After 10 years of heroic deeds and appalling slaughter on both sides, exacerbated by constant meddling from the gods, the Greeks feigned retreat, leaving behind a wooden horse, its gigantic girth filled with shock troops.
With a second defender directly ahead of him, he slowed — only for a moment — dropped his shoulder, feigned right, and moved left as the defender stumbled over his own feet.
Thus, feigning or dissimulating leaves the reality principle intact: the difference is always clear, it is only masked; whereas simulation threatens the difference between "true" and "false", between "real" and "imaginary".
A 16-year-old passenger, who was wounded, feigned death, and the attackers left, said Rafi Peled, the Israeli police commander in the West Bank.
John Betjeman fell down in front of him, feigning an epileptic fit, which left the politician helpless and at sea".
Left behind, William feigns capitulation to Logan, but the latter wakes from a night of drinking to find that William has brutally dismembered the soldiers and intends to plot a different course, with Logan as his unwilling helper.
While they are waiting, Chief Bromden reveals to McMurphy that he is neither deaf nor mute but feigns the conditions in order to be left alone, and they make plans to escape together.
So if you're bored at the party and don't know who to talk to, you'll feign a headache and leave after an hour.
(Around that time he also advertised as a "clown" for birthday parties. Once hired by the unsuspecting parents, he would feign some horrible accident, leaving horrified Beverly Hills' tweens in his wake).
Now, I am not by nature a very funny person, though I do have what I think are some amusing thoughts on how to survive a suburban cocktail party: (1) Grope the host; (2) grope the hostess; (3) leave early, feigning illness, before the conversations kill you.
