For instance, pretend that you are trying to memorize the following things: cup, rice, turkey, grass, pencil, sad, computer, guitar, needle, rabbit.
For instance, pretend to be a blind person in public, then get into a car and drive off, or have a friend push you around in a wheelchair, then stand up to shake his hand.
Professor Schelling has emphasized several points in his work that are particularly relevant to budget negotiations, including the advantage of "precommitment" that can persuade other actors to swerve (for instance, pretending to tie the steering wheel of the car in place).
The title refers to a real-life character, William Douglas Street, who, in the nineteen-seventies, pulled off an extraordinary series of impersonations (for instance, pretending to be a doctor, he performed, according to Harris, thirty-six successful hysterectomies), and was ultimately imprisoned for them.
There are young boys, for instance, who pretend to be delivering, or who may help an old lady carrying her groceries home, and then hit her on the head when she invites them in for tea and rob her.
For instance, we pretend we know what fleek means and say things are "on fleek" because we think that's what we're supposed to do.
On the religious front, Jewish militants have stepped up their visits to the Haram, often to pray surreptitiously (for instance by pretending to speak into mobile phones).
For instance, he once pretended to fall from a ladder.
For instance, he suggests pretending that you are running on water every few weeks.
For instance, actors who pretended that their investments were concentrated in the latest hot industry should have been told to diversify their holdings.
And well before the age of four, they have figured out how to keep track of different individuals simultaneously engaging in different games of pretense recognizing, for instance, that if you pretend the pebbles are pears and I pretend the pebbles are cherries, you will be baking a pear cake while I bake a cherry cake (Perner at al 1994, 264).
