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For Biblical literalists, there's creationism, which pretends to be science.
He pretends to be ferocious, but is actually embarrassingly fragile.
He pretends to be pious, and white evangelicals pretend to care.
The big balcony scene, in which Cyrano pretends to be Christian?
A man from Essex pretends to be Norwegian, completely fooling me.
Arthur pretends to be on Franklin's show in his living room.
Lucious pretends to be excited, pulling her in for a deep hug.
On the surface, The Witcher 2 pretends to be exactly like that.
Obama, obviously, is the latter (although, predictably, he pretends to be both).
On the surface, The Witcher 2 pretends to be exactly like that.
They promise to be the populist fighter he only pretends to be.
She&aposs not diverse enough, even though she pretends to be a minority.
" Photography, she realized, is "very imprecise, although it pretends to be the opposite.
And, through a series of calamitous coincidences, he pretends to be a minister.
But sometimes the debate is, or pretends to be, about more tangible questions.
To prevent the last of these, at least, he pretends to be gay.
The United States has never been the meritocracy it sometimes pretends to be.
Meanwhile, the Afghan government pretends to be in control of the country's security.
It pretends to be distracted by an e-mail on its cell phone.
The woman routinely pretends to be shocked and then aggressively kisses her partner.
And that's true of a lot of what pretends to be fiscal conservatism.
Dressed in layers, hats and extra socks, the couple pretends to be homeless.
That makes them vulnerable to a ruse whereby a passenger pretends to be obnoxious.
"He pretends to be 'colored people's' friends and then he harms them," she said.
"He pretends to be a Republican," another answers, all three of them laughing hysterically.
There's a lot to contemplate, for a project that pretends to be so simple.
Sally (Kristen Johnston) is the security officer and she pretends to be Dick's sister.
That hardly means he's helping the country the way he pretends to be doing.
Prince Harry pretends to be a tiger at the Bardie National Park in Nepal.
"He pretends to be a Republican!" one exclaims as he explains what the doll does.
In both Britain and America, "Love Island" pretends to be a show about finding love.
At the show, a semi-drunk Jeanie pretends to be Diane, the reporter, who writes.
She pretends to be Simone and rolls around on the bed trying all these flips.
Zach: To me, it's a reaction to how "tough" the hardcore scene pretends to be.
Still, no one pretends to be Joseph Stalin at any point, so there's that upside.
Giving an AI that pretends to be human access to all that information should terrify you.
However fixed an exchange-rate arrangement pretends to be, it can be altered at any time.
What about a comedy where a forty-something-year-old woman pretends to be a millennial.
It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but is instead born of fear.
Later in the video, Shiggy even gets some lines where he pretends to be Drake's assistant.
When threatened, it pretends to be dead, flipping on its back and hanging its tongue out.
Russia still pretends to be a democracy, and its constitution currently puts term limits on presidents.
Even if he were the policy wonk he pretends to be, he couldn't do the impossible.
He goes full goth, with Halloween fangs and fake blood, and pretends to be a vampire.
It seems disingenuous when the show pretends to be chaste while still reveling in every scandal.
But Lugo said Gsellman was not as good at the games as he pretends to be.
Not an $850 wannabe laptop that exclusively runs Chrome and pretends to be an Android tablet. 
You might follow Kirby Jenner, who pretends to be Kendall Jenner's fraternal twin brother on Instagram.
It never pretends to be something it's not, and it delivers semi-competently on its modest promises.
Then Mom Gomez knocks on the door, and Daughter Gomez pretends to be asleep on the bed.
Will pretends to be over Dolores and makes up with Logan, giving him a brotherly bear hug.
A few years later on a fancy Paris stage, Chocolat circles Foottit, who pretends to be terrified.
It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.
For a few minutes the movie pretends to be a lot more fun than it really is.
Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP)Let me go ahead and break out that "pretends to be shocked" gif.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born fear.
The man pretends to be a sign language interpreter, taking the stage with Obama and other world leaders.
Captain America follows the Hydra agents into the elevator and pretends to be an undercover Hydra agent himself.
I think she's not as tough as she wants to be or pretends to be on the surface.
Oh, and because Bloomberg is what Trump only pretends to be: a bona fide billionaire and proven entrepreneur.
It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough, but in fact is born of fear.
The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
It is important, then, for all to see Serbia as it is, not as it pretends to be.
Both have a strong stage presence, but neither pretends to be anything — starting with invulnerable — that he isn't.
You got John Brennan who pretends to be the CIA director but he is Hillary Clinton lackey and sycophant.
The call pretends to be Gillum and uses racist language and stereotypes meant to discourage voters from supporting Gillum.
" Cole said she wrote the blog "to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be.
No, he would be at home quietly rubbing up against his wife Malaria while she pretends to be asleep.
She disrobes and asks, "General anesthetic?" then pretends to be passed out as he climbs on top of her.
"It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear," Obama said.
"It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear," he added.
"Donald Trump pretends to be a populist, Bernie's the real thing," said a 22-year-old transgender Sanders fan.
Nia is obsessed with vampire fiction, so AJ pretends to be a vampire, with Halloween fangs and fake blood.
But it's hard not to wonder, just a little, if Rampage is secretly much smarter than it pretends to be.
