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You can pretend to be me, you can pretend to be like me, but you're not.
Some writers "pretend to be more lovable than they are and some pretend to be less," he told Ms. Lee.
There's no need to pretend to be happy with choices like these, and there's no need to pretend to be happy in general, which is what brings us to this week's One Video pick: a Paramore video about how women are expected to pretend to be happy.
"There's a saying that 'in LA, the poor pretend to be rich; and in SF, the rich pretend to be poor' and it's completely spot-on," said Quora user Li Xuo.
I asked her if it's strange to watch these other women pretend to be her, and she said that she has spent her whole career watching other women pretend to be her.
Xpres­Spa does not pretend to be a palace of luxury.
You pretend to be cool with people, but you're not.
There are troll accounts which pretend to be someone else.
They're kufar -- infidels -- who pretend to be Muslims, but aren't.
I wasn't prepared to pretend to be anything I wasn't.
You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher.
Often, we pretend to be happy as a social lubricant.
Studios can no longer afford to pretend to be oblivious.
Masri does not pretend to be immune from his subjects.
Brian: Lemme pretend to be Tucker Carlson for a moment.
You don't need to pretend to be your colleague's friend.
"Sometimes I would pretend to be asleep," Ms. Beck said.
But it's not easy to pretend to be a bully.
The map wasn't science; it didn't even pretend to be.
She heard them pretend to be gay as a joke.
It cannot pretend to be anything other than it is.
You just need to pretend to be an important person.
I won't pretend to be sure I've gotten everything exactly right.
Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved.
I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
First of all, I can't pretend to be in your shoes.
How many of you pretend to be busy, that's your move?
All you have to do is pretend to be an animal.
" Leland wishes he'd continued: "No, we should pretend to be crows!
Two participants pretend to be deceased as part of a simulation.
Sun's going to have to pretend to be a waiter, though.
I'm not going to ever pretend to be coy about that.
Or they pretend to be sick until they elicit a response.
She's not a personal-finance expert and doesn't pretend to be.
But then again, Shiki doesn't pretend to be a ramen house.
I pretend to be on the phone or listening to music.
They pretend to be human by asking for a cease-fire.
I pretend to be cool on social media, but I'm not.
No mom is — and we shouldn't have to pretend to be.
I am a woman, and I don't pretend to be otherwise.
So, the mega fan decided to pretend to be Ross Geller.
This casserole isn't trying to pretend to be something it's not.
Don't be overly charitable Or at least don't pretend to be.
But Ms Rollins does not pretend to be a fortune-teller.
Tolentino doesn't pretend to be outside of the stories she's telling.
Munchausen is when you make things up, pretend to be sick.
They pretend to be talking in metaphors when they're in fact lying.
New sexting tip: when in doubt, pretend to be in an Ikea.
"I don't pretend to be a venture capitalist, or something," he says.
That way, I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
The Saudis pretend to be our friend, but sadly they are not.
You're picky as hell, even though you pretend to be so flexible.
There's a lot of science fiction that doesn't pretend to be realistic.
Her job is to pretend to be people she's not — i.e. acting.
I feel like that's a fun thing to pretend to be doing.
There's people who pretend to be depressed to party and get attention.
Others pretend to be investing, but are actually just moving their assets.
So why not take this opportunity to pretend to be, say, royalty?
Brands work hard to pretend to be your friends on social media.
We simply aren't part of the story and shouldn't pretend to be.
So, the criminals can easily pretend to be one of these companies.
"She can't pretend to be a moderate after those votes," Cunningham said.
Joanna is actually going to pretend to be Kara for our outro.
"We don't pretend to be a millennial media company," Mr. Schneps said.
"Life's too short to pretend to be somebody you're not," he says.
Others pretend to be investing but are actually just moving their assets.
I&aposm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.
And it's not like we can all pretend to be Elsa from Frozen.
You have to, but I don't pretend to be an expert in that.
So, one day I'll pretend to be the kid and write his essay.
Or they are broke, but they are going to pretend to be rich.
However, the actors are not from the region, and don't pretend to be.
We fact check everything we say, but we don't pretend to be neutral.
If you want to get rich on Ebay, pretend to be a man.
Ah well — I'm not a real adult and I don't pretend to be.
He got to honk the horn and pretend to be driving a semi!
I would really pretend to be somebody else as I was doing it.
Are you saying Trump could hire people to pretend to be Russian hackers?
But they can also drink craft beer and pretend to be a sommelier.
"I don't pretend to be the only one who created Sam," he added.
They had to pretend to be Hank and make something he would make.
You guys pretend to be this edgy fucking company, but you know what?
When it comes to Congress, I do not pretend to be an expert.
Why scold something that doesn't even pretend to be high or even middlebrow?
She tries to convince him that they could pretend to be other people.
No one with an appreciation for life would pretend to be so debilitated.
You can't pretend to be good so hard that you actually become good.
No, I do think Google is more aggressive than they pretend to be.
They hide in a rural black community and pretend to be black themselves.
In fact, he gives her tips on how to pretend to be lowborn!
During the replay, the students were instructed to pretend to be the referees.
They abrogate their responsibility like the 2500-year-old they pretend to be.
In order for this to succeed, we couldn't just pretend to be confident.
"I don't pretend to be speaking for everyone 70-plus," Patrick's text read.
He was a fraud, trying to pretend to be someone he was not.
I pretend to be visiting relatives or taking a shift at the market.
Keiko can pretend to be in a relationship and so not be pitied.
Who will laugh rapaciously and pretend to be a pirate when you're gone?
Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we're not helpless?
They don't pretend to be anything other than doomed, but they carry on anyway.
It also means it's easy for brands to pretend to be something they're not.
Look, I'm not going to pretend to be anything other than a bandwagoner here.
But no matter how successful she is, Ilana can't pretend to be someone else.
They broke up privately, but she agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend publicly.
"I hate films when I have to pretend to be pretty," Ms. Gainsbourg said.
"Room service came and I had to pretend to be watching tennis," she tweeted.
WATTERS: Well, you don&apost have to bend over backwards -- pretend to be fair.
She wasn't going to pretend to be something different or put on any airs.
"They have to pretend to be two different people," he said of his colleagues.
So my first ruse is a simple one: Pretend to be a flower deliveryman.
WALTER ISAACSON: When you interact with them, can you pretend to be somebody else?
Try as I might, I could never pretend to be a professional ice skater.
Scammers usually pretend to be a reputable technology company like Microsoft, Apple or Dell.
They're also about men who pretend to be something they're not, which Petersen hates.
It's not the day to hold back or pretend to be someone you're not.
To excel at this, they pretend to be a human family named the Solomons.
"I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy," she tells Delevingne.
"But I couldn't pretend to be at work for days on end," he said.
Women like you love to get Groupon plastic surgery and pretend to be twenty.
Two Brisbane men pretend to be professional golfers at the North Korean Golf Open.
Now they pretend to be shocked that those elements have taken over their parties.
Maybe, maybe not—I'm not going to pretend to be an expert Bruce-ologist.
She's not going to pretend to be something she's not for us regular people.
She would pretend to be pregnant, wearing a suicide belt underneath a maternity dress.
This also allows people to pretend to be wealthier than they are, of course.
PRETEND TO BE YOUR DOCTOR One of the dumps even includes individual victims' doctors.
Would I pretend to be neutral, they wanted to know, or even pro-life?
Pretend to be frightened by a balloon popping or a child squealing with glee.
The choice of these seven does not pretend to be representative of contemporary Russians.
Occasionally, he'd accept tentatively, which would make her laugh and pretend to be upset.
Some used car dealers pretend to be private sellers on Craigslist to avoid regulations.
People will pretend to be your friend, then gossip about you behind your back.
It is an Arduino compatible ATtiny85 system that can pretend to be USB devices.
So it's just really, really, really sad that somebody would pretend to be me.
"Don't try and pretend to be something that you're really not, right?" he added.
It requires male priests to be celibate, or at least pretend to be celibate.
"They pretend to be strong in front of me," she said of her daughters.
When you cook the books you shouldn't pretend to be surprised by the results.
But the good thing about how we are on the podcast is, or what we talk about on the podcast, is we don't pretend to be journalists, we don't pretend to be nonpartisan... [laughs] I don't think anyone would … You're super partisan.
It's really easy to pretend to be something you're not when it comes to money.
They often pretend to be hikers, sometimes camping out for weeks while gathering the timber.
I'm still learning and careful not to pretend to be that guy who knows everything.
It took an ever larger cocktail of drugs to pretend to be happy and stable.
Democrats and Republicans pretend to be in opposition to each other but they're really not.
Sometimes I use email or phone calls to pretend to be someone I am not.
He's not an economist, and for the most part, he doesn't pretend to be one.
I can't pretend to be inside the president's head and know how much he understands.
Each country in turn has something that Mr Moore will pretend to be flabbergasted at.
If I can pretend to be a US general, unwitting people will respect me immediately.
They talk about Mr. Trump even when they pretend to be speaking about something else.
But I also think that, if you're weak, it's childish to pretend to be strong.
"I don't even want to pretend to be on that side right now," he said.
There's far less pressure for people to pretend to be fine with you being butch.
"—the thrust of the joke being "lol patients sometimes pretend to be sick for attention.
David Duke used to have to winkingly pretend to be a little bit less racist?
So, if I didn't mind, could I pretend to be my boyfriend's brother's girlfriend instead?
The shapeshifters pretend to be drowning, and turn on their rescuers once they are 'saved'.
We're not going to pretend to be able to give good advice in this instance.
So people would come and pretend to be Boy George and stuff, it was funny.
And we pretend to kayak and we pretend to be really interested in some philanthropy.
The idea that one should lie about these data, or pretend to be convinced by bad arguments that are politically correct, or worse that it's okay to malign people, or even destroy their reputations, if they won't pretend to be convinced by bad arguments.
"He doesn't pretend to be anything he's not," says Ed Henry, a state senator for Alabama.
In a typical "business email compromise," (BEC), the bad guys pretend to be a company employee.
Hackers pretend to be a trusted network and then can watch anything you do while connected.
And kids, if you pretend to be someone else, don't do it right under their nose.
He could not pretend to be Donald Trump — wildly unscripted, crass, impossible to ignore or forget.
He thinks religion is a secret handshake, that he can pretend to be a faith person.
The aptly-named Beer Tie doesn't pretend to be anything more than possibly mankind's greatest innovation.
Some extensions will let you pretend to be Safari, meaning you can then stream the event.
That's not fair to the film, which doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is.
Or, you could do as the female moorland hawker dragonfly does, and pretend to be dead.
Some children pretend to be incompetent so they won't have to out themselves as actually incompetent.
Christian Bale sounds like I do when I pretend to be Michael Caine reading Harry Potter.
WALTER ISAACSON: And so you will engage, pretend to be somebody else, try to gather information?
He does not pretend to be a saint, but he is ferociously loyal to his people.
But that's a ridiculous notion—that someone would pretend to be nice by doing nice things.
Anyone out there with a Vette want to pretend to be Tom Cruise for a minute?
When things at school were particularly rough, Chloe would pretend to be sick to stay home.
It was so obvious the witnesses were lying that I couldn't even pretend to be upset.
It was another moment of truth: should I pretend to be the husband or come clean?
Claire ends up under his "protection" as she continues to pretend to be a kidnapped widow.
Take solace that there is a sport where Finnish people pretend to be horses: http://bit.
Her brother Aamir would take a couple of bites and pretend to be dying — of happiness.
In the meantime, Sophia must merely pretend to be pregnant while Maria pretends not to be.
"He doesn't pretend to be a Bible-banging evangelical," Ms. Nance, an evangelical Christian herself, added.
I'd watched people burst into tears, climb into one another's laps, and pretend to be God.
Friends had even asked her if a model had been hired to pretend to be her.
It also benefited from Thompson's banter with guests he could hardly pretend to be impressed by.
"Every time I serve the locals, I pretend to be more Mexican than Kenyan," he said.
Of course, I have built enough experience and intuition that I sort of pretend to be naive.
Maybe when you & your husband actually practice what you pretend to be, you can say this again.
And then the next day I'll pretend to be the mom and write the parent essay, too.
You know, Democrats win when they&aposre moderate or pretend to be moderate, and they get it.
Some pretend to be from the IRS, others come from a phone number very similar to yours.
In this mini rom-com, though, Nadia and John have to pretend to be husband and wife.
Like when young children want to divert a threat, they think they can pretend to be invisible.
"It was pretty easy to pretend to be enamored by her," Mara told Interview Magazine in November.
"You're gonna take a load of people, and they're gonna pretend to be cats," Corden, 41, noted.
"But when you personally experience what happened — witness it — you can pretend to be ignorant no more."
Most commonly, it's used to prosecute cases involving attackers who pretend to be a victim's intimate partner.
