Sentence examples similar to pretended commitment from inspiring English sources
First and foremost, it will clear out the opportunists and the hucksters -- without the debate stage as a hype catapult, they'll probably shy away from a pretend-commitment.
Rivaldo often looked apathetic and sullen – his smile was so rare that, when it came, it broke a thousand mirrors, and at times he seemed to dither like a posh boy pretending to have commitment issues – but when the mood took him and he fancied the challenge, he pursued it with the remorseless will and purpose of Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men.
As one Eurocrat puts it, "they pretended to implement the human rights commitment.
If so, that's because the Republicans pretended to share the Democrats' half-century commitment to Medicare while ignoring their own Medicare-killing budget proposals.
He pretended to be a man with noble ideals and political commitments, when in reality he was a police officer spying on our friendship network.
This study pretended to analyze the differences between participants, taking into account their demographic and occupational characteristics and their level of satisfaction and commitment to their jobs.
No one pretended otherwise.
He should have pretended.
She told stories, I pretended to listen.
Some folks in Washington who want the war and occupation in Afghanistan to continue indefinitely are trying to pretend there has been no commitment made for a significant drawdown, or indeed any drawdown at all, in the summer of 2011.