We're essentially in a hellish frat house—one that really hates women but also pretends to be joking about it.
One of the undercover operatives goes in and pretends to be a cattleman; another goes in as an insurance salesman.
Unable to land a job because of the gap on her résumé, she pretends to be a 26-year-old.
But still kind of amazing to see in a paper that sometimes pretends to be a cut above Erick Erickson.
Which is to say that Kid Rock is not really a conservative, or even someone who pretends to be one.
George pretends to be a hero who dragged people to safety, but soon finds the lie spirals out of control.
In July, the government enacted an odious nation-state law, which pretends to be a codification of existing Israeli reality.
There's a comedy in development for New Line Cinema about a guy who pretends to be an NBA draft pick.
When Donnie is at BrightBorn with Cosima, he has to distract Krystal and pretends to be a masseuse to question her.
Here's a kiss from Season 1, Episode 7, "The One With The Blackout" when Phoebe pretends to be her sister, Ursula.
Keira Knightley pretends to be other people onscreen for a living — but in real life, she doesn't even have to try.
" A Cruz ad showed a boy explaining the features of a Trump action figure, saying, "He pretends to be a Republican.
But he pretends to be unaware that in 1947 there was a Jewish plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland.
Doubtfire, Williams plays a divorced dad who pretends to be a nanny so he can spend more time with his kids.
When Kai pushes back, insisting that America isn't as progressive as it "pretends to be," one of them calls him out.
When she throws the cup and pretends to be sad... she's rewriting the psychological chess game, that I thought I mastered.
Trafficking in bombastic manufactured outrage, it's politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born of fear.
This Polish film, which was nominated for the international feature Oscar, is about a man who pretends to be a priest.
Younger follows a fortysomething woman named Liza (Sutton Foster) who pretends to be in her twenties to land a job in publishing.
The customer pretends to be the FBI, but he's not — he's there to tie Lori up and steal her for his own.
She pretends to be Jane and submits an ad about an essay writing business, setting up Jane to break the school's code.
" Trump, of course, tweeted about Krauthammer, who "pretends to be a smart guy, but if you look at his record, he isn't.
This tongue-in-cheek production from Hauser & Wirth pretends to be a forgotten provincial institution that features only bronze art and artifacts.
But how can an administration that pretends to be populist, to stand up for ordinary (white) working people, sell such elitist policies?
Ki-woo's sister, Ki-jung, pretends to be an art therapist and gets hired to work with the Parks' disturbed little boy.
Issa, as she explains to Molly early in the episode, isn't the bold woman she pretends to be in her mirror monologues.
The software initially pretends to be the person in the ad, and can converse about its purported age, body, fetish services, and pricing.
Kjellberg himself tackled the subject over the weekend in an ongoing and partially satirical bit where he pretends to be a news reporter.
In the 1983 movie Yentl, the title character, played by Barbra Streisand, pretends to be a man to get the education she wants.
She's also featured on the Mas Mejor You Tube channel where she pretends to be various celebs as they plan out their day.
Jessa has spent six years proving she's above "traditional" relationships and "traditional" values, so she pretends to be cool with Adam's unexpected decision.
Trafficking in insult and phony controversies...It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.
Sometimes, if an offended party hasn't actually met the offender, Ishii stands in for the offender, who then pretends to be Ishii's supervisor.
There was a movie about a white guy who starts calling into a radio station and he pretends to be a black woman.
And that would then fit in with the fact that he isn't half as, a tenth as rich as he pretends to be.
Roman, who pretends to be a clownish vulgarian, is actually quite shrewd, but so emotionally stunted that he can only express intimacy onanistically.
The canned music already included the song's near-dog-whistle vocal flourish, which Ms. Carey no longer pretends to be able to deliver.
He and Zelda soon start acting up; she pretends to be his mistress and they almost have a Gone Girl moment in the library.
That tiny dongle plugged into your USB port and paired with your wireless keyboard or mouse isn't as monogamous as it pretends to be.
Meanwhile, there's a giant corporation called Antigen that pretends to be researching how to protect humans from vampires and werewolves, but is actually — surprise!
The cheaper solutions often rely on dubiously-sourced emulators—software that pretends to be the electronics and hardware you'd find in the original consoles.
When Claire comes home, for example, she goes to greet her mother but instead of going to her daughter, Elizabeth pretends to be asleep.
In what looks to be an anesthesia-induced fog, she bops her head around and pretends to be driving a vehicle of some sort.
Enough with this masculinity that pretends to be a well-read, progressive alternative to the labor of macho method acting and fratty, college humor.
"Any phishing anywhere in the world that pretends to be UK gov brand has gone down from 49 hours to 5 hours," he added.
For example, the law would apply to a person who pretends to be their twin in order to have sex with their twin's partner.
It's the one where the receiver pretends to be at odds with the goals of the state, but colludes with the wedgie anyway.[Yahoo]
In her view, Democrats must become the thing Trump only pretends to be — warriors against the rich, powerful interests that have overwhelmed American democracy.
Jared pretends to be the guy who's got it all figured out, but all of these characters are lost and alone in different ways.
He pretends to be her boyfriend to save her from being humiliated when her father berates her for not going on enough dates. Classic!