The vigilantes pretend to be underage children and lure adults to meet the fake minors for sex.
Then he asked my friend to pretend to be unable to understand & put it in the clip.
You could even board an enemy pirate ship, pretend to be friendly, and then steal their treasure.
The person I had to pretend to be was trying to be traditional, trying to fit in.
How is the police force SO bad that Elliot can just pretend to be a police officer?
Others pretend to be Indian Muslims, to take advantage of the warmer welcome Pakistan accords such people.
But GJS' Geio doesn't pretend to be anything other than a robot designed for make-believe combat.
At drama school, they'd done an exercise where you had to pretend to be on an iceberg.
Many posted images implying how easy it is to pretend to be dead, and then wake up.
Hell, he may buy his own grocery store just so he can pretend to be a cashier.
After two years of Trump-era award shows, however, no one can convincingly pretend to be surprised.
We pretend to be friendly with people who we know hold only their own interests at heart.
I won't pretend to be surprised that yoga technology, for the most part, is not for me.
The phrase we had to use for our English name actually translates to 'pretend to be called.
It used bots — computer programs that pretend to be people — to steal hundreds of millions of dollars.
I didn't have to hide away a part of myself, or pretend to be something I wasn't.
Llorente is not quick — and would not pretend to be quick — but he is a sizable obstacle.
First, he had her lie on a bed in a bathing suit and pretend to be sleeping.
I had to answer the phone and pretend to be her secretary and I could live there.
"You're gonna take a load of people, and they're gonna pretend to be cats," Corden, 41, began.
The painting portrays a time when large segments of the country didn't even pretend to be inclusive.
I asked him how he feels about people who pretend to be veterans when they are not.
I pretend to be very interested in his toy, and we play-fight for about 20 minutes.
Yep, it's the time of the year where they all pretend to be relatable by wearing jeans.
This was the time for a populist, or at least someone who could pretend to be one.
In the opening of the 1988 movie "Big," which Yankees pitcher does Josh Baskin pretend to be?
So I'm not going to pretend to be surprised that Marco Rubio took issue with the speech.
Yep, it's the time of the year where they all pretend to be relatable by wearing jeans.
Why do we have to pretend to be sorry when we have nothing to be sorry about?
Diamante's 210,210 inhabitants are obsessed with peperoncino, or at least they pretend to be for the tourists.
Lord's main defense doesn't pretend to be about principled conservatism or an intellectual defense of Trump's ideas.
He would get sick sometimes, and I'd pretend to be him so we could still earn the purse.
"I don't pretend to be anything but the new image of the Florida Man, these days," Hyden said.
But having Ryan Gosling pretend to be angry at Brad Pitt for getting more lines as a presenter?
In "Grandfathered," at 8:30, Sara asks Jimmy to pretend to be her boyfriend at an ex's party.
LGBT refugees claim to have seen people collecting money under a false pretense: They pretend to be gay.
Reality isn't real anymore but a highly curated photo feed of who we want to pretend to be.
The best and worst thing about the internet is that anyone can pretend to be anyone they want.
"They pretend to be for the people, but it's always the poor who end up suffering," he says.
TWD doesn't often pretend to be more than a fun way to get heartbroken over a character's demise.
It would be the height of hypocrisy for me to pretend to be part of his inaugural celebration.
Everyone is passionate about their field of work — or they at least pretend to be in their application.
Usually, aggressive mimicry has the predator pretend to be someone else's prey, fooling victims into becoming their meals.
The actress said she "freaked out," calling a friend to come over and pretend to be her boyfriend.
Likeable leaders don't puff themselves up or pretend to be something they're not, because they don't have to.
Really anyone can pretend to be a cab driver for a night and get into a taxi line.
"You know I couldn't invite you, I had to pretend to be plastic," is the line in question.
Why is there an entire movie where The Rock will pretend to be an old, whiny Danny DeVito?
Who doesn't want to pretend to be Bruce Banner or Tony Stark and save the world from Thanos?
How can Republicans like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, pretend to be helping the middle class?
From $329 Hotels that pretend to be dog friendly yet charge extortionate fees are my literal pet peeve.
Those restaurants became a kind of theater where he could pretend to be a person that he wasn't.
As in past public appearances that summer, he told her to smile and pretend to be in love.
Time to pretend to be busy for a little bit before I can justify going to get breakfast.
I don't think life was particularly easy for her, but it's certainly fun to pretend to be her!
Nor does it look awesome that NBC News paid Chelsea Clinton $600,000 to pretend to be a journalist.
I want to lose it; I want to be myself rather than the person I pretend to be.
The study showed that being forced to pretend to be happy over long periods of time affected health.
Fiennes, who, in the film, wears jeans and an ancient-Roman beard, did not pretend to be Darbyshire.
Many restaurateurs mythologize their cuisines and pretend to be doing better than they are, to stir up interest.
During class, Bremer said Manning would jump around the classroom full of energy and pretend to be Batman.
But I'm proud of who I am, and I don't want to pretend to be someone I'm not.
No. The storyline is laughably thin and does not pretend to be anything more than a serviceable premise.
I don't pretend to be a political science major; I'm a guy who learned that stuff through music.
There are all kinds of moments where I think I can pretend to be this or that artist.
So why would someone want to pretend to be an inanimate object, especially an inanimate object that gets banged?
You can pretend to be someone else for a little while, but sooner or later you are just you.
He later admitted that he actually did wear blackface to pretend to be Michael Jackson in a dance competition.
Just remember: whenever you swing your huge axe at a dinosaur, a human had to pretend to be hurt.
You had to pretend to be sad you couldn't join him on his second jump, but that wasn't difficult.
These automated calls demand you "pay the IRS" a fine you don't owe or pretend to be tech support.
She was to pretend to be a Chinese citizen belonging to an ethnic minority with cross-border cultural links.
It doesn't skimp, it's not thinly sliced, and it doesn't pretend to be anything than its raw disgusting self.
With music playing in the background, the couple had a playful interaction in which they pretend to be cats.
Drones let us do cool things like take neat pictures from overhead views and pretend to be a pilot.
Some have created fake versions of online accounting tools like QuickBooks, while others pretend to be tech support agents.
As Bruce Wayne, he can hardly stop snarling long enough to pretend to be human at a social gathering.
Now, thanks to a 3D video by the European Space Agency, you can pretend to be one of them.
In this workshop, children pretend to be reporters during the age of Cervantes and figure out all his secrets.
You can go to a hotel in the city that you live in and pretend to be a celebrity.
Other scammers pretend to be affiliated with charitable organizations in order to scam military personnel out of their cash.
Another described how she and her partner pretend to be total strangers, and how it keeps their relationship fresh.
Refusing to accept my fate as a woman, I used my short haircut to pretend to be a boy.
And during police questioning the officers did not even pretend to be interested in the documents they had seized.
He would call reporters and pretend to be a publicity agent for himself named John Barron or John Miller.
My mother was an actress, which added another refraction: I grew up watching her pretend to be other people.
You are rewarded for treating environments and encounters as a place to pretend to be rather than progressing through.
"  Graham said, "I have made up my mind … I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.
I'm not sure that voters could be easily fooled by candidates who pretend to be what they are not.
Often, they will pretend to be serving the demands of protesters, giving their coup the appearance of popular legitimacy.
"That's one of the reasons why people love Joe Biden — is because he doesn't pretend to be perfect," Rep.
You could not live in a relatively poor socialist kibbutz and pretend to be Donald Judd or Richard Serra.
Soros is Jewish, and his father had him pretend to be Christian to escape being killed in the Holocaust.
The first is the question of why rekcahxfb would pretend to be a multimillion-dollar hacker in the first place.
If a young boy could pretend to be a brave general, what could a young girl imagine herself to be?
I am by no means a great dancer, but it was fun to pretend to be one for an hour!
The app is currently featuring the #faketravel challenge for instance, in which users pretend to be on a luxurious vacation.
If you want your earbuds to hang on your lobes and pretend to be a fashion statement, that's your decision.
"To give that kind of money to his wife and still pretend to be Mr Clean, it's incredible," says Sandra.
There's no better icebreaker than having to pretend to be someone you're not in front of a room of strangers.
His faith is longstanding: as a boy, he would don a sheet after mass and pretend to be a priest.
As Brisk posted on Twitter, all you need is a dome-like piece of foam, and pretend to be pregnant.
It isn't cheap, but doesn't pretend to be a discount wireless router offering like many other options on the market.
Maybe she shouldn't show up in person, she said—perhaps she should pretend to be a therapist over the phone.
You know, I never saw a person pretend to be your friend and pretend to care about your well being.
Why Sophie would pretend to be Alice — there could be a hundred reasons, none ofwhich we can confirm as official.
And now you ask me to pretend to be/empathize with a girl character who does the exact same bullshit?
So, can the mainstream media at least not pretend to be outraged and offended the next time progressives attack them?
And yet, neither of them can pretend to be anything but bored in a bizarre new video promoting Australia's ecosystem.
The three actresses, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Nance Williamson and Stacey Yen, never pretend to be men in the male roles.
" And he added: "I'm not gonna mince my words and pretend to be a nice diplomatic guy, 'cause I'm not.
It's mostly noise and military slang with slo-mo sequenced arrangements that pretend to be something halfway fun or watchable.
And sometimes, when you're just texting or something like that, people can pretend to be whoever they want to be.
Today's men's rights/bro-culture crowd doesn't pretend to be interested in taking their porn with a side of Picasso.
I won't pretend to be more religious than the next person, nor am I afraid to call myself a Christian.
Besides their desire for a better future, migrants such as Abbasi have another good reason to pretend to be Syrians.
The refreshing thing about Kinsey is that she doesn't pretend to be fearless when she's scared out of her wits.
" Graham said in an interview with CNN Saturday that he is "not trying to pretend to be a fair juror.
So he has to continue to pretend to be this nerd even though he has the ability to defend himself.
They pretend to be interested in order to lure Walt to the white supremacist compound and kill him that night.
"We didn't want to pretend to be experts on gay and lesbian couples," said Warren in a 2016 CNN article.
"One of our principles is that we speak like a human, but we never pretend to be one," he says.
While we can and should be helpful to the peace process, we cannot pretend to be without allegiance and bias.
The joke of "Toy Story" is that Woody and his buddies only pretend to be inanimate when people are around.
"Don't pretend to be having an elevated discussion of public policy when you're conducting character assassination," she wrote in Politico.
It didn't pretend to be anything fancy, but it packed a punch as far as fast-food chicken sandwiches go.
I'm a 29-year-old grown-up (well, at least I pretend to be one on weekdays) living in New York.
"I wish I had the ability to pretend to be mysterious," she says, tugging at the collar of puffy black parka.
The Ass Doctor and I have an ongoing childish game: we pretend to be amateur sleuths, like we're twelve years old.
Do you just go on Twitter like "Hey, anybody wanna pretend to be afraid of black people for this music video"?
Should you pretend to be dead in hopes of a gentle mauling, or scream at the bear to scare it off?
The hook, "You don't have to flex on me," is like, you don't have to pretend to be anything around me.
The idea that he can sit in the White House and pretend to be a champion for the abused is absurd.
All Nisi has to do is pretend to be the granddaughter of Blakemore's long lost love — his family's Black maid, Lily.
First, the group bots will act more like news tickers instead of trying to pretend to be a human discussion partner.
I can no longer pretend to be someone I'm not just so I can fulfil a rigid stereotype of female attractiveness.
Ruth as Zoya thinks fast, however, and asks a little girl in the audience to pretend to be Liberty Belle's daughter.
So sometimes women like me have to pretend to be more confident than we really feel just to amp ourselves up.
To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to 'pretend' to be an ally.
But if I might pretend to be completely innocent for a moment, then I have a couple of observations to make.
It's not a problem to not be okay, it's only a problem to pretend to be okay when we are not.
Many young men, just like this student, compose artful, convincing masks, but deep down they aren't who they pretend to be.
Yup—seems like you can just pretend to be your favorite athlete and they'll just conjure themselves out of thin air.
While judges may pretend to be following the Constitution, they will really be following their own moral, political, and policy preferences.
A judge can easily pretend to be an originalist while simply manipulating historical meaning to derive the outcome that she prefers.
With a name based on the threatening government in Orwell's 1984, the show doesn't pretend to be a paragon of equality.
They can pretend to be together, a mutually beneficial business arrangement that involves a written contract and a ban on kissing.
But since we're just coming off Oscars weekend, Kimmel asked Marquand to pretend to be various celebs accepting a golden statue.
If you make someone a fake ID, you can't pretend to be surprised if it is used in a criminal enterprise.
But he could, for example, pretend to be a millionaire while going to a restaurant and pay $500 for a meal.
For reasons both cultural and narratively convenient, the two pretend to be a couple in order to appease his overbearing grandmother.
