"It's impossible to pretend you are in Beijing," Ms. Kaenel said in Mandarin, through an interpreter.
It was impossible to pretend that the first day of their first minicamp was anything close to normal for the 2004 Giants.
The Paralympics is an extraordinary combination of spirit and talent, but it is impossible to pretend that the kind of attention it is now receiving is simply about the level of spectacle it is providing.
It's impossible to pretend not to know, when watching the film, of the event, in 1999, that led to Parker — and his longtime friend and collaborator on the story, Jean McGianni Celestin — being charged with rape.
Clearly, it is impossible to pretend that the air is not polluted, but the new government may be using the aggressive reporting to demonstrate a commitment to transparency and accountability as well as use this crisis to further the difficult reforms toward a more sustainable development model.
Mr. Bishop, who is also a columnist for the DealBook blog of The New York Times, wrote: "Clearly it is impossible to pretend that the air is not polluted or that the health risks are not significant, so are the propaganda authorities just recognizing reality in allowing coverage?
London Eye Since we were right next to the London Eye, which is impossible to pretend isn't there, we took a ride 135 feet above the city on the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham called him "generally a loser as a person and a candidate"; political consultant Stuart Stevens, the chief strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, wrote Monday that it is "impossible to pretend that Trump is not only an idiot but also a racist idiot" and that "he's proven he's a uniquely ugly figure to emerge in American political history".
So, in a context where Archaeplastida are not recovered as monophyletic and display a problematic internal topology, it is impossible to pretend resolving any putative endosymbiotic gene transfer from red algae toward a secondary photosynthetic lineage.
As case after case of obnoxious, hateful rhetoric comes to light, it's impossible to continue pretending that this is a "post-racial society" or that Obama's election was a watershed moment.
