It practically abandoned all pretence on the part of the Great Powers to protect the Christians in Turkey, cardinal point of Gladstone's eastern policy.
We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a .
If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, Why Aren’t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well? “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical.
June 11, 2013 - The Gilmer Mirror
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