The immigrant pretends to be happy and prosperous in his adoptive country, the locals pretend they're proud of him and pleased with his success.
But one thing is clear - Masurkar and Tewari make no bones about whose side they are on, even though the film pretends to be neutral.
It's called pretexting: The attacker pretends to be a customer having a problem, and convinces a service rep that the request they're making is legitimate.
Abbi pretends to be Ilana to cover her shift at a food co-op while Ilana goes to an important doctor's appointment on Long Island.
We taught the machines to imitate us, because it's easier for us to communicate with someone who pretends to be an animal just like ourselves.
To its credit, it never pretends to be anything more than what it is: a breezy summer movie with eight fun antiheroines worth rooting for.
The other, in the purported style of Shakespeare, writes blistering critiques of authority figures, but in a code that pretends to be about something else.
Let's get that outlandish premise out of the way: Younger is a show about a 40-year-old woman who pretends to be, well, younger.
They make stupendously outrageous modern rock that pretends to be prog rock, isn't actually prog rock, and ends up being better than most prog rock.
She digs into Albert's abrasiveness, manipulativeness and shamelessness and indulges, with relish, her talent for accents (Albert pretends to be J.T.'s British handler "Speedie").
Imposter scams, frauds when someone pretends to be a government official, a loved one in trouble, or someone else, were the third most common complaint.
My husband jokes around that I'm like that character in Seinfield who pretends to be an architect because I'm pushing our kids to be one.
He dresses up as a cop, pretends to be a bartender, and frequently pops out at the worst possible times to goad Kiryu into a brawl.
But, with his step-mom Haide, who seems to be A.J.'s only living relative after his father's death, he pretends to be a straight guy.
In an attempt to get hired in the competitive publishing industry, Liza pretends to be a 20-something and ends up snagging an entry-level job.
"What pretends to be a hand up is really a foot in the back," said Shamus Roller, the executive director of the National Housing Law Project.
Phone calls where a fraudster pretends to be the I.R.S. or the police collecting a tax debt, are very common, but there is a new twist.
Then the video ends in the girl's bedroom, where she dances around and then pretends to be sleeping when her mom comes to check on her.
In this instance, the scammer pretends to be calling from a well-known hotel company to notify you of a hot deal that's about to expire.
So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.
"Oh look, Rose McGowan is a hypocrite too *pretends to be shocked* Just imagine if it was a guy in place of Asia," one person tweeted.
"The company pretends to be so progressive and care about its employees, but when we need them they act like any corporation," another Brooklyn employee said.
But the words to "Temes" ("You Fear") are a challenge, defying a machismo that pretends to be romantic but is actually about maintaining power, sometimes violently.
A mystery shopper is someone who pretends to be a regular customer, but is actually a paid worker who provides feedback to the company on the experience.
Spear phishing is the term for when a hacker sends you an email that pretends to be from someone you trust, but is in fact a scammer.
The idea that he wasn't trying to humiliate Kovaleski because he sometimes pretends to be disabled when mocking other people -- Ted Cruz for example -- is not credible.
Once in position near the drive-through, Princess turns on the puppy eyes and pretends to be a stray dog to guilt customers into giving her food.
Woke seduction is different only because it pretends to be kinder, but the seduction work coming from Colgate and Mystery still relies on external affirmation from women.
"With this 'disguise', the lacewing larva pretends to be someone completely different," noted study co-author Jes Rust of the Steinmann-Institute of the University of Bonn.
Unlike the titular figure in Dirty John, John Meehan, who only pretends to be a doctor, Duntsch was a trained, licensed physician — but not a skilled one.
The woman pretends to be enticed and motions him to come closer — only to shove a detergent pod in his mouth and cram him into the washer.
In Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, Bowie plays the titular man, an alien who pretends to be English—what a stretch—and goes by the name Thomas Newton.
It's less amazing when you're constantly worried about the man who pretends to be a recruiter for a major network but is really a serial sexual harasser.
At the police station, Gypsy is interviewed by the detective who found her mother and pretends to be surprised when he tells her that her mother is dead.
Most people are familiar with identity theft, which happens when someone pretends to be someone else to make purchases, apply for credit or even get their tax refund.
In Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez, a maid at a fancy hotel, pretends to be a wealthy, non-hotel employee in order to date Ralph Fiennes, a politician.
Using hacked Uber customer accounts, the scammer then pretends to be both driver and rider, moving each device's GPS location as if a ride really was taking place.
Jaime murmurs, "No," — not because he's not interested in sex, but because he believes a hookup with Cersei can only work if he pretends to be "whole" again.
She pretends to be asleep when Alex gets home, and when she opens her eyes after he leaves the room, it's obvious that something is very, very wrong.
For example: i) He pretends to be Kelly's supervisor, lambasting her unrelentingly so the new boss (Will Ferrell) doesn't discover he hasn't actually had a job for years.
Because the man at the wheel is listening, she pretends to be talking to her young daughter, addressing Asger as "sweetie" and telling him not to be afraid.
In this case, it's the pathetic Jelly, who is not the pretty young thing she pretends to be on the phone, but a lonely, fat middle-aged woman.
Twitter has long had problems with crypto scammers — someone pretends to be Elon Musk giving away Bitcoin just as long as you send him $10 first, or whatever.
