Sentence examples for pretended by from inspiring English sources

(Russell was a sexual predator who permitted himself to become temporarily infatuated with the women he seduced. He pretended, by way of self-justification, to believe that his intimacy with Vivienne provided a form of marital therapy to the Eliots).

Such false certainty might be pretended by selecting, for example, one silvicultural strategy as irrevocably established and ignoring the multitude of possible management paths.

Nor are norms enforced, as swoony traditionalists like to pretend, by collective wisdom passed on lovingly from generation to generation.

Only India pretends, by "virtue" of this misguided ban, that they do not have such a problem.

In "Narnia" he offered a way to pretend — by depicting a God who is so explicitly not a God from an ordinary human church.

You can't pretend, by "marking it read," that you've read it all; you don't think you're going to cram "the world of ideas" into your Twitter stream.

This seems at once a fundamental and ambitious place to begin mapping this void of a thing that we pretend, by not writing about it in literature, doesn't have much place in life, when the dirty truth is otherwise.

Instead ministers may "extend and pretend" by stretching out already-long maturities.The recovery is gaining strength, with modest but accelerating growth expected in the euro zone this year and next.

Do not pretend by not showing what you really feel, you can even cry if you want to.

It is not a debate, as Howard for so long pretended, invented by ideologically driven academics about Australia's past.

All through primary school I pretended to read by learning books off by heart.