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"pretended" Definitions
  1. insincerely or falsely professed: a pretended interest in art.
  2. feigned, fictitious, or counterfeit: His pretended wealth was proved to be nonexistent.
  3. alleged or asserted; reputed.
"pretended" Synonyms
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970 Sentences With "pretended"

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He pretended to be me, and I pretended to be him.
As long as we pretended not to tell, they pretended not to know. Mrs.
"We pretended to help them and they pretended to reform," he told the New York Times in 1994.
"I've never pretended to be a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," Trump said.
The Kremlin and its viceroys have pretended to manage, and the people on the ground have pretended to be loyal.
She's pretended to blow dry her callers' asses, counselled them through their wives' infidelity, and even pretended to be a squirrel.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that an industry built around pretended characters and scenarios could have pretended for so long that nothing was amiss.
She later apologized and pretended like we were old pals.
We pretended to be caterers, publicists, journalists, and other VIPs.
We pretended I was doing homework, but we were listening.
He pretended to care about climate change because of Miami.
When people saw him, he pretended he was a hiker.
Since then Shias in Egypt have pretended to be Sunnis.
The pride you feel when you've convincingly pretended to masturbate.
So I pretended to get a call from my roommate.
And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature.
With robotic focus, Clinton even pretended to be Elizabeth Warren.
The firemen pretended not to notice when I started crying.
I pretended it was butter that I was spreading thin.
She pretended to be 15 so they could get married.
But Dwight didn't see Matt, either, or pretended not to.
We pretended not to see it, but it was there.
He pretended not to have mocked a disabled Times reporter.
Just to make her happy, I pretended I was fine.
"In the morning I pretended everything was normal," she writes.
Originally from Basra, Sabah had pretended that she was gay.
With the other, he pretended to grip a steering wheel.
Riley allegedly showed up and pretended to be his friend.
I pretended to be more comfortable than I actually was.
She smiled, told no one and pretended it wasn't happening.
In the past I'd pretended there was nothing to face.
He pretended as if he didn't know me at all.
We pretended to rip our faces off with a pop.
Comedian George Lopez even once pretended to pee on the star.
Later, I pretended to like vinegar to be more like her.
Nixon was a committed rule-breaker who pretended not to be.
"He never pretended that he wasn't kind of an a------ sometimes."
Paul Ryan pretended to have character for all of 5 seconds.
The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists.
And so, the next day we pretended it had never happened.
Though according to Ettel, she only "pretended" to call the cops.
At one point, she pretended to throw glitter at the camera.
You made that swan-shaped planter your parents pretended to like.
He has, in some circumstances, pretended not to be a virgin.
These pretended friends do not have Georgia's best interests at heart.
And Trump simply pretended the president had done the exact opposite.
Otto, who is physically fit but nonviolent, pretended to lose consciousness.
And so, like a con artist, I pretended not to need.
"Falling in love now, losing control now," Jenner pretended to sing.
I could have gone up and pretended to be somebody else.
My heart broke a little, as I pretended to be unaffected.
Europe pretended that they solved the Greek crisis a year ago.
" He admitted the president-elect "never pretended to be a theologian.
The policeman hmmed and pretended to jot something in his notebook.
No one has ever pretended that these two men were saints.
I'm a lawyer and I never pretended to be an economist.
While she held onto my passport, we pretended to be friends.
When Barajas allegedly wouldn't stop, Dalla Betta pretended to fall asleep.
As kids, we all pretended to be different sorts of people.
No wonder I pretended this man inside of me didn't exist.
Trump then pretended to drive the truck and honked its horn.
Hunter told me that he pretended not to be at home.
Antinozzi reportedly pretended to be a slave auctioneer during the simulation.
Now, he says, he wishes he hadn't pretended that he did.
" Worse, I have, on multiple occasions, pretended to have read "Middlemarch.
They just happen not to be who they pretended to be.
"Reid just never pretended to be something he wasn't," Krone said.
We pretended to be sportscasters on ESPN, recapping highlights and embarrassments.
Among the few survivors were some who pretended to be dead.
I'm human and I have never pretended to be anything but.
By way of response, Bledsoe pretended not to know Rozier's name.
They pretended they were helping people whom they were actually hurting.
No one really believed that; they only pretended to believe it.
America didn't grasp, or pretended not to grasp, the Canadian response.
SM: I never pretended that I wasn't shocked by the outcome.
Employees on the phone then either pretended they were directly working for the doctor, pretended the prescription was indeed being given for cancer pain, or flat out falsified a patient's medical history to include a cancer diagnosis.
They pretended they had no idea and scampered off to pose elsewhere.
When my parents asked me about it, I pretended I knew nothing.
She says she pretended to phone 911, which scared the couple away.
He grabbed the flip-phone and pretended to be having a conversation.
On the page, Figueroa had pretended she was expecting a child herself.
Once I decided I trusted Sophie, I just pretended she wasn't there.
The ad pretended it was still the height of the Cold War.
And last month, comedian George Lopez pretended to pee on the star.
Is it the Realist mirage that pretended to be revolutionary—and failed?
Wagner said she first pretended to be asleep, hoping he would stop.
If someone asked my name, I pretended that I couldn't hear them.
The novices, observing custody of the eyes, pretended not to see him.
I'm sorry I pretended I was going to release my tax returns.
Like a biographer, Bishop cared about facts (or at least pretended to).
She melted into the crowd and pretended to look for her parents.
Ms. Henderson pretended to clear up the mystery in a 2015 interview.
Scott has never pretended to be anything more than a role player.
Instead, he gave into temptation and pretended to be someone he wasn't.
He described Halili as "the one who pretended to parade the addicts".
I pretended to be OK at school and fell apart at home.
Tuesday night, he pretended those three words did not escape his mouth.
Stepping away from the table afterward, Tokarczuk groaned and pretended to collapse.
But instead of overcoming that barrier, European leaders pretended it didn't exist.
I never pretended that I was physically better than I actually was.
Then I casually walked in, not acknowledging them, and pretended to shop.
Mike Pence merely pretended that he was in the mood for football.
On my computer screen, we pretended to land at the Charleston airport.
Police said the men pretended to be customers before ransacking the store.
At first it pretended to be the world, and then it was.
Initially, I was shocked by how often they pretended not to bother.
Just like the time you pretended two Bluetooth headsets were futuristic headphones.
George Washington cautioned Americans to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
I've repeated the request, and he has pretended he didn't hear me.
"I just pretended that nothing happened and that is all," he said.
The crowd pretended he scored and the reaction is great: http://bit.
I pretended the letter only said I was crazy — a lesser shame.
When it failed to do so, thanks to a Democratic filibuster, the administration contented itself with a make-believe process in which Iran pretended to make a full declaration and the rest of the world pretended to believe it.
"To be honest, I just pretended the runner wasn't on third," Syndergaard said.
He pretended to dial the phone, before holding it up to his ear.
"She basically pretended like this thing existed when it did not," Shultz says.
He pretended to be different Americans or American grassroots groups on social media.
Neoclassicism was fundamentally inauthentic, a facadism that pretended to represent glory and truth.
This time, either the guard wasn't there or he pretended not to be.
Biden has also pretended to talk like a gun rights supporter -- and unconvincingly.
So, with a shake of my head, I pretended I was my father.
Participants held tripods and selfie sticks and pretended to be chasing a celebrity.
There was a period of my life when I pretended to hate weddings.
So I marched across the room and pretended to trip and fell down.
She pretended to be exasperated, but this former horse girl was secretly thrilled.
"I definitely kept my head down and pretended it wasn't happening," she recalls.
"Not even for a split second," Corden replied, jokingly pretended to be hurt.
The Trump administration has never pretended that environmental protection would be a priority.
Too many politicians of both parties have pretended as much over the years.
I think he pretended he was writing to a 3-year-old child.
The designer said that he simply pretended he did not get the message.
In posing as an Israeli Agent, he pretended to offer self-defense exercises.
A few questions, he said in Russian, which I pretended not to speak.
Having done so, they proceeded to imitate that which they pretended to disdain.
In the early days of parenting I pretended to be confounded by swaddling.
Her own voice or the voice of the boy she pretended to be.
Neither had watches but both pretended their lives blossomed richer than they did.
He pretended to notice the chimney again, and looked up toward the workmen.
He knew (or at least pretended) that the joking was in good fun.
Pretended it was a pizza restaurant and they were delivering pizza to drawers.
Others have pretended to have COVID-19 in an effort to gain attention.
He pretended at times to be engaged to his lifelong friend Barbara Walters.
He pretended to have destroyed "100 percent of ISIS," which is patently false.
She'd pretended to be sick so that she could skip the following lesson.
" The host smiled, and pretended to act afraid: "Quick, cut to commercial break!
We all pretended that the kids needed Disney+ to sing along with Moana.
President Trump has not even pretended that he is faithfully executing the law.
I pretended to tell the cab driver to go to the local Walgreens.
Adam says the catfisher even pretended to be various members of Gabriella's family.
Prosecutors: Suspect pretended she was pregnant The suspects allegedly planned the attack for months.
When they got to the TCL Chinese Theater, they pretended to push the car.
I pretended to ignore the quiet sniffles of mothers who could not do it.
Like in Cibele, there were boys who pretended to love us to get sex.
First, he pretended to think that the fictional Potter character was her real identity.
I could offer my opinion, but then, I never pretended to be a psychologist.
Someone even pretended to be him and called in bomb threats to his school.
Over the same period, the White House has largely pretended the report doesn't exist.
Kavanaugh has, for the duration of his confirmation fight, pretended this isn't the case.
Police said the bomber was a teenager who had pretended to be a worshipper.
In post-referendum Britain they have "taken back control", or at least pretended to.
The woman put her credit card down while the man pretended not to notice.
He looked at Arthur, but Arthur pretended not to see him, glaring into space.
The study sent professional actors to doctors' offices, where they pretended to have depression.
They pretended to call their relatives but talked, instead, to Eritrean smugglers in Tripoli.
Bates pretended to stub a cigarette out on Paulson's shoulder, then nuzzled her affectionately.
The time is now to do the hard work that we pretended was done.
Wiredu acknowledged that he had called himself Amara and pretended to be South African.
His way was not revolutionary, and I don't think he ever pretended to be.
I pretended that I was okay with being cut out of our friend group.
But if I accepted it, or even pretended to, I would go crazy too.
"They had their chance, but pretended to rush," Trump wrote Thursday of House Democrats.
She banged her fists on her desk, rattling the vials, and pretended to pout.
I pretended she was gone, that I had moved on and become an adult.
He wrapped a roll of bills around his penis and pretended to fuck it.
People pretended that they went to these parties only under duress of some sort.
"I pretended as if I didn't even have the Tonight Show job," says Leno.
I pulled away, stung, and pretended I didn't know what he was talking about.
"No one pretended police would immediately find every one of these guns," he said.
In hindsight, I don't think he was as loyal as he pretended to be.
When we glanced back, they lowered their heads and pretended to check their phones.
