When I was younger, I might have feigned some neuroses or conflicted feelings about it, but, honestly, I'm just enjoying it.
"When I was younger, I might have feigned some neuroses or conflicted feelings about it, but, honestly, I'm just enjoying it," he told The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, in a recent interview for her magazine's Page-Turner blog.
I may have feigned smug satisfaction, but inside I was miserable.
I could have feigned sudden blindness, saying, "Box?
But then, even if a teacher had offered me one-on-one training with the world's greatest orator, I would likely have feigned a stomach ache to get out of it.
"They have feigned interest and participation," says a source at the talks.
Our friend should have feigned illness and whipped her 11-year-old daughter off for a pizza.
Melville could have feigned indecision about the setting, then instigated a little bidding war with Cape Cod or Sag Harbor.
"The poets have feigned some gods who favor the deliverance of such as suffer under a languishing death," Montaigne writes.
Make that a two-part exam: If Ms. Fleischman, now 34, had chattered during the movie, he might have feigned the flu to end the evening.
