Sentence examples for pretend success from inspiring English sources

In his May 2009 baccalaureate address to Duke's graduating class, Sam Wells, the dean of Duke University Chapel, hoped the students would "never be dazzled by your own success... and not pretend success is everything or success makes you immortal.

Brown had to pretend a success, and journalists entombed in the Royal group of docks had to declare a triumph.

Oversea Service keeps in touch with its students – there have been some 1,800 since the first course in January , 1954– and Dr Holland does not pretend that success has been 100percentnt.

Her "Funny Girl" anthem, "Don't Rain on My Parade," is still the battle cry for an endless procession of star-struck girls; when they stand up in piano bars and yowl, "I'll march my band out, / I'll beat my drum!" in Streisand's melismatic way, they can pretend that her peculiar success story is theirs, too.

Ms. Rowling has sought to maintain similar control over public access to her personal life, but that has not always been possible and, much as she sought in the earlier years of her success to pretend to herself that acclaim would not change her life, it has.

It's not a view that says we should punish profit or success or pretend that government knows how to fix all society's problems.

A Frenchman, he went to England where he pretended, with great success, to be a native of Formosa Taiwann), and published a book about that island, which he had never visited.

But let's not try to pretend that it was some great success.

We also pretend that minor drug use precludes success in life.

"Changing the academic culture is hard, and I'm not going to pretend that we're assured of success.

Finkelstein stated that the BDS movement has had very few successes, and that just like a cult, the leaders pretend that they are hugely successful when in reality the general public rejects their extreme views.