Nor did any of the Xenexians make the slightest pretense of doing anything other than openly sizing her up.

Europe and the Soviet Union were at least known quantities, strange, querulous, and liable to break into myriad warring factions on the slightest pretense, but at least semipredictable.

He backed off and tried leaping over the affected region, but his horizontal velocity dissipated-without the slightest pretense of any "physical" justification-and he landed squarely in the middle of the treadmill.

If journalists or scholars try to publish unauthorized information, it could be banned under the slightest pretense, and the authors would not be allowed to argue in court that publication was in the public interest.

Her voice carried, and now no one in the Ten-Forward was making the slightest pretense of looking the other way.

There was not the slightest pretense.

None of them was any longer making even the slightest pretense of shopping.

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.

It is an endearing trait, and it reminds us that a good writer can break every rule in the book without the slightest avant-garde pretense or self-consciousness.

With Republicans inching closer to calling a special session of the Legislature this week to name Florida's 25 electors, legislative leaders of both parties abandoned even the slightest pretense of bipartisanship today.