And Keeping up with the Kardashians fans can't wait for Kirby Jenner, a spoof show following a comedian who pretends to be  Kendall Jenner's less-famous twin brother.
Patting someone's hand in this way pretends to be an affectionate gesture of approval, but its real purpose is to remind the other person who's actually in charge.
Disgraced price-gouging pharmaceutical bro Martin Shkreli clearly understands this—the man's favorite wrestler is Damien Sandow, an elitist scoundrel who pretends to be a Rhodes Scholar (and rules).
Darcy pretends to be OK with it — and Bob believes her, which requires a real suspension of disbelief — while secretly plotting to take the law into her own hands.
At night, she sneaks out in a jaunty jacket and boots to go hunting while her friend Winkiepeeps takes her place in the shed and pretends to be Kitty.
Pinto, a horse in North Texas, lays on his back and pretends to be dead pretty often, according to the remarks of his owner who narrates the hilarious video.
The protagonist of the episode, Nish, originally pretends to be from the United Kingdom and the untrained ear might assume they hear that version of the song at first.
"The Lying Detective" riffs on Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Dying Detective, in which Holmes pretends to be on death's door in order to extract a confession.
Now that said, I think your argument is, even where it pretends to be factual, or wherever you think it is factual, it is highly biased by political considerations.
The film pretends to be a grim reckoning with the horrors of war, but it is also, true to its genre, a rousing celebration of the thrills of battle.
The third story is about a girl who pretends to be two additional women in order to keep tabs on her boyfriend while he's a counselor at a summer camp.
So the case against Oprah is just that: She may, in fact, be what Trump pretends to be — a self-made business success story whose words resonate across the country.
Under this decision that goes against civil liberties, Congress could investigate any person for any reason as long as it pretends to be doing so for a legitimate legislative purpose.
Post pretends to be a record store employee by donning an incredibly weak disguise of glasses and a hat, then walks around telling people how much his own music sucks.
Rather, they are part of a history of photographic technical materials, now converted to digital, that has consistently prioritized a racialized white point of view that pretends to be universal.
They share a tender scene in which Manke playfully pretends to be Rifkele's bridegroom and impulsively implores her to come away with her so they can share a life together.
Netflix Description: A girl raised to be a government assassin just wants to be a normal teen — so she runs away and pretends to be a high school exchange student.
The movie, starring Amanda Bynes, modernizes Shakespeare's play, by placing the shipwreck instead at boarding school where Viola pretends to be her twin brother Sebastian so she can play soccer.
An IMSI catcher, sometimes known under the brand name Stingray, is a piece of tech that pretends to be a cell phone tower, forcing local phones to connect to it.
But the next time the phone rings, Quinn pretends to be Auster and soon finds himself embroiled in the tale of a monstrous father, a damaged son and an alluring wife.
Benji sees through her: According to Benji, Beck pretends to be a hard-working, interesting writer, when really she's only with Benji because he is rich and can take her places.
Michael pretends to be the harsher, harder, more ruthless Mirror Michael, to gain the trust of other Mirror Universe inhabitants who have information about how to get back to her universe.
It aired on USA for almost 93 years, and is about a guy who's extremely observant, so he pretends to be a psychic and gets a job working with the police.
This movie's plot may strike you as somewhat Shakespearean: The heroine pretends to be a boy for her own convenience, only to find herself attracting the affections of a popular girl.
The Pineapple then pretends to be the legitimate Wi-Fi access point so it can snoop on all the information as it relays data from the device to the access point.
The "romance scam" category is only loosely defined, but the report focuses on situations in which one person pretends to be romantically interested in another in order to extract money from them.
But NBC's approach robs most events of their excitement, of the sense that anything can happen that you get from watching live coverage (or tape-delayed coverage that pretends to be live).
Once Mars has left Aries with a bang, the action planet enters Taurus at 5:51 AM on Thursday, where its typically savage willpower pretends to be way too civilized to argue.
Giselle and her compatriots are now migrant factory workers rather than happy peasants; Albrecht is one of the wealthy "landlords" who own the now-closed factory, but pretends to be a migrant.
The fake followers and likes that Devumi sold came from bot accounts, or "sock-puppet accounts," where one person pretends to be many people, according to the New York attorney general's office.
Pepper clearly isn't as rich as she pretends to be: The hotel she's living in desperately needs her to pay her bill, and despite her many excuses, it's obvious that Pepper can't.
A multibillionaire who built his namesake company from scratch, he is many of the things Mr. Trump pretends to be and would be an effective contrast to the president in a campaign.
In a YouTube video that was picked up by Gawker and other sites, Gneiting pretends to be presidential hopeful Governor Chris Christie's older brother and challenges the politician to a sumo match.
Kumail is not a practising Muslim, but he pretends to be—when it is time to pray, he brings a carpet to the basement, shuts the door, and watches funny videos on YouTube.
By Tuesday afternoon, posts ricocheted across the internet, accusing Hogg of being a paid crisis actor who pretends to be a victim during national tragedies in order to exploit them for political gain.
Most of us have met at least one of these guys before, the kind who pretends to be one thing in the honeymoon phase but turns into a complete nightmare once you're committed.