Cusack said he does not pretend to be perfect but has tried to comfort the detained students as they have returned.
But with Trump they lost control: the base wanted someone who was blatantly racist and wouldn't pretend to be anything else.
A university student named Yoshi called her with a special request: Could she pretend to be his girlfriend for a day?
They aren't good people, they don't pretend to be good people, and very little indicates they're going to become good people.
So she suggests role-playing with your kids — pretend to be a neighbor with a litter of kittens to show them.
Jammers and spoofers — which break a drone's connection to the operator or pretend to be the operator — can't overpower some drones.
There is no paragraph where the star and the writer pretend to be pals — gag — while doing an everyday-person activity.
Director Ruben Fleischer clearly knows what the audience wants, and the film doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is.
For example, a user cannot register the username of a celebrity and truly pretend to be that celebrity on the site.
Think of Don Lemon as a parallel — while the latter is a pure opinion entity and doesn't pretend to be otherwise.
If you want to pretend to be somebody, that's great, but you being you is just a fundamental part of reality.
Commentators in the state media pretend to be evenhanded, but that's impossible, given where they sit, behind the state's protective curtain.
Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?
This topic alone would need more explanations to understand better, but I don't pretend to be an expert on that question.
"That's a sign of somebody who will say anything, do anything, pretend to be anybody, just to get elected," Obama said.
In fact, many conservative politicians only pretend to be Scrooges, when they're actually much worse — not mere misers, but actively cruel.
I would never pretend to be an expert in logic, and I never made it all the way through Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Canadians are known for being polite people, but sometimes even they can't pretend to be nice in order to spare others' feelings.
You can have a little fun, step out of your comfort zone, and maybe pretend to be someone else for a night.
"They can pretend to be common networks like Starbucks, airports, and hotels so your device joins them automatically or manually," Warren explains.
I cock my head to the side and pretend to be interested in a box of Corn Flakes selling for thirteen dollars.
Wearing false eyelashes and drawing on my eyebrows allows me to cover the disorder, hide the shame, and pretend to be 'normal'.
They may assume the identity of actual soldiers deployed overseas or pretend to be engineers working on projects in far-flung locales.
"He really has become the proverbial swamp that will do and say anything and pretend to be something they're not," Grimm said.
He elucidated the concept of the "honest thief": a crook who doesn't pretend to be otherwise, unlike the police and the bureaucrats.
I don't pretend to be a bastion of mental health, but I cannot, for reasons of self-preservation, buy into Schmid's insanity.
In the game, the two men pretend to be holding back vomit as they do a dramatic reading of a classic film.
In the middle of the show, there would be a gallows set up so Cooper could pretend to be executed via hanging.
They're not games with logic and solutions, but places where you can literally pretend to be a movie hacker with no consequences.
He has to put on a child's sweatshirt and pretend to be a student in order to sneak past the hall monitor.
If you want a great smartphone, all you really need to do is avoid phones that pretend to be excellent, but aren't.
It's another one of those achingly familiar and mundane exchanges too, where you both pretend to be too cool for online dating.
Tiger and his team are supposed to enter Iraq discreetly, pretend to be oil rig workers and sneak into the hospital unnoticed.
With cardboard, we could create anything and pretend to be anyone, from a king of a castle to an astronaut in spaceship.
It eliminated the need to call in and to have to pretend to be embarrassed that you're ordering breakfast cheesy bread, again.
Shoshanna made Elijah pretend to be her "executive assistant," and it's clear that her former friends see right through this nefarious trick.
Another must-have accessory is a pair of binoculars, so you can at least pretend to be watching the race up close!
"We'll teach you how to pretend to be an anti-fascist and how to become an actual fascist," Trump Jr. said Thursday.
This disappoints him immensely, because he's forced to pretend to be Dick's son and deal with annoyances including puberty and other teenagers.
The Republican establishment is engaged in the very different enterprise of asking its candidate to pretend to be what he is not.
As a consequence, many studios pretend to be model management agencies or telecommunications providers instead—using the tax codes connected to those.
Oh yeah, they also have vignettes where they pretend to be the Reservoir Dogs (its end goal is to sell T-shirts).
As Buenos Aires' original speakeasy, what do you think about the city's current thirst for themed saloons that pretend to be unlicensed?
Rap songs have multiple writers and do not glorify instrumental soloists; hip-hop stars do not pretend to be uninterested in commerce.
In this way, very short books contribute to a greater harmony, whereby people are more like the people they pretend to be.
It doesn't have to be an interaction where you have to pretend to be "normal" just to earn a modicum of tolerance.
Unlike the Shed or the Vessel, Snark Park does not even pretend to be a gift to the people of New York.
Silva does not pretend to be a great soloist; he does not play to the gallery or for his personal highlights reel.
"I know he wants to do this to pretend to be Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible movie," Iaconetti told PEOPLE beforehand.
So she hatches a plan: She will pretend to be a wayward girl, and she will admit herself to the frightening institution.
They pretend to be on the side of ordinary working people — "paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare," he wrote.
There will always be a date where a musical act serenades the couple, who pretend to be big fans and awkwardly dance.
Beck and her friends are always trying to pretend to be cooler, happier, more carefree, and more interesting than they actually are.
I stay in bed and pretend to be fast asleep until I smell coffee on my bedside table that E. brought me.
Because if it weren't exciting enough to pretend to be Wonder Woman for a night, doing it with minimal effort is even better.
The bottles come with cocktail serving suggestions, but since I don't pretend to be a mixologist, I stuck with a tonic-water mixer.
Cell-site simulators pretend to be cell phone towers and trick nearby phones into connecting to them instead of to a legitimate signal.
"Then I changed my name to a stereotypical South Korean name and changed my profile to pretend to be the man," Assemakis said.
"To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to 'pretend' to be an ally," she added.
"Right now the safest thing to do is pretend to be a mostly straight male instead of a mostly gay transwoman," they said.
And for added effect, photographer Chris is going to pretend to be a pap, desperate for a picture of the Love Actually star.
Meanwhile, millions of people watched her to pretend to be a vital part of a movement that means life or death to them.
While there was plenty of value extraction by landlords in the 17th century, they did not pretend to be productive, creative or innovative.
"We're trying to pretend to be a small indie team that works with Unity and pushes it as much as possible," he explains.
And if the son of a poor Tunisian car mechanic could not be a CEO, he could at least pretend to be one.
Just ask anyone who, circa age six, demanded a "bug party" or an event where everyone had to pretend to be a dog.
"We're cutting edge lawyers and policy advocates but we don't pretend to be cutting edge when it comes to tech," he also said.
All over the world, Niall said, broke millennials who needed cash fast were signing NDAs and signing on to pretend to be robots.
And those folks, if they're going to continue to pretend to be conservatives, they're going to have an obligation to resist Trump policies.
Spending $40,000 a day to pretend to be a mundane cowboy when cowboys already exist is a weird niche for a theme park.
Her brassy bestie (Debi Mazar) persuades her to pretend to be 26, and voilà: She lands an assistant gig at a publishing house.
Catchers frame pitches to fool umpires, batters pretend to be struck by pitches, and base runners leave the baseline to interfere with fielders.
For instance, we may stop pretending to be superheroes, but a lot of us seem convinced that we can pretend to be investors.
This is why I find the phone so therapeutic: It's so intimate that there's no need to pretend to be anyone but yourself.
He would again check into a hotel, pretend to be a tourist and leave quick missed calls on Mr. Abaaoud's Turkish phone number.
I was definitely very jealous, and not only jealous, but offended that Gerard had the audacity to pretend to "be kept" by Andy.
"[These are] spaces that pretend to be public spaces, that profess to safeguard free expression, when the reality is evidently something quite different."
And now it's promoting a mode created by other developers which is based on a popular mod where players pretend to be objects.
If you're a diver or just want to pretend to be one you could do worse than this beefy and very legible piece.
Especially after divorce, it can be tempting to hide, pretend to be someone else, or try to attract a certain kind of person.
She talks and acts like a Middle American white man — with occasional stereotypical exceptions, as when she must pretend to be a prostitute.
While I was finishing overdubs on the music, I said, 'Jamie can I pretend to be you and lay down melody for verses?
What he meant, of course, was abundantly clear: Theoretically, there are five Premier League teams who would pretend to be Manchester City's equal.
Sure, there are also parts that seem extraneous or simply don't work, but the Duplasses never pretend to be masters of their craft.
You could pretend to be anything and be accepted, whereas before that, you really had to have the background and education and breeding.
"I'm too old to pretend to be something I'm not, and a lot of the things I am are not attractive," he says.
In a barrage of Twitter posts on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said Democrats only "PRETEND to be aggrieved" over his dismissal of Mr. Comey.
The number of companies that might pretend to be in distress in the hopes of getting a handout to remain is even larger.
No matter Russia's true disdain for international law, it must at least pretend to be law-abiding to achieve its rational self-interest.
But the Trump Tango never involves an apology, a change of heart, or even a good-faith effort to pretend to be sorry.
IMSI-catchers, commonly known as Stingrays, are small devices that pretend to be a cell phone tower and force nearby phones to connect.
Bannon is in "communication" regularly with Burke, although Harnwell acknowledges that the three-times divorced Bannon "doesn't pretend to be a model Catholic".
I don't think there is a motive that would make me understand why she'd torment her friends and pretend to be tormented for years.
Sage Boggs, a reporter from Mic, recently discovered videos uploaded to YouTube from a Newseum exhibit that invites guests to pretend to be reporters.
" Carey's publicist told me, "These allegations are false and come from a source that must be desperate to pretend to be in the know . . .
I look forward to that one hour each night where I can kick back, turn off my smartphone and pretend to be somewhere else.
The kid who brought us to his sugar daddy's house, where we had to pretend to be still sleeping when the latter came home?
On the buying side we've eliminated the ability to spoof domains, which will reduce the prevalence of sites that pretend to be real publications.
To help overcome anxiety, Li suggests you pretend to be your own lawyer, coming up with an argument for why you shouldn't feel anxious.
It is not my perspective — but unlike a decade ago, it can no longer pretend to be the only one in the autism conversation.
Now, in moments, we&aposre going to expose all the political hacks who pretend to be so fair and unbiased, the so-called "journalists".
I pretend to be a stranger finding me, folding a dog-ear over to remember my black-and-white face — a very interesting girl.
Or you can be like me and add your face to a picture of the sky and pretend to be god or the sun.
But The Girlfriend Experience isn't about those topics, does not pretend to be about those topics, and should not be measured against those topics.
Time to put on this fake-ness and go in here for nine to 15 hours and pretend to be somebody that I'm not.
There can be internal pressure to pretend to be chill or game for things you're not interested in for the sake of the party.
MacFarlane made an awkward joke about the nominees, and congratulated them because they "no longer have to be pretend to be attracted" to Weinstein.
And they can understand how boring, expensive, and time-consuming it is to pretend to be as smooth and supple as a Veet commercial.
And it is precisely because Trump's appeal is so simple that he can pretend to be a more complex politician than he actually is.
While both Linda and Ellen pretend to be okay with their man's noncommittal ways, they eventually break up with his low-key trifling behind.
There are many bots out there that don't even really pretend to be human and provide automated emergency notifications or serve customer service roles.
When doing this, Googlebot will pretend to be different devices in order to test the performance of individual sites on smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc.
It's possible to grab a cookie from some packet and use it to pretend to be the user that cookie is intended to identify.
The pranksters even got a phone number with a Fairfax, Virginia, area code, so they could pretend to be based at the NRA's headquarters.
The older you get you try to pretend to be somewhat composed even though you still don't know what the fuck you are doing.
Creating a congress of depravityPoliticon does not pretend to be anything other than what it is: a colorful manifestation of politics as commercialized spectacle.
Once users engage, scammers then pretend to be an IT professional and badger victims to hand over money in exchange for phony tech support.
We pretend to be scandalized by the phrase "coat-hanger abortion," but in the end it is a punch line in a party game.
Users can pretend to be starring in blockbuster movies by uploading pictures to the app, which then create simulated video clips using machine learning.
You reach for your phone and pretend to be looking at something important, while simultaneously hoping no one sees you refreshing your Instagram feed.
We're long past the days when galleries represented artists exclusively and one gallery could pretend to be disengaged from the work of the others.
We weren't going to pretend to be other people; we were going to be ourselves in a parallel reality in which we hadn't met.
The hands-on event had waiters serving miniature ice cream sandwiches, but the best I could do was pretend to be a kid again.
According to Federal Trade Commission data, complaints about scams in which callers pretend to be from the government have reached an all-time high.
And neither is the drive to pretend to be someone else, as Ty Cobb, a member of President Trump's legal team, learned last week.
Phishing scams, which are typically email campaigns where attackers pretend to be an authoritative entity you know and trust, are both popular and effective.
