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"feign" Definitions
  1. feign something | feign to do something to pretend that you have a particular feeling or that you are ill, tired, etc.

263 Sentences With "feign"

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They ask for the items back, and I feign concern.
Even now, his government does not feign admiration for him.
Their arms would feign the playing of the musical instruments.
Unfortunately, no one should feign surprise when they do not.
But nobody should feign surprise: the warning signs were there.
And Republicans will be unable to claim innocence or feign surprise.
Back in 2001, Bush could still feign doubt about climate science.
Training kids to feign a passion is the art of parenting.
Some people can't remember exactly what they ate; others feign asceticism.
And then we feign surprise when periodically the tensions boil over.
In one isolation ward, inmates were given newspapers to feign normalcy.
And then we feign surprise when, periodically, the tensions boil over.
And then, we feign surprise when periodically the tensions boil over.
Now, there's no one left to at least try to feign it.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to feign mock excitement over Sen.
In the US, we used to at least feign interest in action.
For example, a surgeon couldn&apost drop his tools and feign clumsiness.
They also feign spontaneity gorgeously, which makes the audience feel it genuinely.
There's a whole host of brand accounts on Twitter that feign depression.
So let's not feign pearl-clutching; let's just get on with it!
She can feign excitement for Rory, though, who is there to check in.
I'm going to feign like I don't know it in great detail. Yeah.
Even if the results are practically inedible, parents will often feign excitement anyway.
Sure, they might feign interest, maybe, if you drive an ice cream truck.
Now more than ever, no one should feign surprise or innocence about this.
There's no need to feign uprightness; it's always weird to see them stood.
Feign interest while we count out loud the number of bites on our legs.
American gun culture is shifting, and we can't simply feign an interest in diversity.
They twist, they turn, but they wake up and feign all this moral outrage.
But the heart can't feign ambivalence for long when it knows its own desire.
Trickle-downers love to feign concern that progressive policies are terrible for small business.
He was pleased with his effort, so I did my best to feign enjoyment.
The politicians who rely on N.R.A. donations feign concern and continue taking that money.
They stop short when they notice a rapper in their midst and feign fandom.
Current Republican efforts to feign climate policy conspicuously fail to grapple with that truth.
Contrast that with football, where players feign fouls to gain control of the ball.
Justin Timberlake is a good sport, but he will not feign enthusiasm over baby news.
So I make dinner and feign a smile when he asks what we did today.
As such, Klass predicted Kim would feign outrage about the move, but otherwise accept it.
Do not feign outrage if you can't, or choose not to, understand this simple fact.
It turns out, they believed in him and had to feign disinterest to get him.
We don't need the endless parade that we're forced to feign excitement over at present.
Players flop to draw a foul or feign innocence (or even injury) to avoid one.
So when you can, feign incapacity,And when deploying troops, appear to have nosuch plans.
"This is off-gassing all of its terpenes," he says, and I nod to feign comprehension.
One more thing artificial humans can do better than real ones: feign interest in people's problems.
Given that, those who watch the Oscars can't convincingly feign shock over being subjected to liberal opinions.
Perhaps if you pretended that children were dogs, you could at least feign an interest in them.
Eight years after the passage of the ACA, they no longer even feign having a viable alternative.
I like nice hotel rooms, but how many years now, feign interest in yet another Denver omelette?
Rand Paul can also be counted on to feign political independence, but he usually falls into line.
By not asking users their age upon signup, it can feign ignorance about how old they are.
These cookies feign modesty, but they know by the end of the party, they'll be gone. 1.
As the camera cut around to their faces, they didn't know whether to feign nonchalance or look contrite.
It would be unwise to underestimate his ability to feign gravitas and transform himself into an apparent centrist.
What he can't feign ignorance of, to pick one issue at random, is the Republican health care bill.
I find this endearing, and I confess that I feign interest so we have more reasons to talk.
Stritch was 21, just out of convent school and called upon to feign a sophistication she didn't feel.
In such awkward situations, a common strategy is to feign agreement until an opportunity for escape presents itself.
A few earbud-wearers among them seem to feign unawareness of what pains they are making of themselves.
When one player hit a long home run, others would wave a towel to feign cooling them off.
They decided to publicly feign a marital separation in order to remove Ida from the malign eye of harassers.
You only feign to be surprised or shocked when you seek to prevent any deeper soul searching from occurring.
Early Trump backers complain that there are plenty of onetime Trump-haters who now feign enthusiasm for career reasons.
These affective norms can be counterintuitive, especially considering how many of our jobs require employees to feign loving attention.
