Both Uses of
pretext
in
Man And Superman
- It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life.†
Chpt Ded. *
- When we meet, the others go away on absurd pretexts to leave us alone together.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(pretext) a false reason presented to hide the real reason for doing something