" Agreed academic Norani Othman: "Rafidah made no pretense about being interested in women's issues.

CNN: Straight from the Heart

In recent years prefab, boxy housing units with no pretense to a boating heritage have been floated onto the canals.

FORBES: Playing the Float

Then he abandons that routine and goes into his more usual mode of loud recitation, which makes no pretense at singing.

NEWYORKER: Plug and Play

The poorly domesticated Paul lives tensely with his grimly steadfast wife (Marie-Paule Laval), their teen-age son, and a newborn daughter, yet brazenly philanders with Ulrika (Johanna ter Steege), who makes no pretense of loving him.

NEWYORKER: The Birth of Love

But in general, when your death is of more interest to family, friends, colleagues and your immediate community, the text of an obit is written by the loved ones themselves, who make no pretense of (and have to reason to aspire to) objectivity.

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Salty-tongued waiters charm you silly, but with no solicitous pretense.

BBC: Vintage Las Vegas