Sentence examples similar to make believe enemy from inspiring English sources

Idiom

To make believe.

To pretend.

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"Get dressed to make believe".

Movie violence is make believe.

He said members of "the left" were "manipulat[ing] people to get them angry against a make-believe enemy that doesn't exist".

But to sort of manipulate people to get them angry against a make-believe enemy that doesn't exist in an effort to win votes, to demonize, frankly, people who are conservative, that believe in limited government– this is the tool they use.

"Anger is a tool and that has happened throughout our history, but to sort of manipulate people to get them angry against a make-believe enemy that doesn't exist in an effort to win votes, to demonize, frankly, people who are conservative, that believe in limited government– this is the tool they use.

Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe that we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Ultra decrypts revealed that the Japanese believed the deception, with operatives including Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Fleming supplying disinformation for more than a year, sufficient to make the enemy believe the vessel had gone to the Far East and returned to the Clyde for a refit, by which time she was actually finished.

All of these were planned to make the enemy believe that the attack would take place to the south, far from the coast road and railway, and about two days later than the real attack.

The deceptions were planned to make the enemy believe that the attack would take place to the south, far from the coast road and railway, and about two days later than the real attack.

Here I see my enemy and no one can make me believe that Russia is otherwise.

They were people, in other words, who can make you believe that fitness, cunning and bravery might still count for something when pitted against a ruthless enemy.

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