As documented by C.R.J. Boland, they have been shown to feign the feeding motion but then swallow the morsel themselves.
Vannata would feign a strike just to have Ferguson swing back and weave to a dominant angle to throw back.
He draws this out, taunting her, forcing her to feign ignorance even though the entire room knows she can read.
At the gig, they had to feign romance, but it seems that there was something real brewing under the surface.
I could no longer feign being outdoorsy, so I made the only contribution I could: I became an Amazonian homemaker.
It is a tribute to the service's permanent underclass, the young grunts who are too weary to feign enthusiasm anymore.
But prudent reconfiguration can get drowned out by dramatic overreactions — not that politicians ever feign indignation to gain political advantages.
In response, the townspeople begin to feign deafness in the face of the soldiers, fomenting a revolution of a kind.
Put together, there's just no way Pompeo can feign ignorance when it comes to the administration's true intention toward Ukraine.
But she doesn't just feign concern for most of this stuff abstractly; she feels like she has skin in the game.
"I'm always amused that Republicans feign indignation when they hear the word s--- out of Tom Perez," he told the Post.
"We were just supposed to feign our readings so we didn't cause turmoil with the natives," he said in an interview.
Please don't let there be hearings in which members of Congress who voted for the TCJA feign indignation — just fix it.
I very often feign that I don't like it, but if I'm completely honest, it lets me meet people, another human.
She even convincingly continues to feign surprise every time she discovers that her billionaire beau/husband owns more planes and homes.
Adam Beyer's monotonous bass lines bore you to death, and it's obvious to those on Twitter who you feign interest to.
The political groups are the good cop; they feign moderation or "working in the system," while their affiliated militias stockpile weapons.
In this segment, the hosts decide to throw a talent show, which, of course, doesn't even feign interest in the contestants' personalities.
Stephen Miller, a policy adviser, and Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, have tried valiant defences, but many Republicans prefer to feign ignorance.
I definitely had to at least feign a sense confidence for the people around so they didn't think the Titanic was sinking.
Compared with spying, the ordeal of artistry is notoriously hard to feign, and only the wisest actors have flourished in the attempt.
McGregor's feign into the squared circle is probably more about negotiating his contract with the UFC than with actually fighting Floyd Mayweather.
Analysts have speculated, for example, that an aging Russian military ship might feign a mechanical breakdown and beach on a Baltic sandbar.
It had gone so well, in fact, that United States Coach Bruce Arena could even feign the tiniest bit of disappointment afterward.
I'm exhausted by having to feign comfort, and I don't want to translate what's going on inside me, even for my friends.
But there's no way a man who rails against Democrats for seeking "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" can even feign impartiality.
To feign ignorance over the matter of image appropriation and artistic credit seems misguided at best, and malicious or selfish at worst.
Sometimes the lads in my neighborhood would feign self-assurance with aggression, but it wasn't nearly as convincing as wearing a suit.
You can try to feign being cool and calm all you want, but that 140 BPM at minute 130 does not lie.
And the prospect of having to feign labor or other concessions in order to create the illusion of enduring domestic prosperity isn't pretty.
When men fake, they tend to rely on the same strategies as women, using moaning and exaggerated body motions to feign a climax.
He's not mad: he tells his companions plainly that he will feign madness to avoid suspicion while carrying out his plan for revenge.
In this second post, they feign commiseration with fellow "celebrities" who have also had sex tapes leak: Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian.
Apparently it doesn't occur to anyone to at least feign excitement for a loved one who has the chance to go to Mars.
If no one under the age of 35 feels likewise, and I doubt they have the energy to feign such indifference, that's fine.
Does it want people to speak truth to power, or to feign civility between the free press and an administration that actively fights it?
In 2018, it's no longer a valid excuse to feign ignorance of the consequences of our purchases and the damaging effects of fast-fashion.
But really, after outsourcing the world's high-tech manufacturing and engineering jobs to Shenzhen for more than a decade, how can anyone feign surprise?
Instead, Wu's team sought another niche, tackling a common managerial complaint in China: workers who fail to reply to messages and later feign ignorance.
For many of these people, the only way they were going to get the care they needed was to feign being injured at work.
But once there was no need to feign civility any longer, Netanyahu slammed Obama in much the same way Abbas is going after Trump.
But, while Beijing may feign movement on the margins, look for no real concession on its central strategic policy, known as Made in China 2025.
I used my iPhone to take a few bad pictures as a way to pass time and feign a larger purpose for my being there.
If you've tired of hearing Hollywood A-listers feign shock while sending proverbial "thoughts and prayers" to Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault victims, you're not alone.
So now the giant international diary conglomerates have found a group of senators who are willing to feign confusion in order to do their bidding.
