Sentences with phrase «about pretending»

Answer: Have you thought about pretending to get married by having a fake official perform the ceremony?

Describing her ideas about painting, Appel explains, «my work is not so much about pretending the real thing is there, but more about the presence of the subject, as well as the presence of the painting in space.»

In fact The Enigma even joked about pretending to be different first dates for me, including a guy called «Bernard» who he did a rather amusing impression of on our second date.

This isn't about pretending to be someone you're not.

Kindness is not about pretending to be happy all the time but rather about being considerate towards your partner.

Today's post is all about pretending the weather is better, actually.

Then you can be yourself and not have to worry about pretending and remembering what you lied about.

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

Now, I like what David said about pretending.

This is not about pretending disagreements don't exist, or promoting false harmony of opinion, but about behaving constructively, both online and in person.

We were discussing the topic of rejoicing in the Lord always — but it wasn't about pretending or faking it or minimizing suffering.

Very true, Patty, about pretend peace.

Lorraine Hope of the University of Portsmouth, UK, and colleagues gave all participants a briefing about a pretend burglary.

I'm hopeful, as long as it doesn't become boring, or another drama about pretend love and loss during a zombie outbreak... or try to force me to care about a character so the death makes an impact.

We are talking about a pretend tax to solve a pretend problem that no - one believes will be solved by this and we all have to pay attention.

If your child isn't able to tell you how she feels, encourage communication by giving her a task to complete or having her talk about a pretend character in a similar situation.

Not exact matches

But we demean and diminish the standouts and the ones who will really make a difference in our lives when we insist on lumping them with the rest of the mediocre pack while pretending that the world doesn't care about outcomes.

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

It's really easy to make really bad movies about really good things because you can just pretend to understand what they do.

Pretend you don't know much about what you do, and start asking the questions that will help you discover possibilities for doing it more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than you're doing it now.

I mean, why would I want to go on Peeple and pretend I'm somebody else to write good things about you?

Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.

«There's something liberating about not pretending.

You can get the same results by asking behavioral questions that start with verbiage like, «Tell us about a time...» or, «Describe a situation where...» The candidate can bring up real - life experiences that will reveal far more than pretend scenarios ever could.

Regardless of the occasion, there's always that awkward moment where someone pretends to use the restroom but is really trying to tell a waiter about the reason you're celebrating — and ask for a birthday cake.

It's clear now that if I had continued to pretend that I was asking for input, I would eventually lose credibility as a leader with my team — which is about the worst - case scenario you can experience as a boss.

Now that the IPO experience is under your belt, pretend I'm about to take my company public.

I've culled the studies that are neither useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the science of the season:

The IRS is warning taxpayers about groups pretending to be a charitable organization to attract donations from unsuspecting contributors.

Some went so far as to pretend to argue about an issue before capitulating, this way appearing to have been persuaded by the target rather than being a mere suck - up.

«Two tips that helped me tremendously included thinking about getting sucker punched in the gut, and also pretend you're holding a coin between your butt cheeks,» he wrote.

Zuckerberg et al would like to pretend that Facebook is just a platform, agnostic about content, just distributing whatever its users want, and run by an impartial algorithm.

Anyone who is serious about being fair needs to look at the whole picture without cherry - picking evidence or pretending that generally accepted principles don't apply to some.

«To simultaneously promote Adani's coal mine, which would be one of the world's largest, pretending to care about the world's largest Reef is an acrobatic feat only cynical politicians would attempt,» he said.

«I am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario.

Most Bowie fans spent the first hours after learning about his death listening to his music and pretending it didn't happen.

Trump refused to pretend — or at least, refused to pretend about that.

They might pretend in order to fool women, LGBTQ folk, and racial or ethnic minorities into voting for them, or they might pretend in order to make other folks feel less bad about voting for them.

To do that, pretend that a peer has come to you for advice about the situation.

Takers are good fakers when they're dealing with powerful people, but it's a lot of work to pretend to care about everyone so, selectively, they'll let their guard down.

The cover story pretends to be about trade, but the real agenda is to force privatization and disable government regulation.

«He would come over after school and was visibly upset about being teased, but he pretended that he really didn't care,» Gold said.

What is disappointing to me here is that even under the NDP reign, the Alberta government still pretends it is serious about protecting and recovering endangered species but refuses to do just about anything meaningful in relation to the most important step in the process — which is to protect critical habitat.

Try not to make judgments about what you see: Simply pretend you're a fly on the wall, and observe as neutrally as possible.

I don't pretend to know anything about tech.

You can look for phone numbers, e-mail addresses or office addresses of about three cleaning companies around you and call them up while pretending to be a prospective customer.

Academic textbooks pretend that the economy is all about production and consumption — factories producing the things their workers buy.

One thing I like about this story: nobody is even trying to pretend this isn't about religion.

Branch Davidians were all about giving everything, even their children to be raped, to the guy pretending to be Jesus.

Unlikely enough that even entertaining the very idea is laughable on its face so I won't pretend like the christians make an even remotely logical claim but I am also very aware that I can't say, with 100 % certainty, ANYTHING about this universe.