Other artists may make criminally large sums from their sales, but at least they don&apost pretend to be savvy satirists while doing so.
Like Ms. Taylor, she must dig out men's clothing and pretend to be "Manuel" when she goes back to visit her family in Mexico.
He doesn't pretend to be a hero or an antihero — just a young man alone, trying to get through life with some honest grace.
To save her children's lives, Ung's mother sent her kids out of Ro Leap, telling them to pretend to be orphans and never to return
As a form of protest, the organization stages "die-ins" where members lay on the ground of a public space and pretend to be dead.
One of the reasons I'm an actor is that I'm naturally very shy, so it's liberating to dress up and pretend to be someone else.
I DON'T PRETEND TO BE. AND THAT BOTHERS ME. I LIKE TO GO INTO A COMPANY THAT I SAY TO MYSELF INSTINCTIVE, THIS IS GREAT.
Legally Blonde and The Devil Wears Prada pretend to be about women in the workplace, but they both require the same coming-of-age payoff.
A popular comic by an illustrator who goes by Mae suggests you should pretend to be a person's friend if they're being harassed in public.
There's also a Snapchat-like filter function that lets you pretend to be characters in the show, including a founding father on the $10 note.
I can connect with people on a more intimate level than I was before, because I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
All that's missing is a virtual Oculus Rift experience involving cutting off your own ear, so everyone can pretend to be the next van Gogh.
Washington, D.C., has a high population of robocalls because scammers often pretend to be calling on behalf of government agencies like the IRS or ICE.
In 2016, Roll Call wrote about the $100 Carhartt jacket politicians don when they want to "pretend to be normal people," often in campaign ads.
Kevin goes for a really low blow, telling his brother that he's sick of watching him pretend to be the new man of the house.
But it's also this idea that you can become the person you want if you buy the clothes; you can pretend to be that person.
An increasingly popular scam is the "grandparent scam," where impostors either pretend to be the victims' grandchild or claim to be holding the victims' grandchild.
Some examples include Yoni Bloch's Pretend to Be Happy, in which the non-existent viewer renders change within the story through thoughtfully placed graphic overlays.
" Seth McFarland said at the 2013 Oscars that the female nominees for Supporting Actress "no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.
New species of digital fraud and deception come to light almost every week, if not every day: Russian bots that pretend to be American humans.
British cooking show legend Nigella Lawson doesn't pretend to be a culinary technician like Gordon Ramsay or Jacques Pépin, nor does she care to be.
So he used to put on the big khaki shirt and go to school when he was in first grade and pretend to be Steve.
"I feel like some brands just hire people to stand near you and you pretend to be friends," Rose said of pairing up with Baldwin.
" Later, the bunny agrees to pretend to be eaten so the bear will look cool to a judgmental clique of nearby bears, deadpanning: "Oh … no.
They pretend to be unable to make out what Shakespeare is trying to do, standing alone on that sandstone block in such a summerlike costume.
Go debate it on CNN on primetime but don't pretend to be a non-partisan correspondent and then meltdown like that and embarrass your integrity.
But while both devices pretend to be running the latest version of Android Pie 9.0, in reality they were running OS variants like Kitkat 4.4.0.
"When people come into your home, pretend to be your friend, then stab you in the back, there's something really wrong with that," she said.
"They don't want to identify as Arabs, so they pretend to be the direct descendants of these ancient empires, which is just silly," he said.
Legend, however, was away in Paris, so Teigen improvised by making a mask of her husband's face and having another person pretend to be him.
" The Pop fragrance's message is about originality and creativity, to which Leon adds, "I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.
Others pretend to be "Download" or "Play" buttons, as if clicking them would provide access to the video content or stream the user had wanted.
When making the ad, they always pretend to be at least 18 and later say they lied and are actually younger—a bait and switch.
Women often have to take time off work, school, or college and pretend to be ill to get it, which has obvious knock-on effects.
"Some today pretend to be talking in the name of the people, but they are just ventriloquists," he told a crowd of about 8,000 people.
To the series' credit, it's at least interested in the question of Wick's ultimate morality — or, maybe, it knows it should pretend to be interested.
It was sort of a dream back then, where you pretend to be this superhero, you pretend to do all these things you couldn't do.
Some iterations of the claim say these people pretend to be from the Red Cross or the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
It was in the Reagan era, the Trump era in New York City, when you could pretend to be money and be seen as wealthy.
He does not pretend to be the standard-bearer for a school of thought, to have some higher purpose, to wish to transform the game.
I cannot conduct diplomacy on behalf of the whole of the U.S. government, and I don't pretend to be in a position to do so.
Instead, I place my knife and fork in the "done" position (talk about an understatement!) and pretend to be excited for the incoming cheese course.
The two meet by chance and embark on a journey to Audrey's high school reunion where she hopes Charles will pretend to be her husband.
They represent a tiny fraction of the estimated 29,700 works he's created over 72 years, and the show does not pretend to be a retrospective.
" "I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here," Graham said, adding, "What I see coming, happening today, is just a partisan nonsense.
Romney, who belonged to a class that greatly benefitted from cheap immigrant labor, had to pretend to be outraged by the presence of undocumented workers.
Next we whisked quickly past Marie Antoinette's writing table, where Claudia yearns to sit and pretend to be Marie Antoinette, and onward towards The Bed.
On other occasions, cybercriminals pretend to be native English speakers, yet the words they choose or the mistakes they make aren't common to native speakers.
It's also written in such a way that a lot of employers are confused (or can credibly pretend to be confused) about what their obligations are.
When I'm doing fashion shoots, I tend to pretend to be a character rather than being myself, because then I'd probably feel a bit more vulnerable.
I'm thankful that I had that character because the need for her to pretend to be that person has, I think, really made me that person.
There have been a bunch of trailers for this already, but watching James Franco pretend to be Tommy Wiseau is just too much fun to ignore.
Boko Haram has been shifting tactics with bombers, hiding explosives in a bag of okra in one attack, and having attackers pretend to be mentally ill.
Otherwise you're going to have to get creative by using a laptop to pretend to be the Chromecast, getting it registered, and then rebooting your devices.
I would totally fudge up my references and ask people who were friends or family members to pretend to be people who worked for those companies.
Here are the books you should read this summer, whether at the beach or in a chaise lounge (as you pretend to be at the beach).
You see, Cindy's decision to give false testimony and betray Taystee – and then pretend to be her friend – is taking a physical toll on her body.
"She's absolutely perfect in this movie and it is not hard to pretend to be having fun with Mary Poppins on these amazing adventures," Miranda says.
Calvin too is secretly smart and sensitive, and unlike Meg he lacks a supportive mother — but Calvin can pretend to be an all-American high schooler.
Every once in a while, people will attempt to cross that inviolable boundary and pretend to be something they're not, putting the entire potluck at risk.
Side note: In the book, Stephanie also doesn't have to pretend to be a housekeeper/saleswoman and exploit an old woman's dementia to visit Emily's mom.
As part of the operation, police pretend to be clients on sites like Backpage, set up dates, and try to "save" sex workers from their jobs.
It's then your responsibility to teach the thing to walk and speak and pretend to be a person the way you have been pretending for years.
Although he probably got paid a whole $10 million or something so I guess if you have to pretend to be a cat, go for it.
Often, Les Chiens de Navarre's choices are hardly subtle: When the sons pretend to be babies, and attempt to breastfeed, the comedy doesn't really lead anywhere.
I can't pretend to be very interested in Richard Clark's mother getting her upstairs room redecorated, but it is a small part of the entire tableau.
He is bracingly frank and a compulsive shrugger, though they're working on the second part; he's not a finished product, and he doesn't pretend to be.
"I wanted to tell a story about how people sometimes pretend to be someone else and put on a mask everyday," Vandenabeele tells The Creators Project.
Buress promised $500 to the person who, after sending photos to a specific email, would show up at the premiere and pretend to be the comedian.
In some ways, that's more of an honest representation: it doesn't purport to be something that it's not, it doesn't pretend to be a perfect representation.
As you know ... Gypsy's mother infamously forced her daughter to pretend to be disabled for years, even tying her up in bed and holding her hostage.
Mr. Shandling did not pretend to be a dramatic chameleon; to watch Larry do stand-up was more or less to watch Garry do stand-up.
He has to follow the script of his old telenovela and pretend to be in love with Paola to try and get out of the situation.
Once you've thrown a tantrum and eaten meat, been filmed doing so, and cried about it, you can't really pretend to be cool and sexy anymore.
A 2004 article in the Wall Street Journal compares Toughman to Karoke, a sloppy method for letting dilettantes pretend to be the stars they so revere.
Desire: to take matters into her own hands on behalf of those she loves Ellaria accepts her illegitimate status—why pretend to be something she's not?
They would then pretend to be the girl's father or another authority figure and tell the service member that their fictitious daughter was underage, she said.
In this and his other books, Mathews appreciates frauds and forgers, those who recognize the disconnect between who people are and who they pretend to be.
Most recently, Trump accused Soros of paying women to pretend to be the victims of sexual assault and protest Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
" — Milissa C. "I think my parents made me pretend to be an Indian citizen so we could go in the shorter line at the Taj Mahal.
Mr. Cohen is Mr. Trump's lawyer; he cannot pretend to be acting as a concerned citizen when he meets with opposition Ukrainian politicians bearing suspect proposals.
Reddick said that at one point she asked a male acquaintance to pretend to be her boyfriend in order to get Conyers to leave her alone.
Canada can no longer pretend to be perfect any more than Trudeau can, and Canadians must decide what kind of country they are behind the mask.
"Children can pretend to be a salesman, wrap themselves in Senegalese fabrics, smell spices, roll a rug or pretend to fish in Zanzibar," Ms. Martin said.
You pretend to be riveted by this banal banter, which Alex mistakenly interprets as an invitation to put a hand on your knee under the table.
Kendall and Kylie Pretend to Be Kris and Kim The youngest KarJenner sisters had perfected their impressions before they could even apply for driver's licenses. Inspiring.
" There's a Facebook group where people pretend to be boomers, which consists of typing things like "say hi to Joe and the kids for me,,, love!
When children first pretend to be people they are not, characters from books and movies, and when they may begin to mimic their caretaking on dolls.
Their mother is usually extremely eccentric, which some Scorpios will pretend to be embarrassed about in public, but in private they love that quality of their mothers.
Go debate it on CNN in prime time, but don&apost pretend to be a nonpartisan correspondent and then melt down like that and embarrass your integrity.
Actors, waiters, cab drivers, students, and hip-hop artists with a Somali background showed up, and he asked them to pretend to be pirates during a hijacking.
The internet trolls pretend to be crazy in a way that reveals the hypocrisy of the other side, but most of them are like me, I believe.
If I read fiction, it is almost always something my kids are reading, so I can understand what they are reading and also pretend to be cool.
On my way to this event, I'd felt so nervous, worried that I'd need to pretend to be something that I wasn't in order to fit in.
"Last night some girl came running up to me whispering 'please pretend to be my friend this man has been following me for 6 blocks,'" Rich tweeted.
For 21 days, I would pretend to be the third Tone It Up girl — Karena, Katrina, and Corinna (which just so happens to be my full name).
The natural habitat of former advertising execs who'll pay in excess of $20173 for "proper" cheddar, or the place their art school offspring pretend to be from?
Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman), and Val wants Armand and Albert to pretend to be straight to gain the acceptance of Kevin and his wife, Louise (Dianne Wiest).
When he mentions that she should pretend to be seventeen, and actually pushes her skin back to make her look younger, that's where she draws the line.
You won't have to pretend to be a diva to do it, either (though if that's how you roll, you can get away with it this year).
That includes physical access attacks like "rubber ducky" USBs, or flash drives that pretend to be a keyboard when plugged in to run malicious code or programs.
Kendrick and Plaza pretend to be the type of girls the guys would want on their arms in order to mooch off the free trip to Hawaii.
Even though the celebrities on this list don't hold such grand societal importance, they pretend to be Will and Kate when it comes to their wedding ceremonies.
It's no use hiring diverse coders if the message then is: wear a hoodie and pretend to be a guy, or this is no place for you.
Additionally, the IRS said that scammers will pretend to be employees of the agency seeking to help disaster victims file casualty-loss claims and obtain tax refunds.
Granted, Lerner realizes that his idea of poetry is circumscribed: "I hope it goes without saying that my summary here doesn't pretend to be comprehensive," he writes.
It's not until he comes across an ad in the paper from the Ku Klux Klan that it all clicks—call them, and pretend to be white.
I love the idea of being able to put on a costume and pretend to be someone else for a little while, because I am an actress.
The marginalized or exotic subjects they pretend to be have cultural capital, too, in the sense that people want to buy their books and read their stories.
"Athletes will confess that some will just quit the sport because they feel it's too much pressure to pretend to be someone you are not," she said.
