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Kim pretends to disarm and Trump pretends to believe him.
He pretends to place an order at the service counter.
For Biblical literalists, there's creationism, which pretends to be science.
The British character Ted in fact only pretends to defect.
He pretends to howl, and the others start singing again.
He pretends to be ferocious, but is actually embarrassingly fragile.
"He never pretends to do something else," Ms. Paredes said.
Mahler pretends to tell a story, and he never does.
He pretends to be pious, and white evangelicals pretend to care.
The big balcony scene, in which Cyrano pretends to be Christian?
Beans's mom pretends to believe his dad will find a job.
A man from Essex pretends to be Norwegian, completely fooling me.
Arthur pretends to be on Franklin's show in his living room.
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.
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 swallows and pretends to click on something, actually just clicking nothing.
They promise to be the populist fighter he only pretends to be.
The artist wife pretends to faint, in order to engineer an exit.
She&aposs not diverse enough, even though she pretends to be a minority.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The impostor asks for remote access, or pretends to run a test, it said.
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.
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.
"You're a salesperson that pretends to sell the wall…in the wrong room," he said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yael: Was that a phishing link that he pretends to send to Tyrell to track the feds?
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.
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.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born fear.
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.
She's coy and feigning indifference, as he pretends to introduce himself and offers to buy her a drink.
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.
Oh, and because Bloomberg is what Trump only pretends to be: a bona fide billionaire and proven entrepreneur.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born of fear.
The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
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.
Every chef in the world pretends to adhere to Escoffier's dictum, fait simple and 99 percent of them fail.
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.
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.
" Cole said she wrote the blog "to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be.
No, he would be at home quietly rubbing up against his wife Malaria while she pretends to be asleep.
A word to the wise: there is a recent scam that pretends to have installed spyware on your machine.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
In the morning, under the guise of exhaustion, she pretends to forget that she's left it on her bed.
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.
But still kind of amazing to see in a paper that sometimes pretends to be a cut above Erick Erickson.
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.
Which is to say that Kid Rock is not really a conservative, or even someone who pretends to be one.
Or, my personal favorite, a cup of punlord versus someone who pretends to hate their puns but secretly loves them?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Louis played the TV writer, and there's at least one scene where his friend pretends to masturbate in front of people.
China, for its part, pretends to have taken that role, speaking out on issues such as climate change and free trade.
But he pretends to be unaware that in 1947 there was a Jewish plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland.
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.
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.
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.
Dietz chalks that experience up as a glitch and plays dumb for her unit's psychologist, and pretends to have lost her memory.
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.
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.
This tongue-in-cheek production from Hauser & Wirth pretends to be a forgotten provincial institution that features only bronze art and artifacts.
But how can an administration that pretends to be populist, to stand up for ordinary (white) working people, sell such elitist policies?
Ki-woo's sister, Ki-jung, pretends to be an art therapist and gets hired to work with the Parks' disturbed little boy.
Issa, as she explains to Molly early in the episode, isn't the bold woman she pretends to be in her mirror monologues.
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.
Kjellberg himself tackled the subject over the weekend in an ongoing and partially satirical bit where he pretends to be a news reporter.
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.
Trafficking in insult and phony controversies...It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.
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?
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 canned music already included the song's near-dog-whistle vocal flourish, which Ms. Carey no longer pretends to be able to deliver.
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.
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.
It's the one where the receiver pretends to be at odds with the goals of the state, but colludes with the wedgie anyway.[Yahoo]
She seems mortified and shaken up by how the situation may look, but luckily, Jed pretends to laugh it off, making her feel better.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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").
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
"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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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?
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.
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".
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").
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
"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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Adam" is adapted from Ariel Schrag's novel of the same name, published in 2014, about a straight cisgender—ie, not trans—teenage boy named Adam who pretends to be a trans male in order to woo a lesbian he meets at a party.
If Disney really believes in the kind of progressive representation it pretends to stand for, then its choices to barely depict LGBTQ people in its films — while simultaneously winking to let us know that, yeah, Elsa's totes gay — are more than just irritating.
"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," the president added.
Later, in Episode 8, the closeted gay hit man Vito Spatafore (Joseph R. Gannascoli) goes on the lam to a quaint New Hampshire town, where he pretends to be a writer and wonders if he can avoid his grim fate back home.