When asked about the song after calling into the Australian radio show Kylie and Jackie O on Tuesday, Kris Jenner jokingly tried to feign ignorance.
Journalists in the mainstream TV and print media, for example, can no longer feign "balance" in a media space as polarizing as ours is today.
Just before the Spanish national championships began, Spanish athletic officials told her she should feign an injury and withdraw from athletics permanently and without fuss.
"No one can feign surprise when lots of civilians are killed anymore," Scott Paul, a Yemen expert at the humanitarian group Oxfam America, told me.
Better to admit that you watch "The Bachelor" than to feign ignorance and accidentally say Colton Underwood's name when the patient hasn't mentioned him yet.
" He criticized cities like Chicago for "the gall to feign outrage when their police departments lose federal funds as a direct result of their malfeasance.
Putin may feign dismay over Western sanctions and diplomatic repercussions after his attacks around the world, but his new term will probably mean more hostility.
Carson certainly looks like what people might call a token: Someone admitted into a space dominated by one group mostly to feign inclusivity toward others.
We feign interest in meetings or laugh at our boss's bad jokes in order to be positive team members, build relationships, and accomplish shared goals.
The President would probably feign disgust and the reporter would no doubt face withering criticism from the public, if not from other members of the press.
He lit up at parties, especially those increasingly given in his honor, where he would momentarily feign abashment before seizing the mike and wooing the crowd.
But the fact that Trump still sees them shows how little he's bothering to even feign distance from his businesses while he's in the White House.
But the modern enforcement regime makes a mockery of the law, as governments feign powerlessness against an entity they themselves created by granting it a charter.
An ambulance comes, and Hap (who is immediately able to feign being just "Jason Isaacs") gets in with her, telling the medics that he's her husband.
"To feign color-blindness, anytime, but especially while mounting a major new artwork about black lives and police brutality, is both disingenuous and inefficient," Meyer said.
If it were a blind date, you would probably text a friend and ask them to call you and feign an emergency so you could leave.
I don't doubt the veracity of his account, and I think many people feign ignorance of the sorts of things high school dudes get up to.
It seems emblematic of President Trump's blaring tone-deafness for the office that he doesn't even feign interest in recruiting a furry, fowlish or finny friend.
I am completely burned out from the marathon imbibing of the past few days and cannot feign enthusiasm when some dude throws Mardi Gras beads my way.
Another is to find ways of promising the same money to two different activities and then feign surprise when one does not get the money it needs.
Barker wrote his doctoral thesis about Munchausen syndrome, whose sufferers feign disease or harm themselves out of a compulsive need to be seen as ill or injured.
It's a simultaneously diabolical and simple strategy: greatly exaggerate and feign outrage over your so-called foe's behavior while removing, distorting, or ignoring the context surrounding it.
I see the uprisings of racism in high school, unfortunately - it's not my classmates' fault that some of them feign ignorance at what he says and does.
But Republicans appear to have little interest in protecting civil liberties, preferring to feign outrage at a non-existent plot to "spy" on Trump and his campaign.
Quick-witted and energetic, Cianci was a political star in ascent, an "ethnic" who gave the Wonder Bread Republicans of the 1970s some cover to feign diversity.
Mr. Salvini, the leader of the Northern League, mocked the proposal as a publicity stunt allowing the government to feign a tougher, and now more popular, posture.
Now, Trump is using his wife and daughter's status as American women to feign concern for women while he actively makes life worse for women around the world.
Given that over the past year virtually every registered U.S. voter has been exposed by one data breach or another, it's becoming increasingly difficult to feign our surprise.
" Bundy's methods generally followed a pattern: "He would feign an injury and indicate he needed assistance or he would portray an authority figure such as a police officer.
And somehow we still have the gall to feign astonishment that people wouldn't immediately report an attack, instead holding it for a year, decades, maybe even a lifetime.
And just as the crowd was cycling through its questions, he seemed to be puzzling through a few of his own: Why feign seriousness in a frivolous world?
But it wouldn't be a party without the potato fry bread: deep-fried like funnel cake and loaded like potato skins, topped with broccoli to feign pure intentions.
There's discomfort at acknowledging the suffering of others, insincere gestures made to feign understanding, a real attempt to listen and empathize, and enthusiastic support for the fight against injustice.
But in an attempt to feign a flicker of accountability, Facebook continues to announce initiatives to fix its platform, presumably to counter the impression that it's slowly eroding democracy.
So why am I acting like I'm in the throes of a giddy schoolgirl crush, overanalyzing their every social media missive to any friend polite enough to feign interest?