Last week's episode found Lisa Rinna feeling repentant after she brought Munchhausen syndrome – a factitious mental disorder in which a patient pretends to be ill – into a conversation about Foster's ongoing health battle.
Let's begin way back at the hot yoga sex show, where JoJo pretends to be uncomfortable during this week's first one-on-one date with medical sales rep and mystical muscle man Chase.
It's driven by the market right here right now, and the worse thing is, it pretends to be fashion, because there are no institutions in Brazil to care for our quality and originality.
The hit man played by Robert De Niro in "The Irishman" pretends to be anyone other than who he really is, even as he risks losing touch with his self and his soul.
But if Silicon Valley's conscience was as perturbed as it pretends to be, we'd see real changes to the financial ties that bind the world of startups and the world of Saudi Arabia.
Why is is that when Kendall Jenner dons ballet shoes and pretends to be a ballerina, we are allowed to take arms, but when Ryan Gosling warbles a few half-hearted notes, we rejoice?
The tool pretends to be a cell tower and compels every cell phone in range to connect to it, allowing potential interception of text messages, emails, call contents and the location of phones themselves.
The beef here seems to be that Lil Miquela—despite obviously being computer generated—generally pretends to be a real human whereas Bermuda is up-front about the fact that she's an art project.
"Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax," Trump said in a tweet.
Now if the dash cam could connect directly to Waze, instead of an app that pretends to be Waze and that it seems like no one really uses, that'd be a massive game changer.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan finally have an Instagram account Everyone else already pretends to be rich, attractive and in love on Instagram -- might as well have some of the real deal on there.
Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a "poor little Angel" when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin' James Comey.
Robin Williams' titular role as a father who pretends to be a maid in order to spend time with his children after splitting from his wife is remembered for its over-the-top comedic moments.
Responder is an open-source tool often used by penetration testers that pretends to be a printer or another device on the local network to trick computers into connecting to it and steal their credentials.
Andre gets Rhonda working for Camilla's fashion line Antony and Cleopatra — delicious if heavy-handed foreshadowing — where she can keep quiet watch, while Hakeem pretends to be her lover long enough to betray her trust.
Chad pretends to be offended by the attention, referring to his male obsessors as both the Care Bears and the cast of West Side Story, desperate to swarm him with their emotions at any moment.
On the comedy side, you can see what's great about "Veep" in the episode "Kissing Your Sister," a season highlight that pretends to be a behind-the-scenes documentary made by the show's first daughter.
Imposter scams, in which a fraudster pretends to be someone you should trust like a representative of a government agency, were the most common type of fraud last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
A Teen Pretends to Be Trans, and Some Viewers Object to the Deception The indie film "Adam" centers on the 17-year-old title character passing as transgender to win the affection of a lesbian.
We walk all the way to the end, which takes about an hour, and T. makes me mad with a picture that he takes with K. where he pretends to be falling off the cliff.
In a society in which "everyone pretends to be working for the other's profit or reputation, while only seeking to raise his own above them and at their expense," violence, deceit, and betrayal become inevitable.
Mr. Jackman will play Harold Hill, a scam artist who pretends to be a musician and makes money selling instruments and uniforms to boys aspiring to be part of a band in River City, Iowa.
A guy from my very small and posh private school joined the boxing society when he started at Edinburgh University, and now he wears a lot of Lonsdale and pretends to be super hard. 16.
When Sierra's best friend Dan forces her to interact with Jamey in person, she is afraid to speak because she knows Jamey would recognize her voice from their phone conversations, so… she pretends to be deaf.
" The Check out some highlights from their Snapchat home tour below: The giggly pair pretends to be confused by finding tortillas in her freezer: In another, she asks her boyfriend, "Baby, what is in your cabinet?
This is a problem where recipients get a message that maybe pretends to be from an executive at their company or from the finance team saying, "Send me those tax forms," and it's a near duplicate.
But last week's miserable series of press conferences closed the distance between the blowhard McGregor pretends to be when he needs to sell something and the shameful human Floyd Mayweather, Jr., continues to be every day.
"We never really take time for baths," said Heather Morowitz, 30, a masseuse and performance artist who periodically pretends to be a pre-feminist, time-traveling ghost named Madame Ovary (accessorized with a large "biological clock").
Based on the 1982 movie about an actor whose stalled career revives only when he pretends to be a woman, it offers both the size and sentiment a musical comedy, in any era, needs for liftoff.
Instead of being Thorne's "inner emotional teen's sexy dream" come to life, Delphi is a conniving sociopath who pretends to be a Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl in order to gain Albus' trust and get what she wanted.
While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock—aka the queen of 90s and early 00s rom coms—as she pretends to be the fiancee of an unconscious man named Jack while he recovers from a bad fall.
Another popular one, according Giacalone, is the "IRS scam," in which the caller pretends to be the IRS, claims you've been audited and owe $3,000 and if you don't pay you'll be locked up in prison tomorrow.
Leaving aside the fact that Trump has criticized his predecessor's policy of "strategic patience," every day Kim pretends to be "negotiating" means another day that he can spend making his nuclear arsenal, bigger, better and more dispersed.