Sometimes she describes her subjects ("Muddy"), sometimes she pretends to be them ("Sun Ra"), and sometimes they're not directly cited ("Eartha"), just names to suggest moods, which is true to the way history pervades life: constantly, if inexactly, present, but not always in focus.
While Trump pretends to care deeply about the dangers of nukes, he talks recklessly not only about the United States using them in Europe ("I'm not going to take it off the table") but allowing others (Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia) to develop them.
The example he gives is of one of his most popular videos, in which he pretends to buy his brother Logan a Lamborghini, then reveals it was only a prank, but then, after tears, the brothers decide to go buy their own Lamborghinis together.
DiMarco, who is deaf, called out one of the scenes in the film in which Sierra's best friend forces her to meet Jamey in person and she pretends to be deaf in order to avoid speaking to him as he could recognize her voice.
One key difference between Trump and Mooch is that even though Mooch is more genuinely the new money impresario that Trump only pretends to be, Mooch has been much more effective over the years at turning his money into a certain kind of elite respectability.
The boy at the center of Knock Knock begins the book by telling us of a game he and his father share: Every morning his father knocks on his bedroom door, and he pretends to be asleep until his father is beside his bed.
" Trump said in a statement at the time that "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.
And on April 9, the "Catheter Cowboy" — so named for the product the cowboy pretends to sell before pivoting to politics — rode again, this time to inform the president about the dangers of continuing to support an alleged serial sexual harasser in Bill O'Reilly.
" Evergreen in its awfulness, too, is the 1963 cab ride in which Gay Talese explains to Saul Bellow, as Ms. Steinem sits between them, "You know how every year there's a pretty girl who comes to New York and pretends to be a writer?
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
This tool wasn't built to prevent piracy specifically but to help combat issues such as the sale of counterfeit inventory, where someone pretends to be selling inventory on a site and is actually putting it somewhere else, like a porn site or other scammy location.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, which first reported on the robocalls, they include jungle noises in the background and a man who pretends to be Gillum, the 39-year-old mayor of Tallahassee, using a minstrel performer's exaggerated accent and speaking about mud huts.
Except for Ali G Indahouse, the 2002 movie everyone has agreed to forget about, the comedian's schtick has stayed consistent for nearly two decades: He pretends to be an over-the-top character and runs around humiliating people by exposing them to ridiculous situations.
He occasionally pretends to deliver substantive speeches, and the press, not knowing what else to do, discusses those speeches, even though most of the shit Trump said could have come from the mouth of a vaguely racist suburban teen half-drunk on two BuzzBallz.
Everyone pretends to be casually cool and sexually sophisticated, but at the same time, for many people sex is still dangerously intimate and revealing, sometimes even a minefield of shame, and always fraught with the rawest of emotions and desires, difficult to talk about and to negotiate.
Now, Cassie is a barista by day and vigilante by night, haunting various bars where she pretends to be blackout drunk while waiting for a "nice guy" (the perfectly cast Adam Brody, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and others) to help her—and inevitably try to assault her.
The premise sounds pretty well-worn by now: Pegg plays an aspiring comic artist who is so desperate for a new apartment that he pretends to be in a relationship with a total stranger (Jessica Stevenson) so the pair can land a new place as flatmates.
One of the episode's craziest moments is when Donnie is having trouble giving his sperm sample — the naked men in Bad Puppy magazine just didn't do it for him — so he calls Alison and she pretends to be a stewardess joining the Mile High Club with him.
And for all the demographic challenges Ohio presents, Barack Obama won the state twice, meaning that there is a way for a Democrat to win Ohio if Clinton can convince voters there that Trump is not the populist defender of the working class he pretends to be.
But this one might be the best, in light of how intelligent our president pretends to be on a daily basis:As the website Quote Investigator explains, there's absolutely no evidence that Einstein ever said this, and even if he did, the saying probably originates in the 1860s.
" 'Pretends to be an idiot' Khamenei told his audience that he didn't want to spend his time commenting on Trump, Iran's Press TV reported, saying "it would be a waste of time to respond to such blatherings and nonsensical remarks by the foul-mouthed US President.
It takes several friends to contact Laura outside of her usual methods of chat, and in slightly insidious ways (one in particular pretends to be interested in hiring her just to get to talk to her) because they know it's difficult to get around someone so controlling.
In my favorite story, "Accepted," a student pretends to have gotten into Stanford, going so far as to audit classes and join the campus R.O.T.C. program in the hopes that the school might eventually admit her before her parents catch on that she has let them down.
