Sentence examples for capable of pretending from inspiring English sources

But while he might be bothered at the thought of Florence's sexual adventurousness, it seems just as likely that he is dismayed that she is capable of pretending to be someone else.

"I do not believe American men in the military are capable of pretending that a young woman in their company is exactly the same as a young 18-year-old man," Ms. O'Beirne said.

Now, with Barton serving a suspension, the manager has no one capable of even pretending to do the job.

It is a system of Indian paths and colonial roads that has evolved into an enormous complex of state and interstate highways, a system so strained that it is no longer capable of even pretending to be all things to all drivers.

When I first started sitting at the back of other teachers' lessons, pretending I was capable of doing all the things in a single lesson that I was judging them on, the task was to allocate one of seven grades.

I screw up my face and sneer, pretending I'm capable of grabbing him by the ears, pulling him in through the window, and knocking out his last three teeth.

Nothing can recreate the horror of certain events; a brutal language would not be capable of expressing this, yet it would pretend to do so.

The piece titled "Help Me Not Be a Human Being" is not so much an essay as a list of emotional disasters, each punctuated by the phrase "a love story" to prove it was anything but: "That's not the clitoris: a love story"; "Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think you need to be: a love story".

Moreover, it must accomplish both of those tasks without pretending that people are capable of stepping outside their own socially determined viewpoints to attain a God-like perspective.

Last spring, he won an American patent for a system he says is "capable of sensing when a third party is pretending to be another person and capable of preventing crimes before they happen".

Inquire first, whether species have a real and permanent existence in nature; or whether they are capable, as some naturalists pretend, of being indefinitely modified in the course of a long series of generations (1832).