I knew from the outset that I was going all in, and while I probably ought to have flipped it for your sake, I cannot feign having done it.
Later that afternoon, in a hotel suite, he was engaged and feisty as he discussed his struggle to remain optimistic and his inability to feign an interest in politics.
I also learned that I cannot feign friendship with someone I can no longer respect after they demonstrated their warped values and lack of ethics by voting for trump.
Do Republicans know that when you are being extorted, you don't admit feeling pressure; You'll feign niceties and will cover for that person because you need something from him?
With tech giants fully embracing their status as pseudo-monopolistic nation-states who only need to feign deference to things like laws and governments, the workers are our only hope.
If you feign indifference for long enough it will turn into the real thing; you'll be rising from the ashes like a majestically-plumed phoenix in no time at all.
The fund increase was a "feeble attempt to feign empathy" for the 10,600 people who die prematurely each year as a result of diesel emissions, said DUH chief Juergen Resch.
Trump's inability to even feign anger or outrage at the real crimes committed against real American citizens is remarkable relative to the context of what's ordinarily considered acceptable presidential behavior.
Here are some quick stats on the Megaprocessor, but seriously, please feign surprise if you're ever at his house for dinner: Newman's been documenting his progress on his blog, megaprocessor.com.
Jason Calacanis cuts an unusual figure for a financial savior in Silicon Valley, where it's fashionable for the world's richest men to feign embarrassed modesty about their wealth and power.
Massie explains, better than any commentator I've read, the relationship between apocalyptic rhetoric and panic-induced violence: When you encourage rage you cannot then feign surprise when people become enraged.
Aides quickly deny the plain meaning of the president's words, contort them to conform to policy, or feign outrage that anyone could have failed to grasp what the president meant.
But for the audience, neither the passion nor the threat is real, and for us to feign it feels hollow — like playing at someone else's protest while the world burns.
Medical tests were inconclusive, leading military doctors and commanders to suspect depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or, worse, "malingering" — the medical term for soldiers who feign sickness to shirk duty.
Sometimes it's best to just sit back and feign surprise, as though the lead up to today's big Google event wasn't leakier than a rusted out old sieve in a rainstorm.
So the rare women who come forward are usually left with nothing to show for it, and employers get the message that it's cheaper to feign ignorance or sweep complaints away.
He credits his survival there to a fellow prisoner's advice to feign suicidal thoughts, a trick that allowed him to escape the facility's general population for its less violent psychiatric unit.
And now, predictably, Democrats in the media -- they are once again peddling this move from President Trump as another oh, my gosh, earth- shattering, feign outrage moment, an unprecedented abuse of power.
One such codeword was "acoustic software," which seems about as far as possible from a program designed to evade standards testing by detecting testing conditions and altering engine settings to feign compliance.
Fresher ingredients help us steer clear of harmful preservatives (sodium nitrite, which helps meat feign a tasty color, or carminic acid, aka bug juice) that are added to our Taco Bell quesadillas.
It was like she didn't have the extra layer of skin… She just couldn't feign, which is an appalling lack when you are famous and you have to meet all these people.
Lacie's need for external approval has left her with some pretty insufferable quirks: the Stepford Wife voice she does in casual conversation, the ear-piercing screeching sound she uses to feign enthusiasm.
" Schiff's post-hearing response Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday whether he regretted saying what he did, Schiff said, "No, I think everyone understood -- and my GOP colleagues may feign otherwise.
I've stopped expecting Pride to even feign interest in championing real and present causes and campaigns that could make life for less privileged LGBT people in this country a little less tough.
Control-Finance and Reynolds were also accused of creating "sham" customer account balances and profit statements, and making "Ponzi scheme-like payments" to customers requesting withdrawals to conceal the fraud and feign profitability.
Quite early she learns she has to take this, and not that other, road; that she must watch her back, and feign that she did not hear what they shouted about her vagina.
I tried to suck on it but couldn't even get my mouth around the head; the best I could do was feign enthusiasm as I negotiated drooling on it and jerking him off.
But please don't feign surprise, dismay and certainly not innocence when a more volatile and less restrained member of the group decides to react to their inflammatory rhetoric by shooting an abortion provider.
In May 2018, the Department of Justice indicted Mr. Winterkorn and several other Volkswagen executives on charges that they conspired in the rigging of diesel vehicles to feign compliance with federal pollution standards.
On another, he swallowed a capsule of cow's blood to feign a gastric ulcer to get himself transferred to a less secure prison hospital and rappelled from a seventh-floor window by rope.
To dodge homophobic epithets, which were more about being girlie than gay, we would retell dirty jokes we didn't understand, disparage girls we liked and feign more interest in sports than we felt.