So, for the sake of a token "You've Got Mail" plot twist, he publishes it in the name of his friend Pritam Vidrohi (Rajkummar Rao), and pretends to be the interlocutor between Bitti and her author crush.
Highlighting the fractured character of language that pretends to be naively straightforward, her poems suggest that we can't say what things are, what lies before us, until we reclaim the body as the supreme origin of our experience.
It feels like he's finally going to open the floodgates when Gretch takes him to an English pub and pretends to be his dad, yelling insults at him in a pretty comical British accent, but he just farts.
This is how it works: a criminal calls T-Mobile, pretends to be you, convinces the customer rep to issue a new SIM card for your number, the criminal activates it, and they take control of your number.
Iran's Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Trump a "big mouth" who "pretends to be an idiot" in a televised speech on Wednesday, saying the US is "an agent of international Zionism" and the creator of ISIS.
She pretends to be much healthier than she is—she gives "a tremendous performance of being alive," in Garner's savage phrase—and is committed to a kind of social fraudulence that saddens and then gradually enrages her host.
These are all friends, people that she's worked with or known through the community, and she pretends, she puts on an act, and pretends to be an ingénue and starry-eyed and just learning her way around the theater.
They first starred together in 2011's Just Go With It, the romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon (Sandler) who pretends to be married to his office manager (Sandler) so he can enjoy future dates with no strings attached.
In the trailer, Gleeson's version of McGregor also has a strict no-rabbit policy, but when he falls in love with his neighbor Bea, a lover of all woodland animals, he pretends to be a friend of the bunnies.
"Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax – a puppet for Leakin' James Comey," Trump wrote on Feb.
We asked if he ever pretends to be Odell to nail cleat chasers who don't realize he's not the NFL player ... and that's when Carter got serious and told us he absolutely has not and will not go there.
The employees at the drive-through window — understandably — completely LOSE IT when they lay eyes on THE Selena Gomez, and James Corden hilariously pretends to be annoyed that none of them cared that he was in the car, too.
And with that question you've struck to the heart of the whole meritocratic game, which depends on a reproduction of privilege that pretends to be something else, something fair and open and all about hard work and just deserts.
An indictment involving 22 people alleges dealers often convened at L & L. —VICE Bagel Finds 1,000 Women on Tinder EverythingBagel—a 24-year-old guy who pretends to be a bagel on Tinder—has matched with over 1,000 women.
But what's freaky about the clip is what a creep he pretends to be, leaping from one end of the enormous dining table to where Alice sits at the other and appearing to chase her around the checkerboard set.
While Trump pretends to be a populist while he insults and berates one group of Americans after another, it is Sanders who fights for an economy that will lift all Americans and bring the change that Americans hunger for.
There was the time he dropped by the Los Angeles garage where the comedian Marc Maron records his podcast or when he sat between the two ferns where Zach Galifianakis pretends to be a boob hosting a talk show.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
There's one where he watches her get ready in the bathroom, reminding the camera that she's the finest thing he's ever seen, or the one where he pretends to be a puppy to wake her up because he really misses her.
While Kevin pretends to be above the bullying, we learn that he's secretly tormented by the way his classmates treat him on social media, and that's why he keeps posting weird stuff online—to send the message that he doesn't care.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
Just as the Wizard of Oz was eventually exposed as a charlatan, the curtain protecting Trump might come tumbling down if something in his personal life or professional career clearly demonstrates that he is not what he pretends to be.
Then there's Andrew, the young British hero of Jesse Armstrong's debut novel, "Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals," who pretends to be proficient in Serbo-Croatian so he can follow his crush to the front lines of the Bosnian war.
Undead dancers lay hands on him, but he just does a little shimmy towards the ceiling; he pretends to be confused by counting; he's just altogether thrilled to be hanging out with demons, because demons might want to party too.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media,which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.
He has two equally creaky confederates, played by Tom Waits and Danny Glover, and strikes up a romance with Jewel (Sissy Spacek), who proves susceptible to his charms even as she expresses some gentle skepticism about who he pretends to be.
And Santino Fontana, nominated for a second time, is impressing voters with his virtuosic performance as Michael Dorsey, an underemployed actor, and Dorothy Michaels, the woman Dorsey pretends to be, in "Tootsie," a role made famous on film by Dustin Hoffman.
The markets rallied as he took the lead in polls — but Mr. Bolsonaro is "not the pro-market liberal he pretends to be," warned Monica de Bolle, a Brazilian economist who heads the Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.
" Whatever the number of named storms, he said, the real concern is the number of damaging storms that actually reach land and affect people and property — and "no one pretends to be able to forecast the incidence of dangerous, landfalling storms.
In the video, the creator pretends to be at one of the campers and greets her "gay friends," her girlfriend, and the "TikTok lesbians" with a smile, though her demeanor turns sour when she pretends she has spotted Pence himself.
The second season of Younger, the TV Land sitcom that follows Liza (Sutton Foster), a 40-year-old recently divorced mother who pretends to be a 26-year-old in order to land a job in publishing, has been ... mostly pretty good.
In 2011, they both starred in Just Go With It, a romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon, played by Sandler, who pretends to be married to his office manager, played by Aniston, in order to enjoy dating other women — with no strings attached.
