Sentence examples for pretend to explain from inspiring English sources

If you are unfamiliar with this particular style of deceit, which is surely the 21st century's greatest survival skill, let me pretend to explain.

"The results were such a jolt to the Conventional Wisdom," Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "that now — with a cold gray dawn bloating out of Lake Michigan and Hubert Humphrey still howling in his sleep despite the sedatives in his room directly above us — there is nobody in Milwaukee this morning, including me, who can even pretend to explain what really went down last night".

He does not pretend to explain it, but we can be grateful that he shows up the pretensions of those who think they can, and who reduce the glory of being human to brain circuitry and the survival tactics of early hominids.

"The results were such a jolt to the Conventional Wisdom," Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "that now with a cold gray dawn bloating out of Lake Michigan and Hubert Humphrey still howling in his sleep despite the sedatives in his room directly above us there is nobody in Milwaukee this morning, including me, who can even pretend to explain what really went down last night".

Different proposals of elemental models to get analytical expressions of energy of Si-nC are found in the literature, which pretend to explain correctly the energy spectrum of this type of nanostructures.

Without sufficient constraints on the architecture, it is too easy to pretend to explain cognitive phenomena by merely redescribing them in a story written in the vocabulary of prediction, comparison, error minimization, and optimized precison.

It scrambles your psychology while pretending to explain ways to the center of it.

I can't pretend to be able to explain Wilson's deep and abiding connection with younger children, particularly girls, and it's slightly baffling to hear that some send her photographs of themselves dressed up as "Jacqueline Wilson".

Although the associative principles' "effects are everywhere conspicuous" their causes "are mostly unknown, and must be resolv'd into original qualities of human nature, which I pretend not to explain".

Yet the industry is having a moment in the Internet Age for think-piece reasons I really am not going to pretend to care about explaining (search "millennials"; that's what Google is for).

In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat system of the sciences, built on a foundation almost entirely new, and the only one upon which they can stand with any security" (Treatise, "Introduction").