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Kim pretends to disarm and Trump pretends to believe him.
Stealing looks at beautiful Bev, who pretends not to notice.
He then pretends he can't hear her through the glass.
He pretends to place an order at the service counter.
"He pretends this never happened," Staples said with a laugh.
For Biblical literalists, there's creationism, which pretends to be science.
Again, Speaker Ryan's agenda pretends none of this is happening.
The British character Ted in fact only pretends to defect.
He pretends to howl, and the others start singing again.
What it pretends it is: Not your daddy's "cringe" subreddit.
He pretends to be ferocious, but is actually embarrassingly fragile.
While she is always a step ahead, Pauroso pretends otherwise.
"He never pretends to do something else," Ms. Paredes said.
Mahler pretends to tell a story, and he never does.
On Europe's migration rules, no one pretends a solution is easy.
He pretends to be pious, and white evangelicals pretend to care.
N. pretends like he hates it, but he actually loves it.
An aged Kevin, who pretends he only ever met her once.
Instead, we have a show that pretends it's artful and bold.
The big balcony scene, in which Cyrano pretends to be Christian?
No one pretends that [rankings are] perfect or all-wise. Indeed
Beans's mom pretends to believe his dad will find a job.
A man from Essex pretends to be Norwegian, completely fooling me.
Wilson never pretends that the past — good or bad — didn't happen.
No one pretends that getting Albany's required approval is a cinch.
Arthur pretends to be on Franklin's show in his living room.
Everyone pretends like it's a possibility that they could buy the home.
Lucious pretends to be excited, pulling her in for a deep hug.
Scarlett Johansson pretends to think about stuff in Ghost in the Shell.
On the surface, The Witcher 2 pretends to be exactly like that.
But Goop only pretends to give its audience that kind of information.
Won't shave his beard again, and he pretends he doesn't hear me,
Obama, obviously, is the latter (although, predictably, he pretends to be both).
She pretends to forget the name of her ex-lover's new partner.
On the surface, The Witcher 2 pretends to be exactly like that.
He pretends not to notice him and avoids mentioning him by name.
No one even pretends anymore that politics stops at the water's edge.
He swallows and pretends to click on something, actually just clicking nothing.
In the Netherlands, however, everyone pretends like they haven't got a clue.
They promise to be the populist fighter he only pretends to be.
The artist wife pretends to faint, in order to engineer an exit.
The early evidence is that it will — enormously — while Trump pretends otherwise.
These are all friends, people that she's worked with or known through the community, and she pretends, she puts on an act, and pretends to be an ingénue and starry-eyed and just learning her way around the theater.
She&aposs not diverse enough, even though she pretends to be a minority.
Maybe the review is taken down immediately, and everyone pretends it didn't happen.
" Photography, she realized, is "very imprecise, although it pretends to be the opposite.
In that same video, he also pretends to shoot Mueller with his finger.
"Ramona pretends to have a friendship with me — this was bad," Frankel said.
And, through a series of calamitous coincidences, he pretends to be a minister.
But sometimes the debate is, or pretends to be, about more tangible questions.
The Trump team pretends that the sanctions are only directed at the government.
To prevent the last of these, at least, he pretends to be gay.
The United States has never been the meritocracy it sometimes pretends to be.
She pretends her love for Ed outweighs her completely depleted desire for him.
Meanwhile, the Afghan government pretends to be in control of the country's security.
Harold repeatedly pretends to kill himself to freak out his snobby, rich mother.
It pretends to be distracted by an e-mail on its cell phone.
The woman routinely pretends to be shocked and then aggressively kisses her partner.
These are truly nefarious entities — not abstractions —that the Left pretends doesn't exist.
Hamill pretends to pout, as Ms. Dern playfully rubs his back in comfort.
And that's true of a lot of what pretends to be fiscal conservatism.
He pretends to care about matters that don't move him in the least.
Dressed in layers, hats and extra socks, the couple pretends to be homeless.
Because college football is a business, even though it pretends not to be.
In the video, the creator pretends to be at one of the campers and greets her "gay friends," her girlfriend, and the "TikTok lesbians" with a smile, though her demeanor turns sour when she pretends she has spotted Pence himself.
He also pretends to storm off at one point, and drops a pretend microphone.
For an industry that pretends to embrace change, fashion is notably resistant to alteration.
If only we could fall asleep at night as quickly as Timothy pretends to.
That makes them vulnerable to a ruse whereby a passenger pretends to be obnoxious.
"He pretends to be 'colored people's' friends and then he harms them," she said.
"He pretends to be a Republican," another answers, all three of them laughing hysterically.
To get the career she wants, then, she pretends to have a different pedigree.
But the Manu alliance compensates, and pretends instead they're going to vote for Wendy.
There's a lot to contemplate, for a project that pretends to be so simple.
Kellyanne pretends to ignore that comment, something she's been doing a lot of lately.
Sally (Kristen Johnston) is the security officer and she pretends to be Dick's sister.
No one pretends that drones can ever be a complete substitute for good roads.
What it pretends it is: The premiere forum to discuss all things Donald Trump.
What it pretends it is: Top shelf memes too refined and edgy for normies.
The impostor asks for remote access, or pretends to run a test, it said.
It's always promised to be extreme in a world that pretends it wants moderation.
Instead of correcting himself, he usually pretends that he has not slipped at all.
Monday's indictments offer evidence of things that Washington already knows but pretends to forget.
That hardly means he's helping the country the way he pretends to be doing.
Lucretia feels sorry for him and pretends to enjoy herself so he'll stop sooner.
Prince Harry pretends to be a tiger at the Bardie National Park in Nepal.
The industry occasionally pretends to acknowledge what Trump's election represents in our current culture.
She made clear that our society demands impossible choices from parents — and pretends otherwise.
He pretends he "feels for these kids," and the media has fallen for it.
The British photographer pretends the legend's true for the ongoing series The Mountains of Kong.
No deal is not a serious option, even if today's febrile politics pretends it is.
She pretends she doesn't see it, not till she is already on her way home.
Paul Ryan pretends to tut-tut on tone as his super-PAC spews racist bile.
"He pretends to be a Republican!" one exclaims as he explains what the doll does.
In both Britain and America, "Love Island" pretends to be a show about finding love.
At the show, a semi-drunk Jeanie pretends to be Diane, the reporter, who writes.
Roberts is worse because he pretends he's an umpire but has actually fixed the game.
He pretends that illegal immigration can be ended with a border wall and mass deportations.
"You're a salesperson that pretends to sell the wall…in the wrong room," he said.
What's interesting is how reliably the other side pretends that none of this is happening.
She pretends to be Simone and rolls around on the bed trying all these flips.
Zach: To me, it's a reaction to how "tough" the hardcore scene pretends to be.
What it pretends it is: Cringey examples of SJWs overreaching, particularly those originating from Tumblr.
Still, no one pretends to be Joseph Stalin at any point, so there's that upside.
It pretends to hate its older, more popular siblings, but still copies them a lot.
Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart.
The first is that the court has become an intensely partisan institution that pretends otherwise.
It's just that the International Spy Museum pretends like interrogation tactics are a settled debate.
It's how he pretends to mingle with his followers while increasing his distance from them.
And she bangs on them harder than she does the piano she pretends to play.
Over in Pula, Croatia, a woman pretends to ride a bike in an underwater park.
Collins now pretends that the fairly modest funds in a new bill pushed by Sen.
Jake tells Amy how much he loves her, especially because she pretends to like Die Hard.
Giving an AI that pretends to be human access to all that information should terrify you.
However fixed an exchange-rate arrangement pretends to be, it can be altered at any time.
But it does prove that somewhere in there, she knows he's not the monster she pretends.
What about a comedy where a forty-something-year-old woman pretends to be a millennial.
To prevent his daughter from getting too attached, the father pretends to like the new boyfriend.
It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but is instead born of fear.
Later in the video, Shiggy even gets some lines where he pretends to be Drake's assistant.
The guy with prosthetic legs pretends to want to shake my hand but trips me instead.
When threatened, it pretends to be dead, flipping on its back and hanging its tongue out.
He drinks, he sulks, he complains to his friends, he pretends to break up with Sugandha.
And the mainstream press pretends it's simply business as usual, assuming reporters cover it at all.
Russia still pretends to be a democracy, and its constitution currently puts term limits on presidents.
Even if he were the policy wonk he pretends to be, he couldn't do the impossible.
So every morning, Ahmed calls them before "office time" and pretends like he's going to work.
What it pretends it is: The unpleasant truths the (((mainstream media))) doesn't want you to see.
What it pretends it is: A subreddit for "men going their own way," whatever that means.
The camera just shuts down, basically, and pretends that it doesn't have to do its job.
He goes full goth, with Halloween fangs and fake blood, and pretends to be a vampire.
It seems disingenuous when the show pretends to be chaste while still reveling in every scandal.
Between one candidate, who admits he's a socialist, and the other candidate who pretends she's not.
In the meantime, Sophia must merely pretend to be pregnant while Maria pretends not to be.
But Lugo said Gsellman was not as good at the games as he pretends to be.
She slowly lifts up the leg of J.J.'s sweatpants and pretends to bite his calf.
Everyone in the film pretends this is normal; it's not but I want it to be!!
Not an $850 wannabe laptop that exclusively runs Chrome and pretends to be an Android tablet. 
You might follow Kirby Jenner, who pretends to be Kendall Jenner's fraternal twin brother on Instagram.
You see the guy screaming at Kelly, and he even pretends to swing at his junk.
FakeFortnite," the name given to the "clickbait trojan" for the Android platform that pretends to install "Fortnite.
"Captain Colton," searching for the "true treasure of love," pretends to battle fellow pirates aboard a ship.
It never pretends to be something it's not, and it delivers semi-competently on its modest promises.
Superman pretends that he is willing to kill Batman in order to release him from this control.
They ask why America pretends to loathe him when he's fighting on the same side in Syria.
He just pretends to make a movie, then charges people to come and watch it all happen.
As the paper plate hovers mid-air, a fellow party-goer pretends to kiss the slimy creature.
As he mops, Cooper pretends he's Watson, Baltzell said, and she sometimes catches him saying, "I'm Gregory."
Then Mom Gomez knocks on the door, and Daughter Gomez pretends to be asleep on the bed.
A diver pretends to ride a bike at an underwater park in Pula, Croatia, on Aug. 1.
The lady approaches the boys, says "hi" and pretends to pick up litter in front of them.
Will pretends to be over Dolores and makes up with Logan, giving him a brotherly bear hug.
In the movie, Nicholas Alexander plays a cis teen who pretends he's transgender to get a girlfriend.
A few years later on a fancy Paris stage, Chocolat circles Foottit, who pretends to be terrified.
To the astonishment of our traditional allies, Trump humiliates and weakens a country he pretends to lead.
It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.
Realistically, no one's portraying themselves, everyone pretends they're on holiday the whole time, doing these nice things.
Yael: Was that a phishing link that he pretends to send to Tyrell to track the feds?
So if an escort pretends they're a celebrity, that's probably the best way to handle the business.
In the video, he pretends to shower while nude and use the bathroom in the Ikea showrooms.
For a few minutes the movie pretends to be a lot more fun than it really is.
She pretends she's not a working mom or a stay-at-home mom, even though she's both.
This narrator, who pretends to know only the kind of evidence available to a biographer, won't say.
He commends and conforms to anyone who pretends to love him, whether they are Russians or racists.
Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP)Let me go ahead and break out that "pretends to be shocked" gif.
While the gardener pretends to water plants and weed — and isn't looking — the statues can change shape.
The problem is, his testimony would reveal who he is, so she pretends she was the witness.
