After Ben's scandal, he writes, Helen's casual acquaintances "pretended not to see her..
After Ben's scandal, he writes, Helen's casual acquaintances "pretended not to see her... not because they condemned or looked down on her but because the level of disgrace she'd been subjected to was so epic that they weren't even sure how to acknowledge it," while her close friends pretend everything is unchanged to show off their own generosity.
Order was maintained with a regimen of beatings and whippings, and, later, at their motels, Michael saw his father disappearing with new female acquaintances, and pretended to sleep when his older brothers brought groupies back to the rooms they shared.
On 19 August, an arrest warrant was issued in the name of George Veck, an acquaintance of Hammond's who pretended to be a clergyman.
In the movie Picture Perfect, Jennifer Aniston's character hires an acquaintance to pretend to be her fiancé.
Acquaintances who met or worked with him said the 25-year-old from Bakersfield, California, did not seem to have close friends or a regular job and pretended to be an Englishman named Preston Somerset.
We went down I remember to dig out John's old acquaintances down there and convince them of our legitimacy as a thriving--it was the kind of place that we took old busted pieces of electronic equipment and put them in the corner, pretended that they were working.
She told stories, I pretended to listen.
Adapted from Jonson's play of 1606, about a filthy rich fellow who bilks his nasty acquaintances by pretending to be mortally ill, "Sly Fox" takes place in San Francisco in the late 1800's, when gold fever raged.
Having met the late Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer, only twice in my life, the occasions separated by some 36 years, I certainly cannot pretend to any friendship or even acquaintance.
