No one is pretending, though, that visitors to Majete will be guaranteed sightings of all the Big Five threeee lions and four leopards will make themselves pretty scarce in a 70,000-hectare reserve.
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal were paraded into the White House press room to pretend as though their dispute about the efficacy of the surge, given Karzai's serious flaws as a partner, has been put to rest.
"I think the way that he is dealing with this is actually pretty radical," Levin von Trott, 48, said in Berlin, adding, "you can't just pretend as though this hasn't happened".
"For the country as a whole, I think this is a clarion call that we need to all see that the king is moving around naked and not pretend as though the emperor has his finest clothes on".
Maybe they are making the right call and maybe they aren't, but to pretend as though a call isn't being made lets the Fed off the hook and shunts aside a policy debate of enormous importance that we really ought to be having.
Their job was to pretend as though they enjoyed the intrusions their rabid (albeit small) fan bases provided.
I didn't even pretend as though I were drinking like a civilized, normal person, because I knew I wasn't.
But it's also unrealistic to pretend as though the drug business is not, in fact, a real industry, or that it has not infiltrated all levels of society, or that it's under control.
To pretend as though these rents are "affordable" to those struggling to survive in this city particularly the working class or the poor is disingenuous.. "Gentrification is a real thing," Markle says.
To live your dreams; your dreams inevitably being alerting your young, impressionable fan base to the existence of whatever hot, disposable new product or service was currently paying you to pretend as though you liked.
