Nichols and Stich (2007) confirm the fact that young children bring action to their imaginary play: "perhaps the most obvious fact about pretense is that pretenders actually do things…they engage in actions that are appropriate to the pretense" (p.8).
IGN felt that the real-time aspects captured "the cinematic brilliance of it all without ever falling back on obvious exaggerations or pretenses" and that the controls, specifically in relation to unit formation, were much improved.
It seems obvious to me we can't maintain the pretense that Trump is a sane and balanced adult, however much we'd like to.
So you might say this is terribly obvious, but, nonetheless, in the media today there seems be this pretense that we are completely neutral vessels, even to the point of the embedded correspondents in what passed for war in Iraq in March and April of this year.
He adds: "I have no doubt that all sorts of ulterior motives will be alleged in order to discredit my real, only and obvious motive of getting peace for work and throwing off the poison of uncongeniality and pretense".
Mr. Krugman asks, "So what's the plan?" The answer is obvious: the people who started this war under what have been revealed as false pretenses should be held accountable for their actions, and should not be permitted to bomb one more Iraqi village or send another American to his or her death.
In an entry from December, 1947, she writes, "Altho he makes a great pretense of working... & of exercising & tries to fool me it is too obvious he is drinking all afternoon..
All that posturing about the deficit was obvious flimflam, whose purpose was to hobble a Democratic president, and it was completely predictable that the pretense of being fiscally responsible would be dropped as soon as the G.O.P. regained the White House.
In an entry from December, 1947, she writes, "Altho he makes a great pretense of working... & of exercising & tries to fool me it is too obvious he is drinking all afternoon...
I don't want to get into an argument about whether mitochondria have free will, but it seems to me that by the time the prokaryote has cast off its last pretenses of being a free-living organism in its own right, it's pretty obvious to see who's in charge.
But he has still to keep up some sort of pretense that price is somehow bound up with value, lest the immorality of trade become too obvious.
