Banks pretend that risk is eliminated because it's securitized.
When we pretend otherwise, we risk making appalling, life-wrecking mistakes.
Given the dire circumstances we are in, this policy is perfectly justified, but we can't be entirely sure how it will play out, and nobody should pretend it's risk free.
It would be foolish -- indeed, dangerous -- to pretend that the risk of a Qaeda terrorist attack on New York or Washington is the same as that of an attack on Des Moines or Albuquerque.
When the retailer's risk aversion threshold is private information, the retailer has an incentive to pretend to be less risk averse.
To pretend otherwise is to risk being accused of sports hubris, an attitude that the humorless, mystically fortified golfing movie "Seven Days in Utopia" embraces unashamedly.
Obviously, the abortion act has its downsides – I, for one, object to having to pretend to be at risk of mental illness in order to exercise my right not to reproduce – but it was, at least, framed in an era of professional trust.
Dothraki is far and away Peterson's best-known "conlang" (constructed language – call Klingon, Elvish or Na'vi a "made-up" or "pretend" language and you risk the wrath of "conlangers" the world over) but he caught the bug after being introduced to Esperanto during his masters in linguistics at Berkeley, and now has a string of languages under his belt – or at least on his website.
Mulan decides to put her life at risk and pretend to be a man.
We all know that from the 50s through the 70s, indentured housewives enacted their undiagnosed anxiety disorders, unending boredom, and general social repression on their families by preparing all sorts of culinary horrors that husbands and children had to pretend to enjoy or risk shattering the eerie, Pleasantville-like shininess of the nuclear family dynamic.
