sun Kil Moon and Robert Ellis 2014-02-10T22:49:08Z He told Vanity Fair that he used female staffers to enter fashion houses under the pretense of buying couture and to ferret out gossip and information from seamstresses about fashion lines and their creators. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps the next installment could do away with the pretense of these dingbats needing to save the world? ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Review: The One-Man Odd Couple Returns 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “I no longer made any pretense of drinking to bond with the men, or to blunt the cares of the day, or to participate in male rituals,” Moehringer writes. ‘The Tender Bar’: A Tale of Drinking That Ducks Alcoholism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z An article last week in Slate sparked debate over whether “Dear Evan Hansen,” which tells the story of a vulnerable high school student who becomes a social-media sensation under false pretenses, lionizes a liar. Critic's analysis: Tonys spread the love in a year of innovation and risk-taking on Broadway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z There’s a certain charm in DeGeneres’ pretense that hosting the movie industry’s most watched and important show is no big deal; less charm when the whole enterprise carries the whiff of amateurism. Oscars 2014 Recap: 12 Years a Slave Is King, and Lupita Nyong’o the Princess Bride 2014-03-03T15:59:17Z The stability of this system, he learns, depends not merely on power and terror but also on a carefully engineered structure of lies and pretenses. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But most viewers respond to the picture for the same reasons their grandparents did: it’s a movie made without pretense but with serious wit, brisk glamour and eternal star quality. Which Is The Better Best Picture: Casablanca or Platoon? 2012-02-13T13:59:29Z Everyone was there to be seen; there was not the slightest pretense about being there to have fun or to have any intelligible exchange with anyone. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Its lack of pretense was absorbing; this is a ballet full of artful shadows that wash over the stage with ever-evolving shapes — twisting, curving, bending — seemingly inspired by the natural world. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z But an investigation by The Wall Street Journal revealed that no such technology existed, and that Holmes’s company, Theranos, had taken hundreds of millions of dollars from investors under false pretenses. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Inventor’ and ‘The Fix’ 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Again, though, Lady Gaga’s music is the pretense, not the substance of her bond with her audience, which was clear Friday at Roseland Ballroom during the first night of her seven show run there. Music Review: On Stage, Lady Gaga’s Artistry Endures 2014-03-30T01:32:27Z The recognition was a shock, and I bought them without the pretense of haggle. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z It's a sly reminder that there are few new ideas in Hollywood. makes no pretense that it's doing anything more than putting a new spin on an old theme. Horrible Bosses. So-So Movie. Excellent Jason Bateman! 2011-07-07T12:25:00Z Mr. Vreeland was struck by the Dalai Lama’s lack of pretense. Up Close: Even the Dalai Lama Needs a Point Man 2010-05-19T18:57:00Z The pretense of impartiality is gone, but Parker is not a dogmatic artist. The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z And so the pretense of a fourth wall on these shows has been slowly eroding. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Cultured but dismissive of all pretense, beautiful but entirely unconcerned about her appearance, Cora tromps around the shore looking for bones while a parade of admirers pine for her. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z But the fact that this is a pretense is easy enough to reason out with old-fashioned logic. Hate is alive and well in North Carolina: State Republicans overturn an anti-discrimination law because of an urban legend 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z She is a grandmother now, with a demeanor that eschews pretense. Could there be a better place to cook than the River Cafe? 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Until now a charismatic master of pretense, Draper by season's end acknowledged what every "Mad Men" viewer already knew: Don's fabled mojo had failed him. A wakeup call heeded as `Mad Men' season ends 2013-06-24T12:43:33Z When image and pretense are removed, they become about our inner worlds. The Joy of Old Clothes 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Adolescents are prime for poetry: its intensity, its hormonal rhythms, its power to unpack pretense and probe deeper are in sync with that time of life. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z They were arrested, and O’Keefe eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor criminal charge of entering a federal office under false pretenses. Is it okay for James O’Keefe’s ‘investigative reporting’ to rely on deception? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z If he did the crime, he deserves the time, forget whether the confession was achieved under false pretenses, or whether it furthered the career of a DA. When #MeToo Infamy Taints Your Famous Benefactor 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z There’s the initial pretense of scientific objectivity, but it soon feels beside the point. ‘After Death’ Review: Visions at the Brink From Those Who Returned 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Almost in passing, she weaves her own story into the history of the buildings while conjuring the utopian pretenses of life under Franco and the ways the present inevitably erases the past. Patricia Esquivias: ‘111-119 Generalísimo/Castellana’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “They are tied to the ground on which they sit and to the people who sit within them. They have presence without pretense and an impact shaped by grace.” Pritzker Prize goes to architect from West Africa 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z “This was an opportunity to drop every level of pretense. I was just trying to translate the honest experience of living.” Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z What makes it all the more horrific is the film’s lack of a strong redemptive counternarrative and the absence of even a pretense of holiness. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z While Hannity and Pirro have never made any pretense about their support for Trump on the air, Fox said at the time that it “does not condone any talent participating in campaign events.” Fox News once banned its hosts from speaking at partisan events. Then it went all in on CPAC. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z It has the pretense of being important, in its size but also its presence, as would any portrait of a famous or important man. The Art on Her Walls Echoes Her Mission: Backing Bold Works by Women 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He later quipped that it was “an evening of pretense.” Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Like all fantasies, our architectural longings reveal a great deal about the dreamer and our psychological makeup—pretense, knowledge, insecurity, ambition, attention to detail, taste level. Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Viola Davis, and Other Celebrities on Their Dream Houses 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z And for the faux-shrink he wrote, among other things, a wild 13-minute sequence, called “Simple,” in which the character drives everyone crazy under the pretense of sorting them into normals and nots. Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The best thing about Platt’s new memoir, “The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony,” is the way he dispenses with pretense in general. In New Memoirs, Food Writers Serve Up Stories About Their Beat 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z A provocateur, under false pretenses, tries to get people of various backgrounds, from everyday Americans to sitting lawmakers, to make embarrassing comments on camera. Sacha Baron Cohen Is Duping Republicans. Is He the James O’Keefe of the Left? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z This pretense that it’s happening now is a silly thing which I can’t abide, and I use every opportunity to bore people to death by telling them about it. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in musical milieus, “minimalism” is often deployed as a polite byword for either minimal effort or maximum pretense. Perspective | The late composer Jon Gibson helped save minimalism from itself 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z His accomplishments, prominence and lack of pretense — it is not uncommon to spot him shopping his local Gelson’s supermarket — will make him a particularly difficult figure to replace. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But it also leaves no pretense for humanity in David, reinforcing Ellie's fighting instinct. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Hall breathes life and light into it in a way that lends a weight of beauty and honesty to its immersion into a world of purposeful pretense. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The fake engagement gives the pair ample excuse to indulge their attraction under the guise of method acting, but the pretense quickly falls away. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Billy is injured by a bad-tempered, dangerous horse sold to the pair under false pretenses by Leland Hatcher, the richest man in a Tennessee town. Schemes of Mules and Men Propel ‘The Midnight Cool’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z “Queen of the South” simply makes no pretense about it. “Queen of the South” and “Claws”: Sometimes bad can be very, very good 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Limoncelli's script by necessity shears away some incidents in the novel, such as Vane's ruse of doing academic research as a pretense for her Oxford sojourn. Taproot's 'Gaudy Night' an open-and-shut case of fun for mystery fans 2012-10-02T19:53:04Z He can try to rectify the murder he committed under false pretenses, the mortal blow in his spiritual undoing. 'True Detective' Recap: Full Moons and Sex Parties 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Trump, on the other hand, is delivering a workshop-worthy exercise in acting as lying, all too often in substance, but also in his affect of pretense, narcissistic bluster and insincerity. Perspective | Andrew Cuomo’s star turn is part of a long cinematic tradition 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Olbermann dropped any pretense of journalistic objectivity, and he became a hero to liberals battered by the popularity of Fox News Channel and its conservative commentators. Olbermann and MSNBC: a failing relationship 2011-01-23T01:45:50Z But I don’t even need that pretense: the performance schedule is incentive enough, isn’t it? Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z This pretense of a movie finally becomes one. Spring Breakers: Disney Channel Girls Gone Wild 2012-09-07T13:49:42Z This was the pretense, though, the necessary nod to the present that allowed Diddy to dive headlong into the past. Music Review: Diving Into the Past, but Definitely Still in the Present 2011-04-24T21:38:42Z Duck lures Pete into an interview with the company under false pretenses -- the theme of the episode -- and aggressively tries to woo him, but Pete resists as long as he can. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Both “As You Like It” and “Twelfth Night” are comedies of dissembling and disguise, in which true love is arrived at under false pretenses. Movie Review: In ‘Viola,’ Shakespeare Is Lens to Look at Young Argentines 2013-07-11T21:39:22Z There is no flow here, and no pretense of flow, just the dogged, real-time application of compositional tools. | 'I?m Going to Make a Small Incision Behind Your Ear to Check and See if You?re Actually Human': Heeding Audience Cues and Ping-Pong Balls 2010-12-16T16:46:46Z The legendary force behind “Pink Flamingos” champions bad taste without bitterness or pretense. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z It's pure, it's without pretense, it's without the sexual connotations. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Remember, in addition to "Parasite" being a parable about wealthy and social standing, it's also a story about the power of pretense. Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The story lays bare how much immigration is a game of pretense. Displaced Persons 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z But Mr. Petrenko’s conducting, for all its theatricality, is without pretense. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Novelists, with their pretenses to total access to their universes, invariably argue for the distinctiveness, not to mention the primacy, of human agency. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z At least with "The Divide," which premieres Wednesday night on WE tv, there is no pretense. 'The Divide' on WE tv smartly smudges race, class stereotypes 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the participants at the show paid their respects the same way Cobain approached his art: unforced, minus pretense, through sheer instinct. Joyful night celebrates Nirvana's legacy 2011-09-21T17:35:04Z Under the pretense of cleaning up after spilling a drink on herself, she heads for the basement to shoot photos with her cellphone. 'Justified' Recap: Ava Sticks to Boyd, and Her Own Dark Side 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z And she was a real pistol who drawled truth to power, stripping politics of pretense. The Texas Tribune: Richards and Her Hair Have Their Cultural Moment 2010-12-19T02:46:16Z Toward the end of the hour, in their elegant hotel room, Bill surrenders any pretense of composure as he crumples into the arms of the only person he trusts, Virginia. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: I Will Fix You 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z If keeping up the pretense of unwinking entertainment causes the pace to drag at times, at least this movie never fails to follow through on its scandalous promise. ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But they have no pretense, no expectation, and they do what they like. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z There wasn’t a shred of pretense to her. Your wife is the worst 2012-10-26T23:30:00Z We prosecuted wars on false pretenses; we blithely dispensed with our fundamental moral beliefs and turned a blind eye to extraordinary rendition and torture. A letter to my daughter: What I want you to know about freedom, fear and Donald Trump 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The Weather Channel long ago gave up any pretense that it didn’t know what the rest of us are afraid to admit: that the weather is entertaining, and that bad weather is very entertaining. Following the Record Snow in Boston 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z And then there’s the title, which drops all institutional, intellectual pretenses and simply says, in effect, “Here are a bunch of Soutines.” Chaim Soutine Show at Paul Kasmin Gallery 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z She moved slowly and sensuously, pausing sometimes and dropping the pretense of smiling, then starting again. Review: Anohni’s Declaration Against War 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It's a celebration that, under the pretense of peace and goodwill, is ripe for fighting about on his show. O'Reilly strikes back against 'War on Christmas' 2012-12-12T16:52:12Z By this time, the middle of Act 2, the show has discarded all pretenses of being a book show. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z When my grandmother finally passed, my mother gave up all pretense of concern for us. My awful past keeps me from writing 2013-02-25T01:00:00Z The rich flaunt their ostentatious wealth without even the pretense of humility, modesty, generosity, or gratitude. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Lunging wildly between satirical farce and teary sentimentality, the movie follows the misadventures of a ragtag symphony orchestra that travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses. | 'The Concert': Radu Mihaileanu?s Comedy Focuses on Zany Orchestra 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z He is on surer ground in claiming that they would be “appalled by how money has come to dominate American politics,” obliterating even the pretense of virtue. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The law applies to “defendants who have lured women, under false pretenses and with lucrative promises, for sexual purposes”, and the allegations show evidence of “conscious behavior and fraudulent intent”, the ruling says. Harvey Weinstein: judge allows sex trafficking case to move to trial 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z That is why wines like California carignan, presented straightforwardly without pretense, are so exciting. You Can Teach an Old-Vine Grape New Tricks 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z From there Allen erases the pretense of separation between himself and his character. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Constantly shuttled around the world under false pretenses, she was cradled in deception, raised in lies, schooled in fraud. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman We chew with open mouths, too — we’re without pretense or much regard for personal space. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z He left after two years to pursue an MBA at UCLA, after he dropped the pretense of being black. Mindy Kaling’s brother is a bad spokesman for merit 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In other words, our pretense of egalitarianism is destined to aggravate tensions between groups that live very different lives. Sue Miller’s ‘The Arsonist,’ reviewed by Ron Charles In Moore's defamation lawsuit, he claimed Baron Cohen had committed fraud by interviewing Moore under false pretenses with a false identity, and also inflicted extreme emotional distress on Moore. Sacha Baron Cohen has found himself at the center of two major lawsuits in one week 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z By the end of that decade, most brides had dropped the pretense. How the Vows Column Came About 2012-05-20T06:47:18Z That’s Todd — a substantive guy who isn’t caught up in pretense or image. Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ debut: A straight-talking work in progress Despite her success, she is without pretense, Dr. Clapp said: “She is the same person everywhere she goes.” Sharing Ideals, Friendship and, After 37 Years, a Wedding Day 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Despite branding language that features words like “control,” “formula” and “precise,” Mr. DeLand makes no pretense at hard science. Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet? 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z As for the specifics, it’s not too late, and “dignity points” don’t mean anything if they’re obtained through falsely brave pretenses. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When turning 30 becomes an existential crisis 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Rarely taking a vacation, churning out as many as 5,000 words a day, Mr. Jakes made no pretense to lofty literary aspirations. John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z What I found astonishing when the #MeToo movement broke was the pretense that nobody knew this was going on. Glenda Jackson Returns to the Screen for an Issue Close to Her Heart 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It seems to be pretty good for an 18-year-old, in fact, indicative in its directness and lack of pretense of the direction his future work will take. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Having abandoned all pretense of work hours before, I’m more than ready to punch my card. ?The Vanilla Ice Project? on the DIY Network 2012-01-13T17:00:00Z “But these institutions have made a pretense of observing the rules of morality.” Senate Bill Would Help Recover Art Stolen by Nazis 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The unhurried pace, the cleverly interlocking story lines and the general lack of pretense and contrivance remain in place. ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Review: More of the Same (Good) Thing 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z A village pariah, Shahrzad lives alone in a modest, isolated house and appears as a fugitive pretense: a silhouette in a window, a disembodied voice, a distant figure. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z For Mr. Scott, the album is a pretense, a necessary step in between him and the exuberant presentation that is his true gift. Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott Fumble Toward Yesterday’s Prize: A No. 1 Album 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Two movies about smoke and mirrors, about the pretense of self-presentation and the foil of millennial “authenticity” end up exposing what’s potentially misleading about each other. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Because it would liberate me from any pretense of having a relationship with or duty to this person. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her sister-in-law has the starring role in a mean girls group chat 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z This country’s ongoing procession of racism, antisemitism and “law-and-order”-screeching politicians comes awfully close to the hate-filled climate of the work’s setting, shedding any pretense of respectability. ‘Parade’ Review: The Trial and Tragedy of Leo Frank 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They decide to approach Ebba, wagering their pretense of empathizing with her will yield more damaging information they can use. Wins, losses and regrets: It's all part of the game at this "Succession" tailgate party 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z In an extensive videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television in 1999, Mr. Rich presented a businesslike persona, devoid of artistic pretense. Lee Rich, a Founder of Lorimar Productions, Dies at 93 2012-05-30T16:54:28Z There's just enough narrative pretense to differentiate it from the innumerable unscripted food tourism TV shows. Netflix's "Samurai Gourmet" has the pleasure-seeking, main character energy I want for the summer 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Not that there’s much pretense to narrative normalcy. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps it'd be more of a moneyspinner to take the Hangover 2 route and basically just remake Casablanca note for note under the pretense that it's a sequel. Here's looking at you, Casablanca 2 2012-11-06T17:33:12Z In the foreword to “Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary,” the fiction writer Danielle Evans described Collins as “a master of the moments when the interior becomes the exterior, when all pretense drops away.” A Writer’s One-Act Plays Debut, Continuing Her Resurrection 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art. Movie Review: ‘The Artist and the Model,’ Starring Jean Rochefort 2013-08-02T00:56:40Z But then, the album is merely a pretense for Mayer. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The truth, when it arrives, destroys the pretense with a shocking display of violence. Displaced Persons 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “Now Biden Democrats have done away with any pretense of caring about either verification or compliance by purging all references in the bureau’s name,” he said. House Republicans pan Biden’s outreach to Xi 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A reasonable assumption is Trump wants the pretense of transparency without the risks. Televising Trump's trial would make Jack Smith's job harder. Here's why it should be allowed anyway 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The novel turns picaresque when Anna is whisked away to Hollywood on the thin pretense of an Ayn Rand television show. A 'canceled' author falls for a cringe icon in 'The Book of Ayn' (Rand, of course) 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z As if we can’t see the superficiality of it all — the pretense of representation and the paternalistic nature of doing something for our benefit when we can see how hollow it is. We're not protecting the right people by removing racism from TV and film 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The children’s rights ombudswoman argued that he was being taken there “under false pretenses.” A teenager taken from occupied Mariupol to Russia will return to Ukraine, officials say 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z That pretense looks like lethal nonsense to most of the world as Israel persists with mass killing of civilians in Gaza. Joe Biden's lethal trap: His embrace of Israel has become support for war crimes 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z It should end any pretense that the current Republican Party is a serious governing party. Here's how we know the Republican Party has become an autocratic movement 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z And it also springs from a trollish pretense that fatuously declares that Democrats are the warmongers while they just want to give peace a chance. The unseen casualties of the GOP's civil war 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Oher, 37, filed a petition in August to terminate the nearly 20-year-old conservatorship, claiming that he had been tricked into signing away his decision-making powers under the pretense that he would be adopted. Legal Arrangement in ‘Blind Side’ Case Is Terminated 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Trump’s latest filing, by stark contrast, abandons any pretense of a coherent attempt to persuade Chutkan not to impose a gag order. Column: Is it time for a federal judge to put a gag order on Donald Trump? 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z And the permit itself, he said, was full of errors and “based on false pretense.” Malibu mayor says Kardashian party violated permit — a trend city leaders say is growing 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z In the process, Biden was pretending there was an equivalency of suffering and culpability for both countries, a popular pretense for commanders in chief ever since the first new one after the Vietnam War ended. Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can't tell the truth about a tragic mistake 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Listing euthanasia as a “social evil,” he criticized supporters of assisted suicide as providing “false pretenses of a supposedly dignified and ‘sweet’ death that is more ‘salty’ than the waters of the sea.” Pope Francis insists Europe doesn’t have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z In 2018, Daibes was charged by federal prosecutors in Newark with obtaining loans under false pretenses from a bank that he owned. Bribery case against Sen. Menendez shines light on powerful NJ developer accused of corruption 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z On the streets, there is a parallel effort to help people that is not publicly funded and makes no pretense of meeting people where they are at. Where we're at: Far apart on Seattle's drug crisis | Alex Fryer 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Journalist Michelle Ruíz met up with Bad Bunny under the pretense of discussing his album, which she said was tentatively slated for fall. This Week in Latin Music: How the VMAs won Latinos; Bad Bunny on WhatsApp 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The pretenses that falsify the past are foreshadowing excuses for future warfare. Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can't tell the truth about a tragic mistake 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Television goes on this fall with some pretense of normalcy. Review: 'Jerry Brown: The Disrupter' is a revealing look at the California politician 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z “So it’s a complete and total sham, which is, in my view, simply more evidence that this so-called search was just a pretense to intimidate the newspaper,” Rhodes said. Kansas newspaper’s lawyer says police didn’t follow warrant in last month’s newsroom search 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Television goes on, with some pretense of normalcy. Returning series, game shows, documentaries and Trump: TV for every taste this fall 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Again, the pretense was that he was "out of order" during a debate over a gun safety bill. Republicans aren't handling Trump indictments well — they're doubling down attacks on democracy 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z We20 meeting organizers said the G-20 is a “popular networking event for the rich and powerful, under the pretense of saving the world.” Indian police stop a conference of activists and academics discussing G20 issues ahead of summit 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Sam Miele was charged with four counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in an alleged scheme to defraud donors and obtain money under false pretenses. A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z A former athletic trainer at San José State University has pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct more than 14 years after accusations surfaced that he was inappropriately touching young women under the pretense of treating them. After mistrial, former San Jose State athletic trainer pleads guilty to sexual assault 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z The strategy isn't even hidden: Write the rules so that there is no way to avoid breaking them, and then use the rule-breaking as a pretense to end public education entirely. Don't be fooled: Despite their protestations, Republicans are harassing teachers out of their jobs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Instead, Holzapfel obtained King’s participation “under false pretenses,” and used the interview, making it appear that King “endorsed Defendants’ commercial activities when, in fact, he has not done so.” Former 'Shark Tank' contestant sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to fraud and sexual battery 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The so-called Barbie Liberation Organization drafted a press release, filmed three promotional commercials and built a website that mimicked Mattel and distributed the media kit under the pretense they were company officials. Plastic-free Barbie was a hoax, but pollution from the iconic doll is real 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z “His pretense has been stripped away, revealing the face of an individual who evaded the law, exploited state gifts for trivial profits.” Prison probably isn’t the end of the political road for Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z The indictment alleges that the government would have been a victim of fraud if Trump and at least six co-conspirators succeeded in overturning the election results on false pretenses. Explainer: What election interference charges does Trump face and how can he fight them? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The strategy isn't even hidden: Write the rules so that there is no way to avoid breaking them, and then use the rule-breaking as a pretense to end public education entirely. Don't be fooled: Despite their protestations, Republicans are harassing teachers out of their jobs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z But that Giuliani has given up pretending he was sincerely deluded strongly suggests that it's a pretense Trump himself will struggle to keep up. "These people are admitting they lied to you": New documents undermine Trump's January 6 defense 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In their quest for power, radical elements within the Democratic Party have abandoned any pretense of fairness, tolerance and justice. End Democrats starting a second civil war before it begins 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z But it says Mashinsky operated Celsius like a risky investment fund, taking in customer money under false and misleading pretenses and exposing customers to a high-risk business. Founder of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network arrested on fraud charges 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Analysts say those ships often transfer their oil to other ships, that then sell the crude oil under false pretenses. Indonesia seizes Iranian tanker for suspected illegal oil transfer in its territorial waters 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z And even if the fighters don't know what they're fighting for, the pretense from leadership is that they do. Patriotism and war: Can America break that deadly connection? 