Sentence examples similar to amount of pretending from inspiring English sources
We wasted a huge amount of time pretending that we could punish Wall Street without punishing Main Street — when, in fact, they are intricately intertwined.
This, by the way, is something in relation to which liberal political philosophers expend an extraordinary amount of effort pretending not to have noticed.
Foster is an ethicist and veterinarian based in Oxford, U.K.; Thwaites is a technologist based in London, and both of them have spent significant amounts of time pretending to not be humans.
Now that Jeb Bush announced his candidacy for president of the United States, he has ended the long process of pretending to be conflicted about a potential candidacy so he could collect untold amounts of money.
I really loved the experience of pretending".
It does away with the charade of pretending not to know the likely outcome in advance.
Because what's more ridiculous: having enough wealth to embrace un-ironic and self-indulgent luxury, or having the exact same amount of wealth and pretending like you don't, anyway?
If they spent time and energy into giving you something, you should put the same amount of effort into pretending you like it.
And along with drinking copious amounts of rosé and pretending not to look at the topless women scampering along the beaches of the cote d' Azur (which may put some of the less gracious in mind of ogling a variety of speckled meats swaying in a delicatessen window) it's also an occasion to observe the country of my birth from an edifying distance.
In the best traditions of Malcolm Gladwell, he takes a banal and well-known truth that drinking a moderate amount of red wine is healthy and pretends it's some kind of shocking revelation that some indefinable cabal of wine-hoarding misers don't want you to know about.
