Now when a stranger told me I was tall I would smile and nod or, if I was feeling feisty, I would feign shock and thank them profusely for telling me.
When the Americans criticized the Soviet Union, I would feign disagreement, directing my voice toward any listening devices in the chandelier of my hotel room and announcing loudly, "As for myself, I think this is a great country and a wonderful system, and this is Irving R. Levine speaking".
Because, before, what would happen is that they would feign outrage and say, "Oh, it's a real disgrace that Labour haven't tabled a motion of no confidence.
He told friends that, with girls, he would "feign intimacy … then stab them in the back".
He told friends that, with girls, he would "feign intimacy... then stab them in the back".
I would feign every illness known to man before a kanji test.
He would feign exhaustion at the end of the night so he could crash on your couch.
"He had a lot of appointments, and he would feign being sick or purposely be difficult when going to his appointments.
Much later, Marilyn Monroe would feign a similar naïveté in films like "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" to evade the censors (she clearly couldn't be blamed for something she wasn't conscious of), and for a while it worked for Betty, too.
My daughter, like many girls, was programmed to please me and everyone around her. Instead of telling me how she felt, she would feign headaches for days.
