Sentence examples for pretend himself from inspiring English sources

With the courage of an almost beaten man attempting a probably final throw of the dice, he seizes the opportunity to pretend himself dead and to assume the character of a man facially very like him, victim of a fatal heart attack, whom he has met in a remote part of Africa by chance.

For example, any person having control on Lucie's private particulars can make any fraud message to her pals by pretending himself as Lucie.

Rejected by Una as a lover, he compensates by taking male lovers in order to pretend to himself that he is Una, as they penetrate him.

His health has been poor, his colleagues and friends have been dying, and though he has no reason to think that his own death is imminent, he can no longer pretend to himself that he will never die.

As he ages, he sees himself more intimately: he stops pretending to himself.

Then Mr. Corea came down from the dressing room and threw an exaggeratedly slow-motion right hook at Mr. Cohen's jaw, then a slow-motion uppercut to himself, pretending to knock himself out.

When the bouncy castle is discovered, Jim and Pam realize that Michael is "going to kill himself pretending to kill himself".

If he'd closed his eyes and let himself pretend, he could have followed through, could have told himself that she'd done much more with many worse, and later she most likely wouldn't even remember.

Or the artist can accept the audience's image of himself, pretend that his audience is his shadowy ideal, and lose himself in his audience.

Now he was free of the work of pretending to himself that he didn't know.

In part he refused to admit failure – but he also pretended to himself that failure did not matter.