The whole time I pretended everything was fine, and said all the right things.
Specifically, women were more likely to have pretended to orgasm for the benefit of a partner, whereas men were more likely to have pretended orgasm due to feelings of insecurity, a desire to emotionally connect, and because they wanted to feel powerful.
Guests were congratulating them, and the bride and groom just pretended that they were married.
Of course, I've never pretended to have the faintest idea of the company's strategy here.
I pretended to be scared because I thought that's what I was supposed to be.
An argument ensued before Ettel got out her phone and pretended to call the police.
As Trump lied, he made fake spastic movements and pretended to have a disabled arm.
As part of the lesson, children pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad.
Cubs fans stood their ground and cheered and sang and pretended like it was nothing.
In her book, on page 123, Ms. McGowan wrote: 'I pretended to have an orgasm.
One day I pretended to leave the house and recorded him banging on the wall.
Basilio pretended to eat one of the invisible "pasteles," or cakes, that Roger offered him.
Chinese girls at my middle school highlighted their hair and pretended not to know Cantonese.
To channel the passion in her week 3 Tango, Hernandez pretended to smell a quesadilla.
I asked him where he got the cheese, and he pretended not to hear me.
Instead, I pretended that I didn't know her (which she seemed to also be doing).
John pretended he couldn't read the teleprompter when he introduced Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.
At first he pretended to be okay with it, but it soon came between us.
And at midnight, Olivia Newton-John came out, and I pretended I took singing lessons.
She just pretended to be dumb to get a boy to keep talking to her.
I was disappointed that they were flawed, but only because they pretended not to be.
Lane, the drummer, saw this guy and pretended he knew him as a famous person.
"For the past 100 years, razor brands have pretended body hair doesn't exist," says Billie.
A series of serene looking white people pretended to consult with doctors about their cancers.
The police barely pretended that what they had done was anything other than extrajudicial murder.
Oh, and none of us got married, or have even pretended that's happening anytime soon.
Oscar Isaac snuck up behind Adam Driver and pretended to punch him in the back.
And I would imagine her responses, sometimes subtly mouthing the words I pretended she'd say.
McIlroy never pretended to view the Olympics the same way, and neither did most golfers.
How many times have we all pretended we're in Game 7 of the World Series?
I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
The West has pretended to not notice or, more insidiously, has been a willing partner.
There are other, more prestigious clients, but he pretended to no longer remember their names.
Turkey pretended not to see tens of thousands of foreign fighters streaming across its borders.
You may remember a time when Republicans pretended to care about the debt and deficits.
Maybe it would actually have been what it pretended to be for all this time.
The 3 claim at this point ... Dre, Xzibit and company pretended the deal never existed.
In the first few months after her father died, she'd only pretended to run away.
Although wounded, "he pretended to be dead, escaped, and we spoke to him," she said.
He pretended to disentangle himself from the prospect of non-stop corruption during his Presidency.
He liked that even less, and so he pretended to work on a new novel.
They also pretended to be a New York Post reporter to share pro-Iranian propaganda.
So, I often pretended to be Spider-Man or Sherlock Holmes or even James Bond.
The Greeks pretended to retreat during the night and left behind a huge wooden horse.
Richard pretended to tell the alleged arsonist a story about a puppy he once had.
I climbed into a cave once used by smugglers and pretended I was a pirate.
I sort of pretended I was Simone de Beauvoir with my friends in the kitchen.
Kramer did more work in the "Seinfeld" episode where he pretended to have a job.
"I never pretended I could carry the vocals on my own," Mr. Shinoda told Kerrang!
Graham said that he preached caution and that Trump became exasperated, or pretended to be.
Instead, Kris says he pretended to be Blake Griffin when he was out in public.
I probably pretended to hate The Beatles into my twenties based on that first line alone.
At one point, Papile even went behind the counter and pretended to punch in an order.
Other fake personas, though, pretended to be progressives or liberals, attacking Trump and praising Democratic candidates.
To a school psychologist, who either pretended not to understand or sent you to a psychiatrist?
Hawaii on Tuesday, the Supreme Court did Trump an enormous favor: It pretended he didn't exist.
In Tuesday's free routine final at the Rio 2016 Olympics, the duet at least pretended to.
But JAY-Z actually pretended to pull it out of her hand and stop her bidding.
She went to these events accompanied by a friendly golden retriever that she pretended was lost.
Confronted with his past statements about climate and debt, Trump just pretended he never said them.
They pretended like they had no off-screen chemistry... but then proceeded to mount each other.
However, in 2016, Ferrell pretended to work at Refinery29 (yeah, this place!) to attend Fashion Week.
Cheers to our dragon prince, the only person who pretended to read the material before class.
He pretended to be his own publicist back when he was just a real estate billionaire.
In 2014, someone pretended to be DeLillo on Facebook and said they were crowdsourcing a story.
I pretended to be everything from a low-level shoplifter to a middle-market drug dealer.
" Diesel, 49, jokingly pretended to kick the actress as he said, "Of course it's not me!
After all, who knows you better than all the people you pretended to be one time?
My friend, bless her, pretended I wasn't acting like an anxious dog during a severe thunderstorm.
In shops, we pretended I was her boyfriend and that we were buying clothes for her.
My mother opened the door and I handed her the card, which she pretended to appreciate.
The time Rosa Lyster pretended to a "Marxist bro" that she hadn't heard of Slavoj Žižek.
It has closed its eyes and plugged its ears and pretended the issue will go away.
I wondered if he was bragging because I had pretended not to hear his marriage proposal?
But as the tears streamed down my cheeks, my awesome mother pretended not to see them.
"We pretended that the emperor wasn't naked," he writes about his fellow Republicans in the book.
Perhaps more accurately, there were times when she sounded like Sanders, or at least pretended to.
There, predictably, everyone got very drunk and pretended to eat Ramen out of a toilet bowl.
The German soldier who shot him kicked his head and Optatius Buyssens pretended to be dead.
Yeah, but it wouldn't really be honest if you pretended it was easy all the time.
Greene pretended to have a Portuguese ancestry and passed as white for most of her adulthood.
The times when Germany at least pretended to lead on this issue internationally are long over.
The mashed potatoes were awful, but then Mr. Gokce has never pretended to be Spud Bae.
I never pretended that I was accommodating, or that I could take it or leave it.
She pretended to be a German heiress, bilking Manhattan hotels, banks and a private jet operator.
I think what got him was at the end I pretended to pee in the bushes.
Hanawalt has always drawn animal-human hybrids; at school, she pretended that she was a horse.
The guy even pretended to be embarrassed at the end and threw his towel at James.
Much of it was already known to Bridget, from the Internet, but she pretended it wasn't.
She smoked too much weed, and rather than enjoying being high, she pretended not to be.
He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer.
"I never yelled, I never screamed, and I always pretended I was a friend," she said.
"That's the problem with the Freedom Act: It procedurally pretended to solve the problem," he said.
When the fan tried to walk away, Gooden, Gonzalez, and Conner pretended to beat them up.
Onscreen, the new Prince Phillip appears to throw Loechler a ring, which Loechler pretended to catch.
High-ranking officers pretended to take his myopic vision seriously, and construction began in April 1967.
It was all of the sudden like everyone pretended that she just became a different person.
"He pretended to fix it, and it still wasn't fixed," Nealon told Conan O'Brien in 2015.
He picked up the Oscar, pretended it was his, and asked people to congratulate him. Wow!
Karen turned to Lila and pretended that she was doing something involving and important with her.
We told lies of omission and pretended that nothing very terrible could be happening around us.
I chose to do what people always did to me, and I pretended it didn't happen.
The police and the Communist Party pretended that it really was about Thatcher, and nothing happened.
I pretended to scan the contents as I replayed the previous eight hours in my head.
From that lesson emerged a strategy: Democrats would prove themselves the fighters Trump only pretended to be.
" When asked whether she still loves her ex, Pulliam said she loves "who he pretended to be.
The NCRI said the couple arrested in Belgium had pretended to be supporters of the People's Mujahideen.
In the end, Corden jumped on the bandwagon and pretended to join in on the vaginal steaming.
"I'm thinking about getting really fat," he quipped to Vulture as he pretended to tease season 3.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he begins.
Was Cap able to lift Mjolnir back then but pretended he couldn't to save Thor some embarrassment?
If we pretended that there are no differences, we wouldn't understand why females are at greater risk.
" In addition to apologizing, Hill said, "I am not a perfect person and never pretended to be.
This shows a kind of intelligence, but not necessarily that of the wunderkind I've pretended to be.
Mr. PTSD pretended his sign would spread levity; Mark believed his essay would inspire people to persevere.
Perhaps if you pretended that children were dogs, you could at least feign an interest in them.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
Like in Lost Memories Dot Net, there were boys who pretended to want us to get nudes.
I pretended not to hear her, grabbed a pamplemousse La Croix, and hightailed it out of there.
"I went to her office and pretended to be a flower delivery person," Greene, 67, tells PEOPLE.
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They're very clever, Sauvé said, adding that the birds pretended to be injured during a news conference.
" So for five minutes, "I just pretended like I was the coolest guy on Earth, Ryan Reynolds.
But I'd be doing a disservice to my platform if I just pretended these things don't matter.
I pretended not to be nervous, and the friend who escorted me didn't ask if I was.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
News first reported, Fergie joined Hammer onstage, interrupting his speech as she pretended to be the actor.
Every time my lower back seized, or my legs kicked out, I pretended it was intense pleasure.
I pretended that I wasn't scared, and by pretending that I wasn't I actually became not scared.
I pretended to look impressed and got in, as a jazz club and more toilet visits awaited!
I haven't seen a grin this trollish since Squints pretended to drown in front of Wendy Peffercorn.
But until recently, when they wrote about elections, they often pretended that academic expertise did not exist.
During an in-store performance, Arrow pretended to fall, then actually fell and then hit her head.
I don't think he actually knew who she was, but his employee did, and he pretended to.
"The teacher just pretended that she didn't see that we are doing these bad things," she said.
Then, with a big grin, Brooks knelt and pretended to yank at the 44th president's suit pants.
On one play, Woodman pretended to lose sight of a fly ball with a runner on third.
I had my flight back and I had already changed it and I pretended that I hadn't.
" "Judd approached me when he was 16 and pretended to be an interviewer for a radio station.
"Jeremy had planned to have a photographer there and he pretended to be a fan," says Maldonado.
"They pretended they were house church people, but I soon realized they were Eastern Lightning," he said.
He pulled over a woman, asked for her ID, and pretended to run her plates, KABC reports.
I came back from surgery and went right back to the collective and pretended nothing had happened.
A month later, Watters pretended to be a big boy reporter and made an ass of himself.
Yet the president gave no signs of distinguishing the prankster from the senator he pretended to be.
"Chris Hemsworth, with whom I've pretended, is a sparkling human being and a stunning actor," he said.
Bereal: During the Watts riots, I noticed that the whole art community just pretended it wasn't happening.