"In fact, he pretends he doesn't know who I am every time I see him," she said.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born fear.
"It's more strongly constrained than Lisa Randall pretends," said Jo Bovy, an astrophysicist at the University of Toronto.
The man pretends to be a sign language interpreter, taking the stage with Obama and other world leaders.
Captain America follows the Hydra agents into the elevator and pretends to be an undercover Hydra agent himself.
For a hot second Scott pretends he's going to fix the wheel himself in his pristine white suit.
She's coy and feigning indifference, as he pretends to introduce himself and offers to buy her a drink.
But Murray pretends a strange innocence over why the racial arguments in his book attracted so much attention.
It picks up after the first one and it pretends that none of the other [sequels] were made.
Imitating her act, in which she pretends to deliver a baby, he mimes a doctor slapping its bottom.
I think she's not as tough as she wants to be or pretends to be on the surface.
One, who returns biweekly for a $100 session, "pretends" to slam Darlene into the wall and rape her.
My boyfriend usually takes my photo — he likes to do it (or at least he pretends he does).
Relationships do not succeed because one person tucks his or her history away and pretends it never happened.
Sean pretends he's totally cool with this development, but everyone Frank Underwood has ever met is a liar.
In retaliation, Mel pretends she has a miscarriage while practicing, using the old ketchup as fake blood trick.
Fans are dying to read about salary information, but Gary Bettman comically pretends that he doesn't know that.
Oh, and because Bloomberg is what Trump only pretends to be: a bona fide billionaire and proven entrepreneur.
" Berkus adds, "She can't really read, though, but she pretends she can because she's memorized some of them.
The woman at the table next to me pretends not to Snapchat it in all its twisted glory.
After the bolt is removed, R2D2 pretends that it knows nothing about a message and eventually runs off.
She pretends she's over the affair she had, then almost re-had, and is fantasizing about re-having.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born of fear.
Trump, slurring, misspeaks and accidentally says "Clintons," but pretends like he meant to do it all along pic.twitter.
The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
Nobody pretends the volunteers will prevent the next "profanation," as these recurring episodes are referred to by locals.
It is important, then, for all to see Serbia as it is, not as it pretends to be.
While she waits, she sings to her bagels in the oven and pretends to read them a book.
Both have a strong stage presence, but neither pretends to be anything — starting with invulnerable — that he isn't.
Uber was almost going to ... I think Uber just pretends to buy it, just to fuck with them.
Mr Macron says that she pretends to speak "for the people", but in truth speaks only for her clan.
She asks to see his classroom and, once there, pretends all of his math-related material is extremely sexy.
Every chef in the world pretends to adhere to Escoffier's dictum, fait simple and 99 percent of them fail.
We'll see if Cruz even addresses the Twitter like today, or if he just pretends like it never happened.
You got John Brennan who pretends to be the CIA director but he is Hillary Clinton lackey and sycophant.
The call pretends to be Gillum and uses racist language and stereotypes meant to discourage voters from supporting Gillum.
He looks back toward his flip-flops, lifts a napkin, and pretends to wipe the crumbs from his mouth.
Maybe seeing it through the lens of the language it pretends its characters are speaking would yield some insight.
Start with a goal almost everyone at least pretends to support: making coverage available to people with preexisting conditions.
In the picture, Hemsworth is suspended in midair while McCarthy pretends to hold him up with her super strength.
Instead of complicating Mallory's journey by incorporating specific storylines about her kids, Grace and Frankie pretends they don't exist.
Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition.
" But, he added, "Nobody pretends that some of the issues we have with Iran have somehow been wiped away.
" Cole said she wrote the blog "to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be.
No one pretends that Trump was the pick of most of the Africa constituency within the foreign policy community.
No, he would be at home quietly rubbing up against his wife Malaria while she pretends to be asleep.
Everybody pretends that you're not different, but you feel that you are, and they also think that you are.
A word to the wise: there is a recent scam that pretends to have installed spyware on your machine.
The GOP picks someone totally different to be their candidate and pretends s/he was always the nominee. 11.
She disrobes and asks, "General anesthetic?" then pretends to be passed out as he climbs on top of her.
"It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear," Obama said.
The real Trump appeared in one of Agalarov's music videos in 2013, in which Trump pretends to fire him.
I particularly looked forward to Travis's passionate narration as he pretends he's in the "Game of Thrones"-like world.
What is pretends it is: A place for people from the continent of Europe to discuss all things European.
Rating: Fingers crossed he does the one where he pretends to push the Tower of Pisa back up next.
Worst of all, though, is that the rule hurts the very athletes that the NCAA pretends to care about.
"It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear," he added.
The president's "inherent" powers are much narrower than White House Legal Counsel typically claims and that Congress often pretends.
CreditCreditGonzalo Fuentes/Reuters PARIS — For a sector that pretends to welcome change, fashion can be steadfastly resistant to it.
An icon of so much that the culture pretends to honor but that it in fact patronizes and exploits.
After a dare lands Bart (Nancy Cartwright) in the hospital, he pretends he went to heaven and met Jesus.
"Donald Trump pretends to be a populist, Bernie's the real thing," said a 22-year-old transgender Sanders fan.
Nia is obsessed with vampire fiction, so AJ pretends to be a vampire, with Halloween fangs and fake blood.
In fact, however, the modern G.O.P. pretends to share traditionally liberal goals, like poverty reduction or expanded health coverage.
Notably, Ellie pretends she's not immune to the virus around Dina, a precaution likely imposed on her by Joel.
"Yes, Donald Trump lies to working people, but he at least pretends to talk to them," de Blasio wrote.
Bang clumsily attempts to make heads and tails of it while Moss pretends to understand what he's talking about.
"I can't sit by as someone who never wore our uniform pretends he knows what it means," Kirby wrote.
In the morning, under the guise of exhaustion, she pretends to forget that she's left it on her bed.
He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
But it's hard not to wonder, just a little, if Rampage is secretly much smarter than it pretends to be.
We're essentially in a hellish frat house—one that really hates women but also pretends to be joking about it.
One of the undercover operatives goes in and pretends to be a cattleman; another goes in as an insurance salesman.
Unable to land a job because of the gap on her résumé, she pretends to be a 26-year-old.
First, Bitcoin's power consumption is a big and growing problem, and any true believer who pretends it isn't is delusional.
But still kind of amazing to see in a paper that sometimes pretends to be a cut above Erick Erickson.
His outfits say touch me, lick me, love me, lust me, but then he pretends he's wearing a monk's outfit.
Jenner's close friend Candis Cayne then grabs the vibrator, joking around as she pretends to use it as a phone.
It pretends to bring America back to its imagined roots as a collection of small towns with deep civic involvement.
One of the friends gets on his knees in front of Rod ... who pretends to cut off the man's head.
She cheats on a maths test, shop lifts and pretends to live in the big, blue house of her dreams.
He pretends he's the god Apollo, standing there flexing his muscles or pretending to aim an arrow at the sky.
Which is to say that Kid Rock is not really a conservative, or even someone who pretends to be one.
"Nobody pretends that some of the challenges we have with Iran have somehow been wiped away," Kerry said this week.
Apparently somewhere in the future Nora goes by the name of Sarah and pretends not to know who Kevin is.
She looks sad and disappointed for a moment, but regains her composure and suddenly pretends she is an impartial judge.
When one pretends that politics have no role, problems can be viewed as mere quirks of chance and of character.
But she can't bring herself to do it, so she pretends everything's fine and she happened to find a phone.
"At this moment, I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (sorry)," Penn writes, and his gracious host pretends not to notice.
Or, my personal favorite, a cup of punlord versus someone who pretends to hate their puns but secretly loves them?
He pretends that information prosecutors provided in recent filings in the Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort cases "totally clears" him.
George pretends to be a hero who dragged people to safety, but soon finds the lie spirals out of control.
Then you have the rapper who's 'smarter than you,' who pretends to know everything and is super into conspiracy theories.
Pretends like he's not a smoker, hasn't been laid in 15 fucking years, don't you talk to me like that.
In July, the government enacted an odious nation-state law, which pretends to be a codification of existing Israeli reality.
She also appears to possess naturally the traits Paulina only pretends to: kindness, sophistication and — crucially, cruelly — creamy light skin.
If she happens to meet a fan on the street near her house, she pretends that she's there on vacation.
The question isn't why women are choosing these jobs; it's why anyone pretends that these places don't deserve better pay.
There's a comedy in development for New Line Cinema about a guy who pretends to be an NBA draft pick.
Later, Kitty pretends to sleep in the master bedroom while Jose (Benito Martinez) leaves her to wander to Erik's room.
"It was like when your mom pretends the marriage is okay to protect you or whatever," one Gawker staffer said.
When Donnie is at BrightBorn with Cosima, he has to distract Krystal and pretends to be a masseuse to question her.
Here's a kiss from Season 1, Episode 7, "The One With The Blackout" when Phoebe pretends to be her sister, Ursula.
He mentioned Julian Assange's operation about five days a day during the campaign's final month, but now pretends that never happened.
Absolutely sickening to my stomach that the crew knows about it and pretends that it’s some kind of joke.
Keira Knightley pretends to be other people onscreen for a living — but in real life, she doesn't even have to try.
" A Cruz ad showed a boy explaining the features of a Trump action figure, saying, "He pretends to be a Republican.
The script that is being recited, however, says it's improvisatory and pretends to talk spontaneously about very personal events and relationships.
For a Trump-voting cop, he literally places cut avocado next to slices of cut grapefruit and pretends it's a salad.
Louis played the TV writer, and there's at least one scene where his friend pretends to masturbate in front of people.
At worst, teens are stuck in abstinence-only classrooms, where everyone pretends like they're not going to fuck until they're married.
In one scene, Arky sits down in front his makeshift "Marina pillow" and pretends he's sitting before her in the museum.
The landscape has changed dramatically, yet the Kickstarter pitch for Project Rap Rabbit, which launched earlier this week, pretends it hasn't.
China, for its part, pretends to have taken that role, speaking out on issues such as climate change and free trade.
The beauty of this kind of project is that it pretends it walks and talks like it just happens right then.
But he pretends to be unaware that in 1947 there was a Jewish plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland.
In the online ads, Brady pretends that terrorists are writing a letter to each senator who voted against closing the loophole.
Doubtfire, Williams plays a divorced dad who pretends to be a nanny so he can spend more time with his kids.
When Kai pushes back, insisting that America isn't as progressive as it "pretends to be," one of them calls him out.
When she throws the cup and pretends to be sad... she's rewriting the psychological chess game, that I thought I mastered.
Trafficking in bombastic manufactured outrage, it's politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born of fear.
Esti drinks her in with her eyes, but pretends she's unfazed, while the cigarette-toting Ronit can't help but appear starstruck.
Indeed, McConnell hardly even pretends to care about the huge loss of life that his inaction and the gun lobby enable.
And centralized control is the true mission of diarchy, no matter how hard it pretends to govern through an equal partnership.
And so long as it pretends otherwise, American conservatism won't just be enabling another crime; it will be making a mistake.
But it took me some time to understand that "Long Day's Journey" is the greatest American play that pretends to realism.
This Polish film, which was nominated for the international feature Oscar, is about a man who pretends to be a priest.
Donald Trump is peddling a story that he pretends is about common sense and patriotism and taking care of deserving people.
I have certainly learned to be mistrustful of any piece of art that pretends, in any which way, at moral purpose.
Dietz chalks that experience up as a glitch and plays dumb for her unit's psychologist, and pretends to have lost her memory.
Brosnahan then produced her Leave Me Alurn from her jacket, and pretends that she's in the midst of honoring a loved one.