Few, if any, who worked with, solicited work from, or in any way partnered with Kelly beyond that point could reasonably feign ignorance of the claims and rumors involving him and underage women.
One of the ways that Lomachenko keeps his man's mind off the angles until it's time is to step in and crowd or feign a clinch when he and his opponent get close.
Malingering, on the other hand, is characterized by "skillful planning" to feign illness in order to gain a tangible advantage rather than an emotional one, and is not considered a mental illness, Feldman said.
At its worst, it's a cynical political campaign in which actors who've spent months shaking hands and enduring press interviews feign surprise at winning, and in which movies like Driving Miss Daisy are rewarded.
For smash hits like "Sorry" and "What Do You Mean?" he doesn't even bother to lift the microphone to his face during dance routines he's done so many times he can't even feign enthusiasm.
Learn to assimilate to proper tastes; learn to superficially show support by means of an emoji, a like, or a profile picture change; learn to feign knowledge in hopes of social ascendency or love.
It is tiresome and disappointing to constantly have to defend yourself not only from people who are openly hostile to you, but also from those who feign friendship but are secretly hostile to you.
This gives rise to an insurrection organized by a Mother Courage figure and puppeteer named Galya Armolinskaya in which some of the townspeople feign deafness to the soldiers as a gesture of civil disobedience.
Your partner may not want to be romantically involved with someone who only rarely feels a genuine desire for sex, who has to feign interest the rest of the time, and resents doing so.
State of the Art Jason Calacanis cuts an unusual figure for a financial savior in Silicon Valley, where it's fashionable for the world's richest men to feign embarrassed modesty about their wealth and power.
While being tickled, Julius would feign intolerance while enjoying it; when beginning a race with his human siblings, he suspiciously monitored his competitors' positions to ensure no one took off before the starting bell.
The failure of Palestinians and their international enablers to satisfy that requirement — or even feign concern for it — has only made the need seem like little more than a remote abstraction to most Israelis.
The doctors said they were afraid of getting pelted with rocks, so one of the attorneys stuffed a sweater under her coat to feign a pregnancy in case they were stopped by anti-abortion protesters.
So, instead, you'll likely stand around awkwardly with a comically tiny bottle of diet Coke, trying to feign interest in Ruby from marketing's Game of Thrones theories (she's on season two, and wrong about everything).
But the emotional reality of the moment makes it hard for us to believe Brown's revelation is in any way unexpected for her, even if the conventions of reality TV require her to feign surprise.
Tony no longer sees a need to pretend to be friendly to anyone or feign interest in anything, and while his insults and put-downs are amusing, his regular threats of suicide are less so.
The filmmakers feign boldness in tackling national politics, but revert to coyness and caricature when it comes to local matters, gesturing toward a multiculturalism that isn't even skin deep and sweeping gentrification under the rug.
Chinese officials know that Russian election meddling has been met with US sanctions but also caused internal divisions for your team, so they will likely feign dismay but won't be overly concerned about any repercussions.
The random nature of hitting allows impostors to stick around for a while and feign serviceability, often protected by a lack of organizational depth at their positions or by possession of other skills, like speed.
Sadly, with a microphone in her hand, all the $85033 haircuts, all the political pandering, all the pantsuits tailored to look like tuxedos, and all the braying to feign passion couldn't put Hillary back together again.
Desperate for work, he becomes a telemarketer, where his uncanny ability to feign the voice of a confident white man makes him a star, lofting him into a rarefied realm of high-paid, grotesquely immoral salesmanship.
The Volkswagen emissions scandal reached the highest echelons of the company on Thursday after its former chief executive was charged with conspiracy in the company's rigging of diesel vehicles to feign compliance with federal pollution standards.
Why is -- how is it possible the media can feign such outrage here, and ignore the biggest abuse of power in an attempt to literally impact a presidential election, clearly against the will of the American people?
VR has arguably arrived in 2016, yet there's still a growing cynicism that current VR efforts are nothing more than a host of PR stunts for many wayward companies to feign innovation with modest R&D dollars.
I purposely went to a gym outside of my town so I didn't have to chitchat with other mothers and feign concern about our kids' upcoming social studies project or the latest changes to the soccer schedule.
Trump himself has been unable to feign empathy for the 800,000 federal employees who haven't been paid in more than a month, or the hundreds of thousands of government contractors who likely won't be paid at all.
By definition they have an overdeveloped appetite for approval that prompts them to feign sympathy, delve into parts of society where they would not otherwise venture and humour certain audiences when they ought to avoid or upbraid them.
