Sentence examples for pretend to agree from inspiring English sources

"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform.

There are people who think of J. M. Coetzee as a cold writer, and he might agree, or pretend to agree.

And although Amina had the very same fears, she decided to pretend to agree with her mother, for the sake of Sharmila's character.

No one else agrees; if they pretend to agree then they are lovely friends, and you should hang on to them.

She'd pour out the tea and say 'you know the Jews did so and so' and we'd pretend to agree with her".

Once you've decided to hide your beliefs and say whatever you think will get you the nomination, to pretend to agree with people you privately believe are fools, why worry at all about truth?

It is almost as though the architectural profession had chosen to avoid Fuller's challenge by pretending to agree with what he says.

"You aren't pretending to agree; you are affirming the fact that they have thought a lot about this and you fully respect their opinions," he says.

Instead of pretending to agree, Syrians are laying the basis of a stronger democratic foundation, slowly merging the grassroots, the traditional opposition and the diaspora.

As finance ministers gathered in Brussels this week, they hardly even pretended to agree on how to deal with the endless problems of the euro zone.For all that, they managed to break two taboos.

But it might try to paper over the deep differences among its members by pretending to agree on a deal that would mostly consolidate the status quo, leaving oil markets to guess at its strategy — if there is one.