I also pretended to be terrified of things Penelope would never fear, like her heart-patterned socks.
He has pretended other losses — from dampened business investment and increased consumer prices — don't exist at all.
When they first telephoned her, she pretended to be her mother-in-law to put them off.
Elizabeth has pretended to be herself for so long that she's not entirely sure who "herself" is.
A fixer for the news organization pretended to be a wealthy Sri Lankan businessman, and potential client.
" And he's liked, "Remember how you just pretended you were on an episode of Pimp My Ambulance?
But they certainly wouldn't have played dumb and pretended not to see that there was a problem.
But I ignored it all; I pretended that it was just the heat or stress at work.
He pretended to tie his shoe in the middle of a point in his match against Baghdatis.
He was allowed to become Hooded Justice, a superhero, but only if he pretended to be white.
Are you saying you just pretended to be a racist to whip up support from racist voters?
While she pretended to steal secret materials, her helmet's monitor notified her she was hit, she said.
The wounded police pretended to be dead as Taliban finished off anyone who appeared to be alive.
Well, except Miami, which did what it usually does and pretended that all action is inherently good.
Each of these radically different books pretended, as their titles suggest, to speak for an entire generation.
In an earlier interview with HuffPost, Ms. Ettel said she had only "pretended" to call the police.
Instead of fixating on the absence of a result, it went ahead and pretended there was one.
But in those cases, Bush and Clinton at least pretended to have principled reasons for the pardons.
It was Rowan, obvious now as the boy got closer, and Richard pretended he'd known all along.
Clark pretended to notice the "urn," picked it up, turned to his girlfriend, and professed his love.
When asked about the referendum, he stopped in his tracks and pretended to be hard of hearing.
Ballmer, meanwhile, famously snatched an employee's iPhone at a company meeting and pretended to stomp on it.
A man trapped there with me politely pretended that a relationship wasn't collapsing in front of him.
Still I twirled, posed and pretended I was having my very own America's Next Top Model moment.
The other people at the table, all white, pretended nothing had happened and steered the conversation elsewhere.
Blizzard cut away from the sign, and the casters assigned to the stream pretended like nothing happened.
" The artist pretended not to hear, but then told the man it was an "upside-down heart.
In October, the company took down Russian-backed accounts that pretended to be from political battleground states.
"My mother pretended to agree with him, but I could tell she was pleased," Mr. Yilmaz said.
Meanwhile, in Thailand young protestors pretended to collapse as they demanded transformative action on the climate crisis.
"Of course, I pretended, said, 'Of course, Robin, of course I know you,'" he said with laugh.
When I asked after him, the concierge either didn't know his real name or pretended not to.
Then, after every eruption, he pretended like it never happened or promised it was the last time.
Once James reached the bench, his teammate Kyle Kuzma pretended to put a crown atop his head.
Contrast that with the president, who on Thursday pretended as though he'd never even heard of Assange.
He argued that while Mr. Berlusconi pretended to be coarse during campaigns, he was really a sophisticate.
He simply pretended he didn't exist — and heavily implied that a Republican president would pass immigration reform.
I didn't want to view myself as a victim so I suppressed it and pretended it never happened.
But Boyd got her revenge when she got her hands around his neck and pretended to choke him.
Remember the London Olympics when they pretended that Queen Elizabeth jumped out of a plane with James Bond?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus pretended to be Questlove DJing, complete with his afro pick in her own straight hair.
How's this for irony: Morgan pretended to barf, then slammed the pop star for not acting her age.
My Central Jersey  reported that Dykstra put his hand in a bag and pretended to have a gun.
Maybe Democrats will begin to actually adopt the kind of anti–Wall Street populism Trump pretended to represent.
Elliott was Charlotte's (Vanessa Ray) therapist, meaning Archer Dunhill has pretended to be Elliott for over five years.
It was eventually retrieved by Charles, who jokingly pretended to throw it for Digby to fetch once again.
I agree with the Volvo engineer who said Tesla's system pretended to be more capable than it was.
When she smiled into the crowd after the performance, and we pretended she was smiling at us personally.
He had seen the first season or at least had heard of it or pretended like he had.
Whenever he came by, I pretended I was still committed to a life lived free of voice commands.
Miranda-Alvarez then pretended to have her baby at the hospital, but said that the baby was sick.
The general threw him to the ground, then pulled him up again, and pretended to slice his throat.
Pretend you're watching Thrones the same way you pretended to be into Lost or the Elena Ferrante novels.
Though knowing Debra, she would've drank a smoothie, pretended she never saw the papers, and married him anyway.
Suspecting his intentions, Darel said she pretended to be dating her costar to get him to back off.
The man pretended to need directions, so Barker led him to the spot the man needed to go.
She's no Gretchen Carlson, who once pretended to have to look up "czar" and "ignoramus" in the dictionary.
" When Hayes pushed against these remarks, King back-tracked slightly and pretended he was talking about "Western civilization.
" He then pretended not to understand the word "suggest" and then went with an inexplicable "I don't know.
He sort of pretended he had something in his eye and then he'd give us a big hug.
Hahaha, can you believe how well I pretended I care about anything else for the first few sentences.
On Friday, Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May held hands and pretended that everything was hunky dory.
A couple of times, he seemed not to hear (or pretended not to hear) what Norton was saying.
Over dinner, Ms. Horruitiner would recount how people sautéed grapefruit peels in oil and pretended they were cutlets.
Remember that Titanic story about the guy who pretended to be a woman and snuck onto a lifeboat?
The problem with what you and your friend did wasn't that you pretended to be a lesbian couple.
"But I never pretended that those things were something I owned," Bobby's floating head continued in the video.
At the end of Friday's match, Sock shuffled his feet and pretended his racket was a fencing foil.
In 2012, the Republicans got Clint Eastwood rambling at an empty chair that he pretended held President Obama.
"In the driver's seat, Jende pretended not to hear anything," Ms. Mbue writes of Clark's constant cellphone conversations.
BDSM or S&M is something you pretended to be into to compensate for your lack of personality.
Sitting in his car from across the street, Mitnick pretended to be a McDonald's employee, taking customers' orders.
Clark seems to distinctly remember the day that the judge pretended he couldn't recognize her with different hair.
Later in the night she attempted to introduce herself to me and I pretended not to speak English.
I pretended to have broken my leg once, so I didn't have to see my boyfriend after school.
Later that night, I pretended to fall out of bed (in reality, I threw myself onto the floor).
The 54-year-old pretended to help the Italian but instead used his trust to escalate the abuse.
The participants were engaged in a role-playing exercise in which a woman pretended to fire a man.
In the past, I didn't think God would like me much unless I pretended to be someone else.
We pretended that one of the students was getting married, and we held a traditional Yemeni wedding celebration.
Mambele saw the world through thick glasses and with a deep scepticism of all who pretended to authority.
Internet platforms dominated the public square and pretended they were not responsible for the consequences of their actions.
In the past, we pretended not to see them because we did not have a name for them.
While his friends played with toy soldiers, he toted a leather briefcase and pretended to be a stockbroker.
In the videos, he pretended to take steroids and spoke of enjoying the smell of his sweaty armpits.
One kid pretended his camera froze so that he wouldn't get called on during his online lecture class.
He knew people feared unknown faces, so he always pretended as if he came from a neighboring town.
Then he asked, "Why are you so cold?" and I pretended to be asleep because I didn't know.
To please those around me, I got a girlfriend and pretended to live in a perfect heterosexual world.
The congresswoman then jumped to her feet and pretended to count out her challenger like a boxing referee.
My dad pretended to read The San Francisco Chronicle while stealing glances at my mother from his booth.
Trump pointed to his forearm and pretended to blow on Biden, who he then suggested would fall over.
Users have pretended to be infected, and harmful stereotypes about people of Asian descent are on the rise.
A man trapped in there with me politely pretended that a relationship wasn't collapsing in front of him.
So I stood in the corner, pretended to be busy on my phone, and eventually left empty handed.
Mostly, I pretended that Donald was an elderly real-estate broker showing me homes in the D.C. area.
Politicians have, at best, only pretended to care about working people and, at worst, have screwed them over.
About an hour later, she woke up again to Preston beside the bed and pretended to be asleep.
The man they were sitting with drew a gun and then pretended to point it at their heads.
On Thursday, the president of the United States got into a parked truck, honked, and pretended to drive.
They pretended they were the best astrologers and the best mathematicians and religious scholars in all of London.
In fact, two ISPs actually pretended to join the July 12 protest in order to actively undermine it.
I felt I didn't want to be self-indulgent and have therapy—I pretended I was just fine.
Poppy Bush shed his preppy striped watchband and pretended that pork rinds, rather than popcorn, was his favorite snack.
Initially, the business "pretended to be the manufacturer," opting to be less transparent as a means to entice customers.
She pretended she knew the girl, and walked over to her and asked if she was ready to leave.
Later, the leader of the free world got in the cab of a truck and pretended to drive it.
One woman pretended to wash car windows until she was close enough to the US to ask for asylum.
The ISIS fighters wore military uniforms and pretended to be members of the Iraqi federal police, manning a checkpoint.
"For a majority of my life I pretended not to be Middle Eastern — anything but Middle Eastern," he said.
He's pretended to abduct children (with parental permission), terrifying them, in hopes that they'd learn not to trust strangers.
You can use this sentence starter to help you answer the question: I pretended to be _________ when I was _________.
Republicans only pretended to care about debt as an excuse to hobble President Barack Obama and slash social programs.
He pretended to be a soldier seeking asylum in Canada to escape anti-Semitic attacks in the United States.
The Radiohead comment was retracted and I pretended, like the rest of the UK, like nothing had ever happened.
She and her friend ducked into an alleyway, pretended to be smoking cigarettes when a regime thug spotted them.
It's the only time in the 19 years I've worked with Jeff where he pretended ... to ignore a recommendation.
Even bearish predictions about the Chinese economy have at least pretended that economic data from the country are reliable.
Redditor EndlessLazer posted a handwritten note from a little girl, Lily, who cleverly pretended to be her dad, a.k.a.
That night, A. pretended to be asleep, and at 1 in the morning he climbed silently out of bed.
Worse, might it draw creepy men, like the ones who pretended to be widowers and stalked my Facebook page?
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) pretended as though they hadn't seen Trump's tweets at all.
" She denied making this comment, saying, "I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African.
Then there was the 2010 stunt, in which his associates pretended to be telephone repairmen to sneak into Sen.
When repeatedly confronted with U.S. intelligence evidence, the Russians have pretended that the illegal missile simply does not exist.
Sadiq offered us spicy chicken, so we pretended not to notice the river of pesto, and we took it.
In order to survive, she pretended she was dead in the hopes that the shooter wouldn't shoot her again.
He was walking her to her car, pretended to slip on snow and stuck his hand up her dress.
"I was Scott Rogowsky's roommate for a few years... until he pretended to move to LA," the listing reads.
Sure, he sold out Robb Stark and pretended to burn Rickon and Bran alive, but he did save Sansa!
