Sometimes such relationships were said to occur "by accident", when people were sleeping; but as long as social fictions and propriety were maintained, these remained unspoken.
He maintained the fiction of enrollment for a few months, relishing being on his own in Greenwich Village.
Instead, it has maintained the fiction that UK Financial Investments sits between the Treasury and the bank as an adviser-cum-buffer zone.
Jim Boyling gave a false name and occupation when he was arrested and maintained the fiction even when giving evidence under oath.
Boris N. Yeltsin's first foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, says the Clinton White House maintained the fiction that Russia was an equal partner too long.
A sport that for a century has maintained the fiction that a championship match between two American teams is a World Series only this year launched its own World Cup, the World Baseball Classic.
Regardless, Klein and Lasalle either pragmatically maintained the fiction or fell for the ruse; Blücher and his Prussians passed through the village.
But it would also serve the greater diplomatic good, and would help Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe more, if we all maintained the fiction that she was just visiting family.
It would have been more effective to have just Mailyn Castillo, the female lead, betray a false face showing cracks in the façade while the rest of the dancers maintained the fiction of the show.
I can no longer maintain the fiction that I am the tallest in the family.