Younger follows a fortysomething woman named Liza (Sutton Foster) who pretends to be in her twenties to land a job in publishing.
The customer pretends to be the FBI, but he's not — he's there to tie Lori up and steal her for his own.
It's goofy because Ford pretends it used clay and CAD software and normal car stuff to design a damn emoji—in secret.
Then you have Rachel who pretends she's outside of it, who seeks to control it, who seeks to have power within it.
She pretends to be Jane and submits an ad about an essay writing business, setting up Jane to break the school's code.
"You have nice things here," he has Barbra say to Alex when she goes down to the basement and pretends to shop.
" Trump, of course, tweeted about Krauthammer, who "pretends to be a smart guy, but if you look at his record, he isn't.
" What it pretends it is: According to the sidebar, "tasteless 'politically incorrect' dark, offensive, & twisted humor of all types is welcome here.
This tongue-in-cheek production from Hauser & Wirth pretends to be a forgotten provincial institution that features only bronze art and artifacts.
This rationale pretends that the anti-protest policy protects all discourse, but it excludes the views of the students who are protesting.
I just don't think it's going to lead to the new deal, a better deal that Trump pretends he's in search of.
This is, after all, a guy who pretends that he climbed the country's highest mountain wearing a long topcoat and dress shoes.
But how can an administration that pretends to be populist, to stand up for ordinary (white) working people, sell such elitist policies?
They don't want platitudes and will severely penalize any politician who pretends there is no real problem when everyone knows there is.
Just like he faked his death, Adrian faked his kidnapping and pretends that Tom held him captive, stalked Cecilia, and murdered Alice.
Ki-woo's sister, Ki-jung, pretends to be an art therapist and gets hired to work with the Parks' disturbed little boy.
Partly to help the bereaved parents, Evan pretends he and the boy were close, but struggles under the weight of his secret.
While being treated for an alien-sex-related mishap she pretends is a dog bite, she befriends Fabián (Eden Villavicencio), a nurse.
Issa, as she explains to Molly early in the episode, isn't the bold woman she pretends to be in her mirror monologues.
Various Daylife just pretends it's special by giving it a name, but however you dress it up, it's nothing you haven't seen.
He simply pretends as though whatever he said the day before -- or the month before or the year before -- about someone never happened.
When a staged actor pretending to be a critique asks Kris about her art, she pretends to get upset and throws a trantrum.
The software initially pretends to be the person in the ad, and can converse about its purported age, body, fetish services, and pricing.
Even criminal reform gets short shrift in Daredevil season 3, in which the evil imprisoned villain pretends to have a change of heart.
And the country will get all of this without pledging billions of dollars to a company that barely pretends to need the money.
A friend films Lil Skitzz lying on the conveyer belt at a cashier station as another friend pretends to put him to sleep.
"Everybody has an error rate, and any politician that pretends that they don't is already viewed as disingenuous by their constituency," he said.
Kjellberg himself tackled the subject over the weekend in an ongoing and partially satirical bit where he pretends to be a news reporter.
If I had $1 for every person in "the biz" that pretends they didn't know, I'd be richer than H before the fall.
In the 1983 movie Yentl, the title character, played by Barbra Streisand, pretends to be a man to get the education she wants.
She's also featured on the Mas Mejor You Tube channel where she pretends to be various celebs as they plan out their day.
Jessa has spent six years proving she's above "traditional" relationships and "traditional" values, so she pretends to be cool with Adam's unexpected decision.
" Maureen Dowd from the New York Times: "Crazy Maureen Dowd, the wacky columnist for the failing @nytimes, pretends she knows me well--wrong!
Marnie tells Shosh to tell Fran that he has to leave, but then pretends like it was Shosh's idea in the first place.
Trafficking in insult and phony controversies...It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.
One big fallacy of arms control pretends that equal numbers of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons constitute "parity" or equality of destructive capability.
While Cassidy pretends he's got his shit together, Gilgun openly discusses his bipolar condition and his concerns about coming off like an asshole.
No one pretends that the same norms are appropriate in pure science itself, and this is where Pruitt's proposed rule makes no sense.
Sometimes, if an offended party hasn't actually met the offender, Ishii stands in for the offender, who then pretends to be Ishii's supervisor.
It's not clear what will happen with the movie, which reportedly includes a character who pretends to masturbate in front of other people.
In "Drive My Car," Kafuku befriends, or pretends to befriend, a man he believes was sleeping with his wife just before she died.
He's scared to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, like he was scared to go to Vietnam, so he pretends to question the mission.
Inside the store, he sifts through a rack of clothes, pulls out a shirt, holds it up, pretends to admire its silky pattern.
Taken together, these essays draw a picture of a cheerful polymath thoroughly enjoying even those conversations that he later pretends to find tiresome.
There was a movie about a white guy who starts calling into a radio station and he pretends to be a black woman.
We ask them: What does blocking a legal website without any legal notification mean in a country that still pretends to obey laws?
AMANDA HESS It's always startling to watch 31 bros descend on one single lady as she valiantly pretends that it's her ultimate fantasy.
And that would then fit in with the fact that he isn't half as, a tenth as rich as he pretends to be.
Roman, who pretends to be a clownish vulgarian, is actually quite shrewd, but so emotionally stunted that he can only express intimacy onanistically.
The law pretends that inanimate objects have committed wrongdoing and then assumes that property should be entitled to fewer procedural protections than people.
The canned music already included the song's near-dog-whistle vocal flourish, which Ms. Carey no longer pretends to be able to deliver.
Trump is exposing the sham of a Leviathan Democracy which pretends that presidents will be philosopher kings — instead of merely talented vote catchers.
But then he pretends to whisper in her ear only to plant a kiss on her when he gets close enough to her face.
He and Zelda soon start acting up; she pretends to be his mistress and they almost have a Gone Girl moment in the library.
" Camille, in an attempt to distract from her actions , pretends she thinks we just were mad she said nice things about Lisa," she continued.
That tiny dongle plugged into your USB port and paired with your wireless keyboard or mouse isn't as monogamous as it pretends to be.
Meanwhile, there's a giant corporation called Antigen that pretends to be researching how to protect humans from vampires and werewolves, but is actually — surprise!
The cheaper solutions often rely on dubiously-sourced emulators—software that pretends to be the electronics and hardware you'd find in the original consoles.
When Claire comes home, for example, she goes to greet her mother but instead of going to her daughter, Elizabeth pretends to be asleep.
An Iranian protester pretends to punch a man wearing a mask depicting President Donald Trump during an anti-US protest in Tehran, May 10.
One that really assists, not just pretends to Digital identity will enable not only new organisational behaviour, but also facilitate evolution of other technologies.
In what looks to be an anesthesia-induced fog, she bops her head around and pretends to be driving a vehicle of some sort.
This movie pretends to do the former; in reality, it does the latter, which does a disservice both to the victim and the truth.
Enough with this masculinity that pretends to be a well-read, progressive alternative to the labor of macho method acting and fratty, college humor.
The photo in which Franken pretends to grope Leeann Tweeden while she is asleep is a textbook illustration of the way men demean women.
Trump pretends to drive an 18-wheeler at a meeting with truckers and CEOs regarding health care at the White House on March 23.
"Any phishing anywhere in the world that pretends to be UK gov brand has gone down from 49 hours to 5 hours," he added.
For example, the law would apply to a person who pretends to be their twin in order to have sex with their twin's partner.
But this is very, very disturbing stuff and anybody who pretends that this is normal or is justifies what we know is just nuts.
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She seems mortified and shaken up by how the situation may look, but luckily, Jed pretends to laugh it off, making her feel better.
Far better to pout and demand a different ending from the Peter Falks, and/or create a Twitter account that pretends you're rewriting it.
In her view, Democrats must become the thing Trump only pretends to be — warriors against the rich, powerful interests that have overwhelmed American democracy.
He's effectively running away by hiding underground, not contributing to anyone's safety but his own, and threatening the people he pretends to offer safety.
Jared pretends to be the guy who's got it all figured out, but all of these characters are lost and alone in different ways.
He pretends to be her boyfriend to save her from being humiliated when her father berates her for not going on enough dates. Classic!
That's how it looks to the popular, black-eyeliner-wearing Melissa (Nadia Alexander), who pretends not to care — but soon cares about nothing else.
As he sneaks up the stairs, he is surprised by a fully awake Serena Joy, who pretends not to know that he's been out.
The GOP in Congress pretends to want to stand up to Iran while giving Obama's Iran deal an OK through the original Corker bill.
I just want everybody to know, Doug Jones, nobody ever says his name, and pretends he is some kind of conservative Democrat in Alabama.
Oh yes, and the occasional black Moods when he pretends the cat's ear is broken or that the air is full of Strontium 90. . . .
The immigrant pretends to be happy and prosperous in his adoptive country, the locals pretend they're proud of him and pleased with his success.
Page had posted a video for a dance he made up called the "Rousey" -- in which he pretends to get punched in the face.
"He does outrageous, nasty, destructive things, knowing full well he's crossing a line, and then he pretends he didn't," said Trump biographer Tim O'Brien.
That's how I finally read "Moby-Dick," the book everyone pretends to know … What's the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently?
Any meaningful effort to reform the country's degrading approach to migrants will fall apart if it pretends a president can simply ignore such choices.
Or ask him how much money he made from putting his name on clothing made in China when he pretends to support American workers?
Yet the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, pretends to have no hand in the matter, saying he cannot "wave a wand" to resolve the dispute.
"He pretends that he's not in there and then when we hear the pots, we open it up and there he is," Cook said.
Toomes does indeed know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man (in the film, he figures it out in the third act), but he pretends otherwise.
But one thing is clear - Masurkar and Tewari make no bones about whose side they are on, even though the film pretends to be neutral.
It pretends this is a mere 3.4%, but after allowing for hidden off-budget liabilities and state debts, overall government borrowing is closer to 9%.
The film pretends to tell an epic tale of heroic Liverpudlian rockers, using catchy tunes and a loving spirit to battle grimacing blue-hued demons.
It's called pretexting: The attacker pretends to be a customer having a problem, and convinces a service rep that the request they're making is legitimate.
Abbi pretends to be Ilana to cover her shift at a food co-op while Ilana goes to an important doctor's appointment on Long Island.
In the 0.0 version — think of it as the prequel to Business 3.03 — everybody pretends that business does not exist and acts in a vacuum.
But I gravitate toward clothing that pretends my midsection doesn't exist at all and is just a floaty blank space between my clavicle and thighs.
For one picture, he pretends to bite into a hamburger, but leaves it untouched, calling it just a prop (Veul proceeds to scarf it down).
She pretends to rub Thompson's head and spread open the "lips" of her vagina pants just because, well, they've already gone this far with it.
We taught the machines to imitate us, because it's easier for us to communicate with someone who pretends to be an animal just like ourselves.
It's really all part of the bandwagon effect: not wanting to appear stupid or close-minded, everyone pretends to "get it," even if they don't.
In a crucial moment in last night's episode, Negan pretends to swing his bat at Daryl, only to discover that his hostage barely even blinks.
To its credit, it never pretends to be anything more than what it is: a breezy summer movie with eight fun antiheroines worth rooting for.
The other, in the purported style of Shakespeare, writes blistering critiques of authority figures, but in a code that pretends to be about something else.
Let's get that outlandish premise out of the way: Younger is a show about a 40-year-old woman who pretends to be, well, younger.
They make stupendously outrageous modern rock that pretends to be prog rock, isn't actually prog rock, and ends up being better than most prog rock.
What it pretends it is: A Gaming-oriented subreddit where one can discuss (the lack of) ethics in gaming journalism, named after chief offender Kotaku.com.