An aide repeatedly asked them to leave, as Ms. Warren pretended to examine the paint on the hall ceiling.
Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" played throughout the store as Kristen discussed work and pretended to eat a croissant.
We bantered, we joked, we lit one another's cigarettes, we pretended we were not consumed with insecurity and competitiveness.
I gave blood; pretended I was a wino; went under hypnosis; had myself put away in a goofy garage.
He even explained-- I think he-- I think he pretended he was writing to his three year old child.
"How many times have we all pretended we're in Game 7 of the World Series, and here we are."
It was so unbearably disgusting but we all pretended that it was all great and we all loved it.
In the past, con artists from Nigeria often pretended to be princes in trouble to get your personal information.
Lester managed to stream for hours because he pretended to be playing the new UFC game from Electronic Arts.
"We pretended to love it ironically, but we actually genuinely loved it," Alex Mann, another former theatre kid, reminisces.
Coleman says Allen's allegations that he pretended to be a woman to obtain "private information" about Ray are false.
One woman screamed, "New Orleans!" as soon as "Daddy Lessons" came on and another pretended to play the trumpet.
They pretended not to be bothered while I took notes on them like an anthropologist, a photographer clicking away.
One of the accounts even pretended to be the cousin of an African American who died in police custody.
They pretended to have all the answers, when the more honest responses to human suffering are concern and doubt.
Considering he allegedly once pretended to be his own publicist, Trump probably knew responding would create more press ruckus.
For several months, he put on a suit and pretended to cross the Detroit River and go to work.
" Davidson added: "Do you remember when that whole city pretended that kid was Batman because he was, like, sick?
George became Sandor Kiss and went to live with a Hungarian agricultural official, whom he pretended was his godfather.
"Last year, we pretended that our headquarters had flooded and we had to work from home," Mr. Vallee said.
We'd read about the Perseids myth in the encyclopedia, but we pretended that they were sisters instead of brothers.
It rained here the night the president pretended to be an environmentalist during the State of the Union address.
In an event that started September 4, the Air Force Space Command pretended there was a war involving space.
I noted details the way I had previously only pretended to when strolling through museums with more sophisticated friends.
In his latest YouTube video, posted this month, he pretended to smuggle himself onto a plane in a suitcase.
To survive, Qassem told Ms. Malfatto, he converted to Islam — or at least, pretended to — and ISIS spared him.
Some guy tried to talk to me about universal basic income yesterday and I just pretended I had narcolepsy.
After the board of the magazine threatened to resign in January, "they pretended to accept our autonomy," she said.
Some even strapped tool belts to their waists and pretended to be craftsmen, disguising newspapers under their thick clothes.
Trump never pretended to be a man of the people; he bragged about his wealth on the campaign trail.
In a statement, Kennedy pretended that his bill would somehow upset large ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
But "the Mooch" fell for the prank not just once, but twice, as the prankster also pretended to be Huntsman.
Lee admits it was difficult standing next to his friend while Sixx's on-screen doppelgänger pretended to overdose on heroin.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in the statement.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he began in the statement.
Dad sat at what would have been his desk; Dan pretended to fire what would have been his machine gun.
Brent was deciphering a Rubik's Cube beside him, but pretended not to hear his grandparents arguing or his cousin crying.
He tells us about a parody account that pretended to be him and stepped over the line of what's acceptable.
Benchmark revisions indicate this labor market isn't as youthful as it has pretended to be over the last two years.
She had tried to overlay her values and her views, he said, on the people she pretended to be helping.
Instead, we all pretended that we might have been drinking to be "out of control dangerous" or whatever is was.
Any young girl who has ever pretended her best friend was actually her sister would be jealous of this photo.
The woman told police she pretended to comply but instead went to the bedroom and jumped out of a window.
After LeBron James pretended to sip a beer, the brewery ran with the viral moment — but King James wasn't happy.
The two pretended to get into a brawl in order to mess with all the drunk St. Patrick's Day viewers.
" She added: "Afterwards when they got out of the tub, Linda went up to Stallone and pretended to punch him.
Some members of Archimedes pretended to be local news organizations that "published allegedly leaked information about politicians," according to Facebook.
I pretended I knew what they were talking about and laughed along, but didn't know what they were talking about.
Debra moved across the train and pretended to know the woman being attacked; she played along, as did another stranger.
Shortly after, Tarantino mock punched the Empire star in face, and he pretended to fall down – to laughter from all.
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be a Native American in order to advance her career.
"They repeatedly pretended that the federal government saving hundreds of billions of dollars won't translate to actual cuts," Connecticut Gov.
The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees' payroll information, according to a company blog post.
"They repeatedly pretended that the federal government saving hundreds of billions of dollars won't translate to actual cuts," he said.
We've pretended in the past that our laws say things they don't -- with results that many are happy with today.
Trump first pretended not to be aware of white supremacist David Duke, and had trouble disavowing Duke's praise for Trump.
At a recent event promoting fitness, Prayuth wrapped a scarf around a gym instructor's neck and pretended to hang him.
Huang and D'Arcy of Poncho practiced for hours, and at one point, their colleagues pretended to be the different mentors.
And that wasn't the only thing that got blurred: The more I pretended to undress, the more I'd be undressed.
Sandford, then 19, approached a uniformed police officer during Trump's June 16 rally and reportedly pretended to seek an autograph.
In the "Tide Pod Challenge," some people — mainly teens — pretended, or in some cases, appeared to actually eat Tide Pods.
"He said himself that he could hear you," the agent said; Enotiades had apparently pretended that the line was bad.
I went to a family party where I pretended everything was fine since they hadn't known I was pregnant anyway.
Somewhere nearby, an excavator churned past, its engines the loudest noise in the forest, but he pretended it wasn't there.
The driver pretended there was a fault with the vehicle so the men took off with the children on foot.
With the single, she was reclaiming the agency in the for-us-by-us storytelling blaxploitation films pretended to fulfill.
Can you elaborate on your charges in the lawsuit that Kris "pretended to DJ" while you guys were on tour?
" She also claimed that she only pretended to call the police and that "this has no racial component to it.
She encountered Margaret, the Duchess of Montenaro, and the two women pretended to be each other and live different lives.
Word of the Day : not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed _________ The word unfeigned has appeared in one article on nytimes.
Amazon ran a commercial on this year's Super Bowl that pretended its digital assistant Alexa had temporarily lost her voice.
He headed into a train station, where he pretended to examine a poster showing future renovations for the 1988 Olympics.
The supervisor pretended to be from the United States Pacific Command in a phone call placed to day-shift workers.
They joked about an imaginary character — "the clown" — who they always pretended slept between them in the bed they shared.
Authorities say that Magen Fieramusca, 33, pretended to get pregnant around the same time as her longtime friend, Heidi Broussard.
A YouTuber called out 2 TikTok stars for a prank where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship
Brown appeared not to hear the question — or at least pretended not to — when asked if this game felt different.
Out of classic British politeness, people generally kept their thoughts to themselves or pretended not to notice my sloppy attire.
This has made it easy prey for charlatans like Paul Ryan, who pretended to be serious about his fiscal principles.
The hosts of "Romper Room" pretended to see them through a "magic mirror," and read their names on the air.
"We can lie": A detective pretended to have evidence linking a 13-year-old to the stabbing of Ms. Majors.
He swept me up and said, "This is where dads take their bad daughters"; he pretended to throw me over.
And, if I pretended not to notice these slights, wasn't I proving that I really was a disengaged, privileged oppressor?
Always opposed to what he has called "politically incorrect nonsense," he never pretended to be your Sensitive New Age Guy.
"Savannah pretended to conduct as the national anthem was playing, and George joined in the fun," a royal observer tells PEOPLE.
He pretended his source for the Podesta emails wasn't in cahoots with the Russian government, though that was clearly the case.
Sanderson Farms, the third-largest chicken producer in the U.S., has never pretended to be against feeding antibiotics to its birds.
A former worker wore a hidden camera and pretended to go back to work in the commune near the Vermont border.
Clearly, he pretended to be dead after the "You're Mine" thug shot him, eliminating the possibility of any more bodily harm.
Sarah pretended that her pause was to choose her words carefully, but she was weighing how honest she could handle being.
He pretended to cooperate while using Russian colloquialisms to warn his associates that he'd been conscripted into a US government sting.
We collected moss and dandelions to create little homes for ourselves outdoors and pretended to fight the villains of the novel.
Brian Bosché, a Washington DC-based entrepreneur, pretended to swing a golf club whenever Mr Trump won a key battleground state.
Bill Clinton never pretended to be some kind of cultural conservative who claimed that everyone should live by certain personal standards.
The first group date was "wedding photos," where the women pretended to be taking shots to commemorate themed matrimonies with Nick.
We're told Alana's in a stable place now, despite her recent antics on social media ... when she pretended to snort cocaine.
The base has already hosted a reality television show, in which six celebrities pretended to be astronauts facing life-threatening challenges.
Or, even worse, when Jane Leeves was pregnant on Frasier and the show pretended that she had a "binge eating" problem?
While John pretended to be a doctor, Dr. Duntsch is, amazingly, the real deal — just, it seems, a very bad one.
His wildly unqualified son-in-law was installed as a top White House aide, and everyone just pretended it was fine.
Corruption, Lies, and Death Threats: The Crazy Story of the Man Who Pretended To Invent Email, Gizmodo, March 5, 2012. 3.
I tweeted about porgs for a day, pretended to love them, and caught the eye – however briefly – of Luke Skywalker himself.
The defendant pretended to have a 10-year-old daughter who also did "nude modeling" to gain the children&aposs trust.
Even if it was established that the officers saw the assault go down, they could have pretended they didn't see it.
This is the same girl who pretended to be Alice Webster, framed the innocent Kristian Hertz and faked her own death.
File this moment next to that time Adele pretended she was an Adele impersonator, in a roomful of competing Adele impersonators.
To test one of the sites out, I pretended I wanted to hire them to kill an ex-husband of mine.
It happened a lot in Slimelight, where journalists pretended they were going to write positive things and instead did the opposite.
A girl just came in and asked me if "everything was alright" and I pretended to answer a phone call. Christ.
George Lopez pretended to urinate on President Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star in a video that has gone viral.
After a while we progressed to porn and at first when we masturbated to it we pretended it was a joke.
It was filmed from afar, and the person who shot it pretended to freak out and ran away after the stabbing.
I'd be lying, though, if I pretended everything that lay outside my painted bubble of a garage was equally as idyllic.
He pretended not to notice when she picked up the phone and pressed a single button, most likely the redial button.
But he also observes that "the crown prince has never pretended to be a political reformer," which is not entirely true.
Take "Truth," the 85033 drama that pretended CBS News' Dan Rather didn't promote fake news to rock the 2004 presidential election.
The ambient heat had patrons removing layers, and one woman pretended to pour a bottle of wine over her date's head.
Sarah Palin The former vice presidential candidate said Cohen pretended to be a wounded veteran during her interview with the actor.