Conservatives like to feign outrage at liberals accusing them of launching a "war on women," but let's look at what conservatives themselves are doing, and how the Republican Party seems to increasingly be embracing misogynist anti-women leadership.
Now, while helping her with the crossword, sometimes I'd know the answer, feign ignorance, and then try to solve it with her, thinking aloud, "What could this word be, starting with the letter …" Honestly, the improvement is glacial.
But Ms. Goerke also had to feign sleep onstage for nearly 20 minutes before letting out a resounding "Heil dir, Sonne!" that penetrated through swelling fortes in the orchestra, crisp and controlled under the baton of Philippe Jordan.
However, a defeated Biden, one who loses his fourth state out of four, one he (and everyone else) once took for granted, opens up the floodgates to his fellow moderates who will feign support while hiding their glee.
The bull's look seems to possess all the wide-eyed innocence of those who feign ignorance of what they do in any courtroom while cupids frolic in the sky and a savage fish cuts through the nearby waters.
We all know the nifty little tricks to enhance your cyber appearance, like the addition of a statement earring to feign maximum outfit effort or a sleek hair accessory to hide even the most serious case of bedhead.
For Ariana, who had just come out of the closet after years of wrestling with her sexuality, seeing Jax and Brittany seemingly feign ignorance about the pastor's derogatory social media posts was triggering — why couldn't they understand that?
Cropped squoval is a classic — as in royal family classic — that's simpatico with lifestyles in which you've gotta use your hands to get shit done, while almond-shaped nails signal grace, thanks to their ability to feign elongated fingers.
The regular click-bait articles discussing fights between Rousey and Mayweather Jr. in 2014 and '15 clearly irked Mayweather Jr. at the time, whose standard comeback was to feign not knowing who the former UFC women's bantamweight champion was.
After a week or so on the job, and especially as the phone lines got busier, I eventually started to enjoy it a bit, even competing with the others to feign the most politeness or sympathy for customer woes.
Then call 800-366-4484 yourself — it is the official number for the Treasury Inspector General's hotline in Washington, but a spoofed version of those same digits may have been displayed on your Caller ID screen to feign legitimacy.
But for many other women, having a powerful man — or a series of powerful men — feign an interest in their careers only to subject them to harassment or assault is enough to drive them out of their chosen fields.
Still 313: You go on a few dates with an exceedingly nice man who went to college with Lena Dunham, a fact in which you feign interest, and with whom you see "Force Majeure" at the Angelika (it's fine).
Kris, a born devotee of excess, did not come into the public eye to make friends or feign humility; instead, she said yes to every offer that came her way, rendering the Kardashian name utterly inescapable in the process.
After the man tried to defend his pestering actions and feign innocence, Bieber continued on to say, "No, you know what you're doing," and asked for the camera to be turned off before, hopefully, giving the guy the read he deserved.
Is the female urge to fake purely about preserving male ego at the expense of a woman's access to enjoyment — or are there other, more complicated reasons why a woman might feign an orgasm when she isn't actually feeling it?
This type of affected illness was typically only prevalent in the upper and middle classes; people who were poor or lived in rural environments had no time to feign sickness when there were mouths to feed and work to be done.
" Earlier in the year Woody Allen hadn't even bothered to feign ignorance of historical context when he said he feared the wave of sexual assault allegations that had swept the entertainment industry were creating "a witch hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere.
Politicians feign embracing their philosophical beliefs and the bedrock principles of democracy only when convenient to do so, and the recent rhetoric of both political parties on the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice has lived up to this truism.
Or perhaps somewhere along the line they decided that, in addition to taking note of the arrival of certain favored guests with great fanfare, they would feign a momentary distractedness when an unexpected guest of a darker hue came calling.
They question his judgment and his motivations and feign concern that he'll ultimately wind up playing in the developmental league or overseas — almost as if they're hoping for such a result, just so that they can say they told him so.
He could fumble with papers at the defense table, shrug, feign forgetfulness, give the impression he had finished questioning a witness and then jump up with one more question — and start into a tigerish attack that was the heart of the matter.
Initially, the NBC sitcom billed itself as a quirky comedy about Eleanor (Kristen Bell), a dirtbag impostor who accidentally ends up in heaven (aka "The Good Place") and needs to feign goodness in order to stay out of hell (aka "The Bad Place").
He had recruited healthy volunteers to feign symptoms of mental illness and get admitted to hospitals, thereby showing how easily "sane" people could get institutionalized by a profession that had enormous confidence in its diagnoses and had accumulated a vast amount of power.
On the drive home after school, I feign interest in all the things a parent is supposed to care about — homework, volleyball, science projects, blah blah blah — until I can ask the question I really want the answer to: How was your lunch?