Changing in tone per shirt, statements range from "Is it ok if we just sleep," and "I'm not feeling it," to *pretends it isn't happening*.
When one of his notes falls into the hands of a classmate who commits suicide, Evan pretends that he and the boy were close friends.
She digs into Albert's abrasiveness, manipulativeness and shamelessness and indulges, with relish, her talent for accents (Albert pretends to be J.T.'s British handler "Speedie").
The greater world always presses in on the star-crossed lovers even when the movie pretends otherwise, shaping or just quietly tugging at their story.
"Instead of working to identify and overcome patterns of housing segregation and inequality, the Trump Administration pretends they don't exist," Brown wrote in a tweet.
Imposter scams, frauds when someone pretends to be a government official, a loved one in trouble, or someone else, were the third most common complaint.
Trump is a child of wealth who pretends he's a master businessman, a parody of the American values associated with Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger.
But then the men face each other and hug, a hilarious conclusion that pretends problems can be solved by simply airing grievances, not addressing them.
My husband jokes around that I'm like that character in Seinfield who pretends to be an architect because I'm pushing our kids to be one.
Oliver first points out how much Trump pretends to know about the Iran Deal, with clips of Trump citing elements of the deal that don't exist.
BoJack is clearly disappointed that Charlotte is married, but he plays it off like it's no big deal and pretends he's there to buy a boat.
He dresses up as a cop, pretends to be a bartender, and frequently pops out at the worst possible times to goad Kiryu into a brawl.
But, with his step-mom Haide, who seems to be A.J.'s only living relative after his father's death, he pretends to be a straight guy.
In an attempt to get hired in the competitive publishing industry, Liza pretends to be a 20-something and ends up snagging an entry-level job.
"What pretends to be a hand up is really a foot in the back," said Shamus Roller, the executive director of the National Housing Law Project.
Sanders's second lie is that he pretends that there would be no foreign policy consequences from a U.S. shift back to the days of Smoot-Hawley.
The hydration mask-rocking mom pretends their "spaced out" looks are totally normal, although Catherine — and everyone else — knows what Dev and Denise were up to.
Phone calls where a fraudster pretends to be the I.R.S. or the police collecting a tax debt, are very common, but there is a new twist.
Then the video ends in the girl's bedroom, where she dances around and then pretends to be sleeping when her mom comes to check on her.
"She puts her finger in a plug socket and pretends to fry her brains and I fall out a window: Flirting, Irish style," says Ms. Kelly.
In this instance, the scammer pretends to be calling from a well-known hotel company to notify you of a hot deal that's about to expire.
The fact that Crouch barely pretends to answer this — the Jason with a wife and kid who narrates the story is the "real" one, of course!
" Conway added: "I just want everybody to know, Doug Jones, nobody ever says his name, and pretends he is some kind of conservative Democrat in Alabama.
So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.
Turkey pretends to "turn a new page" when a new ambassador shows up in Ankara, perhaps in combination with some movement on American detainees in Turkey.
"Oh look, Rose McGowan is a hypocrite too *pretends to be shocked* Just imagine if it was a guy in place of Asia," one person tweeted.
"The company pretends to be so progressive and care about its employees, but when we need them they act like any corporation," another Brooklyn employee said.
But the words to "Temes" ("You Fear") are a challenge, defying a machismo that pretends to be romantic but is actually about maintaining power, sometimes violently.
"The government pretends to release people, and in the end, it doesn't release any of the political prisoners who are on our lists," Mr. Mora said.
The result is plenty of comedy (she pretends to take the bus but secretly calls Ubers) but also cleareyed observations about race, class, identity and assimilation.
She's never been someone who pretends everything is perfect, instead she (and the VPR audience) sit with her feelings, no matter how uncomfortable they may be.
"They are just mimicking the adults," he added, noting that his nephew carries buckets to and from his tent that he pretends are filled with water.
Each one pretends to ignore the sound, but not staring at its source —a blur of green shorts and white Nikes—would be impossible for anyone.
When she pretends to have fallen off her horse to get his attention, Jamie drops her in the mud, and leaves her to find her way home.
A mystery shopper is someone who pretends to be a regular customer, but is actually a paid worker who provides feedback to the company on the experience.
Spear phishing is the term for when a hacker sends you an email that pretends to be from someone you trust, but is in fact a scammer.
The idea that he wasn't trying to humiliate Kovaleski because he sometimes pretends to be disabled when mocking other people -- Ted Cruz for example -- is not credible.
Braff was set up by Scrubs costar Donald Faison when the two went to a liquor store and a child actor pretends to spray paint Braff's car.
Once in position near the drive-through, Princess turns on the puppy eyes and pretends to be a stray dog to guilt customers into giving her food.
Woke seduction is different only because it pretends to be kinder, but the seduction work coming from Colgate and Mystery still relies on external affirmation from women.
"Downton," though, pretends egalitarianism isn't even a threat, just as long as holes are punched in the box of class privilege to let in a little air.
It might not actually make women happier, but the impulse to seek happiness and fulfillment is understandable, and social media pretends to offer those things in abundance.
"With this 'disguise', the lacewing larva pretends to be someone completely different," noted study co-author Jes Rust of the Steinmann-Institute of the University of Bonn.
If you still refuse to change, it pulls you out again after a suitable term of punishment, pretends all is normal, and expects you to be grateful.
Unlike the titular figure in Dirty John, John Meehan, who only pretends to be a doctor, Duntsch was a trained, licensed physician — but not a skilled one.
However, he pretends like he doesn’t know who she is, asking her coy questions about her family until he confirms that she's definitely his grandmother.
The op-ed just pretends none of that has happened and proceeds to defend a fantasy foreign policy that bears no resemblance to Trump's actual foreign policy.
PartyNextDoor pretends to ignore him, perusing random models' snapchat stories on a red BAPE couch* Drake: Doesn't it feel like colors are brighter since Gucci got out?
He moves the mouse around the screen in a show of efficiency and then, impulsively, pretends to type something although there is no keyboard input open onscreen.
Given Penn State's storied history and lofty expectations, a coach who pretends bad years were illusory while hyping up 7-5 will eventually wear out his welcome.
The woman pretends to be enticed and motions him to come closer — only to shove a detergent pod in his mouth and cram him into the washer.
The next most logical explanation is literally anything other than Steph Curry Pretends to Poop on a Basketball Court After Kevin Durant Hit a Big Three-Pointer.
We don't actually have any leftover fish in the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen fridge, so he oil-poaches a few fillets of cod, and pretends it's day-old.
However, Russia pretends it's not actually at war in eastern Ukraine, which means it's treating Savchenko more like a common criminal rather than a prisoner of war.
Last year, it introduced a "Network Enhancement Fee," which is basically just a $2.50 per month price hike that the company pretends is a necessary service fee.
Both disorders are deemed "factitious disorders," or conditions in which a person pretends to have a physical or mental illness in order to gain attention or sympathy.
Books more than ever are agents of freedom from a snoopy controlling data-driven nightmare that pretends we are free when we have never been more scrutinized.
No single professional vocabulary—conservatorial, curatorial, legal, archival—is more important than another; nobody pretends that the questions that are encountered can be answered impartially or finally.
In the clip, he pretends to walk into a meeting with a human resources representative, who fires him, in part because she didn't like his YouTube channel.
In Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, Bowie plays the titular man, an alien who pretends to be English—what a stretch—and goes by the name Thomas Newton.
It's less amazing when you're constantly worried about the man who pretends to be a recruiter for a major network but is really a serial sexual harasser.
Even as it pretends otherwise, Kline's work demonstrates that, as things go from bad to worse, there's still slightly more room to maneuver than you'd first think.
At the police station, Gypsy is interviewed by the detective who found her mother and pretends to be surprised when he tells her that her mother is dead.
Most people are familiar with identity theft, which happens when someone pretends to be someone else to make purchases, apply for credit or even get their tax refund.
The plan put forth by the MUD has the assent of all three tendencies but no one pretends it is a blueprint for the "real conquest of Venezuela".
President Trump pretends to drive as he gets in an 18-wheeler and meets with truckers and CEOs regarding health care at the White House on March 23.
In Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez, a maid at a fancy hotel, pretends to be a wealthy, non-hotel employee in order to date Ralph Fiennes, a politician.
Using hacked Uber customer accounts, the scammer then pretends to be both driver and rider, moving each device's GPS location as if a ride really was taking place.
But, it turns out, he doesn't feel anything at all (you know, after he pretends not to remember to scam her into a blowie because he's the worst).
There's nothing interesting about a bratty billionaire who pretends like money doesn't matter, and Danny's whininess about being called out for being rich was holding the character back.
Jaime murmurs, "No," — not because he's not interested in sex, but because he believes a hookup with Cersei can only work if he pretends to be "whole" again.
But each time Sumi pretends to fumble with something else or be distracted for a moment, and each time someone else does recall and finds the answer first.
She pretends to be asleep when Alex gets home, and when she opens her eyes after he leaves the room, it's obvious that something is very, very wrong.
Well, her whole thing is she's from Berkeley, and with her victim complex pretends that she came out as conservative and it ruined her relationship with her family.
She tries all day to get his attention, but once he's interested, she sometimes just sits and stares or pretends she has something better to do (like painting).
As Mike prepares to tie the knot reportedly on television, Pauly D apparently pretends to tie the knot, also on television, with the help of an Elvis impersonator.
As revenge, Melrose — who overheard Cherry and Sam's original womb goof conversation — steals a bottle of ketchup during lunch and pretends to have a miscarriage during wrestling practice.
For example: i) He pretends to be Kelly's supervisor, lambasting her unrelentingly so the new boss (Will Ferrell) doesn't discover he hasn't actually had a job for years.
The fact that anyone pretends otherwise just shows the degree to which we confuse "objectivity" that serves PR purposes with actual objectivity, the kind that affects decision-making.
Then Kendall calls her sister Kim, who is at home breast-feeding baby Saint after a long day, and pretends that she's pregnant just to see what Mrs.
Because the man at the wheel is listening, she pretends to be talking to her young daughter, addressing Asger as "sweetie" and telling him not to be afraid.
Now comes Pelosi, who apparently believes that if she just pretends not to have voted for the Budget Control Act, then no one will recall that she did.
Then there's Lorna Morello, who pretends she's engaged to the man she's actually in prison for stalking – takes up a sexual relationship with fellow inmate Nicky, among others.
But he pretends that they're deficit-reduction proposals by claiming that he will raise trillions in revenue by closing unspecified loopholes and achieve trillions more in unspecified savings.
In this case, it's the pathetic Jelly, who is not the pretty young thing she pretends to be on the phone, but a lonely, fat middle-aged woman.
Kimmy pretends she put it there, but when she goes to ask Dong about it, he finally comes clean and admits that he can't stop thinking about Kimmy.
Even if that is purposeful, it feels misapplied on an album that pretends to transparency, from an artist for whom the idea of performance is never far away.
It pretends to "fix" a problem that barely exists, and against which we've made a lot of progress, which is the threat of terrorists coming into the country.
Wendy, who notes that she feels sorry for Humbert, asks Mr. Ivers what the word "folly" means, and he pretends she's asking him about the word "fondle" instead.
He attempts to charm her, but when she tries to get him to confess to killing her sister, he pretends to have no idea what she's talking about.
The Times Magazine examines the agonies of carrying extra weight — or of running a diet company — in a culture that pretends it cares only about health, not size.
Twitter has long had problems with crypto scammers — someone pretends to be Elon Musk giving away Bitcoin just as long as you send him $10 first, or whatever.
And Keeping up with the Kardashians fans can't wait for Kirby Jenner, a spoof show following a comedian who pretends to be  Kendall Jenner's less-famous twin brother.