He pretended to stagger around the cage on drunk legs, then stood over his concussed opponent, pointed, and made inaudible comments.
Calantropo noted that, in fact, he was not, but it was easier to move forward if everyone pretended that he was.
The tension peaked when Abby pretended Air Force One was dealing with a mechanical issue, which grounded Mellie's (Bellamy Young) plane.
Blue Apron CEO Brad Dickerson told Axios' Dan Primack that the company pretended to be a technology business when it wasn't.
The arrangement brings to mind the movie "The Front," in which Woody Allen's character pretended to pen scripts from blacklisted writers.
So when I left for my chemotherapy appointments, I grabbed my large black tote and pretended I was headed to work.
As a pesky 303-year-old, I once asked her why he'd gone to jail, but she pretended not to hear.
When the scammer refused, Perrin pretended that another person, "Stu Reid," had just reached out to him with a similar offer.
After absorbing each question, Williamson looked at his teammate Mike Buckmire, who pretended he was playing the role of Williamson's consigliere.
Epstein's ability to evade justice is of a piece with the elite impunity that Trump pretended to challenge, but actually embodies.
If not for my precarious reproductive situation, I probably would have pretended to be ambivalent about kids for 10 more years.
"They basically pretended it didn't exist," said one member, who was granted anonymity so they could speak freely about their position.
To enhance the feeling of intimacy, Mr. Chiu pretended to be a host and spoke to the audience about each piece.
Mr. Broome said the girl pretended to be a transfer student and knew class schedules and instructors' names at the university.
They gathered and pretended to be monkeys, lions, slugs, and other members of the animal kingdom straight up doing the deed.
I pretended I didn't know who he was and asked him if my Ford Festiva was parked in the right place.
We swam and cavorted, dived through the centers of our inner tubes, pretended once more that we were mermaids or sharks.
But never mind: The narrative required that the character Ryan played exist, so everyone pretended that he was the genuine article.
One of Unsworth's lawyers turned and gave me a weak smile, which I pretended not to notice as I scribbled notes.
While the ESPN crew packed up their gear, little kids, basking in the bright lights, pretended that they were the stars.
After all, this is a man who, in the 1980s, pretended to be his own spokesman on phone conversations with reporters.
When he walked through the door, Tiny turned and pretended to straighten the hair products on the table behind her chair.
A YouTuber called out a questionable prank by two TikTok stars where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship.
A number of viewers were also made uncomfortable during Monday night's game when some teammates pretended to punch Mixon in celebration.
The first words out of my mouth were, "you're an idiot," and everyone laughed at me and pretended I was bad.
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She says he pretended not to know she filed, but now that he does, the question remains ... why not drop it?
Trump and a bunch of Silicon Valley CEOs sat at a table and pretended to like each other Trump and a bunch of Silicon Valley CEOs sat at a table and pretended to like each other Silicon Valley was very loud during the election cycle about the dangers that a President Donald Trump could pose to the United States.
Eventually, Ferrara pieced together the truth: He learned that Biegler was not nearly as polished and rich as he pretended to be.
At some point in your life, sat in front of a computer screen, you have almost definitely pretended to be a hacker.
She said there have been times she pretended to go into a building to avoid a man following or yelling at her.
I pretended to myself that I had come out to the rocks simply because I had wanted to be near the ocean.
Has she pretended not to speak English all this time, or did Trump throw her under the bus to explain Putin bilat?
He also pretended to be a veteran who worked for Apple, persuading a Beverly Hills dentist to do $28,000 worth of work.
" On Saturday, Trump released a statement saying: "I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
I was weaker at the time and pretended to be fine with her going to live on a sailboat for a year.
The clip shows Poncho promptly administering chest compressions to an officer who has pretended to collapse on the ground in cardiac distress.
It's like, couldn't they have pretended to stay together so that we could at least take comfort in some solid celebrity couples?
An unknown assailant walked up to him and pretended to shake his hand before flinging the liquid — known in Russian as "zelyonka".
His momentum carried him out of bounds — where he jokingly grabbed a beer from a vendor and pretended to take a sip.
He is white and He pretended to be a Japanese writer to get work at his publisher in violation of the rules.
We already know from a sworn deposition that Trump pretended to be his own spokesperson, "John Barron," in the 1980s and 90s.
Perhaps the strangest thing about it is that Trump pretended to be busy when his public schedule for the day was empty.
After the alleged attack, the male called 911 but pretended he was talking to someone named Doug and not the 911 operator.
So I pretended to hail a cab to go home, and then went back into the bar and drank with other guys.
In April 2015, Schumer pretended to fall at Kardashian and Kanye West's feet on the red carpet at the Time 100 Gala.
She even pretended (unsuccessfully) to fake a mild back injury, only to blow her cover by dancing at the show's wrap party.
Even worse, he pretended to have something he didn't, and seems to have fooled an awful lot of people along the way.
Nobody has ever pretended that all movies are made with artistic concerns as the first priority and economic concerns as the second.
Donald Trump pretended to send well wishes to people who oppose him ... but let's be honest, it was aggressive and mean-spirited.
It represents a generation in agreement with Baldwin when he said that he no longer believed in the lies of pretended humanism.
Page then pretended to stagger around the cage on drunken legs before standing over his fallen opponent so he could mock him.
I have never posed 30 times for someone to take my picture and then pretended it's a selfie; I don't use filters.
Like the guy on YouTube who told his partner he'd blown up their kid, or pretended to throw it off a balcony.
The two pretended to have food poisoning to gain access to a private bathroom where they got Cohen into character, Deadline reports.
Murphy, at second base, pretended that he caught the ball, wound up, and left Céspedes scrambling to make it back to first.
Beside him, two girls slouched in their chairs and pretended to care, but they kept looking at their cell phones, obviously uninterested.
The seismic shock from these actions can only accelerate the erosion of that bedrock societal foundation the attorney general pretended to honor.
In 2004, ten female prisoners in Pennsylvania received roughly $260,000 from hundreds of men who they'd pretended to fall in love with.
Other research found that when white people pretended not to notice race they often acquired alienating tics, such as avoiding eye contact.
LONDON — The 26-year-old man pretended to be a teenage girl to meet boys and young men on online chat forums.
I went to the party and pretended I was on acid and got all these people to get in the shower together.
If she needed to catch her breath while walking into work, she pretended that she was reading the plaques in the hallway.
Along the way, young men and children in the village pretended, as is expected of them, to try to halt the procession.
It's worth recalling that at his confirmation hearing in January he pretended to be unaware of what the "emoluments clause" even is.
Relieved of the ball one on one near midfield, he dropped and then pretended he'd been kick to win a free kick.
When another mob, armed with sticks, bats and iron bars, halted her and demanded an identification card, she pretended she was Hindu.
The nod towards unity Trump pretended to advocate for during the State of the Union was gone in less than 85033 characters.
Trump also pretended to have opposed military action in Iraq and Libya from the start when the record shows just the opposite.
Severino pretended that the law could compel a surgeon to perform a gender reassignment surgery he or she felt unable to do.
And what's driving the U.S. economy now is the very deficit spending Republicans pretended to be horrified by during the Obama years.
And in this instance, my own professional career took inspiration from a 1980's actor who pretended to be an FBI agent.
I'm never going to be a "237 unread messages" person, and I've never even pretended to go on a social media cleanse.
Just to add a little sauce on it, I pretended to be devastated so he didn't suspect he had granted my wish.
Instead, she pretended to order a pizza and used code words until the 2911 dispatcher understood what she was trying to say.
During the tastings, we all pretended like we were professionals and gave our harshest opinions, but we still finished every last drop.
She pretended as though he hadn't nicknamed the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un "rocket man" as an insult the day before.
Here, however, it will also be important for the American president to carefully distinguish between genuine enemy irrationality and pretended enemy irrationality.
Indeed, his recent "fire and fury" warning might merely have reflected a preferred "rationality of pretended irrationality" posture for the United States.
Republicans never actually cared about debt; they just pretended to be deficit hawks as a way to hamstring President Barack Obama's agenda.
It felt like tea parties I'd pretended to have with my grandma when I was a child, and I told her so.
They were, however, predicted on the assumption that Fred Rogers was a completely different person than he pretended to be on PBS.
It wasn't until she spoke to the New York Times that Swinton finally admitted that she pretended to be Ebersdorf to play Klemperer.
Through all this I pretended that being known as a lesbian didn't bother me, that it was only a problem for other people.
Mark&aposs son, 24-year-old Marcus Ling, even approached the woman and asked her to move, but she pretended to be asleep.
I pretended that I needed material for my cultural studies course, but I was there for myself, among thirty other non-heteronormative people.
The Times reported last week that AET funneled money to a project that used a Facebook page where people pretended to be conservatives.
He denied it, I told him to fuck off, and I cried the whole Uber ride home while he pretended not to notice.
Meanwhile, a group of young ultranationalists staged a protest at which they pretended to hold Santa Claus—that unwelcome Western intruder—at gunpoint.
In 1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated "the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime", and called on her subjects to rebel.
Also at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Cardi B pretended she had brought Kulture on stage for the baby's first public appearance.
As for why they pretended to be in Puerto Rico when they were actually in Mexico, we're not even going to touch that.
If her startup simply hosed gullible investors and pretended it invented a perpetual motion machine, it might earn a golf clap or two.
Right after they took off, he pretended that there was an engine failure and that they might have to execute a crash landing.
The British comedian, 44, attended Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, The Brothers Grimsby, where he pretended to publicly support Trump's campaign.
Have you ever acted in a play, pretended to be a famous athlete when you play sports, or imagined yourself in a movie?
The theories were tied to 2017, when XXXTentacion faked his death in a post on Instagram in which he pretended to hang himself.
He slyly pretended to be a part of Mayweather's entourage, and no one asked questions, checked his ticket, or noticed he didn't belong.
" CNN's Chris Cuomo (D-Less Famous Cuomo) pretended Trump was attacking a Muslim simply because he was a "brown guy with a beard.
" 'He's my superhero' For the first year after the incident, Huff said, he did the "cop thing" and pretended that "nothing bothered him.
I loved the teacher (a thin, intense Frenchwoman named Vangeline), as well as an exercise in which we pretended to have no faces.
And I knew women who benefited from the patriarchy and pretended not to notice how it was chipping away at them, like Serena.
Yet unlike the Trump White House, the Clinton administration never pretended prohibiting her from testifying before a grand jury or Congress was possible.
Once he noticed he was on the big screen, he jokingly leaned over to his seatmate and pretended to make out with her.
Then again, that work was in response to Nixon-era politicians, who at least pretended to hide their lies to the American public.
"Damn, Daniel," a girl she followed on Instagram but pretended not to know in real life had said as she entered the room.
Even then, Trump's acknowledgment of Russian involvement in the election was reluctant, and he pretended that the indictments showed that his campaign hadn't
So we could go home and try to hold those slippery slivers, which, like everything we pretended was ours, touched us, and vanished?
Ettel told a reporter, according to NBC News, that the girl had been disturbing her work, so she pretended to call the police.
