In this southeastern region of close-knit hamlets, as in much of rural China, daughters move away to their husband's family at marriage, and the government no longer provides even a pretense of old-age or medical care.
If Ravi was as disoriented as Wei claims, one can perhaps see why: Clementi was hesitant to talk about curtains, but in a busy dorm, after less than a month of cohabitation, he had kicked out his roommate so that he could have a sexual encounter with an older man who made no pretense of being his boyfriend.
Joseph Dozier, a 24-year-old maintenance man, was making no pretense of subtlety.
I remember my generation being dismissed by the older generation for our clothing, our pretense, and our fights.
Reaching out to old friends in a new way, there was no pretense and no pretension.
But Williamsburg is packed with 21- to 24-year-olds having a great time with no pretense".
In accordance with the unwritten rules of placeblogging, Ms. Crawford considers her three-year-old blog an "informal portal" with no pretense of objectivity and, by definition, an automatic interest in anything that ever happens in or relating to Park Slope.
The case was a state murder of a prominent journalist; everyone has known for years that the government killed him, but there's been a polite pretense that the assassins must have died of old age.
On July 2, 2007, Jonathan Cornish, a fifteen-year-old Baltimore resident, went to Lackl's house under the pretense of buying a car that Lackl was trying to sell and shot him three times, killing him, in front of his three-year-old daughter.