At one point in the film, Rattigan pretends to be a devoted beekeeper (the context for which I won't spoil.) But The Perfect Date never really lets Centineo turn on his full charm, the patented charisma that could power LA's entire power grid.
Daniel is tossed into the real-life compound known as Colonia Dignidad, a cult presided over by a man named Paul Schäfer (Michael Nyqvist), and in an effort to rescue him, Lena pretends to be a willing convert, joining Schäfer's glassy-eyed followers.
Most likely, she says, attackers will try to find the easiest and cheapest way to engineer an attack, such as phishing — where an attacker pretends to be a bank, IT manager, or other trusted figure in order to get password and personal info.
"Our expectation is that we will be able to deliver one framework for all of these places," said Sneath and stressed that we're talking about native code, even on the desktop, not a web app that pretends to be a desktop app.
One used a PDF of a document about nuclear material management, which was laced with malware; and the second one pretends to be legitimate software to target Siemens programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, essentially the computers that control how industrial control systems operate.
His first nomination was for "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me." tootsie "Tootsie," adapted from the 1982 film comedy about an actor who pretends to be a woman in an effort to find work, is nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including best new musical.
"Adam" is adapted from Ariel Schrag's novel of the same name, published in 2014, about a straight cisgender—ie, not trans—teenage boy named Adam who pretends to be a trans male in order to woo a lesbian he meets at a party.
"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was," the president added.
Later, in Episode 8, the closeted gay hit man Vito Spatafore (Joseph R. Gannascoli) goes on the lam to a quaint New Hampshire town, where he pretends to be a writer and wonders if he can avoid his grim fate back home.
Sometimes she describes her subjects ("Muddy"), sometimes she pretends to be them ("Sun Ra"), and sometimes they're not directly cited ("Eartha"), just names to suggest moods, which is true to the way history pervades life: constantly, if inexactly, present, but not always in focus.
DiMarco, who is deaf, called out one of the scenes in the film in which Sierra's best friend forces her to meet Jamey in person and she pretends to be deaf in order to avoid speaking to him as he could recognize her voice.
One key difference between Trump and Mooch is that even though Mooch is more genuinely the new money impresario that Trump only pretends to be, Mooch has been much more effective over the years at turning his money into a certain kind of elite respectability.
The boy at the center of Knock Knock begins the book by telling us of a game he and his father share: Every morning his father knocks on his bedroom door, and he pretends to be asleep until his father is beside his bed.
" Evergreen in its awfulness, too, is the 1963 cab ride in which Gay Talese explains to Saul Bellow, as Ms. Steinem sits between them, "You know how every year there's a pretty girl who comes to New York and pretends to be a writer?
This tool wasn't built to prevent piracy specifically but to help combat issues such as the sale of counterfeit inventory, where someone pretends to be selling inventory on a site and is actually putting it somewhere else, like a porn site or other scammy location.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, which first reported on the robocalls, they include jungle noises in the background and a man who pretends to be Gillum, the 39-year-old mayor of Tallahassee, using a minstrel performer's exaggerated accent and speaking about mud huts.
Except for Ali G Indahouse, the 2002 movie everyone has agreed to forget about, the comedian's schtick has stayed consistent for nearly two decades: He pretends to be an over-the-top character and runs around humiliating people by exposing them to ridiculous situations.
Everyone pretends to be casually cool and sexually sophisticated, but at the same time, for many people sex is still dangerously intimate and revealing, sometimes even a minefield of shame, and always fraught with the rawest of emotions and desires, difficult to talk about and to negotiate.
Now, Cassie is a barista by day and vigilante by night, haunting various bars where she pretends to be blackout drunk while waiting for a "nice guy" (the perfectly cast Adam Brody, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and others) to help her—and inevitably try to assault her.
The premise sounds pretty well-worn by now: Pegg plays an aspiring comic artist who is so desperate for a new apartment that he pretends to be in a relationship with a total stranger (Jessica Stevenson) so the pair can land a new place as flatmates.
One of the episode's craziest moments is when Donnie is having trouble giving his sperm sample — the naked men in Bad Puppy magazine just didn't do it for him — so he calls Alison and she pretends to be a stewardess joining the Mile High Club with him.
And for all the demographic challenges Ohio presents, Barack Obama won the state twice, meaning that there is a way for a Democrat to win Ohio if Clinton can convince voters there that Trump is not the populist defender of the working class he pretends to be.
But this one might be the best, in light of how intelligent our president pretends to be on a daily basis:As the website Quote Investigator explains, there's absolutely no evidence that Einstein ever said this, and even if he did, the saying probably originates in the 1860s.
" 'Pretends to be an idiot' Khamenei told his audience that he didn't want to spend his time commenting on Trump, Iran's Press TV reported, saying "it would be a waste of time to respond to such blatherings and nonsensical remarks by the foul-mouthed US President.
It takes several friends to contact Laura outside of her usual methods of chat, and in slightly insidious ways (one in particular pretends to be interested in hiring her just to get to talk to her) because they know it's difficult to get around someone so controlling.
"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was," Mr. Trump said in the statement.
In order to do so in private and at the correct earsplitting volume, he pretends to be sick most days at school so the nurse will send him home; in this way, he has come close to beating the student record for colds — hence the title.