So if I pretend to be a kid who doesn't know math and type the same number over and over again, it will still eventually unlock. pic.twitter.
It takes so much time and energy to pretend to be what you think people want, that you barely have anything left to do the actual work.
One of the ways people pretend to be sophisticated about restaurants these days is by claiming that the New York City dining scene has lost its edge.
At the LES Citizens Parade, senior citizens of Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish descent pretend to be a moving company, surrounded by cardboard boxes that carry immigrant stories.
In that situation, I would pretend to be a docent, and just go from one painting to another, telling outlandish stories about them and making people laugh.
They first rehearsed an absurd scene set in an art gallery, during which two actors voice Hitler's disapproval of modern art while others pretend to be exhibits.
"M.B.S. does not pretend to be a liberal, and he has the full coercive power of the state behind him," Ali Shihabi, a Saudi author, told me.
Why does everyone pretend to be cool with splitting a huge check when I just had club soda and you had four overpriced top-shelf cocktails, Kelly?
Whatever "escape" means to you, you will have it this month during the full moon—you can't hold it in and pretend to be normal any longer!
Every comedian wants a Netflix special, and normal kids want to be viral social media stars, some going so far as to pretend to be paid spokespeople.
In "To Be or Not to Be," members of a Warsaw theater troupe pretend to be high-ranking Gestapo officers and Nazi operatives, and even Hitler himself.
Unlike other people on K Street, Lewandowski did not pretend to be an expert on the legislative calendar or the fine points of the Administrative Procedure Act.
We all know that Putin is Trump's kind of guy, but it's remarkable that Trump won't even pretend to be outraged at Putin's meddling with our election.
I&aposm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here," Graham told Anderson on Saturday, going on to dismiss the impeachment proceedings as "partisan nonsense.
"I cannot conduct diplomacy on behalf of the whole of the U.S. government, and I don't pretend to be in a position to do so," Murphy wrote.
One can only pretend to be a heavyweight for so long if one wants to keep one's head on one's shoulders and one's brains in one's head.
He wishes he could flip over his sales associate name tag and just pretend to be a regular customer, but he can sense the manager's eyes on him.
Washington, D.C., has a high population of robocalls to its population because scammers often pretend to be calling on behalf of government agencies like the IRS or ICE.
They told me if I got to the 'meet the family' part (wishful thinking TBF), they would have made my aunt and uncle pretend to be my parents.
The people who play it don't ever really pretend to be anything else and they're not trying to impress anyone, they're just playin' whatever comes from their heart.
They do not represent us ... Reddit is too large a media outlet to pretend to be a community and then secretly manipulate what people are allowed to see.
"It is an anti-party, anti-revolutionary act to pretend to be revering the leader in front of him when you actually dream of something else," it reads.
Forget the fact that Robert Pattinson might have to travel to the home ground of Stocksbridge Park Steels – Bracken Moor – and pretend to be a non-league footballer.
Yet "Neighbors 2" doesn't pretend to be taking a stand for women's — or anyone's — rights; its identity politics are scattershot at best, and its sympathies are with everyone.
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Clinton also proposes to eliminate the type of super PACs, with their unlimited contributions and spending, that pretend to be independent but are custom tailored for individual candidates.
The message that Russia should take from our actions is that it cannot pretend to be a responsible member of the international community while supporting this odious regime.
I got his girlfriend's ID so I could pretend to be much older than I was, and he got the money for me, which I think was $250.
The same is true of public relations consultants, telemarketers, brand managers, and countless administrative specialists who are paid to sit around, answer phones, and pretend to be useful.
It has, for example, expanded its integrity-testing unit in which undercover investigators pretend to be crime victims, witnesses or suspects in order to see how officers respond.
"Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices," Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco's director for gender equality, said in a statement.
It also criticized a scene on a cruise ship where "costumed dwarfs" pretend to be the czar, his family and Grigory Rasputin, the notorious monk who befriended them.
In these works, I try to be British, just as children pretend to be their mothers by dressing in her clothes and making themselves up with her cosmetics.
"We put the build in front of a bunch of people who pretend to be press and pretend to write reviews about it," said the ID Software employee.
People have taken to posing for photographs in which they pretend to be holding it up, much as tourists do with the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
In TikTok&aposs Ariana Grande&aposs Sleeves series, users pretend to be Grande wearing oversized sweatshirts with extra-long sleeves covering their hands, reported Kimberly Truong for InStyle.
"From the time I was in elementary school, teachers told me to pretend to be a fish whenever we had to sing," said Nicoletta Corsini, a local shopowner.
Money Hoes and Flows doesn't pretend to be anything more than a fun mixtape thrown together in a few recording sessions and released as a seasonal party soundtrack.
"To him it was her job as the curator of a museum, to, if not be interested in his private collection, to pretend to be interested," she said.
Most of the dozens of complaints dealt with catfishing, a practice where scammers pretend to be romantically interested in other netizens in order to trick them into sending money.
When one of the victims calls for a priest, the doctors seem to think it's a good idea for Ben to pretend to be a man of the cloth.
At VICE, we know good astrology doesn't pretend to be a science or spirituality, but functions as a tool for self awareness and reflection—"cosmic wellness," if you will.
Husband grills the turkey while I play with the baby, and the older kids pretend to be at the beach using a couple of blankets in our living room.
To which Markle cooly and calmly responded, "Maybe it would be better for you guys if I was dead...then you could pretend to be sad," and hung up.
I pretend to be a little miffed, but I am secretly relieved, as this is turning out to be a busy week and I could use some couch time.
It doesn't pretend to be objective either, but at least you can whip through its arguments in a single sitting and have a chuckle or two along the way.
Pretend to Be Your Dad' (closes on Sunday) Mr. Fogel's solo show is a meditation on the reality of emotional memory as a source of both revelation and deception.
This raises of the question of how one satirizes a fetish community where women pretend to be scammers pretending to be women (or, in this case, an animated fish).
Often originated overseas, callers mask their identities with fake phone numbers and pretend to be from the government or assume a false identity, in efforts to obtain personal information.
Everyone interacting with AI should be aware that the person on the end of a chat function isn't human and, likewise, the human shouldn't pretend to be a bot.
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Stone said that she would pretend to be sick so she could go to the nurse's office every day in second grade and call her mom to go home.
At election time a few politicians (from both parties) pretend to care, pretend to like pork rinds, pretend to be on the working class's side — but it's mostly baloney.
I couldn't pretend to be a start-up millionaire looking for a pied-à-terre, as home buyers are usually funneled to weekend open houses (which don't have food).
These individuals, at first, interact with each other gingerly as they pretend to be trees, take part in one-word dialogues and strive to express deep emotions in gibberish.
It's also a line many of us may have already heard from relatives who pretend to be well-meaning, and who question an idealistic, unstable, and impecunious career choice.
"Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices," Saniye Gülser Corat, Director of Gender Equality at UNESCO, said in a statement.
"We'll teach you how to pretend to be an anti-fascist and how to become an actual fascist," Trump Jr. said of college professors at an event last year.
For example, hackers could pretend to be an employee's boss or co-worker who's locked out of a government email system and so is using a personal Gmail account.
And it's a way for him to pretend to be talking about military policy when he's really talking about something else: traditional gender norms under threat from political correctness.
The old-fashioned idea that a president, once reaching office, should at least pretend to be the leader of all the people these days seems so, well, old-fashioned.
Ready Player Two does not pretend to be a comprehensive diagnosis of all the evils of patriarchy, but it does raise the specter of how far we haven't come.
"I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not," Swoopes told The New York Times.
Being outdoors helped, open space a literal breath of fresh air, a blank canvas where they could pretend to be bison or use sticks to cast Harry Potter spells.
I asked Max Lurye, the Jewish Agency's Dnepropetrovsk officer, whether non-Jewish people ever pretend to be Jewish, in the hopes of getting a free flight out of town.
I'm in no position to pretend to be objective about this: Whitney Houston was the first pop star who truly captivated my attention as a child in the 90s.
Hackers can use this information to pretend to be the victims and trick the phone companies' technicians into porting out the victim's phone numbers to a SIM card they control.
And their account's going to get shut down because they're not going to be able to handle it because they're not as big and bad as they pretend to be.
Bethenny may pretend to be the toughest woman to hold a Bravo big apple, but she's actually living in 24-hour, seven-day-a-week fear of her friends' jealousy.
But first, one not-so-small matter: When BillFixers calls, acting as its customers' agents and armed with information from their bills, its representatives actually pretend to be their customers.
If they say it uncomfortably you can ask again, offering to make up an excuse like you found their phone or pretend to be drunk and get in the way.
But thanks to social media and industry blogs, those "preferences" are being exposed, shared, shamed, and retweeted to such an extent that studios can no longer pretend to be oblivious.
And when you feel like you've gifted all of the tools, ties, and mugs that he can pretend to be excited about, Father's Day gifting can become quite the mystery.
"In that moment, she's failing pretty miserably at trying to pretend to be a normal mom and talk about kids and talk about school," explains Behavior executive producer Chad Hodge.
He is a hero for every one of us who has had to pretend to be awake through a boring meeting in a conference room that is way too warm.
What does one do when they've been humiliated in a social situation, but are unable to pretend to be absorbed in a sudden important email until safely out of sight?
It is certainly true that judges could pretend to be principled pragmatists when they are really just subjectivists — bending and twisting the Constitution to yield the outcome that they prefer.
If there is to be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation.
People working for minimum wage or doing manual labor became the province of reality television shows like "Dirty Jobs" and "Undercover Boss," which has company executives pretend to be employees.
People don't have to pretend to be interested in you because they feel bad that you're taking their trash out from under their desk and giving them a fresh bag.
This allows the attacker to essentially pretend to be the victim in the eyes of WhatsApp or Telegram, and most importantly, in the eyes of all his or her contacts.
You can't pretend to be "enlightened" or "woke" or "principled" and sit idly by and allow real and sustained damage to be done to the very causes you hold dear.
"It's definitely a little weird when something felt really good and I needed to moan but also pretend to be Mister Rogers, but I'm kind of into it," Hart said.
Another technique was to pretend to be a payday lender and promise a loan if a fee was paid upfront, and then the loan would never materialize, the indictment said.
Both performances let me understand that I didn't have to ask to assume the same privileges as those around me — but nor should I pretend to be someone I wasn't.
Through Sunday, at the Queens Country Farm, you can get lost in a winding corn maze, and you can pick pumpkins there (or pretend to be one) all season long.
Trans people are surely not the only ones who wonder how to close the gap between the people they feel they have to pretend to be and their authentic selves.
We settled on one of my suggestions: We would go to a bar that neither of us frequented, pretend to be strangers, and I would try to pick her up.
I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here," Graham, of South Carolina, said last month, adding, "What I see coming, happening today is just a partisan nonsense.
It begins with doing the same thing that he did all the time during the presidential campaign: running against Washington and refusing to even pretend to be a traditional Republican.
Sure, you can take it apart and wear a piece here, a piece there, but Groucho Marx aside, why pretend to be part of a club that won't have you?
Not only must he kill the German Ambassador, team up with a fellow-assassin, Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard), and pretend to be her husband in the leadup to the hit.
No longer can he pretend to be the radiant, robust, record-setting superstar who, through talent, grit and sheer will, won 203 titles worldwide in official, unofficial and team events.
But to ask her to hide them to save you embarrassment is like asking her to pretend to be a different person — because you're ashamed of the one she is.
But to ask her to hide them to save you embarrassment is like asking her to pretend to be a different person — because you're ashamed of the one she is.
News analysis: Mr. Trump doesn't bother with the old-fashioned idea that a president should at least pretend to be a leader for all, our chief White House correspondent writes.
However, if we have to live in a world where cereal has to pretend to be other foods, at the very least, can we please have French Toast Crunch back?
And if Trump isn't going to even pretend to be vetting his sources and fact-checking his arguments, then the press isn't going to pretend to believe what he's saying.
The basic problem is that even though they matter, they matter purely as media spectacles but are stuck with the stagecraft of the conference of politicians that they pretend to be.
What brands do is they either pay or they try to be more sneaky about it and pretend to be users and when they get outed that doesn't go so well.
This is the stage of "illiberal democracy", where individual rights and the rule of law are undermined, but strongmen can still pretend to be democrats since they win free-ish elections.
While Sierra may have thought she could pretend to be deaf and get away with it, Jamey is actually fluent in American Sign Language since his little brother really is deaf.
Given the timeline, it forces the audience to realize that half of the time they've been watching Charlotte Hale this season, they've actually been watching Dolores pretend to be Charlotte Hale.
Given how much hackers love to pretend to be Google to trick victims into giving away their passwords, perhaps that would have been a better design for this alert as well.