Patting someone's hand in this way pretends to be an affectionate gesture of approval, but its real purpose is to remind the other person who's actually in charge.
Goodman is her terrifying opposite, a guy who pretends to put all his cards on the table but who's clearly hiding an entirely separate deck in his pocket.
Disgraced price-gouging pharmaceutical bro Martin Shkreli clearly understands this—the man's favorite wrestler is Damien Sandow, an elitist scoundrel who pretends to be a Rhodes Scholar (and rules).
Darcy pretends to be OK with it — and Bob believes her, which requires a real suspension of disbelief — while secretly plotting to take the law into her own hands.
President Donald Trump pretends to drive as he gets in an 18-wheeler and meets with truckers and CEOs regarding health care at the White House on March 23.
Just like in the myth, BP pretends that it's giving us a gift, when in reality it's trying to smuggle its deadly climate-wrecking business plans past our defences.
My parents would've seen my job today as nonsense, and when I show my mother pictures of the people I paint naked, she pretends not to be too shocked.
He's got a camera strapped to his chest to capture his reactions as he pretends to accomplish tasks that will help him get out of this totally invented conundrum.
At night, she sneaks out in a jaunty jacket and boots to go hunting while her friend Winkiepeeps takes her place in the shed and pretends to be Kitty.
Pinto, a horse in North Texas, lays on his back and pretends to be dead pretty often, according to the remarks of his owner who narrates the hilarious video.
The monstrosity of the Islamic State serves as a fetish covering all these struggles in which every side pretends to fight Isis in order to hit its true enemy.
The heart of Brexit is not racism (as some Remainers annoyingly claim) or a desire to be truly global as opposed to narrowly European-focused (as Boris Johnson pretends).
But to demand that art and artist be kept separate is a monstrous idea, one that celebrates artists at their best and then pretends they don't have a worst.
In no time the trance-like ensemble will let loose, chattering away, except for the deranged individual in black, whom everyone but the chased child pretends is not there.
The protagonist of the episode, Nish, originally pretends to be from the United Kingdom and the untrained ear might assume they hear that version of the song at first.
It's a funny enough prank, but then he takes the jokes too far when he pretends that the rain that everyone runs for cover from is slowly killing him.
On cable news, she pushes a far more simplistic portrait of Americans, liberal and conservative, knowing full well as she does so that they're more complicated than she pretends.
There are big names on the list, but it seems clear that even the garden variety experts understand this much more clearly than the FCC does (or pretends to).
If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade (or) for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy.
"The Lying Detective" riffs on Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Dying Detective, in which Holmes pretends to be on death's door in order to extract a confession.
Second, after regaining lucidity later that night, he pretends to fall into his own pool so that Whitney, her husband and the kids can all escape the reception undetected.
They're about rampant corruption within Puerto Rico's government that pretends to serve the interests of its people but instead exploits them, over and over again for profits and power.
They're about rampant corruption within Puerto Rico's government that pretends to serve the interests of its people but instead exploits them, over and over again for profits and power.
Now that said, I think your argument is, even where it pretends to be factual, or wherever you think it is factual, it is highly biased by political considerations.
We see the daily counts of coronavirus cases and deaths; the long lines for tests; and the White House briefings where the president pretends the situation is not dire.
" It can veer close to psychobabble — "Any system that pretends to authenticity must give way to psychopathy and violence, if only because it is the best way to communicate.
To accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.
The film pretends to be a grim reckoning with the horrors of war, but it is also, true to its genre, a rousing celebration of the thrills of battle.
In an attempt to prove his virility, he pretends to eat the mutton she serves for dinner, sneaking it into a napkin and stowing it in his jacket pocket.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called President Donald Trump a "clown" who merely pretends to support Iranian citizens but would push a "poisonous dagger" into their backs.
The third story is about a girl who pretends to be two additional women in order to keep tabs on her boyfriend while he's a counselor at a summer camp.
In Iraq, a country enmeshed in bloody conflict and where HIV positive people are murdered, Amir Ashour of gay rights organization Iraqueer says the country pretends HIV does not exist.
To preserve her new image as a do-gooder, she pretends she took the trip, while secretly partying in Miami with her friends Andrea (Jennifer Esposito) and Dena (Melissa McCarthy).
Stewart isn't as innocent as she pretends, and Snoop, who has been very rich for a very long time, is obviously more accustomed to Stewart's lifestyle than he lets on.
In one of their favorite maneuvers, one player pretends he is a fish while two others hold him aloft like a trophy and another gestures as if taking a picture.
Behind the camera you can hear Reinhart's voice as Sprouse pretends to swirl makeup in his hand, acting out the kind of YouTube video we've seen over and over again.
A physician was a distinguished position in the 18th century in the American South, but that did not preclude a "low fellow who pretends to gentility" to insult the doctor.
So the case against Oprah is just that: She may, in fact, be what Trump pretends to be — a self-made business success story whose words resonate across the country.
We knew that she pretends like she is dumber than a bucket of hair when it serves her purpose and the brightest person in the room when it helps her.
He is treated by Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a British doctor and former child prodigy who pretends to help Langdon (someone's trying to kill him again — what else is new?).
And unlike Silicon Valley, which at least pretends to respond to consumer advocacy groups, negative press, and the threat of regulatory pressure, AT&T and Verizon largely act with impunity.
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Anyone who pretends the ring somehow prevents stalling in a standing clinch is wearing rose tinted glasses because just as many PRIDE fights turned into clinch slogs as UFC fights.
This is one of many riddles that Ivan Krastev—a Bulgarian political scientist who casually wields the dialectical wit to which Slavoj Zizek so desperately pretends—solves in After Europe.
Satyal barely pretends that Sondhi is anything but a stand-in for Jhumpa Lahiri, and as a brown person who is interested in books, I know precisely how Ranjana feels.
Yet, the President pretends the agreement is not a treaty so he can attempt to adopt it unilaterally, without engaging the Senate, where the pact would be dead on arrival.
But more recently, it has given us Julian Barnes's novel "The Noise of Time," which pretends to give us the truth, not just the facts, about the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Under this decision that goes against civil liberties, Congress could investigate any person for any reason as long as it pretends to be doing so for a legitimate legislative purpose.
Post pretends to be a record store employee by donning an incredibly weak disguise of glasses and a hat, then walks around telling people how much his own music sucks.
Rather, they are part of a history of photographic technical materials, now converted to digital, that has consistently prioritized a racialized white point of view that pretends to be universal.
" In "Dear Atheists," he pretends to try to find common ground by arguing that "on both sides, we hold to positions for which by definition there cannot be any evidence.
Mainly, "Frame by Frame" is about McLaren's work — proceeding from 1937 to 1986, a year before his death, though in a less chronological order than it pretends to do so.
They share a tender scene in which Manke playfully pretends to be Rifkele's bridegroom and impulsively implores her to come away with her so they can share a life together.
Netflix Description: A girl raised to be a government assassin just wants to be a normal teen — so she runs away and pretends to be a high school exchange student.
The movie, starring Amanda Bynes, modernizes Shakespeare's play, by placing the shipwreck instead at boarding school where Viola pretends to be her twin brother Sebastian so she can play soccer.
Brick Body Kids begins in earnest on "no selling (uncle butch pretends it don't hurt)," which is more or less the comic counterpoint to "legendary iron hood"'s learned stoicism.
An IMSI catcher, sometimes known under the brand name Stingray, is a piece of tech that pretends to be a cell phone tower, forcing local phones to connect to it.
"The Democrats here seem to be in a virtual tie between one candidate who admits he's a socialist and the other candidate who pretends she's not," Mr. Cruz said to laughs.
But the next time the phone rings, Quinn pretends to be Auster and soon finds himself embroiled in the tale of a monstrous father, a damaged son and an alluring wife.
But how truly pitiful is it that someone who pretends to care about the less-fortunate members of our society is willing to throw them under the bus for political gain?
SWAN: Chris, I&aposm sure you know, this -- no one in the Trump administration pretends to know -- to have sort of wisdom about what President Trump will say in the meetings.
She pretends that basic facts just do not exist: Obamacare During the health care fight of 2017, the White House spent a considerable amount of time trying to blame Mississippi Sen.
However, even as American sailors are attacked by an Iranian proxy, potentially using Iranian-provided weapons, the administration pretends none of this is happening, and is reluctant to condemn Iran publicly.
Benji sees through her: According to Benji, Beck pretends to be a hard-working, interesting writer, when really she's only with Benji because he is rich and can take her places.
It all adds up to an environment that pretends gay people aren't real — and with everyone around me ignoring my sexuality, is it really that strange that I ignored it, too?
On Saturday hundreds of thousands of people jammed the streets of Harare to celebrate Mr Mugabe's apparent ouster in a military coup, which the army still pretends was not a coup.
Even when Trump pretends to recognize the importance of minorities and groups, he very openly uses them and their culture as pawns: I love Hispanics, because I'm eating a taco bowl!
Instead, it seems to insist that the better approach should be a hands-off one, which pretends the major issues the website faces in 2018 are not inherently and irreparably politicized.
Michael pretends to be the harsher, harder, more ruthless Mirror Michael, to gain the trust of other Mirror Universe inhabitants who have information about how to get back to her universe.
They've excused, or even encouraged, extremist language and rhetoric for a long time now, and, well, here we are today, with a President who pretends that violence against Muslims doesn't matter.
Given what we all know about the dysfunction on Capitol Hill, where no one even pretends that they are adjusting the budget deficit to target inflation, how likely does that seem?
It aired on USA for almost 93 years, and is about a guy who's extremely observant, so he pretends to be a psychic and gets a job working with the police.
The left pretends that America can transition to a wondrous "renewable energy" future with no cost to the economy, but we ought to learn from the green energy debacles in Europe.
Now the company, which suddenly pretends that only part-timers should drive despite earlier messaging, offered until recently an hourly rate of just over $20 per hour in New York City.
At the same time he's being unintentionally sexist about Clark having a problem being a working mother, he also pretends to apologize for all the negative media commentary on her appearance.
This, more than anything, exemplifies the vicious circle that Drake plods around, Sisyphean, eternally: he seeks love, but rarely finds it, so instead he just pretends at it to get attention.
" — TREVOR NOAH "Obviously, British protesters are taking to the street to make Trump feel unwelcome in the U.K., but for Trump, protests are like Eric — he just pretends they don't exist.
This movie's plot may strike you as somewhat Shakespearean: The heroine pretends to be a boy for her own convenience, only to find herself attracting the affections of a popular girl.
In the video, La Chica Boom wears a strap-on outfitted with a bottle of hot sauce and pretends to masturbate over two tortillas that have been garnished with women's underwear.
Despite the idea that your name, phone number, and personal address may have all been exposed, OnePlus's FAQ pretends that the worst that might happen is this: What are the consequences?
But reality rarely pretends to operate by the dictates of reality television, and if Trump has realized anything during his transition, it seems to be that the presidency has no net.
The Pineapple then pretends to be the legitimate Wi-Fi access point so it can snoop on all the information as it relays data from the device to the access point.
Whereas "The Most Incredible Thing" tries to tell a complex story and fails, "Paz de la Jolla" pretends to tell no tales but allows us to feel place, atmosphere, climate, narrative, mystery.
The "romance scam" category is only loosely defined, but the report focuses on situations in which one person pretends to be romantically interested in another in order to extract money from them.
But NBC's approach robs most events of their excitement, of the sense that anything can happen that you get from watching live coverage (or tape-delayed coverage that pretends to be live).
Congratulations to Jeff, who seems to be having a great time, and now joins the proud ranks of actors and directors who get tepid roasts while everybody pretends the Oscars are daring.