"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," Mr. Trump said in the statement.
In order to do so in private and at the correct earsplitting volume, he pretends to be sick most days at school so the nurse will send him home; in this way, he has come close to beating the student record for colds — hence the title.
" In the video, Brown pretends to put skincare products from her recently launched beauty line, Florence by Mills, but doesn't appear to wash her face actually, despite saying things like, "So I'm just applying now" while rubbing her face and "Okay so I just wiped that off.
" The statute prohibiting impersonating a federal official, 18 U.S.C. § 912, makes it a crime for any person who "falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such.
The "fake it till you make it" mantra is taken to the extreme in this Australian rom-com, in which a young man, desperate to impress his family and others, fakes entrance exam scores to a medical school — and then pretends to attend by auditing classes.
In "The Man I Killed," just remade by François Ozon as "Frantz," Phillips Holmes plays a French former soldier who plans to confess to the family of the man he killed in World War I. After a collapse of nerve, he pretends to have been his friend.
On Monday, prosecutors outlined the case against him in San Diego Superior Court, noting that the videos show him inside a hotel room and aiming a handgun and an assault-style rifle at unsuspecting pedestrians outside, and saying "boom" as he pretends to fire the weapon.
Released from prison as the show begins, a scam artist named Marius (Giovanni Ribisi) pretends to be his longtime cellmate, Pete, moving in with Pete's family and becoming a key member of the family bail-bond business while dodging a violent New York gambler (Bryan Cranston).
And there's a huge difference between a party that fundamentally believes in reforms that is pro business by nature, that believes in entrepreneurship and that is friendly to private investment and a government which pretends to reform while, at heart, maintaining its hard core practically neo-Marxist ideology.
Here, you can purchase whatever you think you need—a lot of it—at a reasonable price, and then all you have to do is stroll out the exit with your gigantic shopping cart as a dude with a highlighter pretends to check over your 100-item receipt.
It wants to be commentary on racial and gendered subjugation, while presenting a bizarrely post-racial America (I guess android racism fixed that centuries long struggle in two short decades!) The story pretends to care about women, while treating most of them as traumatized, semi-disposable punching bags.
There's "vore,"—referring to vorarephilia, the sexual desire to be eaten—where one hungry dude pretends to swallow another dude whole and let him live in his stomach before "vomiting" him back up alive so we can see that he survived the ordeal, Jonah in the whale style.
Nothing is run-of-the-mill about the life of Jeremy Wilson, a career con man who often pretends to be a war veteran to pull off his schemes, and his two-week trial in New York on charges of forgery and possession of stolen property was no exception.
His scenes with Hurley's Kensington are equally off-kilter: their sexual encounters punctuated with Powers's mood-killing behavior; exaggerated pin-up style poses on the jumbo jet's rotating bed; later, moments after he literally jumps into Kensington's bed, he pretends to be encased in an imaginary human-size nutshell.
The "bend and snap" — an exaggerated seduction move in which someone pretends to drop something dramatically and picks it up in a way that emphasizes their body — came about because producer Marc Platt told Smith and McCullah they needed to add a big set piece to the film's second act.
Also at the table are Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) who is pregnant with Ross' (David Schwimmer) daughter, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) who makes a dare with himself to eat the entire turkey, and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) who pretends to care about sports with Chandler (Matthew Perry) to avoid helping with dinner.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who pretends to be a champion of the people … just posed in a photoshoot with a $3,500 outfit, $625 shoes, all while saying the rich have too much power and that socialism hasn't been tried," tweeted Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA.
" The president also made a point of diminishing Bannon's once-influential role in his administration, saying, "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.
No, some part of me does run (or, as I now feel, pretends to run) some evaluation of what other people say I should be doing, and almost every time it comes up with the fact that their methods are either flawed or unsuitable to my (definitely unique and special!) situation.
Conscious of the perceived flightiness of the "gamer girl" — an image of a girl who pretends to be into gaming just to get the attention of guys, and which I now realise is sexist nonsense —  I was anxious about getting in over my head and disappointing any fellow D&Ders.
So when a passing stranger (Kathy Bates) falls and hurts her foot, Jenny pretends to be a doctor and draws Tom into the ruse, inventing a shared past for the two of them that seems to be half fiction, half relationship therapy where she can revise what happened between them.
He has all but invited comparison between his private life and his onscreen work, too: In "I Love You, Daddy," which is scheduled to be released next week, a character pretends to masturbate at length in front of other people, and other characters appear to dismiss rumors of sexual predation.