In other instances it's more insidious and even dangerous, like when people pretend to be chatbots, or when the "AI moderators" removing gruesome and disturbing videos turn out to be human.
Based on the preview clip, which People shared on Tuesday, it looks like J.J. (Micah Fowler) asks Viall's character, Tyson, to pretend to be a college dean during a campus visit.
What I do not expect is for them to pretend to be an interracial married couple as part of their ruse to buy the house, which has been abandoned for years.
There's also her wildly successful mobile game (in which people can pretend to be famous) and her Kim Kardashian West official app (in which people can watch Kim be actually famous).
Most of the time I'd rather not work, so I guess my job always involves lying, in a way [because I have to pretend to be into it for my clients].
Not wanting to miss out entirely on the premiere, he thought it'd be funny to have a guy pretend to be him — but he had no idea it would take off.
"In one account, I pretend to be a mum so I consistently post pictures and articles about moms, babies, and taking care of newborns' health to make it believable," he said.
"Jessica, we know you're upset about the way our country's going, but you can't just, like, build a whole game show set and make us pretend to be contestants," Strong adds.
Judge John Hodgman Thomas writes: My wife and I play a game with our 5-year-old in which I pretend to be a man obsessed with salad, called the Saladetarian.
Lucho would even pretend to be in the booth with the announcers, his tape recorder pressed up against the television speaker, pulling it away to splice in his commentary with theirs.
" The Post reported Friday that the real estate mogul would pretend to be his own spokesman in the early 1990s, telling reporters that he was either "John Miller" or "John Barron.
In the animal kingdom, sometimes the best survival strategy is to pretend to be something you're not — either to ambush unsuspecting prey or to convince predators that you're not very tasty.
As part of their assignment, which has them stationed in Casablanca, the two must pretend to be a loving husband and wife instead of the trained assassins that they really are.
The band's gimmick, according to one former member, was to pretend to be a group of famous artists from New Zealand that disguised their looks onstage to hide their true identities.
Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Sunday that Europe can't pretend to be more idealistic on privacy issues than the U.S. while many of its nations try to enact laws limiting encryption.
It absolutely does not map on, I can only, I'm not going to pretend to be a mind reader, but it certainly doesn't map on to my view of this situation.
It is more than just something that Lee Mack gets paid handsomely to look back fondly on, or a pop culture relic that Rick Wakeman can pretend to be enraged by.
When asked after the game why he kept on trying to pretend to be an owl, Smith-Schuster said it was all due to his poor rating in Madden NFL 18.
In the film, only one of the twins is officially enrolled in the college, so they pretend to be one girl and take turns flirting with Andy, to his great confusion.
They sit there and pretend to look busy, pretend to be careful as they work as a cashier at the student union, or to stock shelves when there's nothing to do.
Mr. Trump essentially calls it fake, making no effort to pretend to be above it all, except to boast that he is stronger, richer, smarter and more successful than anyone else.
It does not pretend to be a wine primer, and it makes few concessions to newcomers who are not already familiar with the intricacies of wine or its places and people.
It is also possible that officials, for now, are more intent on curbing fake home schooling, involving parents who pretend to be doing it while illegally sending their children to work.
" The congressman said, "I don't pretend to be perfect," and said that he asks people back in his district to hold him accountable "for not demonizing people with whom I disagree.
Unsuspecting members of the public in Canada appear to have been paid by an unknown organization to pretend to be supporters of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at her recent extradition hearing.
"If they are going to have one, at least disavow it so you can pretend to be reform minded," said Brian Fallon, a former communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Conner told his nearly 2 million subscribers that the premise of one of their videos, "FIGHTING IN FRONT OF OUR FRIENDS PRANK," was to pretend to be in an abusive relationship.
Instead of participation trophies, graduation from each level is commemorated with a show; your friends and family are invited to pay to see you pretend to be chased by Tasmanian devils.
They pretend to be siblings and share a room in a flophouse while trying to save enough money to move to Oklahoma, where they've heard land is literally being given out.
If it wasn't competent enough to do that, it might pretend to be even dumber than it was — anticipating that researchers would give it more time, computing resources, and training data.
"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein," Seth MacFarlane said when he announced the 2013 Oscar nominees for best supporting actress alongside Emma Stone.
One man claims to be a professional actor and says he can not only pretend to be a temporary boyfriend or lover, but provide emotional support and even enter a fake marriage.
Nor am I going to pretend to be shocked that Republican presidential candidates leaped, before the facts were all in, to portray this as a humiliation and proof of President Obama's folly.
Because of our love for the duo, it filled us with absolutely glee when Byers and Nicole jokingly pretend to be in love for a quick moment in the season 2 finale.
He says that he does not "get girls" because they "get all weird and then they get mad," and she thinks that boys only pretend to be tough when they're scared inside.
"The gutsiest thing she did was to go to Alabama, to a small town in Northern Alabama, pretend to be a white housewife," he said this year during a speech in Sacramento.
They pretend to be a couple to protect teen boy Anton (Christopher Meyer), who was having comically loud sex with the daughter of the man whose motel the trio was staying in.
Thanks to an article written by BuzzFeed exposing the scam, stations are saying that fans don't need to pretend to be housewives and soccers moms — the DJs promise to play Gaga regardless.
If you visit the website for a clothing retailer, for instance, Facebook can use the root certificate to pretend to be the store and see the pants you were looking to buy.
The companies behind a video game called "Active Shooter" — in which players can pretend to be a shooter in a school environment — are facing backlash in the light of recent school shootings.
While we've seen plenty of kids place pre-pitted black olives from the can on their fingers and pretend to be aliens, seeing youngsters actually eating and enjoying olives is another story.
Facebook starts automatically detecting still images that pretend to be videos to artificially increase their views, so viral meme pages layer them with transparent arrows that skirt Facebook's sophisticated spam detection software.
Mr. Putin can no longer pretend to be a democratic leader, so his goal is to drag everyone else down to his level — and he is doing it with Mr. Trump's help.
When I jump from the pier, I pretend to be very unhurried, then unable to overcome visions of a spurting, bloody end, sprint like hell for the dock, all splash and panic.
Early on, I decided I was far too reticent and dreamy to even pretend to be good at it (and this Bartleby-like choice won me no points in my former workplace).
They pretend to be raising money for scholarships or sports teams, but really they're the pawns in a grim little scam, the main point of which seems to be their own exploitation.
Due to the constant need to create an app for every possible human need, imposter applications, or malicious apps that pretend to be popular programs, have also spurred an increase in attacks.
For people who pretend to be religious in this country, they always forget the part where the Bible tells them to look after not only the sick and poor, but the prisoner.
In "Holiday Date," Brooke&aposs boyfriend breaks up with her right before the holidays, and friends convince her to bring home an actor named Joel to pretend to be her boyfriend, instead.
Kuznetsov told the AP that the prank call is part of their new project called "Stars Save the Earth," in which they pretend to be Thunberg while talking to politicians and celebrities.
The dancers pretend to be tiki warriors, and when the chief, in parting, bids us officially welcome to "the land of happy people," we pretend to believe that such a place exists.
So, given you follow this suggestion and do not pretend to be an expert, how do you lead today's highly skilled professionals who so often know more about their jobs than you do?
Scam artists are using Google advertising to show up in people's search results — sometimes above real listings — where they hijack the names of real businesses or pretend to be nearby when they're not.
Confronting humanity's irreversible impact on the natural world — climate change and species' extinction — is inevitably fraught as a subject of art, which can hardly pretend to be a tangibly effective tool of reversal.
In the comedy version, David Cameron is relieved, once he has resigned as prime minister after the vote, that he no longer has to pretend to be an ordinary man of the people.
No, but it's the only gadget that has to remain buried at the bottom of a drawer when I'm racing a deadline, or when I need to pretend to be a responsible adult.
But what's special about The Leftovers, and why I suspect it will stick its landing in the coming weeks, is it refuses to pretend to be anything other than an existential mind-fuck.
I ultimately reached out to someone at Fiverr directly both in hopes of expediting the removal process and getting some insight into how easy it was to pretend to be someone for money.
This new interactive 3,000-square-foot gallery is a city microcosm for small visitors, allowing them to pretend to be taxi drivers, bus drivers, construction workers, street performers and, most impressively, the mayor.
That means it'll be as comfortable conquering tracks as it as on your weary Wednesday evening commute — you know, the exact time you don't want to pretend to be a race-car driver.
Enough so that he goes out on a limb, and asks her to be his date for the wedding he's in town for —  and pretend to be his girlfriend, while she's at it.
This is because one would need a lot of complicit people to all go to the polls and pretend to be someone else to change the vote totals enough to sway an election.
"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein," Seth MacFarlane said after introducing the the women nominated for the best supporting actress roles at the Oscars.
Unlike the more character-driven "Playtest," eXistenZ is a dense, far-reaching statement about biology, technology, and consciousness, asking whether our true identity can be found in the characters we pretend to be.
Katie Zechar was hired in 2013 by a medium-sized tech start-up to come in and pretend to be an employee while a high-up VP was in town for the day.
While massive financial institutions might pretend to be community banks, the predominant trend in the banking industry is sadly toward further consolidation into the hands of the largest, riskiest and most fraudulent institutions.
The worst part is that they'll pretend to be into it, seducing you into ordering a really slutty pizza, then stripping it naked leaving tiny, cold mountains of abandoned toppings on the cardboard.
There's something retroactively sad about seeing Busey trying to convince Spinell at the draft board that he's crazy, and Vincent, whose health issues would eventually cost him a leg, pretend to be crippled.
Explaining that people online can pretend to be kids and they might be interested in her the way grownups are interested in each other was the hardest thing I ever had to explain.
At the same time, Max's Pomeranian pal Gidget (voiced by Jenny Slate) has to pretend to be a cat to infiltrate the apartment of an elderly cat lady and her small feline army.
So what's the sense in letting the I.O.C. pretend to be a hard-liner on doping now that the Games are almost done by keeping the Russian flag out of the closing ceremony?
Shed your sweatpants and pretend to be Lady Mary Crawley, daughter of an Earl, who runs her father's estate with style and panache when she's not thumbing through Vogue for her latest toilette.
Son's investment strategy is arguably more synergistic than that of KDDI, which last month bought a chain of work-experience theme parks where kids can pretend to be pizza chefs and car dealers.
The women allegedly hired someone to pretend to be Timberlake's manager, who then contacted the investors to tell them that yes, Timberlake had been booked, but unfortunately his fee had increased to $800,000.
In variations of the experiment, other participants had to approach strangers and ask them to fill out a questionnaire, or pretend to be lost and ask to be escorted to a nearby building.
According to this way of thinking, the documentary genre of photography, which can only pretend to be objective, is doomed to fail; the smart, educated viewer isn't going to be seduced or manipulated.
"We can no longer pretend to be deaf in the face of one of the greatest environmental crises in history," he said during the mass, returning to a favored theme of his papacy.
Sadly, Mast can't change your voice from gruff morning grumpy to a chipper British accent just yet so you'll still have to pretend to be on the ball when you get a business call.
"What I really want is just to live normally without fear and not have to pretend to be somebody else, that's all I ever want," Arwa told CNN on the eve of her appointment.
This was definitely an intense workout that had me sweating and longing for a break, but it didn't actually kill me I don't pretend to be a fitness junkie or even a fitness fan.
"I'd make the account pretend to be in favor of Catalonian independence and as soon as you post anything about Catalonia and independence you get dozens of friend requests from indepentists," the seller said.
" With the internet awash in recent months with the Megan Thee Stallion–inspired "Hot Girl Summer" meme, Giovanni said he thought, "why not pretend to be a white Christian girl and mess with that?
Based upon this report one of two things is is clear: Apple is indeed building a car, or there's now an international cohort of people willing to pretend to be in on the deal.
An Israeli official told gay dads to pretend to be 'a normal couple' and figure out who should be labeled the 'mother'Podcasters of color are striving to amplify 'the actual voices of marginalized folks'
Constituent Badges Posted by Facebook on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 While anyone could enter a fake address and pretend to be a constituent, Facebook has put controls in place to limit those bad actors.
Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield for registering domain names that pretend to be associated with Facebook, like www-facebook-login.
Since the United States under Trump doesn't even pretend to be an honest broker, the President's follow-up appeal to both sides -- to continue to focus on achieving peace -- doesn't pass the smell test.
Nobody could pretend to be him or speak for him or hate or love him until John Brown smote his enemies in Kansas and perpetrated a bloody raid on Harpers Ferry to free slaves.
Click here to view original GIFYou can pretend to be disappointed every time SpaceX's Falcon 9 crashes during a landing attempt, but deep down you know part of you wants to see an explosion.
Most people start in leadership [roles], trying to pretend to be something they've seen on TV or read in a book or studied; and this is me at work, this is me at home.
