If the EU feigns deafness, then a deniable hint that Russia might build a nuclear power station in Kaliningrad, or stockpile tactical nuclear weapons there, is sure to get its attention.
But Sir Michael knows his country's former colonial ruler feels too much responsibility (or possibly guilt) to walk away.Likewise, Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, feigns disdain for his country's aid donors, because he knows they lack the collective guts to quit, despite their exasperation at his government's corruption and incompetence.
It is his job to search for the penguin, while his toddler feigns ignorance about its whereabouts.
It feigns to loathe costly regulations but in fact red tape makes it harder for job-creating start-ups to challenge established businesses.
He feigns surprise at the number of supplicants most of whose appointments are now running an hour or two late and genially invites everyone into his private office at once to sort out their problems simultaneously.
He is an affable character, who likes to laugh and joke with the press, and who feigns tactical naivety.
Another, devotedly in love with half-American Michelle, drops her immediately when his mother feigns a heart attack at her foreign unsuitability.
However, one essential difference that separates this novella from the genre is that it never feigns to be a reality and clearly states in the preface to be a complete fantasy intended to soothe the mind, whereas most science fiction works arduously strive to be an extension of our reality.
The ball then struts around in front of a female, who feigns indifference.
As part of the scheme, Leamas feigns being an alcoholic, and MI6 pretends to fire him.
Accismus, a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires.