A deep dive on the status of the administration from the Washington Post revealed that aides and advisers reportedly "play rope-a-dope" with Trump and feign interest in his more unorthodox ideas in the hopes that he'll forget about them and move on.
The judge's order prohibits Lochte and Feign from leaving Brazil – but Lochte appears to already be back in the U.S. The 12-time Olympic medalist's father, Steve Lochte, told the Associated Press that his son arrived in the U.S. on Tuesday – before the judge's order.
Those without a chance of a presidential pardon have turned to more drastic measures: many young men intentionally gain or lose weight, feign mental illness, get full body tattoos, or self-harm in order to get an exemption, according to the Yonhap news agency.
" We take this underpaid and highly stressed group of officers, with guns and any biases they may harbor, explicit or implicit, and flood disadvantaged communities with them, where uncivil behavior can often take root, and then "we feign surprise when periodically the tensions boil over.
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If Beijing follows its usual playbook, it will feign an investigation into what happened to Li -- perhaps continuing to express remorse for the way he was treated -- and then work hard to gloss over the incident and hope that his death fades from collective memory.
But while geeks can already take them for granted, the vast majority of people still haven't seen one of these bezel-deprived screens in person, and their first encounter with one will be — prepare to feign surprise — on the iPhone X. Instagram on #iPhone8 vs #iPhone7s pic.twitter.
He wouldn't reveal who was the most boring person he talked to at one of Wintour's dinner parties (and had to eat a bull penis) and wouldn't say which carpool karaoke guest he had to feign the most enthusiasm with (and had to eat a June bug).
Brazilian police are looking to speak to Lochte about discrepancies in the statements he and fellow swimmer James Feign gave after reporting that they and three other American swimmers were held up at gunpoint after robbers posing as police officers pulled them over in a taxi.
Joseph Esposito, another former officer and one of the four principal defendants in the case, testified under a cooperation agreement, describing how the ringleaders had recruited former officers like Mr. Hurley, taught them to feign symptoms in meetings with psychiatrists and coached them to lie on applications.
Mr. Ulyanov also said photographs of child victims — which Mr. Trump cited when he ordered the retaliatory attack — suggested that they had been given drugs to feign attack symptoms in what might have been a "staged incident" that the panel needed to address in its findings.
It also allows Brooks—and anyone else who parrots this line of argument—to feign concern with inequality without ever talking about distribution of resources, quality of schools, redlining, and all the other real ways that the marginalized are kept from good education and equitable living.
US Olympic Committee spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said in a statement that 32-year-old Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feign were leaving Club France, the French Olympic team's hospitality house, in the early hours of Sunday morning in a taxi when the robbery occurred.
ANTONIN SCALIA warned fifteen years ago that prohibiting the execution of intellectually disabled criminals as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment would turn "capital trial[s] into a game" where defendants would "feign" mental retardation in order to escape the ultimate punishment.
But the game is a grim one, and its main players—contrary to Mr Scalia's impression—are not prisoners "feign[ing]" retardation but die-hard supporters of capital punishment who resist the principle that executing people with intellectual disabilities amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" under the 8th Amendment.
"Rather than feign surprise, Mr. Trump should take responsibility for what's occurring, forcefully reject hate and bigotry, reach out to the communities he's injured, and follow his words with actions to heal the wounds his words have opened," Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said in a statement.
Ambrose's heart-wrenching account of her daughter's sexual exploitation and senseless death stripped away the ability of any legislator in the room that day to feign ignorance of the fact that some Internet platforms existed for the sole purpose of profiting off the sale of people for sex.
It was a shocking split with the norm, and a flash of the independent streak the country had begun to witness from the first lady -- she was, quite understandably, unwilling to feign the smile and hand-holding endured by political spouses before her when scandal had wreaked havoc.
That said: I bet it ends up getting a whole buttload of usage, first ironically, and then with increasing literalism when people emboldened by a couple of beers at the bar find it's even easier to feign confidence over textual communication by just peppering in a few of these puppies.
Though little on view was very commercial, the atmosphere was fertile and loamy, and not merely because Jon James and Jené Stefaniak, the designers of a first-season label called Feign, had trucked in a half-ton of mulch for an installation whose theme was environmental degradation and corporate greed.
The pair was expected to cordially present the night's Viewer's Choice award — which would go to the classic rock band Aerosmith, for their political anthem "Livin' on the Edge" — in the same diplomatic fashion in which two politically opposed heads of state might meet publicly, at a national press conference, to feign camaraderie.
