It is okay to "pretend anger, playfully," as if insulted or pretending amusement, etc. Be a clever actor, but not too silly, be kind of serious, and use the pretending to teach.
But when asked if the Clippers were in the NBA Finals would he root for them, he raised his mirth level with pretend anger.
By contrast, the snarker merely pretends to anger and this allows him or her to go over the top.
For instance, negotiators may feign anger to gain concessions, and salesmen may pretend to be excited to get sales (Do you really believe the salesman who states in his email that he is thrilled to meet you?).
The attack prompted widespread anger after police said hooded youths initially pretended to help Mr Rossli before going through his rucksack, stealing his mobile phone and wallet, in Barking, east London, on Monday night.
It requires body tension to feel anger but pretend it isn't there.
So if we repress anger or pretend it isn't there then all these other feelings get repressed and ignored as well.
While Pakistani officials pretend to brew with anger at America's intrusion, they are not providing answers for the really important questions: why did America keep the ISI in the dark about the raid in the first place?
There are innate differences between men and women, and to have pretended otherwise was silly; as was much of women's worked-up sense of victimhood and anger at men.
At first, Lotz only pretended to swallow the medicine; you had to consume five hundred calories of food before taking each pill, in order to prevent nausea, and he didn't want to anger the producers by gaining weight.
No one pretended otherwise.