We got married in my location of choice, we live in the city and home of my choosing, and he pretends like he loves our cat, who I know he can't stand.
She tries to explain this to her would-be manager by doing an accidental mini-set, which Susie recognizes and starts taking notes down while Midge pretends she wasn't Made For This.
Once Mars has left Aries with a bang, the action planet enters Taurus at 5:51 AM on Thursday, where its typically savage willpower pretends to be way too civilized to argue.
The NFL released a spot on Monday featuring its very own Football Baby, a cute, chubby-cheeked child who dresses up like a football and pretends to predict the outcomes of games.
Donald Trump's presidency, as always, has clarified the true motivations of conservative America, which no longer pretends to care about the niceties of the Framers' views on the English Bill of Rights.
Giselle and her compatriots are now migrant factory workers rather than happy peasants; Albrecht is one of the wealthy "landlords" who own the now-closed factory, but pretends to be a migrant.
In 2003, le Carré returned to the Cold War proper, with what was now a proper history novel: Absolute Friends centered on a colonial Brit who pretends to defect to the Stasi.
The fake followers and likes that Devumi sold came from bot accounts, or "sock-puppet accounts," where one person pretends to be many people, according to the New York attorney general's office.
She sways back and forth and mouths words of her own invention in her real language and when Fake Mami looks over, she pretends that she is singing along with the others.
What it pretends it is: A collection of activists sharing news about the infringement of "men's rights," seeking more parity from the justice system, like 50/50 child custody in divorce cases.
I think a system that pretends to have near perfect accuracy and reliability is not one that will win the public trust—there are DNA exonerations piled up now by the hundreds.
Do we want to be the sort of civilization that boards up the windows and pretends that no one is home, for fear of some unknown threat lurking in the dark sky?
Pepper clearly isn't as rich as she pretends to be: The hotel she's living in desperately needs her to pay her bill, and despite her many excuses, it's obvious that Pepper can't.
A multibillionaire who built his namesake company from scratch, he is many of the things Mr. Trump pretends to be and would be an effective contrast to the president in a campaign.
It stands for a nation that still thinks "freedom" means freedom from restraint but no longer pretends that everyone can be free, and it enforces that reality through cruelty, domination and racism.
In a YouTube video that was picked up by Gawker and other sites, Gneiting pretends to be presidential hopeful Governor Chris Christie's older brother and challenges the politician to a sumo match.
Kumail is not a practising Muslim, but he pretends to be—when it is time to pray, he brings a carpet to the basement, shuts the door, and watches funny videos on YouTube.
The second date happens on Will's birthday, when Stella pretends to forget it's his big day, and then organizes a scavenger hunt that leads him to a dinner party with all their friends.
In the haunting song, she sings about the emotional distance that develops between two people, suggesting their relationship is no more than a fine acting job that everyone pretends is the real thing.
Remember the opening scene in Four Christmases in which the couple pretends they don't know each other at a bar, and then have what appears to be hot stranger sex in the bathroom?
"While plaintiff now pretends that he 'seeks no relief whatsoever against Uber,' such an assertion is at odds with any fair reading of plaintiff's claim," Rakoff wrote in his decision dated June 19.
By Tuesday afternoon, posts ricocheted across the internet, accusing Hogg of being a paid crisis actor who pretends to be a victim during national tragedies in order to exploit them for political gain.
Perhaps the best episode of this season's Queer Eye was the one where Antoni pretends that a hot dog can be gourmet the Queer Eye cast made over one of their fellow gays.
Most of us have met at least one of these guys before, the kind who pretends to be one thing in the honeymoon phase but turns into a complete nightmare once you're committed.
Well, part of it — she knows something's wrong with it and doesn't want it, but pretends to finish it anyway, because her husband tells her to and she'd prefer not to upset him.
Nothing unusual about that, except it's been set up by Apple just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show's arrival in town, an event that the iPhone maker traditionally pretends isn't even happening.
When the two of them are released, Debbie senses that Lupe is a kindred spirit and asks if she can write songs — and Lupe, desperate for a place to stay, pretends she can.
Desperately, Scott pretends to have powers and revels in his family's acceptance, only to get trapped deeper and deeper in the lie as a sleazy company hiding behind environmentalism threatens his local community.
When he and La Quica break into Maritza's apartment to kill her (Quica is convinced she's the rat that snitched on them), Limón sees her hiding under the bed — but pretends not to.
It's one of those bangers that pretends to not be a banger for a bit and then suddenly becomes a banger, which is the kind of trickery we can get on board with.
Last week's episode found Lisa Rinna feeling repentant after she brought Munchhausen syndrome – a factitious mental disorder in which a patient pretends to be ill – into a conversation about Foster's ongoing health battle.
"Wife" finds impressive depth in six short episodes (most around 113 minutes) by not shying from its characters' bad sides: Cameron can steamroll people, and Rhea pretends things are fine when they aren't.
Ana tries to pull over any and all heavy objects, she lusts for speed and nakedness, she sticks her hand in a hole in a tree and pretends to pull out a baby.
The setting for these admonitions is a comfortable liberal family, as Gopnik pretends every once in a while that he is addressing his arguments to his (presumably) left-leaning college-age daughter, Olivia.
Let's begin way back at the hot yoga sex show, where JoJo pretends to be uncomfortable during this week's first one-on-one date with medical sales rep and mystical muscle man Chase.
The result is a tax bill from House Republicans that is months late, has something to infuriate nearly everyone, and barely even pretends to offer the long-promised simplification of the tax code.
It's driven by the market right here right now, and the worse thing is, it pretends to be fashion, because there are no institutions in Brazil to care for our quality and originality.
That's all in the Lardner, but Mr. Lithgow adds another emotional channel by showing us how the barber, himself a good old boy, is implicated in the nastiness he pretends only to describe.
In "Broken Angels" Danica, now governor of Harlan's World, pretends to partner with Quell, Main Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), and Kovacs Prime to stop The Elder, who is determined to annihilate the entire planet.
As I've feared, the Senate may try to repeat a version of the House's "Upton strategy," in which it makes modest, last-minute tweaks and pretends those tweaks fix the bill's enormous problems.
But as Jennifer Hudson ugly-cries her way through "Memory," or Taylor Swift purrs her musical ode to Macavity (Elba), or Ian McKellen pretends to cough up hairballs, Cats becomes genuinely awe-inspiring.
The hit man played by Robert De Niro in "The Irishman" pretends to be anyone other than who he really is, even as he risks losing touch with his self and his soul.
To move the money, the company pretends to make business deals: The Panama Papers reveal thousands of fake share trades, million-dollar payments for "consultancy," and huge payouts in "compensation" for canceled transactions.
But if Silicon Valley's conscience was as perturbed as it pretends to be, we'd see real changes to the financial ties that bind the world of startups and the world of Saudi Arabia.
My name is Ser Pounce, and I am gathering an army -- an army so cute and so powerful pretends to cough up furball... excuse me... that we will smother the entire world to death.
In order to get the cop off his back, Joe pretends he is a wealthy Greenwich type with his own boat — he's able to rattle the name of the specific kind of boat offhand.
Why is is that when Kendall Jenner dons ballet shoes and pretends to be a ballerina, we are allowed to take arms, but when Ryan Gosling warbles a few half-hearted notes, we rejoice?
The scene in which Sansa pretends to hold Arya on trial only to flip the tables and accuse Littlefinger of all his crimes was as delicious as Game of Thrones revenge can possibly get.
An unpopular norm is on view in the Hans Christian Anderson fable in which an entire village pretends to see a naked emperor's nonexistent new clothes, falsely believing that everyone else can see them.
The tool pretends to be a cell tower and compels every cell phone in range to connect to it, allowing potential interception of text messages, emails, call contents and the location of phones themselves.
And in this week's installment of "Unnecessary Displays of How Horrible Ramsay Is," the horrid leader in the north kills Osha as she pretends to come on to him an effort to kill Ramsay.
As they play a few rounds of the game, Anstead playfully accuses El Moussa of cheating, before she pretends to cut his paper with her scissors signaling her victory and giving him a smooch.
But unlike her mother, she tells her grandpa Rick to cut the crap when he pretends to sympathize, because she knows he used her love life as a power trip to prove his point.
The beef here seems to be that Lil Miquela—despite obviously being computer generated—generally pretends to be a real human whereas Bermuda is up-front about the fact that she's an art project.
"Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax," Trump said in a tweet.
But the more telling point is that it's very odd for Trump to admit that he's not doing "well," since he typically pretends everything is going wonderfully and he's on the path to victory.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere pretends to write on the face of Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure ahead of their testimony before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on Tuesday.
He pretends to return to Germany but instead dons a wig and false teeth and comes back as Toni, a "life coach" fond of the same corny pranks, but a character Ines warms to.
Camp runs on irony, because it's all about speaking obliquely, saying the opposite of what you mean (Effie only pretends that she only cares about wigs, since actually she cares about wigs and workers).
Now if the dash cam could connect directly to Waze, instead of an app that pretends to be Waze and that it seems like no one really uses, that'd be a massive game changer.
When it comes to Silicon Valley, [Thiel] pretends to celebrate the heroic individual and to celebrate competitive capitalism, yet he's also helped bring about this world of monopoly, where competition becomes harder and harder.
Along parallel lines, Ernst wrote, if the only one true thing in the world is that all truth and morality are relative, then anyone who pretends otherwise is either an idiot or a fraud.
Even worse, I have to get to KNOW these puds, enduring Olympics-style profiles of them, along with rehearsal footage where some varnished cracker like Blake Shelton pretends to think they have a future.
And while the video pretends that the song is guitar-bass-drums punk, the clever production uses a guitar line like a loop, giving what could have been an electropop song a constant bite.
And he pretends he is going to do whatever she wants, including allowing her to shoot him if she wants (as he takes out a gun and lays it on the desk between them).
The real world is complicated, sure, but Hunters is at its best when it pretends that it isn't, when the characters are unleashed to enact gleeful sadism on men and women who deserve it.
The video of the incident shows Jill Biden waving her hands in front of the former vice president's face at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while Joe Biden pretends to dodge them.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan finally have an Instagram account Everyone else already pretends to be rich, attractive and in love on Instagram -- might as well have some of the real deal on there.
It betrays a terminal case of Democrat Brain; it is a faux-technocratic fantasia soaked in the utterly meaningless jargon of Access and Affordability that won't even accomplish the things it pretends to want.
In the fairy-tale world of action movies, even one that pretends it has a few ideas, malevolence is often a matter of individual bad agents rather than of, say, countries, politics and policies.
"This is not a photo opportunity," says Jeremy Hunt, Britain's foreign secretary, as he picks up a platter of cookies and pretends to offer them to bystanders from the side of a double-decker bus.
While nobody pretends that a movie can directly deliver cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, fiction can serve as a vehicle to help communities face up to crises that might otherwise seem too overwhelming to contemplate.
She sends Molly on a covert operation to talk to Lawrence — Molly pretends like they casually ran into each other — while she has found herself in the parking lot of the bank where Tasha works.
Pakistan, however, whose army pretends it does not really sponsor terror groups, when everyone knows it does, and which has a long-term aim of prising Muslim-majority Kashmir from India, will minimise its importance.
Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a "poor little Angel" when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin' James Comey.
Robin Williams' titular role as a father who pretends to be a maid in order to spend time with his children after splitting from his wife is remembered for its over-the-top comedic moments.
Responder is an open-source tool often used by penetration testers that pretends to be a printer or another device on the local network to trick computers into connecting to it and steal their credentials.
Andre gets Rhonda working for Camilla's fashion line Antony and Cleopatra — delicious if heavy-handed foreshadowing — where she can keep quiet watch, while Hakeem pretends to be her lover long enough to betray her trust.