" The statute prohibiting impersonating a federal official, 18 U.S.C. § 912, makes it a crime for any person who "falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such.
Released from prison as the show begins, a scam artist named Marius (Giovanni Ribisi) pretends to be his longtime cellmate, Pete, moving in with Pete's family and becoming a key member of the family bail-bond business while dodging a violent New York gambler (Bryan Cranston).
Nothing is run-of-the-mill about the life of Jeremy Wilson, a career con man who often pretends to be a war veteran to pull off his schemes, and his two-week trial in New York on charges of forgery and possession of stolen property was no exception.
His scenes with Hurley's Kensington are equally off-kilter: their sexual encounters punctuated with Powers's mood-killing behavior; exaggerated pin-up style poses on the jumbo jet's rotating bed; later, moments after he literally jumps into Kensington's bed, he pretends to be encased in an imaginary human-size nutshell.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who pretends to be a champion of the people … just posed in a photoshoot with a $3,500 outfit, $625 shoes, all while saying the rich have too much power and that socialism hasn't been tried," tweeted Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA.
Conscious of the perceived flightiness of the "gamer girl" — an image of a girl who pretends to be into gaming just to get the attention of guys, and which I now realise is sexist nonsense —  I was anxious about getting in over my head and disappointing any fellow D&Ders.
So when a passing stranger (Kathy Bates) falls and hurts her foot, Jenny pretends to be a doctor and draws Tom into the ruse, inventing a shared past for the two of them that seems to be half fiction, half relationship therapy where she can revise what happened between them.
One of the most enjoyable of the "anti-ads" is this sly FedEx spot from 1998, an early example of the form, which pretends to be an apology from the company explaining that it didn't get its commercial to NBC on time because its ad agency used the wrong shipping service.
Yolanda is both secure in her sexuality and aware of the dangers of being out, so she pretends to be straight while outside of the safety of the GLOW circle, while Arthie is so uneasy with her sexuality that she's unable to utter it aloud, which understandably frustrates her partner.
In part, that's because Swift taking ownership of this particular criticism — that she's fake, that she pretends to be an underdog when she isn't, that she should abandon the stale innocent act and embrace her inner villain — would mean resolving the fundamental tension that has been at work throughout her entire career.
What I really can't ever get used to, or really enjoy, are these super geared-up celebrity parties—where he's there, she's there—and everyone pretends to be friends like they've known each other for years, like"—he puts on a faux smoozy LA accent—"'oh, how are the kids?!' but no one actually cares.
Its content is thus: Taylor Swift dances more (bad), wears garments with hoods (bad), Ed Sheeran sits down (bad), Future is kind of there a couple of times (I have nothing negative to say about that really), Taylor Swift pretends to be fun, and it all looks very glossy, and high-budget, and fancy.
A Daily Mail article about the case drew eerie comparisons to the horror movie Orphan, in which a 33-year-old mentally ill woman pretends to be a 9-year-old who gets adopted by a couple, then proceeds to torment and manipulate the family until they collapse under the weight of her deceit.
The film sometimes pretends to be a classical tragedy about bereavement, motherhood and mental illness, but with its regular scares and its rudimentary plotting, "Hereditary" is fundamentally a hokey Halloween haunted-house chiller, complete with spooks, séances and people who are foolish enough to run upstairs rather than out of the door when they're being chased.
Granted, I was in town during the city's "Startup Week," but watching a normcore guitarist and a man dressed in traditional African garb play bongo-and-bass covers of classic rock songs in a public park gazebo with free gigabit wifi felt very much like the city is trying to nail whatever it is San Francisco pretends to be.
It pretends to be a story of two nations trying to find a way to better wage peace but is instead, at its core, a story about what it means to lose someone you loved and then realize only as you start to fall that you hope they're standing somewhere beneath you, hands outstretched to catch you.
This became known as a plagiarism scandal, but obviously there would be a serious problem with making up biographical facts of your life — like when Donald Trump pretends to be a self-made man rather than a rich kid who inherited tons of money from his dad — whether or not Kinnock had ever uttered these particular phrases.
He is temperamentally different from a type of man who pretends to be decent but is secretly a rapist or abuser of women—Trump can't even pretend to be decent because he needs his 'successes' to be known, hence the tasteless boasting that ironically makes him seem pathetic and juvenile, rather than the alpha he so desperately wants to be.
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" The indictment chimes with her taxonomy of the tyrant in an essay titled "The Great Tradition": "He pretends to be able to act completely alone; he isolates men from each other by sowing fear and mistrust between them, thereby destroying equality together with man's capacity to act; and he cannot permit anybody to distinguish himself, and therefore starts his rule with the establishment of uniformity, which is the perversion of equality.
In recent years, graphic novels like Flutter (which the New York Times called a mashup between My So-Called Life and Buffy), about a shapeshifter who pretends to be a boy in order to woo the  girl, as well as films like Girls Lost , where a magical flower allows three teenage girls to temporarily turn into boys, have popularized narratives that use fantasy to stage complex conversations about gender fluidity and gender identity.
In their years together, Ms. Hicks has helped write pugilistic statements on Mr. Trump's behalf, including one that delivered a blow to Stephen K. Bannon, the president's former chief strategist: "Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was," that statement read.

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