Maybe just this once, when a real man, with a family, who has spent his life putting country first has passed, he could pretend to be a little less of a loathsome, vindictive narcissist.
It made me feel ashamed that I couldn't feel honest and really be who I am, and I just didn't want to pretend to be somebody else anymore so that people would like me.
So he chose an app that sells personalized shoutouts from aging actors to fans, where they pretend to be friends with people they have never—and probably will never—meet or talk to directly.
Yeah. [Laughs] Jane told me that she likes to wear a space helmet that belongs to a friend of hers, to relax, and they pretend to be on a spaceship, so we included that.
So did our third president, Thomas Jefferson, who also owned slaves and didn't pretend to be a man of the people in a mingling sense, yet drafted one of the world's primary egalitarian documents.
You've been playing it cool lately (which is actually really hard for you to do, as you love the chase), but you can't pretend to be aloof any longer when this eclipse rolls through.
And the harshest responses to the salacious headlines against Kelly this year have been the head shakes, lip smacks, and tweets by people like me who refuse to pretend to be surprised by this behavior.
But one group of academics has proposed a way to make those virtually illegible privacy policies into the actual tool of consumer protection they pretend to be: an artificial intelligence that's fluent in fine print.
The main stage is set up to emulate a family-friendly version of one of the games that is played on the show, where the queens pretend to be celebrities competing on a game show.
The Verdict: Honestly, Dunham seems to have been through an awful lot lately, so I will pretend to be a good person instead of an internet-crazed hobgoblin and give this one to her. Sorry?
Complaints about scams in which callers pretend to be from the government — Social Security, the IRS or other agencies — have reached an all-time high, according to new Federal Trade Commission data reviewed by CNN.
"When I was a little kid, I used to stand on a chair and pretend [to be] winning a gold medal in the mirror, with my arms up in the air," she told VICE Sports.
Some commenters believe his dad should be celebrated as the genius that he clearly is, while others are appalled that anyone would pretend to be a head of state just to get a restaurant reservation.
This interactive 3,000-square-foot gallery, closing this weekend, is a city microcosm for small visitors, allowing them to pretend to be taxi drivers, bus drivers, construction workers, street performers and, most impressively, the mayor.
Spoiler seekers are known to send camera-equipped drones into locked-down show settings, show up at bars were drunken crew may be congregating, and pretend to be extras hired on set as background characters.
In spite of being every bit a part of that pro-business establishment, Mr. Trump can pretend to be anti-establishment by sometimes reviling big business, because he doesn't need its funding for his campaign.
You can't talk about television or music or pop culture because the person you're sitting across from doesn't care about these things and he couldn't pretend to be familiar with them if he wanted to.
Or, you've seen The Parent Trap and wished you had a twin who could pretend to be you, or at the very least, be close enough to you to know what you're thinking and feeling.
Even the relatively smaller shift from Brazil's shortage in the last couple years resulted in a price surge and a jump in counterfeit coffee beans (which pretend to be fancier coffee varieties than they are).
In "Success Perm," the divisions between generations and cultures widen even further when Jessica's competitive sister Connie and her boastful husband Steve arrive, forcing the Huangs to pretend to be more prosperous than they are.
Meanwhile, Texas is apparently at war with Planned Parenthood, President Trump is allegedly telling people to lie to Congress, and Michael Cohen paid a company to pretend to be women who'd say he was sexy.
"You allow Facebook to pretend to be anyone they want to be on the internet—your device will trust the certificates they generate," says David Choffnes, a professor and mobile networking researcher at Northeastern University.
But there have also been interventions by players to incorporate jails as part of their own unique play style, such as prison servers in Minecraft, or playground games where children pretend to be undocumented immigrants.
But because the Notebook 9 is a traditional laptop — it's not a convertible and doesn't pretend to be a tablet or anything other than its obvious purpose — I didn't miss the touchscreen during my testing.
Franz has written a number of New-Agey books, which have names like The End of Longing and Life Doesn't Care If You Pretend to be Dead, and he enjoys yodeling and playing the harmonium.
The criminals would pretend to be reselling space on, say, CNN's website through an automated ad exchange but then instead direct the ad to their shell version of the site that nobody could actually see.
After posting his videos in front of the White House, Snoop posted another video using a Kanye West face filter to pretend to be West condemning him for being disrespectful and a bad role model.
My parents, being rational, tried to make sure I was getting to bed at a reasonable hour, and sometimes I'd pretend to be asleep and then pop back up after they checked in on me.
THE OLYMPICS AT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN (Friday through Sunday) While athletes are preparing to compete in Rio de Janeiro, little visitors to this museum can pretend to be part of the action, too.
The Good Doctor's Will Yun Lee may pretend to be a doctor on TV, but in real life, he has more medical experience than most due to his 203-year-old son Cash's rare condition.
Tony no longer sees a need to pretend to be friendly to anyone or feign interest in anything, and while his insults and put-downs are amusing, his regular threats of suicide are less so.
The scenes of nouveau riche Jewish life at the club (where "boys can be boys" and "we pretend to be goys") are just as cliché-ridden, but at least these clichés are sparkly and engaging.
The story still centers on Anya and her love interest, Dmitry (Derek Klena), a ruffian from St. Petersburg who persuades her to pretend to be Romanov royalty to escape Russia and find riches in Paris.
Honora takes New York by storm, entering into an agreement with the notorious rakish financier Julius Hatcher to pretend to be engaged — his entree into top society, her strategy in her war with the earl.
Say what you want about Wall Street, at least they're not hypocrites; high-frequency traders and hedge funds rarely pretend to be making the world a better place for anyone but themselves and their clients.
You can pretend to be a real-life hero in movies and TV shows and on Instagram, but the real advocates are the ones who stand beside the people who make a difference in the world.
There's the familiar bunch who pretend to be people that they perceive as more attractive than themselves, but on Tinder there's a group of users whose charade is much more peculiar: they choose to personify food.
And their runaway hit single "Woman" was aggressively played on radio stations across the world and featured on the second installment of the then wildly popular, pretend-to-be-a-rock-star video game Guitar Hero.
I don't feel like I need to be skinny, and I don't think we need to pretend to be skinny if we're not, and I don't think we need to come up with euphemisms for it.
Hunch down in front of your monitor, pop on your headphones and pretend to be hard at work while you chase away the post-Comic-Con blues with a video playlist of pure, unfiltered geek hype.
The Nobel Prize is in fact the ultimate example of bad faith: A small group of Swedish critics pretend to be the voice of God, and the public pretends that the Nobel winner is Literature incarnate.
Rather than behave like the responsible adults we pretend to be in the daytime, we've decided to join in on the madness by dreaming up some sure-not-to-happen deals―you know, for entertainment purposes.
By the magic of slick camera work and a lot of tenacity on the part of creator Haim Saban, we got the ass-kicking Power Rangers we know and loved to pretend to be as kids.
"As my love for dance music progressed, a part of me has always felt cheated by watching a DJ pretend to be hard at work while twisting knobs to their pre-recorded set," says Anna Yvette.
" Another said adopting a policy of prioritizing someone's comfort over another person's right to shelter was bigoted, and said the idea that cisgender men pretend to be transgender women to attack cisgender women is "frankly ludicrous.
The value of such a conversation isn't only that it's a good idea to be honest with your partner, but also because it's miserable to pretend to be or want something that you aren't or don't.
They'd been described to me as "Failure, but doom," and while I won't pretend to be overly familiar with Failure's canon, they certainly nailed the doom part, in an early 2000s Hydra Head kind of way.
Modern Love On this week's podcast, the actress Kimberly Hébert Gregory reads "Let's Not Pretend to Be Who We Aren't," an essay about how sexual role play isn't everyone's answer to lost spark in the bedroom.
Vik's mother, Priya (Zenobia Shroff), wants her to play the grieving widow and pretend to be the mother of Vik and Sierra's baby in order to avoid offending her traditionalist brother, who is unexpectedly in town.
Lindsey Graham did, that they don't plan to "pretend to be a fair juror" in the trial — essentially admitting that they've made up their minds to vote against removing the president before hearing the manager's case.
The fraud, which began in September and is still going on, represents a new level of sophistication among criminals who seek to profit by using bots — computer programs that pretend to be people — to cheat advertisers.
Mr. Redzepi says he is alert to the issues, does not pretend to be cooking Mexican food, and has made efforts to benefit the local community at every stage, including free meals for Mexican culinary students.
He was a long way from "Dostana" ("Bromance"), his 2008 romantic comedy in which two men — both major stars — pretend to be gay so that they can rent an apartment with a pretty Indian girl abroad.
So many systems we are a part of dehumanize and grind us down, even if they sometimes pretend to be ashamed of that fact, and what we do too often matters more than who we are.
Hire hat check girl Greta Patterson (Patricia Harty) to pretend to be his betrothed when needed — an occasional wife, if you will — in exchange for an apartment two floors above him and money for art school.
Every day, brands like Wendy's and Burger King pretend to be edgy or depressed on Twitter, but it's not particularly often that brands threaten to send a bottle of actual urine to a random Twitter user.
He would pretend to be interested in buying a washing machine, but when he arrived to pick up the appliance, he would ask to do a load of laundry to make sure it was in working order.
Just look at the perks: You don't have to argue over where you spend the holidays, meaning you always get the home cooking you crave and you don't have to pretend to be excited to visit Arkansas.
And on the other side of the coin: Gianni Infantino and FIFA have handed a major championship to China, which does rather suggest FIFA is not quite as worried about human rights as they pretend to be.
" Guy Adami, director of advisor advocacy at Private Advisor Group and a trader on CNBC's "Fast Money," said the latest quarter should push market watchers to reevaluate Apple's valuation: "I'm not going to pretend to be disingenuous.
Who's to say that someone won't pretend to be interested in you just so they can split half of the $25,000 with the friend who nominated them (a deal that might be privately hatched behind the scenes)?
"I thought about how much of a struggle it has been the past eight years, to be in the news and pretend to be happy when, really, I was living a nightmare," he told Billboard in April.
On the list of best jobs in the world, right between pillow-tester and those dudes Japan pays to pretend to be ninjas, is a very enticing position that you can apply for right now: chocolate taster.
The woman who spurred all of this, my whiny tweets and all, used to pretend to be so woke she could appreciate a black man "comfortable" enough in his masculinity to be so forthright with his feelings.
To his credit, Baker did not pretend to be an administrator, and relied on a combination of longtime aides of his own as well as existing Reagan White House aides to run the day-to-day operation.
It's that so many of the actors must not only impersonate family members but also lie about their identity, so that outsiders—and sometimes parents, spouses, and even children—think they are who they pretend to be.
So when you take that out, I think it unlocks a lot of potential… Every Saturday, if you pretend to be a graffiti writer while you're cleaning your house, you can see why graffiti is so fun.
But if you're a business owner — or can pretend to be a business owner, since the law would open huge new opportunities for tax avoidance — you would still be able to deduct those taxes as business expenses.
Growing up I was the kind of kid who wanted dolls and plush animals, never toy cars and police kits — the kind of kid likelier to pretend to be Anastasia than to be her love interest Dimitri.
Though she no longer has to pretend to be religious, she still keeps kosher at home, and sends the children to ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, because the appeals court granted authority over schooling decisions to her ex-husband.
Whereas the Surface Laptop tries to impress with its fancy Alcantara fabric-covered keyboard and the Pixelbook with its 2-in-1 design, the XPS 133 doesn't pretend to be anything but a well-built clamshell laptop.
LONDON — Prince Harry was greeted by five virgins in Nepal Sunday ahead of an action-packed trip in the country that saw him visit temples, practise wood carvings and at one point pretend to be a tiger.
We wanted to belong in these places, but while I came—more or less—to accept that I couldn't pretend to be from there, couldn't pretend to be something I so obviously wasn't, a whole bunch of people committed to their new accents and new ways so hard that in the end the wind changed, and the rest of the world couldn't tell that behind the heavy flex was a posh kid who just wanted respect from the people his family's money and status had artificially elevated him above.
Colombian traffickers used to pose as rich, older men promising a better life; now they pretend to be poor, troubled teenagers just like the children they target, said Sebastian Arevalo, head of anti-trafficking group Pasos Libres Foundation.
"And then one day you look at each other differently and you don't have to put on any airs or pretend to be somebody else or try to be cool because you already know each other," she added.
Pointbreak Media, on the other hand, would pretend to be a representative from Google and either promise businesses higher placement in Google searches or threaten to de-list them, unless they paid hundreds of dollars in fraudulent fees.
"I do not pretend to be familiar with every nuance of the longstanding turmoil that engulfs Israel and Palestine; it is no doubt as aged and tangled as the family trees ripped apart by its brutality," he writes.
What Rober didn't know, he said, is that some people called on their own buddies to pretend to be robbers, then sent the sham reaction videos to Rober, who passed them off on social media -- unwittingly -- as authentic.