A Texas man reportedly pretended to be a police officer to get to the front of a Whataburger drive-thru line in 2015.
I pretended to not like Madonna nearly as much as I did (and those were the American Life years — such a good album).
The woman said she was stunned and pretended to be asleep because she feared what would happen if he knew she was awake.
He pretended to be confused by the British actor's British accent, and at one point asked Holland if he could lick his shoe.
If there are no Trump tapes, attention will turn to why he pretended such tapes might exist when he knew they did not.
Like my mother's words after the thief's father pretended to call for him, then slammed the door because his son couldn't be bothered.
Everyone pretended to invest $100,000 and whomever's portfolio was worth the most money at the end of eight weeks would be the winner.
The group allegedly used the Grindr app and pretended to be a lone gay man, who arranged to meet at the victims' homes.
And by that I mean called the dude whose name was on the Gumtree listing and pretended to be interested in the flat.
The agents reportedly pretended to be Garcia's cousin, sending text messages from her cellphone indicating that she had been in a car accident.
He used the same apology statement as the Dobre Brothers, and pretended to be stony faced and miserable when a fan walked in.
Fooling around, I stuck my leg out and pretended to hitch up my skirt so as to get a lift as a hitchhiker.
"We have indulged myths and fabrications, pretended it wasn't so bad, and our indulgence got us the capitulation in Helsinki," Mr. Flake said.
Asrary then pretended to be Bieber, and demanded the girl send nude photos of herself and threatened to hurt her if she refused.
My boyfriend and I started making out on his bed, and then I pretended to go to the bathroom to insert a diaphragm.
Every time I came over to ask him about my role, he excused himself and pretended he had to take a phone call.
When Tywin finally joined the rebellion, he pretended to be Aerys's ally one more time in order to gain entry to the city.
The young man, maybe in his early 30s, pretended not to stare at the striking woman who had just stepped into the elevator.
She wasted time waiting to be discovered, chased after empty material success and pretended to be someone she didn't even want to be.
In a recent Buzzfeed interview, the SoundCloud rapper Lil Pump pretended the controversy didn't exist, and freely used the word throughout the conversation.
After a few failed attempts to fold the pastry without creating a hole, I just pretended that there wasn't one and continued on.
So she had seven fugitives hide under the bed and then got in, pulled the covers over herself and pretended to be sick.
"Because of their arrogance and pretended superiority, the Americans invaded Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein but ended up destroying the country," he said.
A stripper and porn star by trade, she has never pretended to be someone she's not and has a reputation for demanding respect.
Republicans were never the patriots they pretended to be, but at this point they've pretty much crossed the line into being foreign agents.
I took the dustbin, and I pretended to go empty the trash, and as I was going downstairs, my mother walked behind me.
"  In an Instagram story, Turner pretended to be an influencer and said, "Hey, guys, just kind of going for my influencer look today.
The bomber was dressed in a police uniform and pretended to be disabled, infiltrating the crowd before detonating his explosive, Mr. Hassani said.
That seemed like an unusually wide array of footwear at a concert; I pretended to drop my pen to get a better look.
Meanwhile, Kris dressed as Khloe in a long bleached-blond wig, and Kendall Jenner pretended to be Kylie showing off her makeup range.
Lawrence also said she believes Chapman pretended to be Feden while communicating with her family, using Feden's Facebook account to message with them.
When asked whether he knew anything about photography, he pretended that he did and quickly began studying photograph books in the base's library.
This probably sounds really weird, but I figured out that if I pretended to masturbate like a cis guy, I could feel it.
The sex offender registry, with its one-size-fits-all approach, has pretended to answer all of them — by, in reality, answering none.
While at the event, the couple played around in the popular photo booth set up in an elevator and pretended to get caught smooching.
In his opening statement, Spodek argued the system is "easily seduced by glamour and glitz" so Delvey pretended to be wealthy to get ahead.
She forged emails, staged an embarrassing incident at a karaoke bar, and then pretended to be engaged to her gay pal George (Rupert Everett).
"I have never pretended to be pretty or look good in clothing, I have never tried to be flashy or show off," she wrote.
Image: YouTube ScreenshotEarly this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan.
I drew a few pictures in my notebook -- jotted down these descriptions and pretended I could tell all of these seemingly identical bees apart.
"For so many years of my life I pretended I was not a Middle Eastern person," he said, addressing his parents in the audience.
First, Jennifer Garner pretended that she wrote a memoir, and then American Horror Story joked that its next season would be about Freddie Kruger.
For one night as he delivered his State of the Union address, Donald Trump pretended to be the president Republicans wish he really was.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in regards to the tape being released.
He finally showed up and struck a pose, jabbing George Harrison, who pretended to tip backward and make the other Beatles fall like dominoes.
I have gone to many a bar in Brooklyn and pretended that I was talking to Post Malone and so people have believed it.
"I find it offensive that Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," Trump tweeted.
On Sunday night's episode, Simpson, 71, laughed when Baron Cohen, in character, pretended to stab his "girlfriend" Christina while explaining why he was famous.
Instead, their companies chucked motorized scooters on the city sidewalks, without the city's permission, and then pretended to be shocked when children rode them.
Though Gunvalson pretended she didn't want to hear the claims at first, she quickly confessed to viewers that she was interested in the scoop.
He allegedly said he pretended to be an ICE agent "to show everyone that he was 'somebody' and had done something with his life."
Midland's Cameron Duddy pretended to hawk beer in a running gag with show hosts Little Big Town, but TJ Osborne took the comedy seriously.
Nazi collaborators who pretended to be picking mushrooms in the forest, looking for Jews to betray to the Germans, were arrested, interrogated and shot.
Williams had pretended to take Jake for therapy, then created the false bills so he could pocket a cash "reimbursement" from a county agency.
Another common claim is that his wife, Lisa, only pretended to recognize the gun found at the scene—which was an antique family heirloom.
And the internet has jumped to a tantalizing conclusion: Akie Abe pretended not to know English so she didn't have to talk to Trump.
Saturday&aposs bomber had pretended his truck had broken down before detonating it in front of the hotel&aposs fortified gate, said police Col.
He pretended that scattered instances of banditry amounted to a massive armed revolt, and ordered his North-Korean trained Fifth Brigade to crush it.
Then Orton twisted, or pretended to twist, stretching just enough that the rubberband of Jeff Hardy's dangling earlobe looking to be twisted 180 degrees.
Source: Julia Vie Ross Ulbricht was arrested at Glen Park Library after two undercover agents pretended to get into an argument to distract him.
Cohen never pretended to be a disabled vet, Showtime insists, echoing what Cohen's character already wrote in an open letter to Palin last week.
To gain entry in the home, Kvitová said he pretended to be a workman inspecting her flat's hot water system, according to The Guardian.
It'll also cross over a large swath of soon-to-be disillusioned Trump supporters who realize Trump only pretended to care about their struggles.
I pretended to ignore him and hastily ran by the remainder of the team that was now staring at my legs pointing and giggling.
If you grew up watching the original Power Rangers show, then you've definitely pretended that your old wristwatch could help you talk to Zordon.
Besides, any novel pretended to be true, and a good "open" text would spur the reader to judge and interpret that truth for himself.
The woman who pretended to be mentally ill and threw crickets over an entire D train car in August calls herself a performance artist.
Daeshgram pretended to confirm suspicions that it controlled the Amaq website by uploading a video that claimed to have hacked the ISIS propaganda site.
The next day, my sister returned to class and pretended everything was fine, as if the school had never accused our family of bioterrorism.
Lynch, a Democratic cabinet member, pretended to not know that she was being asked whether she is biased and unable to oversee the investigation.
But the ruse was all part of Ciancia's master plan, as he pretended to stumble as he climbed off the stretcher, the station reports.
" Other attacks included an offensive pantomime of Maza's voice in which Crowder pretended to eat chips and exclaimed "just can't eat one, like dicks.
People just love telling you about their lives, and, honestly, it calmed me down when I just pretended to care because, eventually, I did!
Though the producers "pretended to be very remorseful," Paige told me that all the footage she asked to be cut was, in fact, used.
I only knew if a friend was upset when they told me directly, and if I ever felt overwhelmed, I pretended that I didn't.
" She explained that it was as if "I lost my face although everyone pretended I was the same as ever before whatever that was.
I fished in my bag for something to write on and could find only my date book, so I pretended it was a notebook.
She pretended to be a mental patient for an article, "10 Days in a Madhouse," that led to reforms to a women's mental institution.
The trajectory of this underground railroad is from blithe, barbed self-consciousness to the subconscious, where land mines you pretended didn't exist keep exploding.
Mr. Bannon has now joined with Mr. Ailes in a common cause on Mr. Trump's behalf, a mission that Breitbart never pretended to deny.
Asked his opinion of the case, which is now the matter of a lawsuit in New York, Mr. Oxendale pretended to zip his mouth.
In cases for which the caller pretended to have acute symptoms, the average time until an appointment was about one and a half weeks.
Still, the asteroid's close distance made it the perfect subject of Reddy's "war-game," in which astronomers pretended that it really would hit Earth.
In one, they pretended to be older Mexicans, falling and injuring themselves as they tried to navigate the city's many rundown sidewalks in wheelchairs.
During an exchange with reporters, White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp pretended as though there might be some basis to Trump's claim.
The sheriff, terrified of the untamable Bean, at least pretended to go about his work for a time, before returning to Jackson sans prisoner.
"Russia's trolls pretended to be American people, including political groups and candidates," Ms. Kim wrote in a post for the Brennan Center for Justice.
But even during its wildest moments, Bartiromo pretended to understand what Trump was talking about and acted as though he was making profound points.
I pretended not to understand, turning the conversation toward where to go for the best walk in the countryside, and sensed the ranger's relief.
For years, Ms. Sorokin pretended to be Anna Delvey, a German heiress with a trust fund that paid for a life of glamorous ease.
As Hyperallergic reported, protesters at the opening pretended to sip oil-contaminated champagne and chanted slogans noting the company exploitation of Iraq's natural resources.
In 1990, two thieves pretended to be police officers and robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, taking what's worth an estimated 500 million dollars.
Whitman understood that democracy wasn't "very boring" but rather a political system that could deliver on the promises that authoritarianism only pretended it would.
For example, he has pretended to contact the spirits of Mac Miller, XXXtentacion, and YouTuber Etika who tragically died by suicide in June 2019.
Soccer star Alex Morgan went viral when she pretended to sip tea after scoring a winning goal against England during the Women's World Cup.
Mr. Malek once even pretended to be a sales representative for one of the companies, giving his name as "Judy Jones," the suit said.
"I still am very comfortable playing female roles, because I pretended to be a woman for thirty years of my life," Bouk went on.
Anyone who's ever been to a dinner party that pretended to be friendly while feeling like open-heart surgery will read this in awe.
During yet another speech at the Trump International on Friday, Pompeo even pretended in a joking way to not know who owns the hotel.
