But The Newsroom is only pretending to answer it.
She pretends to believe that Susan is only pretending to be a gentile.
The regime is only pretending to be defenders of Alawites, while shoving them out as camouflage".
But of course people do usually know that he is only pretending to be asleep, so they only pretend to be very frank".
The Wizard of Oz is only pretending to be a real magician: really he's a fraud.
Failing to get Beano to speak, he goes to the doctor in charge and tells him that Beano is only pretending to be crazy to fool the police.
He helps his brother's teenage band by calling out a new member who is only pretending that he can play saxophone.
But in the early scenes, when Eliza is still a "squashed cabbage leaf" (as Higgins calls her) with a Cockney accent, her performance is overly mannered, as though she is only pretending to be uneducated and uncouth.
The more we can make this woman look like someone in a movie who is only pretending to be human but is actually a robot or an alien, the more you can think about the chairs in the Oval Office.
One of the foremost ironies of the past decade has been how the inventor of the greatest vehicle of interpersonal communication in our time cannot manage the most basic P.R. On social media, the Fake Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Post meme is predicated on the idea that Zuckerberg is only pretending to be human, that he's either a robot or some kind of lizard alien.
While the pro-talks camp argues that the potential benefits are worth the risk, the sceptics, a majority, say that Bashar Assad is either too immature or weak to pull off a peace deal or is only pretending to want one in a (vain) attempt to curry favour with the Americans.Moreover, the debate has grown fiercer since the summer.