I mean, I can't pretend to be interested in party politics, but I have to say that it did interest me that there appeared to be someone who appears to have integrity, you know, suddenly appeared from nowhere.
Although it's nice to see Trump get utterly rejected, there's nothing more uncomfortable than watching him creep on a child and pretend to be a wholesome family man while the allegations about his predatory behavior continue to grow.
It was kind of a waste of time, honestly, a courtesy to the bride that nobody really wanted to do, but we had to pretend to be excited about — because it's her wedding and she makes the rules.
We did a couple of theatrical videos, such as having one person pretend to be a giant while they chasing the rest of the group, or having the group pretend to walk on a tightrope between two shoelaces.  
What it stands for is basically two steps to verify that you are who you say you are, so that even if a password falls into the hands of the wrong people, they cannot pretend to be you.
In some states, "If you pretend to be a particular person such as Tom Brady and the other person is relying on that claim to consent to sex, that may be deemed a sexual assault," said Mr. Shear.
The court also said he had violated Ms. Weisberger's constitutional rights by requiring her to pretend to be ultra-Orthodox around her children, even though she was no longer religious, in order to spend unsupervised time with them.
Back in Brooklyn, every night I went down the steep steps to my man cave in the basement and tanked up, before joining the family upstairs for a pretend-to-be-sober dinner that did not fool Lisa.
At a CNN town hall in New Hampshire last week, Yang got several questions from undecided voters until he finally smiled and said, "One of you should just pretend to be for me," drawing laughs from the crowd.
But none of what is happening right now would be possible without the acquiescence of politicians who pretend to be open-minded, decry partisanship, tut-tut about incivility and act as enablers for the extremists again and again.
It was then that I realized something I am now ashamed to admit, which is that I could just bring my takeout leftovers to work in plastic containers and pretend to be part of the meal prep club.
It's one of the most well-worn romantic conceits out there, in which circumstances conspire to lead two people to pretend to be in a relationship together, only to inevitably fall in love during the course of their subterfuge.
The person we pretend to be is disconnected from the person that is; the bustling lives of others we like and scroll through are nothing more than curated alternate realities masking flaws and banalities barely different than our own.
Maq, who worked as a nurse while writing the album—"Walk around / check vital signs and pretend to be useful," she sings on "Flesh & Electricity"—has plenty to work through and rage at: anxiety, disdain, society's built-in misogyny.
My dad went to work at 3 AM: On many occasions I would hear his alarm go off, pretend to be asleep while he was getting ready for work, then start playing again the second he went to work.
By 2000, the pair of artists created The Anita Pallenberg Story, a satisfyingly smarmy film that mocks the rock star persona by mixing archival footage of the Rolling Stones with contemporary artists who pretend to be the band members.
Frick says that many children and teens who report sightings or pretend to be clowns themselves likely don't understand the ramifications that their actions, which might involve the police and feed a broader sense of discomfort in their communities.
I don't mean to sound overly boastful, and I certainly do not pretend to be the foremost expert on the crash of 1987, but I do think my vantage point was quite unique for this momentous event in history.
"That is the sign of someone who will say anything, do anything, pretend to be anybody just to get elected," said Mr. Obama, as he praised Representative Patrick Murphy, who is waging an uphill battle to unseat Mr. Rubio.
"I hope it goes without saying that my summary here doesn't pretend to be comprehensive — poems can fulfill any number of ambitions other than the ones I'm describing," he concedes on Page 76, when he's already in the homestretch.
If their response is inadequate, you can assess whether it's safe and go up to the person being harassed and pretend to be their friend, diffusing the scenario and showing whoever is harassing them that they are not alone.
A friend of and frequent collaborator with Kendrick Lamar, he puts on some of the rowdiest shows in music, barking lyrics like a punk frontman while encouraging the sort of jubilant dancing that most rockers pretend to be above.
It's typical behavior for the under-5 set to pretend to be animals (or to role-play adult professions or fantasy characters), said Dr. Tracy Gleason, a professor of psychology at Wellesley College who has studied preschoolers' imaginary play.
He was another president whose actual administration made him profoundly unfunny to liberals, but Ferrell's portrayal of him as a happy-go-lucky frat boy captured what made him likable to his base: He didn't pretend to be smart.
They'd pretend to be strolling to their balcony solely in order to admire the view of the distant kopje or to hang up clothes, which, curiously, only ever seemed to want hanging up during the Mary Wards' swimming hour.
It's just really, really sad that somebody would pretend to be me and put it out in the world and say that I'm a victim, that I am brainwashed, I'm a sex slave — it doesn't get worse than that.
The book also reportedly describes COO Sheryl Sandberg as obsessed with her public image, with Carr saying she's depicted as a "micromanager" who would pretend to be nervous in interviews in an effort to get easier questions from journalists.
Their white skin and black features gave them an exotic appearance that the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" exploited by having them pretend to be cannibals, sheep-headed "freaks," and "Ambassadors from Mars" in sideshows.
Or Boris could pretend to be the FBI and say that the Bureau had detected downloading of illegal pornography taking place at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, and that you are facing a big fine, which you can conveniently pay through Bitcoin.
But a combination of learned helplessness and lack of hypocrisy — in that very few hedge fund managers pretend to be making the world a better place for anyone but their clients — shields them from anything like the rancor they deserve.
Cons are that oatmeal cookies are an inferior cookie that are almost universally looked down upon as the "bad" cookie option that you eat when you're trying to pretend to be healthy or because all the chocolate chip cookies are gone.
But because it bans discrimination based on a person's gender identity, Collins and other Republicans contended Tuesday it creates an arbitrary distinction that lets men pretend to be women, blurring the line between sexes, and defines gender by mannerisms and attire.
To keep her disguised on their journey out of King's Landing, Yoren cuts Arya's hair and tells her to pretend to be a boy so she can join him as a new recruit for the Night's Watch in the North.
Then she reminds him that he doesn't have to pretend to be normal in Midnight and that he should seriously ask his supernatural townie friends for help with this whole home infestation thing before it blows up in his face.
Maybe that's because Vanderpump Rules doesn't pretend to be high-minded entertainment, doesn't purport to be about fake professional endeavors, as the Housewives franchise now does, forcing the viewer to go to someone's dog funeral fundraiser or injectables fashion show.
It's funny because I would interview people separately, and they would then, each of them unprompted, "Oh, well there was the time I had to go get Annie out of the hospital and pretend to be her mother," or something.
They remain a massive name in mainstream rock, but I won't pretend to be well-versed in the band's newer material; by the time 2003's Meteora dropped, I'd gravitated towards the harsher, less emotive sounds of grindcore and death metal.
In a video Grand posted to her account, Gigi, Kendall, and Hailey each pretend to be various types of plants while answering a litany of pressing either/or questions that none of them seem to be able to agree upon.
Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One touches on the complex relationships that can form between players — characters Sho and Daito pretend to be brothers within the game, but have never met outside it, even though they live close to each other.
Another option is to pick a trustworthy VPN and pretend to be someone from the UK. With the right IP address (which is where the VPN comes in), you can tune into the BBC's coverage of the Pyeongchang games for free.
Real footage from the game show To Tell the Truth shows real con man Frank Abagnale pretending to be a pilot on a game show in which contestants pretend to be someone else and only one person is telling the truth.
There are already plenty of non-VR games that pretend to be putting players in a simulated reality, but modern VR games in particular are fascinated by the clumsy physicality of head-mounted displays, and Chronos is a particularly striking example.
If the extension's creator Breather can find a way around that issue (maybe by making it an app instead, so you could pretend to be checking the time, and then get a call?), Nope could have even more useful applications.
Sphero has already shown off the Force Band, which allows you to manipulate the droid via the Force — well, actually by the movement of your wrist, but who cares about the specifics when you get to pretend to be a Jedi?
I won't go as far as to blame Tony Soprano for the rise of Donald Trump, but I also I won't pretend to be entirely comfortable with the sympathy and even admiration we are made to feel for certain onscreen monsters.
According to Forbes, this will be the first Hanukkah TV movie since 2012's Hitched for the Holidays, which was about a couple who pretend to be together to appease their families but end up falling in love for real.
"Phishing" is a catch-all term used to describe scammers who pretend to be a trusted person, like a banker, service provider, or mortgage company, in order to trick victims into sharing private information that can be used against them.
First, they use Valve's OpenID API to users to prove ownership of an account, and harvest other information from public profiles or directly from the user themselves, before setting up automated Steam accounts that pretend to be actual Steam users.
This can protect you from a hacker who may pretend to be you on the phone, or from a scammer attempting to use a fake ID at a T-Mobile store, as they should still be required to provide the code.
She's going to pretend to be Sebastian, go to Illyria in his place, join the soccer team, and defeat Cornwall at a big game, proving her point that she's every bit as good — if not better — than her now ex-boyfriend.
The Saudi government takes this very seriously, so the odds that a non-Muslim would be able to slip in unnoticed among the throngs of pilgrims undetected or pretend to be Muslim and get in that way are extremely small.
But Milo gains confidence in being himself, realizing he can't pretend to be macho because it's what's expected of him by society—and that his ability to talk to women and express his feelings is something his male peers value.
The Air Force has long been seen as the most Christian of the services; in one 2011 controversy, Air Force Academy cadets reported that they felt that had to pretend to be fundamentalist Christians to fit in at the school.
New York (CNN Business)Perhaps the one great equalizer left in the world is when everyone in an audience, Anna Wintour included, is forced to hand over their phones and pretend to be okay with that for 90 minutes of theater.
She laughed recalling how as teenagers in the '80s, she and her sister used to dress up in their U.A.L. finds and go to the International House of Pancakes and pretend to be French-speaking models from out of town.
For students who do make the cut, their moments on stage become the focal points of their lives—the eight minutes per month when they get to be who they are, even as they pretend to be who they're not.
He and Booker's mother, Carolyn, were the first African American executives at the computer company IBM, but the senator has noted they essentially had to pretend to be white to buy a home in the neighborhood he grew up in.
The couple, who had been married for eight years and share a four-year-old child, always seemed so happy together at red carpet events (though later we would learn that it was "weird" for them to pretend to be something they weren't).
Initially thought to be mentally ill, local media reports said that the man was in fact sane and committing pengci — a type of fraud in China where people pretend to be hit by a car to demand financial compensation from a driver.
But I don't pretend to be perfect and I hope to God that, you know, I don't say the right thing all the time because if that was the case then I'd be a robot, and I'm just, I'm not a robot.
"It took all the courage I had to come out and be like 'This is something I'm doing, I can't pretend to be someone I'm not at work anymore,' and from that point on, I was like, 'Please help me,'" she says.
I didn't even pretend to be offended, because I didn't have much of a right to: I haven't spoken with my father in over two years, and now that he probably has no idea who I am, I'm not about to start.
When she goes to apologize, she meets their son: tall, hot, and angry Aidan O'Leary, who tells her if she wants to apologize she can pretend to be his fake fiancé, which he needs for a chance at winning a competition of sorts.
Whether challenged to explain himself, or just given an opportunity to pretend to be Whoopi Goldberg's talking vagina, he would charge forward fearlessly, vomiting out daring, startling riffs that revealed a little need, a little anger, and a whole lot of manic energy.
From the trailer, it looks like a slapsticky romp about some radio journalists who pretend to be broadcasting from war-torn Ecuador when they're actually safe in New York... until they actually have to go to Ecuador after they're suspected of going missing.
Throwing caution to the wind, he beats two city guards to death with his cool war hammer, refuses Davos's advice that he pretend to be somebody named "Clovis," and introduces himself to Tyrion and Jon as the bastard-blacksmith of King's Landing.
Ray eventually dropped the case, but pointed the Daily Beast to alleged witness and friend Ashley Heffington Dionne, who claims she saw Landis pretend to be Ray's then-boyfriend and proceed to sexually assault her on a couch while Ray was heavily intoxicated.
The Boy—the boy whose robot girlfriend Charlie was paid to pretend to be—lived eight time zones and more than 5,000 miles away in San Jose, which was somewhere people always seemed to be trying to get to in old songs.
They couldn't even ask me to do it—I don't think it was permitted by law to ask a minor—but even having another person pretend to be me was embarrassing to me and upsetting to my mother, and she said so.
"The fact that I don't pretend to be objective, that I don't hide my opinion about some of the political issues I cover, I don't think that should have any bearing on whether I am considered a member of the media," she said.
One would create a local law enforcement liaison at the IRS, and the other would require the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to issue a report on potential solutions to combatting phone scams in which people pretend to be IRS employees.
Of course the winner of this ugly contest will claim a mandate and pretend to be the people's choice when, in reality, a large percentage of the electorate, or at least those who bother to vote, devoutly wished there had been better choices.

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