Russell's subjects described the opposite adaptation: they often pretended that they were meeting for the first time people whom they knew they'd met before.
However, you could only get fired if you were actually not unable to work because of your sickness but only pretended to be sick.
I hadn't done any laughing over the last three days, while my classmates and I pretended our loved ones were asphyxiating beneath our skis.
All I know is that neon gym equipment was carted onto the stage as the ripped dancers pretended to struggle with five-pound weights.
When a nurse came in to empty his bag of urine, I pretended to sleep so she wouldn't see me poised to lose it.
Sure. Was it weird that we all pretended that the whole Players' Tribune thing was anything other than a transparently ghost-written PR play?
The "Titanic" star has pretended to be American, Australian, Polish-Armenian and in her latest film, crime thriller "Triple 9", a Russian-Israeli mafia boss.
And Barr pretended not to understand what basic words such as "receptive" and "suggest" mean, when Democrats had the nerve to use such "technical" terms.
" As Dad spoke, Mom picked up a little Julio Jones doll and pretended to speak in the star wide receiver's voice: "I love you, Wyatt.
Additionally, if you pretended that the Dragon were an arc and traced out the full circle, you could determine how much mass caused the warp.
So I used "Help a Reporter Out," which I think is probably the most embarrassing open secret in media, and pretended to be an expert.
I knew such remarks were trash talking at their most base, and often pretended not to hear them, but the truth was something more complicated.
As she kneaded her face, she'd remember a song from childhood whose lyrics pretended English words all became Italian words with the suffix of –uh.
Mortified that my lips were blindingly chapped, I pretended that that was exactly what I had come for all along — not White Chedder Cheez-Its.
It's Winter, the woman Ivy pretended not to know when she came to interview for the nanny position at Ivy and Ally's home. Plot. Twist.
On top of that, Theon pretended to murder the youngest Stark boys, Bran and Rickon Stark (Art Parkinson), when he actually lost them as prisoners.
Marissa Tietsort A Wisconsin babysitter allegedly killed a 2-month-old baby and then pretended he was still alive when returning him to his mother.
More explosively, Caixin wrote in its May 1st issue that Anbang had pretended to have more capital than it had—an allegation denied by Anbang.
There's "Fat Monica" from Friends, that time Tyra Banks pretended she weighed 350 pounds for a day, and (* shudder *) every single second of Shallow Hal.
Others, like Apple CEO Tim Cook, have pretended like they're outraged with President Trump in public, but continued to work with him behind closed doors.
Around the same period, the band spent afternoons filming interstitial scenes where they pretended to converse with the cartoon mice through holes in the stage.
After the game, Durant pretended he had no idea what everyone was talking about, but winning heals all wounds and he's no longer playing dumb.
In the footage, one man is shown sitting in a rolling chair surrounded by three others who pretended to perform a sex act on him.
In a bid to prove she wasn't racist shortly after, she revealed she had pretended to be "a half-caste African" a few years prior.
One study published last year found that managers couldn't tell the difference between those who worked an 80-hour week and those who pretended to.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in a video statement back in October 2016.
In this case, a young operative sitting at a computer in Canberra successfully pretended to be a senior terrorist fighting in a faraway war zone.
She also claimed that one of the two suspects, Jaiden Caruso, 16, had a "beef" with her son, adding that he "pretended they were friends".
Under a program that compensated soldiers for targeting FARC fighters, the military killed thousands of innocent civilians and pretended they were rebels killed in battle.
In Italy, the perpetrators spread a movie clip of a car being destroyed and pretended it was news footage of migrants wrecking a police vehicle.
I stole $100 from his wallet when he wasn't looking, then pretended I had a family emergency, bought a slushy, and caught the bus home.
While Emma was saving Hook, Rumple sent Milah to the River of Lost Souls (but pretended it was Hades' doing) and destroyed their getaway boat.
Some harbored doubts as to whether I had truly changed, or whether I had merely pretended to do so in order to deflect police attention.
Then, I took a mini shampoo and conditioner and pretended they were a boy and a girl meeting on the island and falling in love.
"When I got home I slowly got out of the car, locked the door, went to sleep and pretended that it never happened," she said.
Over the last few weeks, Lee has pretended to be blissfully ignorant about his casual dog whistle racism when it comes to wrestler Kenny King.
But Anna Faris decided to go a different route and bond with the women who've pretended to be intimate with her famous husband, Chris Pratt.
Police in India this week arrested 70 people allegedly involved in a scam in which some pretended to be IRS agents, according to media reports.
My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
He never pretended that things were going to be ok, or that there was a greener pasture that he could see on the other side.
Read more: Alex Morgan pretended to sip tea after a goal against England in the World Cup, and then fans sang 'Happy Birthday' to her
In a court filing, prosecutors declined to reveal what agency or department may or may not have employed the individual who pretended to be Ghaada.
Since that draw with Wilder, Fury has signed with Top Rank and ESPN, and pretended to blow a kiss to his summer opponent Tom Schwarz.
Ken pretended not to know what he meant, or perhaps really hadn't understood; he smiled blankly at the monk and continued down into the sacristy.
Bill Cosby sanctimoniously lectured young black men and pretended for years to play the wholesome sitcom family man, while allegedly slipping his rape victims mickies.
Julie purchased water polo gear on Amazon and had his son pose for pictures in a pool in which he pretended to play the sport.
Also calling him Daddy while he pretended to be holding her as a sex slave in a crawl space underneath her own East Hampton kitchen.
I love you in the waterWhere they pretended to wade,Singing that old blood-deep song That dragged us to those banksAnd cast us in.
Mercury connects with your planetary ruler Jupiter this morning, finding you working through complicated emotions, many which you pretended weren't there for a long time.
I took out my notepad—a notepad would make me look important, I thought—and pretended to write, only to sense someone standing behind me.
The fellow model then became the victim of a pretty tame prank, in which Kennedy pretended to be an Uber driver who'd found Baldwin's phone.
I pretended it was insulin: I was like a diabetic, but dependent on a highly addictive substance that could end my life with every shot.
I pretended to be everyone from a 34-year-old male Filipino software salesman to the 57-year-old female head of a production studio.
Rhodes said everyone knew pretty quickly but pretended otherwise.) In February of 2012 Mr. Keenan surprised Ms. Bartoloni with Knicks tickets (she's a lifelong fan).
To do so, she pretended to be a mother seeking a school, an out-of-character assignment that appeared to be a moment of awakening.
I ignored the dozens of calls from the folks at Ally — perhaps thinking that if I just pretended I didn't owe them money, they'd forget.
After she explained that she just got a haircut with bangs, he recalled meeting her, or at least pretended to, and soon they began dating.
These were considered bold, even controversial, at the time, but no one pretended that Capote or Mailer were trying to make excuses for their subjects.
In Iran, his relatives pretended to be Muslim to avoid harassment, performed religious rites in secret and were denied access to higher education, he said.
"President Trump has never pretended to be a Bible-banging evangelical," said Penny Young Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, a Christian conservative organization.
But Barr — who also served as attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration — has pretended to be painfully ignorant about Trump's conflicts of interest.
Rather than Russians working in St. Petersburg posing as Americans, this time Democrats — most of them far from Alabama — pretended to be conservative state residents.
In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be bride and groom, wore masks for Halloween or drew with chalk on the sidewalk.
I ran into him three years ago at an event, and he pretended to know who I was, but I'm not surprised if he didn't.
No one knew what the symbols meant, and the developers who added them either stayed silent or pretended they didn't know what was going on.
The couple got a jump-start on the weekend at new hot spot TAO's Beauty & Essex and pretended to avoid cameras on their way out.
At the sound of gunfire from a nearby military re-enactment, he pretended he had been shot in the backside and limped around the infield.
A mutual friend who had agreed to accompany the groom on an investigation pretended to be injured and asked the bride to take his place.
Six jihadists, wearing tailor-made courier-service outfits, pretended to deliver a parcel and hacked down the two men in front of Mr. Mannan's mother.
Kyrgios pretended to sweep back his hair and pick at his shorts after being penalised, prompting the crowd, and chair umpire Jaume Campistol, to laugh.
After all, as a fan recently pointed out to Pompeo, Bailey herself bent the insurance rules when she pretended it was still 11:58 p.m.
The same person is responsible for both forged nominations and had pretended to be someone qualified to make the nomination, Njolstad told The Washington Post.
The four-time NBA MVP rose up and pretended to block his teammate&aposs shot, much to the delight of the commentators covering the game.
And I think there is no rational answer for what has happened, except that we pretended to be what we were for fifty, sixty years.
Lacking this agreement, many Republicans have pretended that a magical health plan exists, one that would cover everyone, provide good insurance and cost less money.
Therefore, although the Frenchman was polluting the tomato salad with his dirty French fingernails and even his hairy French knuckles, I pretended not to notice.
Imagining alternate, low-cost forms of torture, Desus said, "Strap you to a chair and make you watch 'Young Sheldon,'" while Mero pretended to scream.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
I did like Bring Me The Horizon sometimes, but they were too heavy, I mostly pretended to like them because I wanted to be cool.
Its as if those retro, cold, text-only chat rooms on the Internet that pretended to be coffee-shops ended up inspiring physical coffee-shops.
Kimmel predictably harped in on his bitter "rival" Matt Damon, as he pretended to put their long-running feud behind while actually continuing to insult him.
The couple's 12,000-square-foot home features six bedrooms, or almost enough rooms for the eight-person crew team that Loughlin's daughters pretended to be on.
She says she was told she could not leave Sea Org and was released from duty only after she pretended to attempt suicide by swallowing bleach.
Though David Rosen appeared to initially escape death by effectively talking Jake out of shooting him, Cyrus pretended to offer a confession, but instead poisoned David.
Meanwhile, her victims are just excited about working with Amy Pascal or Kathleen Kennedy — two of the many women she's pretended to be over the phone.
Photographer, Jan Hoek, became infatuated with a small group of men in Nairobi, who pretended to be pirates, even though they had never seen the ocean.
I could have just gone all-out, pretended to be mad and been dismissed, but the thing is I do want to serve in the army.
After Obama placed the medal around 90-year-old Brooks' neck, it appeared that the comedian jokingly kneeled and pretended to yank on the president's pants.
It was 2011, a decade into an indecisive war, and few even pretended this fight was about bin Laden, the Twin Towers, or a smoking Pentagon.
He was never caught, however, and my parents didn't want a terrified kid on their hands, so for years they pretended like nothing had ever happened.
Sometimes the pain was so bad, I couldn't block it out, but I pretended I was alright, because I didn't want to be seen by anyone.
However, the funding may have been for previous projects, and other scientists interviewed said that it was possible He pretended to have government funding for credibility.
"He thinks I'm really special," I told my mother hanging up the phone in the kitchen, where she pretended to busy herself at the counter cleaning.
It was so bad that some girls pretended to want to begin a relationship with me so as to get me to let my guard down.
It was far too distant to hear, but she knew the sound of tires on the gravel so well that her ears pretended they caught it.
