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This attitude was grounded in a disdain for what he regarded as the folly, pretense, vanity, self-deception, and artificiality of human conduct.
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His quip that he was there under false pretenses was greeted by much laughter.
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Before she can let go of pretense, she must first deal with a psychotic husband, a loveless second marriage, and her child's crib death.
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The bill includes a prohibition against recording image or sound from an agricultural operation without consent and obtaining access to that operation under false pretenses.
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I make no pretense to be a scientist without class affiliation.
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A hilarious sequence of events follows as his pretense gets both him and the fishermen into comical situations.
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While the events of the author's life are recounted, there is no pretense of exact truth.
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Author argues for gender sensitivity to proclaim the differences between men and woman with a kind of pretense that all are same and equal.
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Priming involves the exposure of a person to information under false pretenses.
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Dor reacted to the two decisions with outrage, saying that the dialogue had been exposed as nothing but a pretense.
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