She puts her face inside the coats and pretends that they are Mami's skirts: bright and soft and smelling of spices and heat and the dried peppers that they hung in the doorways at Christmas.
Chad pretends to be offended by the attention, referring to his male obsessors as both the Care Bears and the cast of West Side Story, desperate to swarm him with their emotions at any moment.
On the comedy side, you can see what's great about "Veep" in the episode "Kissing Your Sister," a season highlight that pretends to be a behind-the-scenes documentary made by the show's first daughter.
Imposter scams, in which a fraudster pretends to be someone you should trust like a representative of a government agency, were the most common type of fraud last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
A Teen Pretends to Be Trans, and Some Viewers Object to the Deception The indie film "Adam" centers on the 17-year-old title character passing as transgender to win the affection of a lesbian.
We walk all the way to the end, which takes about an hour, and T. makes me mad with a picture that he takes with K. where he pretends to be falling off the cliff.
His areas of expertise will be extended according to demand, but UBS advisers who have used the technology have warned against "a system that pretends to know everything but actually knows nothing," says Mr. Koller.
In a society in which "everyone pretends to be working for the other's profit or reputation, while only seeking to raise his own above them and at their expense," violence, deceit, and betrayal become inevitable.
Ms. Taylor pretends not to notice them: The friend who tells her child that Ms. Taylor is "pretending" when she's wearing makeup; the man at the recycling center who says, "Bye, man," when she leaves.
Mr. Jackman will play Harold Hill, a scam artist who pretends to be a musician and makes money selling instruments and uniforms to boys aspiring to be part of a band in River City, Iowa.
A guy from my very small and posh private school joined the boxing society when he started at Edinburgh University, and now he wears a lot of Lonsdale and pretends to be super hard. 16.
When Sierra's best friend Dan forces her to interact with Jamey in person, she is afraid to speak because she knows Jamey would recognize her voice from their phone conversations, so… she pretends to be deaf.
You might notice we have the same favorite show playing on our TV, and if you look closely enough, you might see the imprint in the sofa where my husband naps as he pretends to watch.
Since Facebook makes editorial decisions constantly but just pretends it's the invisible hand of the algorithm at work, it's probably for the best that it has come back around to having actual staff make these determinations.
" Tyga, 27 — outfitted in a long-sleeved black top and black sweatpants and socks — jokes as he pretends to climb in the tub but instead balances on the edges amid raucous laughter from his son. "Daddy!
" The Check out some highlights from their Snapchat home tour below: The giggly pair pretends to be confused by finding tortillas in her freezer: In another, she asks her boyfriend, "Baby, what is in your cabinet?
He wants to drink unbothered at the cop bar he likes while everyone pretends not to know who he is, and he talks about having to make peace with doing the occasional corporate gig for cash.
Quarterback Mike White pretends to kneel, gives an inside reverse handoff to Anthony Wales, then takes off to the right while his running back waits a second before darting down the left sideline for 53 yards.
This is a problem where recipients get a message that maybe pretends to be from an executive at their company or from the finance team saying, "Send me those tax forms," and it's a near duplicate.
This is before she drinks the milk, and then, I believe, pretends to feel ill in order to distract Adora from further poisoning Amma, and instead feed her the mysterious liquids in her glass blue bottles.
I don't care how many turnovers he has in his campaign staff, I don't care how many times he comes out there and pretends to act presidential — the problem begins and ends with the Republican base.
It's not the man's god-given right to regain the power he once had, especially if he just pretends like he can come back after taking a time out without apparently grappling with what he done.
"This is the sad reality of the Courier Journal, which pretends that it's an actual news organization or a publication, is so remarkably biased they are now full in bed with this particular organization," Bevin says.
He sees it, like the stalled Geneva peace process, as a form of displacement activity in which the Obama administration "pretends to have a policy, but is really just buying time and running down the clock".
The Nobel Prize is in fact the ultimate example of bad faith: A small group of Swedish critics pretend to be the voice of God, and the public pretends that the Nobel winner is Literature incarnate.
"Customs pretends there are technical non-conformities of some nature that won't allow them to clear these U.S.-made cars through customs, but the U.S.-China trade frictions must be the background to this," he said.
He heralded a new kind of virulent racial politics in America, one that pretends to moderation and equality but feeds on division and prejudice — one that, 50 years later, we are still unable to move beyond.
But last week's miserable series of press conferences closed the distance between the blowhard McGregor pretends to be when he needs to sell something and the shameful human Floyd Mayweather, Jr., continues to be every day.
"We never really take time for baths," said Heather Morowitz, 30, a masseuse and performance artist who periodically pretends to be a pre-feminist, time-traveling ghost named Madame Ovary (accessorized with a large "biological clock").
"Dollface" is at its best when it's taking big swings and at its most disposable when it lapses into sitcom shenanigans, like when Madison pretends she can cook to save face with her much older boyfriend.
Corporations' flight from the suburbs to cities can play out like a bad breakup: One party has moved on and found someone new, while the other puts on a brave face and pretends it doesn't matter.
But it never pretends that violence is no big deal, and throughout "ronny/lily," the sense of wild terror is matched by a desperation to change, and the even bigger fear that change is not possible.
Love is my husband rubbing my mother's feet after her bath, making her laugh as he pretends she is kicking him in the stomach, helping her take her medicine and holding me after she was gone.
Based on the 1982 movie about an actor whose stalled career revives only when he pretends to be a woman, it offers both the size and sentiment a musical comedy, in any era, needs for liftoff.
We can argue about the best way to solve the problem, but it's impossible to have a good faith debate if one side pretends the law was enacted out of malice rather than its actual purpose.
Instead of being Thorne's "inner emotional teen's sexy dream" come to life, Delphi is a conniving sociopath who pretends to be a Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl in order to gain Albus' trust and get what she wanted.
In another video, Paul puts on a different fake beard, makes jokes about looking like a pedophile, and briefly pretends to have a seizure, before running around and asking college kids for their opinions on Logan Paul.
Art takes her out of the police station and has Felix come in to tell her the "truth," but instead, Felix just pretends she's totally right about the cosmetics industry so she can live a normal life.
Funnily enough, what he pretends the Senators are asking him is what Trump actually did propose — that the FCC revoke the license of "NBC and the Networks" because of "all the Fake News coming out of" them.
"Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books," Trump said.
And Jimmy Fallon pretends to not have known he was going to have to sing "Wheels on the Bus" in the voice of Michael Bolton shortly before doing it to perfection with a backing band—The Roots!!!!
While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock—aka the queen of 90s and early 00s rom coms—as she pretends to be the fiancee of an unconscious man named Jack while he recovers from a bad fall.
Another popular one, according Giacalone, is the "IRS scam," in which the caller pretends to be the IRS, claims you've been audited and owe $3,000 and if you don't pay you'll be locked up in prison tomorrow.
The Obama years proved that when America shies away from its global responsibility or pretends it can lead from behind, bad state actors — such as the Islamic State and Iran — can and will act aggressively and mercilessly.
Anyone who pretends that this is a particularly meaningful amount of money and that getting rid of it would be a serious step toward shrinking the federal government is trying very, very hard to delude the public.
Do you really want to support a candidate who pretends to support American workers against China while he counts the money he has made from sales of clothes made in China with his name on the label?
Leaving aside the fact that Trump has criticized his predecessor's policy of "strategic patience," every day Kim pretends to be "negotiating" means another day that he can spend making his nuclear arsenal, bigger, better and more dispersed.
In an arc on the NBC sitcom "Great News," the C.E.O. played by Tina Fey pretends to harass her staff, in a vain attempt to get the kind of golden parachute that her male colleagues have received.
So, for the sake of a token "You've Got Mail" plot twist, he publishes it in the name of his friend Pritam Vidrohi (Rajkummar Rao), and pretends to be the interlocutor between Bitti and her author crush.
It also has led to what council members and drivers have called a "race to the bottom," with low fares for drivers who were once promised $90,000 a year — earnings Uber no longer pretends drivers can make.
The latter is still on the hunt for guns and ammo, but Tara pretends she hasn't come across any, because Cindy gave her a shell bracelet and a fist bump and I think that means they're going steady.
Charlotte also "pretends" to see these things too, which leads Lizzie to believe what she's imagining is in fact real: she sees maggots and spiders in her vomit and believes that there are bugs crawling under her skin.
His new favorite pastimes include mucking it up with his rah-rah pals, violating Prohibition laws, and being that guy at the party who pretends he's going to jump off the ledge because he's so deep and nihilistic.
"He's a connector; he's one of those guys that knows a lot of people, or pretends to, and puts himself in the middle of everything," a friend of Erickson's who worked in the same circles told BuzzFeed News.
Rather, it built itself around a surreal plot: Mike is a brilliant, scrappy, upstart lawyer at one of New York's most elite firms who pretends to have graduated at the top of his class at Harvard Law School.
The lines above are as deep as the dialogue gets in Ghost in the Shell, and nothing else about the story or characters or world-building supports any of the heavy themes that the movie pretends to consider.
Probing this, and the apathetic response of the country to the killing and framing of innocent people as guerrillas, Atehortúa Arteaga asks the question: is there a difference between someone who suffers and someone who pretends to suffer?
Highlighting the fractured character of language that pretends to be naively straightforward, her poems suggest that we can't say what things are, what lies before us, until we reclaim the body as the supreme origin of our experience.
"Hello Adem, we don't know each other but a year ago I met a guy online and that man is using your picture and pretends he is you under another name," she had written, according to the Atlantic.
It feels like he's finally going to open the floodgates when Gretch takes him to an English pub and pretends to be his dad, yelling insults at him in a pretty comical British accent, but he just farts.
This is how it works: a criminal calls T-Mobile, pretends to be you, convinces the customer rep to issue a new SIM card for your number, the criminal activates it, and they take control of your number.
Ben pretends to cry for a few minutes so he won't tarnish his reputation as a living emoticon, then bravely rejoins the cocktail party, where Jojo rushes to compliment him on how gracefully he breaks up with others.
That's not how science works Up, Up, and Away: Scott pretends to have superpowers to fit in with the rest of his family, and ends up entangled with a group of alleged environmentalists testing out mind control software.
Iran's Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Trump a "big mouth" who "pretends to be an idiot" in a televised speech on Wednesday, saying the US is "an agent of international Zionism" and the creator of ISIS.
"Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books," the statement continued.
The other side: The Peace Officers Research Association of California said Assembly Bill 931 places the public at a greater risk because it "deceptively pretends that creating a checklist" of when force is necessary is easy to do.
And if that makes me a dummy, I'd rather be a dummy who knows how to hone my paring knife before serving a "crowd-pleasing chili" and "oh-so-trendy tiramisu" than a smartie who pretends she can.
The film embraces its own murky center when Wick makes some truly questionable moral decisions, but it also tries to suggest that's just the world he lives in, that he's bound by the codes he pretends to follow.
She pretends to be much healthier than she is—she gives "a tremendous performance of being alive," in Garner's savage phrase—and is committed to a kind of social fraudulence that saddens and then gradually enrages her host.
No. In an era where Colin Kaepernick has become unmarketable to the NFL for his integration of politics and sports, Kendrick and Trump are emblematic of the conversation no one is having together but pretends to speak fluently.
VIENNA (Reuters) - A no-deal Brexit would hurt Britain more than the rest of Europe no matter how much Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government pretends otherwise, outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published on Saturday.
Glen's sidekick/buffoon, Ralph (Charlie Day), pretends to vigorously masturbate for a long while as Glen talks on the phone to his actor/love interest — a physically funny beat that isn't illegal but is also kind of fucked up.