As the two smiled and posed for pictures together, Corbett wrapped his arms around his onscreen wife and pretended to plant a kiss on her lips.
"Now you have to not only address that first situation, but also address the situation where you guys pretended not to know each other," Martinez says.
He voted against Britain's membership in 1975, opposed the single market in the 1980s and only pretended to campaign for Remain in the referendum of 2016.
He's every kid who threw on a towel and pretended it was a cape — only he actually has superpowers, and has a real chance at greatness.
"I find it offensive that goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," he tweeted last week.
On December 22, Barriss contacted the Calgary police and pretended that he'd shot his father and was holding his mother and brother hostage inside Vannatta's apartment.
The girl's mom posted video of that apparent phone call to Instagram, and Ettel later told HuffPost she "pretended" to report the incident to the police.
First, the major issue: that YACHT pretended to be victims of a sex crime, further complicating the challenges of real-life victims to be taken seriously.
While I decadently sipped my water and pretended I didn't have to schlep to the subway in the next 30 minutes, I revamped my Goop plan.
That agent worked with Hollywood veterans to set up a fake Hollywood production company and pretended to scout locations for a big-budget sci-fi epic.
Before the first 48 hours of his administration was over, Trump pretended he didn't trash intelligence agencies over leaks and accused the media of inventing it.
They made fun of me for a few minutes, pretended they were going to drive me to the station, but ended up taking me home instead.
Another reason: Donald Trump is more popular than they are among the GOP base, and Trump is not nearly as conservative as they pretended to be.
And I think a lot of people pretended to be people they weren't on social media, and intentionally stirred up fights and ganged up in mobs.
When Mary Drake (Andrea Parker) pretended to be her twin sister, Jessica DiLaurentis, and hooked up with Peter Hastings (Nolan North), Mary got pregnant with twins.
Some of the phishing messages analyzed by Citizen Lab pretended to come from the US Embassy in Mexico City, alerting the recipient of urgent visa problems.
A correct answer earned a cheer, but, if the student erred, the girl pretended to pour a bucket of slime—another block—over the transgressor's head.
Rogen tweeted some screen grabs from the exchange, in which he riled up Mitchell and then constantly pretended to be in a meeting when he replied.
It rained one day, which is extraordinarily unlikely to happen on Mars, but the operators presumably pretended it was a dust storm and rolled with it.
The pressure to be chill is the reason I pretended to be cool with an open relationship, even though that shit is really not for me.
They sent an undercover agent who pretended he'd been directed by Chinese intelligence to meet Ji after one of the student's alleged handlers had been arrested.
Playing to the crowd of thousands gathered to cheer him on, the president pretended to be Dr. Blasey testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.
"The MTA legit ghosted me — like, mean-girl pretended they didn't know me after communicating with me for six months and approving a campaign," she says.
Anyway, to celebrate the proper way, we thought we'd ask a bunch of people about all the bands they pretended to like for a shitty ex.
The teacher didn't show up for his orchestra class, so Dudamel got up from his seat in the violin section and pretended to lead the rehearsal.
It's not the same one that he played with, the one that I took to my kindergarten class for show-and-tell and pretended was mine.
The breakthrough in the case came after they created a fake profile with a sample retrieved in 1980 and pretended to be someone researching family history.
Goins pretended to casually throw back to Estrada, but actually placed the ball in his glove as Frazier stood on the base, looking toward the outfield.
She and a friend liked to drink something they called pepper water, which was ordinary tap water they pretended their cruel orphan-handlers had made undrinkable.
I rolled my eyes, pretended his question was juvenile, but really I didn't know what he meant, where did balls drop to, why did he care?
I don't know the language, so I had no idea what she was telling me, but I pretended to listen, and I nodded as she continued.
We both pretended that we were dating casually even though we talked all the time and hung out every night Anjna wasn't traveling for a show.
It's hypocritical for Trump to be today's avatar of hostility to immigrants, since his own family suffered from anti-German sentiment and pretended to be Swedish.
But it garnered countless headlines and record-breaking social media viewership as Epic leaned into the stunt and pretended like the game was gone for good.
To this day I remain completely embarrassed by one pageant performance, recalling how I dragged my easel on stage and pretended to paint my latest masterpiece.
This case sounds very similar to the story of Frederic Bourdin, the French man who pretended to be a missing 16-year-old boy from America.
In another instance, the Lyft driver pretended to help a stumbling passenger who'd been drinking walk to their door, before allegedly raping them inside their home.
While celebrating his monumental score, Moore dropped to all fours and pretended to pee like a dog, earning himself an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty for excessive celebration.
Mr. Brooks coyly pretended to wonder whether the crowd recalled songs like "The Dance" or "Unanswered Prayers," only to be answered with end-to-end singalongs.
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly kidnapped his girlfriend and pretended to be her while communicating with her family and friends has been arrested, police said Friday.
For instance, he pretended that his friend and associate Randy Credico was dead and tweeted about it frequently, even having mass cards printed about his passing.
According to Facebook, Iranians pretended to be located in the U.S. and Europe, and used fake accounts that impersonated legitimate news organizations in the Middle East.
The Nabokovs knew a Soviet plot when they saw one: They were convinced the Communists had pretended to smuggle Pasternak's novel out of the Soviet Union.
As with those other problems, I was unprepared to deal with the pool of water, so I closed the door and pretended I didn't see it.
Instead of presenting its fall schedule in order, day by day (you can see the full schedule here), NBC mostly pretended the schedule didn't even exist.
Jong Un is known to have been educated at an international school in Berne, Switzerland, where he pretended to be the son of an embassy chauffeur.
For her first big assignment, she pretended to suffer from amnesia and delusions and was committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, according to PBS.
Robinson shaved his head except for the hair he saved to braid into a queue, wore traditional Chinese attire and pretended not to speak English in public.
Russian hackers pulled off another successful—at least for a while—false flag when they pretended to be a patriotic hacker group called the Yemen Cyber Army.
The reason for that is back when Obama was president, Republicans pretended to believe that it was very important to keep government spending as low as possible.
Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.
On both occasions, he pretended to have found the offending bits of trash himself after reporting on the contamination to his superiors, as per the criminal complaint.
Pratt appeared as part of a new segment titled "What Do You Have to Plug," and Kimmel pretended to be completely unaware of the first hit movie.
The impostor pretended to be in the US military and after gaining the woman's trust began asking for money to help with a series of fake emergencies.
For a full two months, Diana pretended everything was normal, that her little brother wasn't trapped in an abusive psycho-spiritual prison by a misogynistic scam artist.
The Virginia school's students were asked play a Black History Month "game" where they pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad as they encountered obstacles.
Now, as an adult and a mother, I wonder why my father pretended not to notice rather than telling his dad to cut it the hell out.
"I pretended like I didn't know what was going on and we talked a bit more and then he abruptly wrapped up the conversation," she told CNN.
BEFORE he ran to be president of Guatemala two years ago, Jimmy Morales pretended to be a presidential candidate in a television sitcom called "Moralejas" ("Cautionary Tales").
She pretended to accept the proposal and said she just wanted to pop back to her college, which was in a neighbouring country, to collect her things.
But that's mostly a convenient excuse, as the league has been strict about celebratory conduct long before it ever even pretended to give a shit about safety.
It was those text messages that the prosecution brought up in court, with Flynn saying Carter pretended she didn't know the location or manner of Roy's death.
A tweet went viral claiming that a photographer said Tweeden had asked him to take a staged photo while she pretended to be asleep and Franken posed.
The actor, 44, was all smiles as he playfully wrapped his arm around Halsey's neck and pretended to pull her backwards as they walked around the park.
Teigen hilariously pretended to shoplift a bottle of Ouai haircare product by stuffing it her cleavage as she walked through the store with Luna on her hip.
Specifically, the fact that her parents allegedly bribed her way into the University of Southern California and pretended she was a recruit for the school's crew team.
So, this leaves two options: Either Trump lied about her not speaking English, or she pretended to not speak English to avoid talking to the U.S. president.
Before Sundance, the filmmakers made their own site that pretended the disappearance of the film's stars was real, becoming one of the first instances of viral marketing.
Shouts out as well to all the dancers whose big break in a Lil Wayne video meant gyrating next to him while he pretended to play guitar.
In the shot, Hyland held up her ring finger and stuck her tongue out while the Bachelorette alum pretended to be surprised by the giant diamond ring.
The Buffalo News is a real newspaper, and Rex is a huge football history buff so he pretended to be a former Bills lineman from the 1970s.
Members of Congress, media personalities, consultants and actors dressed up and pretended to get along last night, but it wasn't for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
As Smith shot from the front seat, King tried a few different positions—knees bent; legs propped up against the window—and pretended to read the book.
Even if you hated the music, you might've pretended to like it (me), relished in vocally hating it (my internet friends) or followed them closely anyway (both).
There was Vandenburg's roommate, Mack Prioleau, who pretended to be asleep while the woman was being raped and didn't call police or check on the victim afterward.
They pretended they could pass a magical law that somehow made medical care better and cheaper than it already was, without ever explaining how it would work.
"We have indulged myths and fabrications, pretended it wasn't so bad, and our indulgence got us the capitulation in Helsinki," said Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona.
"Small-town sheriffs would begin telling their friends about the tourist who pretended to be the Dutch prime minister," said Erica Terpstra, a former Dutch sports official.
The Confederates themselves drew a straight line between the two "rebels" Washington and Lee, but the pretended equivalence is as spurious as "state sovereignty," historians remind us.
The demonstrators, many smiling, laughing, and snapping photos on their cellphones, "pretended to set the building and trees outside on fire using the lasers," the Guardian reports.
Fans and "SNL" viewers were delighted when the two teamed up for a skit in which they pretended not to know how to kiss like normal people.
And how my male co-workers said and did nothing, pretended they didn't even see or hear, so as not to jinx the big $$$ deal at stake.
It's that time in the presidential election season when Donald Trump has to say he has never pretended to be his own spokesperson in interviews with reporters.
But you just know, in this kind of moment, that if something really bad happens and you pretended you didn't know, then you are also at fault.
The affidavit, obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, said 33-year-old Magen Fieramusca pretended to get pregnant around the same time as her friend Heidi Broussard.
Prudence wore a disguise (also known as a glamour on the show) and pretended to be a woman from New Orleans named Miss Dubois, portrayed by Boltt.
Dee Dee reportedly pretended that Blanchard was sick in order to garner sympathy from the public, and even convinced Blanchard she suffered from a multitude of ailments.
Although the Paris Review exchange was conducted by letter, the final transcript pretended to describe an encounter in which Green's partial deafness had been a recurring problem.
" Starr continues: "This is exactly why at the Senate hearing where Comey made his devastating charges, Republicans pretended not to see the evidence of obstruction of justice.
In sum: McCrory tried to change the election's rules to help himself; pretended he did not lose afterward; and is ultimately overturning some of the election's consequences.
I'm not certain she knew I had just seen her husband, but we both pretended nothing happened and faked our way through the rest of the interview.

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