One of the most enjoyable of the "anti-ads" is this sly FedEx spot from 1998, an early example of the form, which pretends to be an apology from the company explaining that it didn't get its commercial to NBC on time because its ad agency used the wrong shipping service.
Yolanda is both secure in her sexuality and aware of the dangers of being out, so she pretends to be straight while outside of the safety of the GLOW circle, while Arthie is so uneasy with her sexuality that she's unable to utter it aloud, which understandably frustrates her partner.
In the actual game, he ALMOST got a tech, which is practically unheard of in a game that pretends to the FIBA/International Sporting Complex Spirit of International Goodwill, after he picked up the dead ball off the floor, jammed it into Hartenstein's chest and talked some shit with abandon.
Willems's books remind me of the short plays of David Ives, crossed with the Muppets and those old Land Shark skits from "Saturday Night Live," in which the person in the goofy foam shark costume pretends to deliver flowers, or candy, and then chomps on the heads of unsuspecting victims.
This revelation freed me to savor many delights of "Startup," like the process of making the app that measures your mood and pretends to care or the struggle to ensure the most clicks and retweeting in the serious media, or detailed renditions of VC presentations, and especially my favorite — MorningRave.
Mr. Rainbow, 35, who uses his own video equipment, home computer and wit for his politically sassy videos — in which he pretends to interview and insult the president and his coterie before breaking into song — took a moment to look at a headline in The Washington Post on his phone.
In part, that's because Swift taking ownership of this particular criticism — that she's fake, that she pretends to be an underdog when she isn't, that she should abandon the stale innocent act and embrace her inner villain — would mean resolving the fundamental tension that has been at work throughout her entire career.
Because of a series of complicated family dealings, Ericka is back in the fatherland, and, as a "real" American, she has had access to all that Paulina pretends to know about—including the fact that White Castle is not a castle where food is served and that Calvin Klean is actually Calvin Klein.
"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, a 24-year-old pageant contestant from Nebraska, said when asked about Nie before she proceeded to nod and smile, mimicking her fellow contestant.
It says that content that pretends "to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity" will be considered social engineering content, along with any content that tries to trick users into doing something they would normally only do for a trusted entity, such as sharing a password or calling tech support.
It also confirmed everything that has been said about Mr. Bannon: He disparages his co-workers behind their backs; he postures as the force behind personnel decisions; and he pretends to know more about national security than James Mattis, John Kelly, H. R. McMaster and Joseph Dunford (not to mention Donald Trump).
And the idea that the issues Zmirak cares most about – abortion, religious liberty and the persecution of Christians overseas – are also sincerely Trump's own seems completely implausible, not least because the president himself barely even pretends to fervor on any religious-conservative cause, offering instead a transactionalism that's almost admirable in its cynicism.
It could very well get smaller and smaller as its last dinosaurs like Metallica and U2 die off and the genre will exist on the fringes as a mere touchstone that popular artists pay homage to, like when a rapper samples an old jazz song or when Jack White pretends to play the blues.
What I really can't ever get used to, or really enjoy, are these super geared-up celebrity parties—where he's there, she's there—and everyone pretends to be friends like they've known each other for years, like"—he puts on a faux smoozy LA accent—"'oh, how are the kids?!' but no one actually cares.
Its content is thus: Taylor Swift dances more (bad), wears garments with hoods (bad), Ed Sheeran sits down (bad), Future is kind of there a couple of times (I have nothing negative to say about that really), Taylor Swift pretends to be fun, and it all looks very glossy, and high-budget, and fancy.
A Daily Mail article about the case drew eerie comparisons to the horror movie Orphan, in which a 33-year-old mentally ill woman pretends to be a 9-year-old who gets adopted by a couple, then proceeds to torment and manipulate the family until they collapse under the weight of her deceit.
The film sometimes pretends to be a classical tragedy about bereavement, motherhood and mental illness, but with its regular scares and its rudimentary plotting, "Hereditary" is fundamentally a hokey Halloween haunted-house chiller, complete with spooks, séances and people who are foolish enough to run upstairs rather than out of the door when they're being chased.
Granted, I was in town during the city's "Startup Week," but watching a normcore guitarist and a man dressed in traditional African garb play bongo-and-bass covers of classic rock songs in a public park gazebo with free gigabit wifi felt very much like the city is trying to nail whatever it is San Francisco pretends to be.

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