Sentences with phrase «then pretending»

Is that really how we keep it spicy, by buying a product and then pretending to be someone else?
Don't you insult people by dodging their questions, and then pretending that you have shown them to be ignorant?
When are you guys going to stop applying OLS linear trends to anomaly time - series and then pretending that it means something?
More on averaging: When calculating averages and then pretending that the averaged data is the source data, calculations of statistics produce misleadingly reduced variance (and thus misleading estimates of significance).
I Is... (I)(2012) and Tell My Mother not to Worry (ii)(2012), both take inspiration from Gander's daughter at play — an inherently creative process — first making a simple den and then pretending to be a ghost beneath a sheet.
I Is... (I)(2012) and Tell My Mother not to Worry (ii)(2012), both take inspiration from Gander's daughter at play - an inherently creative process - first making a simple den and then pretending to be a ghost beneath a sheet.
Wouldn't you rather be satisfied knowing what's in the bank then pretending you can afford the latest and greatest car, gadget and appliance?!
And my advice to authors is to stop selling your art like so many cheap, outsourced products, and then pretending like you still own it.
We aren't complaining though - we'd MUCH rather be doing our thing at a chilly beach then pretending like we know what we're doing at New York Fashion Week in the below - zero tundra.
Publicly and repeatedly slandering your opponent and then pretending it never happened.
Therefore, I suspect that they gambled that they had nothing to lose by publishing the data and then pretending it shows something different than what it actually shows.
You're holding a statement at face value and then pretending nothing around it changed...
Eddie, too, gets a «part» on the show, and Beha skillfully and humorously teases out the absurd implications of staging and scripting a person's life, filming it, and then pretending it's reality.
I smell somebody who's guilty paying off and then pretending to be not - guilty.
Here we have people denying security for people in Libya on 9/11, refusing to go to their rescue and then pretending the terror attack didn't even happen.
As to all your claims about believing until you believe and then pretending to sort of believe until you kind of believe a little more, I've heard it all before... from various members of various cults, religions, and pop philosophies.
I think there are some problems in the church and we best be addressing them â $ «for change â $ «then pretending they do not exist.
Then pretending that those who lack their belief also have a faith based position demand much less intellectual discipline is a much easier option than facing up to the burden of proof they give when insisting they believe what they do.
«That's akin to going to the Emergency Room after an injury, putting the charges on a credit card, and then pretending that the Visa bill is never going to arrive.»
«We can't simply expect to keep Ontario competitive but then pretend that we're not in a competition.»
You quote a man who delivered babaies and then murdered them, (as well as a mother in one case) and has been universally condemned as a monster and is on trial for eight cases of murder, and then you PRETEND that these actions are supported by pro-choicers?
The most deceptive aspect is when one steals from already established religious traditions (like Hinduism / Yoga) and then pretends to teach.
Not as funny as watching people worship a zombie and then pretend to eat human flesh and blood.
Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public.
Rev. Benedict Groeschel states that children often seduce their unwilling and unsuspecting victims, who then pretend to be seducing the children because they don't want them to feel left out?
Sorry, but you can not select one proof text and ignore the entire content and context of the 38 verses of Genesis 19, and then pretend that there is no mention of homosexuality as the reason for God's destruction of Sodom and the four other cities of the plain.
But this does not mean that he translates subjective emotions into objective speech and then pretends to have the word of God.
If you visit the memorial and you don't want to see the cross shaped display, then pretend your a vampire and ignor it.
To then pretend that things actually do have a real intention, purpose, or objective would be illogical, irrational, and delusions.
For instance, the pathetic fact that we have more people in prison in this country both in aggregate and per capita of any country on the planet (and then pretend we are a nation of freedom).
I just ask a question that science is prevented from knowing due to barriers of time and distance, then pretend that it somehow means that the only possible explaination is an invisible all - powerful guy who pulls it out of his derriere while riding his unicorn and dividing the light into night and day before he invents the Sun and Earth, even though night and day only exist if there is a Sun and a rotating planet.
I washed up again, then pretended I was using my left hand, which I wasn't REALLY using because my thumb has a Phineas & Ferb band - aid on it, and classy as that is, I didn't want the band - aid getting into the food.
OR, when he makes your dog poke you in back all night with her paws, and then pretends that she is totally doing it on her own, and he is in no way making it happen.
Her «job» involves going to his studio, chatting about food, tasting, sourcing ingredients, more tasting, more chatting, some cooking, more tasting... (I'd be lying if I said I hadn't wanted to beat her to death with my Ottolenghi book then pretend to be her, but I desisted — she was lovely.
«Then pretend you're Mormon,» Barkley shot back, «and get another one.»
Dabo showed up to the stadium thinking there was a game, and then pretended he was just «looking at some film» when someone asked what he was doing.
Wenger's new dribble is to get a good player early which will sweeten the hearts of fans, then pretend to be looking for other good signings till the transfer window slams down!
That gives all of Houston time to get downtown for the festivities, or go to work during the morning and then pretend to get a bit of food poisoning from lunch and scoot over to the parade to celebrate.
In Week 2, Jones and Golden Tate then pretended to play ping pong, where it looked like Tate got the best of him.
And then pretend it was for something else — how many players leave to work with «better people», «more recognition» and «more accolades» but for less money?
(Or the more masochistic older boys... they'd bite the legs off first and then pretend the cracker was pleading for its life!)
Using classic LEGO Duplo sets, kids can re-create Doc's Backyard Clinic, Pet Vet Center, or Rosie the Ambulance with blocks then pretend play with their favorite characters.
It started when he discovered Jake and the Neverland Pirates... since then he pretends to be a pirate, steering his ship (the swingset) in our backyard, yelling «ahoy!»
And then we pretend that we speak Spanish and babble at each other incoherently.
Then pretend it is all a conspiracy.
S / he can then pretend her arm is the yellow bee in this pretend play activity.
Then he pretends to pick gunk out of their ears, which is slightly less sweet but hits home.
He then pretends to get a call and says «please Ed, not now».
«How can you two months ago say that you are prepared to leave the European Union then pretend leaving would trigger World War II?
Beth would then pretend to protest, Cody would laugh some more, and they would ritualistically start all over from the very beginning.
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