To maximize their chances of getting into a college, some students might feign interest in, say, rural sociology, classics or German literature.
We might feign curiosity in a candidate's ideal role, pitch them on working at Google and finally ask a few technical questions from a spreadsheet that gives us the correct answers, thankfully, because computer science is Greek to us.
Moments later, as you're being frog-marched into the car, you might feign dizzy spells, amnesia, hiccups, cancer, lazy eye, a chicken bone caught in the throat or death.
She has a relative in Bakersfield but not really any friends, she said, because other prostitutes might feign friendship when they really just want to dig into her business and might tell their pimps that she is working alone.
While the "Twilight" star might feign disappointment over not being considered for "Catching Fire," fans of the Suzanne Collins best-selling trilogy-turned-blockbuster film series are likely breathing a sigh of relief.
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 feign dispassion, but I'm not fooling anybody.
And for that alone, I might order a glass of sake, stay for the gougères, then feign illness and steal across Columbus Circle to Jean Georges for a meal that never disappoints.
I would feign every illness known to man before a kanji test.
I'd feign, well, not anger, but something, but it's Switzerland: how can you get mad at those guys?