They first starred together in 2011's Just Go With It, the romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon (Sandler) who pretends to be married to his office manager (Sandler) so he can enjoy future dates with no strings attached.
In the trailer, Gleeson's version of McGregor also has a strict no-rabbit policy, but when he falls in love with his neighbor Bea, a lover of all woodland animals, he pretends to be a friend of the bunnies.
After my unexpected and unwanted encounter with Atlas, a giant red orb that pretends to know the mysteries of the universe, I decide to start working on some of the many items piling up on my to-do list.
"Although the gullible media still pretends to believe the doomsday stories offered by these researchers, the polar bear has fallen as a useful icon for those trying to sell a looming global warming catastrophe to the public," she wrote.
"Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax – a puppet for Leakin' James Comey," Trump wrote on Feb.
"Some creep in Santa Barbara has been sending letters in my name to various journalists, requesting an interview and expressing what he pretends are my opinions," he wrote in a letter to BuzzFeed News that the site posted Monday.
We asked if he ever pretends to be Odell to nail cleat chasers who don't realize he's not the NFL player ... and that's when Carter got serious and told us he absolutely has not and will not go there.
In the archived interview tapes, Burke acknowledges that he and his sister both loved pineapple, but then later pretends not to be able to recognize the bowl of pineapple and milk in a photo of the family's kitchen table.
The employees at the drive-through window — understandably — completely LOSE IT when they lay eyes on THE Selena Gomez, and James Corden hilariously pretends to be annoyed that none of them cared that he was in the car, too.
And with that question you've struck to the heart of the whole meritocratic game, which depends on a reproduction of privilege that pretends to be something else, something fair and open and all about hard work and just deserts.
Badminton, he said, demands explosive movements but also relies heavily on deception, akin to the way a volleyball player jumps and pretends to ready a violent smash — only to change direction or gently loop the ball over the net.
An indictment involving 22 people alleges dealers often convened at L & L. —VICE Bagel Finds 1,000 Women on Tinder EverythingBagel—a 24-year-old guy who pretends to be a bagel on Tinder—has matched with over 1,000 women.
And having benefited from the hollowness of fake change, he became it — a rich man who styles himself as the ablest protector of the underdogs, who pretends that his interests have nothing to do with the changes he seeks.
But what's freaky about the clip is what a creep he pretends to be, leaping from one end of the enormous dining table to where Alice sits at the other and appearing to chase her around the checkerboard set.
Which is why it's strange that as Marlo very visibly sinks into postpartum depression — you can see Ms. Theron pulling Marlo deeper and deeper inside — the movie pretends that her burden is somehow too hidden for anyone to notice.
While Trump pretends to be a populist while he insults and berates one group of Americans after another, it is Sanders who fights for an economy that will lift all Americans and bring the change that Americans hunger for.
There was the time he dropped by the Los Angeles garage where the comedian Marc Maron records his podcast or when he sat between the two ferns where Zach Galifianakis pretends to be a boob hosting a talk show.
When I spot the coffee-breath Susan obviously staring at me, just like the guy in the Mormon store, I give her a look right back, raising my eyebrows as she pretends to shuffle some papers on her desk.
We always do a joke on the phone that one of us pretends to ask the other guy for money, and then the other guy presses a button that makes a beeping sound that signifies that you've been hung up on.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
"If one day a government is installed that pretends to turn over our nation&aposs riches, I&aposll be the first one to take up a rifle on behalf of the armed revolution," Maduro said at a recent campaign rally.
Then there's the Washington Post investigation into his charitable giving, which isn't as generous as Trump pretends it is: For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous.
There's one where he watches her get ready in the bathroom, reminding the camera that she's the finest thing he's ever seen, or the one where he pretends to be a puppy to wake her up because he really misses her.
"You ain't cool unless you pee your pants," Bieber wrote — quoting the scene from the 1995, in which Sandler pretends to pee his pants to so that school bullies will stop teasing another kid who actually did pee his pants.
It pretends the CIA's involvement began after Escobar escaped from La Catedral, when the agency, which had a massive presence in Colombia, was already overseeing the creation of military intelligence "killer networks" in 1991, the year Escobar surrendered to the government.
Public feeds have become vehicles of self-promotion; carefully and heavily curated — which of course brings its own peer pressures to keep up with friends' lux exploits and the influencer 'gram aesthetic that pretends life looks like a magazine spread.
While Kevin pretends to be above the bullying, we learn that he's secretly tormented by the way his classmates treat him on social media, and that's why he keeps posting weird stuff online—to send the message that he doesn't care.
He badly wants to be as arrogant as he pretends that he is, and he seems like he'll become unbearable the moment he gets even a small taste of fame, but at this point in his career, he's petulant and fearful.
Not surprisingly, the farm bill pretends climate change is a hoax and missed the opportunity to make progress on climate change in the agricultural sector in spite of the fact that it impacts farmers now and will only get worse.
"Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books," Trump said at the time.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
Just as the Wizard of Oz was eventually exposed as a charlatan, the curtain protecting Trump might come tumbling down if something in his personal life or professional career clearly demonstrates that he is not what he pretends to be.
In Frank Capra's " Meet John Doe " (1941), another bum—Gary Cooper, if you please—pretends, again for a reward, to be the author of fake newspaper articles lambasting the genuine ills of society, and flinches at the fame that ensues.
Then there's Andrew, the young British hero of Jesse Armstrong's debut novel, "Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals," who pretends to be proficient in Serbo-Croatian so he can follow his crush to the front lines of the Bosnian war.
Kumar, accustomed to the limelight in most of his films, only pretends to give it up to the women in this film, quickly taking center-stage again when there is a rousing line or two than needs to be delivered.
Undead dancers lay hands on him, but he just does a little shimmy towards the ceiling; he pretends to be confused by counting; he's just altogether thrilled to be hanging out with demons, because demons might want to party too.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media,which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
He has two equally creaky confederates, played by Tom Waits and Danny Glover, and strikes up a romance with Jewel (Sissy Spacek), who proves susceptible to his charms even as she expresses some gentle skepticism about who he pretends to be.
See, I promised myself, when I lived down there, to never turn into one of those d-bags who gets a fleur-de-lis tattoo, pretends that they can twerk like Big Freedia, and stir a roux like somebody's grandma.
"The president manufactures a crisis, galvanizes his base around the challenge, leaves the definition of success undefined, pretends to play hardball and, lo and behold, finds a solution that entails little more than window-dressing, if that," Mr. Price said.
And Santino Fontana, nominated for a second time, is impressing voters with his virtuosic performance as Michael Dorsey, an underemployed actor, and Dorothy Michaels, the woman Dorsey pretends to be, in "Tootsie," a role made famous on film by Dustin Hoffman.
The markets rallied as he took the lead in polls — but Mr. Bolsonaro is "not the pro-market liberal he pretends to be," warned Monica de Bolle, a Brazilian economist who heads the Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.
One of the reasons Bloomberg drives Trump crazy is that he's everything the president pretends or would like to be: a genuinely rich billionaire who built an enormously successful company, is a much admired philanthropist and respected by New York elites.
" Whatever the number of named storms, he said, the real concern is the number of damaging storms that actually reach land and affect people and property — and "no one pretends to be able to forecast the incidence of dangerous, landfalling storms.
As an institution, the workshop reproduces its ideology, which pretends that "Show, don't tell" is universal when it is, in fact, the expression of a particular population, the white majority, typically at least middle-class and often, but not exclusively, male.
She included a link to the trailer for "The War of the Roses," the 1989 Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner film about a couple whose divorce gets so vicious that one pretends to have turned the family dog into pâté.
For instance, "Looking into the Sun" (2018-19) hints at the empty symbolism of a border wall that pretends to supersede nature but ends abruptly as soon as it meets the sea — as well as the hubris of those commissioning it.
When the Times opinion page pretends that conservatism is David Brooks or Bret Stephens when it maintains the comforting illusion that American politics is a contest of ideas, it is not exposing its readers to uncomfortable truths — it is sheltering them.
And
 of all the low-down creatures in the world, the religious faker, the scoundrel that pretends to trusting and ignorant people that he can bring them face to face and voice to voice with their beloved dead, is the most contemptible.
The second season of Younger, the TV Land sitcom that follows Liza (Sutton Foster), a 40-year-old recently divorced mother who pretends to be a 26-year-old in order to land a job in publishing, has been ... mostly pretty good.
"It just ignores everything that caused the relationship to deteriorate and pretends that the election interference and the Ukraine crisis never happened," said Angela Stent, a former national intelligence officer on Russia during the George W. Bush administration who also reviewed the document.
In 2011, they both starred in Just Go With It, a romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon, played by Sandler, who pretends to be married to his office manager, played by Aniston, in order to enjoy dating other women — with no strings attached.
The forced identification between the interest of markets and that of business practiced by the Republican establishment in the last 30 years made it easier for Republican voters to fall for Mr. Trump, a businessman who pretends to uphold free-market principles.
"She's so cute and she pretends to know so much English and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her and she goes — " Summers says, nodding and smiling in a way that seemed to mimic H'Hen before laughing.
"She's so cute and she pretends to know so much English and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her and she goes —" Summers said, nodding and smiling in a way that seemed to mimic H'Hen before laughing.
It's her one chance and she's taking it: While the crowd is going wild, convulsing and speaking in tongues, she pretends that she's been inhabited by the spirit, too, stepping forward to the microphone and turning it into the beginnings of a solo.
At one point in the film, Rattigan pretends to be a devoted beekeeper (the context for which I won't spoil.) But The Perfect Date never really lets Centineo turn on his full charm, the patented charisma that could power LA's entire power grid.
He's good at fixing things practically, not with words — so instead of empty platitudes, he simply drives to his abusive dad's house, takes his wedding ring off and tells pretends he's screwed his life up and needs money to pay off gambling debts.
Over a minute and a half we got moments with Lil Wayne, Wesley Snipes, Doc Rivers, James Harden, and William H. Macy, who enters virtual reality, pretends to present a new phone, and then returns to reality where he's facing a gigantic cake.
Daniel is tossed into the real-life compound known as Colonia Dignidad, a cult presided over by a man named Paul Schäfer (Michael Nyqvist), and in an effort to rescue him, Lena pretends to be a willing convert, joining Schäfer's glassy-eyed followers.
I'm starving, and the smell of pizza isn't helping, but after chugging a glass of water, I finish up the odds and ends of cleaning up the apartment while my boyfriend pretends to watch Mad Men on the couch but is actually napping.
Most likely, she says, attackers will try to find the easiest and cheapest way to engineer an attack, such as phishing — where an attacker pretends to be a bank, IT manager, or other trusted figure in order to get password and personal info.
"Our expectation is that we will be able to deliver one framework for all of these places," said Sneath and stressed that we're talking about native code, even on the desktop, not a web app that pretends to be a desktop app.
One used a PDF of a document about nuclear material management, which was laced with malware; and the second one pretends to be legitimate software to target Siemens programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, essentially the computers that control how industrial control systems operate.
"You have the chance to unseat someone who plays the game, he pretends he's one thing and he does the opposite," he added, noting that Tester was found to be the top recipient of campaign contributions from lobbyists in Congress for a time.
His first nomination was for "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me." tootsie "Tootsie," adapted from the 1982 film comedy about an actor who pretends to be a woman in an effort to find work, is nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including best new musical.
But I find myself unable to resist "processing," and grateful to hear so plainly, the idea that Mr. Harris puts forward in the silent space his play insists on clearing: that one race lives with history each day while another pretends not to.
But surely he affects false naïveté when he pretends that élite schools function innocently to "produce knowledge," and that it is only the market that perverts the degrees from such colleges by treating them as tickets for entry into a higher income bracket.

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