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today. US Supreme Court won't scrutinize Mississippi curb on voting by felons 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Pena would enter a store under the pretense of maintenance work. Las Vegas man gets four years in prison for stealing $715,000 in change 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Rahim lost his right to firearms after being convicted in 1992 of three felony counts of obtaining property under false pretenses. Virginia sheriff charged with selling law enforcement badges 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “Netanyahu today prevented its establishment, putting an end to the pretense that he was open to negotiations,” he said. Israeli parliament vote deals setback to Netanyahu and judicial overhaul plan 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He openly and aggressively pushed his attorneys general to prosecute his perceived enemies and drop cases against his friends and allies, making no pretense that he was seeking equal and independent justice. Trump’s Case Puts the Justice System on Trial, in a Test of Public Credibility 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z At some point we have to drop the pretense that everybody acts from sincere and well-intended motives, even if they are misguided, and ask ourselves whether Republicans actually want more gun homicide. The party of pollution, disease and death: When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Being lured somewhere with false pretenses can “come close to kidnapping,” Mr. Menchaca said. Prosecuting Florida’s Migrant Flights Would Face Legal Hurdles 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “In refusing to lift the sanction, the United States is holding strategic necessity — launching mil-to-mil dialogues — hostage to strategic pretense — the hope that sanctions will dissuade China from buying Russian arms,” he said. New Cold War? U.S., China defense chiefs square off in Singapore 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Certainly, the possibility exists that a cisgender man might pose as a woman to go into certain spaces under false pretenses. Criminologists: Baseless anti-trans claims are fueling adoption of harmful laws 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z I make no pretense to be able to divine the thinking that prevails within senior Ukrainian military circles, but the basic math does them no favors. Seduced by war yet again: Why Washington is underwriting violence in Ukraine 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z With that pretense comes the reality that the fundamental drivers of American politics all point toward the United States borrowing more, not less. The Debt-Limit Deal Suggests Debt Will Keep Growing, Fast 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Nobody's ever heard of that "deal" before but it does help McCarthy if the rest of the Freedom Caucus goes along with the pretense that this was ever at issue. Democrats make a deal to avoid default disaster — now how will Biden ever learn? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Motif said in one of the filings that Impossible's use of "false pretenses" to gain information was "alarming" and "unethical." Impossible Foods accused of misusing private investigators in meat-substitute patent fight 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The company’s surveillance software, FinSpy, was offered for download in 2017 via a fake website to the Turkish opposition movement under false pretenses in order to spy on them, prosecutors said. German prosecutors charge four over violating trade act to sell spyware to Turkey 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z It made it impossible for the rest of the press to keep up the pretense that information on Fox is trustworthy. The most surprising part of the "homeless veterans" hoax? Fox News admitted they were wrong 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z This same pretense lives strong in other arms of government, too, like the Seattle School Board. What’s the point of the Regional Homelessness Authority? 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Sartre and Beauvoir called this “bad faith,” the pretense that individual decisions are dictated by an imaginary higher power or higher calling. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1964 Sukarno had abandoned all pretense of neutrality and sought alliances with communist countries while encouraging anti–United States sentiment in Indonesia. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z China has not taken an explicit position on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and U.S. officials say China and Russia might use the pretense of talks to freeze the front lines — and Russian gains. Ukraine’s Offensive Could Set Stage for Diplomacy With Russia, U.S. Officials Say 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z |
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