" That sounds like a vintage version of "THE LABREAZY SLEAZY METHOD," which former St. Paul's student Owen Labrie—who was convicted of using a computer to lure a child for sex at the elite school—described as "feign intimacy... then stab them in the back," later exclaiming, "THROW EM IN THE DUMPSTER.
We want to see her prevail over the scheming wealthy white people who callously brush off concerns about the grotesque inhumanity on the US southern border in drawing rooms, who feign principle in opposition to their most egregiously offensive family members but ultimately only maintain their noble beliefs from the comfort of wealth.
In one exchange, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page engaged in a series of texts shortly before Election Day 28503 suggesting they knew in advance about an article in The Wall Street Journal and would need to feign stumbling onto the story so it could be shared with colleagues.
The local politicians can bask in the favorable publicity provided by friendly journalists, and they can feign embarrassment at the thunderous applause forthcoming from the editorial boards, the pundits, the conferences at expensive resorts, the intellectuals on the campuses, the donors at the garden parties, and the political consultants attuned to ambitions for higher office.
It should have been the most seismic move of the off-season, but speculation that LeBron James would join the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent had been rampant for so long — and the decision was made so quickly — that it was hard to feign surprise when the deal was announced on July 1.
But never fear, there are stats compiled just for museums, both globally and in the US. Topping the list in the United States is New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which takes the top honors as the place people are most likely to use in an effort to feign cultural erudition to their Insta' followers.
However, when you engage with a group of CommU robots for the first time — the latest creation by world-renowned Japanese roboticist, Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro — it becomes apparent pretty darn quickly just how easy it is to feign interest in someone else's BS. TechCrunch caught up with Dr. Ishiguro at the Extension of Humanity event at SXSW Interactive 2016 in Austin, Texas.
That's hardly academic: If Hoke jury rigs the defense enough to feign competence, if Helfrich stays out of his own way, if Prukop stays upright and Freeman rights himself and they suffer no more crippling injuries—well, that might be enough for the double-digit winning season that could springboard the program back to where it was two years ago.
Clooney gave the performance we all give when someone tells us that our friends have broken up, but we've known that it was coming for weeks or months, but we weren't supposed to know that it was coming, so we have to act surprised, but we're so tired of hearing about it that surprise seems impossible, so we feign surprise, and just count on polite social lying to carry us through the situation.
I thought about why the digital artists gave Hudson a perpetually runny nose (gross), and how much Taylor Swift got paid to be in this movie, and why I found one of the cats so disturbingly sexy, and whether foreign markets will bother with subtitles given how little sense the dialogue and lyrics make, and the closeted teen boys who will feign disdain but secretly be thrilled when their family drags them to see Cats.
Of course, I respect how important 4th of July is to Americans, but what's unfortunate is the feeling of being out of place at a time of celebration, having to feign an understanding of what the holiday means to other people just so you can assimilate within the country, and simultaneously knowing that your own national holidays back home have no significance in the U.S. FidelBorn in Libera, living in Virginia If it weren't for my friends that are American, I don't think I would celebrate the 4th of July.
Now, that&aposs why they push these phony moral outrage, feign outrage every second of every minute of every day of every week of every month of every year now and of course it&aposs kind of hard to stir up a new crisis every single day, so this weekend -- well, they kind of turned their bag of tricks and said we don&apost have any more bad news, let&aposs make it up and they just recycle, literally recycled start to finish, a story that is more than a year old.
And so, instead of being like Tyson, stripping everything away, living team to team, never looking to sip from the perfect golden chalice, he obsessed over touches, became a colossal locker room problem, amped his brand more and more, opted into extensions because of guilt, forced trades, blew up in L.A., brought his malaise to the Rockets, desperately signed with his hometown Hawks—the only people left who could even FEIGN love for him—got traded from THERE, and became an NBA drifter, plying his sad trade for whomever had his rights.
Accompanying her comments were three charts, blown up and printed on posterboard, showing:Americans do not spend an exceptional amount of time on social mediaAmericans do spend a comparatively greater amount of time playing video games, but that...Neither of those numbers are remotely proportionate with the number of gun deaths—a figure which tracks most closely with (and now might be a good time to feign shock if you've looked at the news at any point since Columbine) the number of guns people own in the U.S."As we're reminded daily, the world is full of individuals who use social media platforms to disparage others, cast false equivalencies, and question facts [...] The internet has emboldened and empowered hate by allowing individuals to develop online communities and share their warped ideas—but it is our weak gun laws here in the U.S. that allows that hate to become lethal," said Duckworth, a veteran whose time served in combat overseas left her with considerable experience with guns and resulted in the loss of her legs.

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