Sentence examples for pretend environment from inspiring English sources

What is a pretend environment, after all, if not the setting for a play?

I've always been fascinated by elaborate pretend environments, like Disneyland or the Forum at Caesar's Palace.

The bleakness of her environment — "Pretend you're comfortable," she tells Jonathan — mirrors her emotional impoverishment, an interior unease that she rationalizes as a sort of hair-shirted pioneer strength.

Allison Johanson, a clinical psychologist in Centennial, Colorado, has a solution for even the most bustling environment: Pretend that nature has called.

When I'm in this environment I pretend I'm posher than I am," one said.

Many hoping for fame and fortune in that opportunistic environment pretended to a higher social status than their birth merited and behaved according to a debased version of the old chivalric codes of honour, whereby the slightest perceived insult or injury was met with force.

"You can have a fair difference of opinion about priorities," Mr. Lew said, "but it is a bad idea to pretend you can create an environment in which goals that have public support can't be considered".

In 2009, it's fashionable to pretend to care about the environment.

Do you pretend to care about the environment because it's the trendy thing to do? Simultaneously, do you like to display strange, avant-garde art around your domicile?

If you care about the environment you can't pretend anymore.

This is increasingly true of business too, by the way; in highly volatile and uncertain business environments, pretending you can preprogram your responses to all eventualities is a losing game.