Worse, committee opposition is rooted in liberal ideology and not, as it pretends, concern with the nominees' competence.
Instead, the two parties pretend concern about the debt, debate only how much to cut government spending on the people, and focus on the 2012 election.
With a sinister pretend concern, Whitey leaves the dinner table and intrudes into her bedroom, feeling her glands and tenderly asking her to look after herself: his menace is horribly unsubtle, but the clear memory of his late son makes this a more complicated and macabre moment.
Ministers pretend their concern is to protect the proper training of a good and useful prince, when in fact it is primarily to cover up for the constitutionally dubious blunderings of an indulged and even dangerous dauphin.
If we have won the race, survived its dangers and are in a position to clean up the mess we made, then why don't we do it and stop pretending real concern?
"While pretending to concern themselves with the literal sense of the passage, they reject its godly meaning," Palamas writes.
I can't pretend that concerns of a terrorist attack did not go through my mind, given the recent events in Gaza.
Church tried to pretend his concerns were "medical" in nature because the gay "lifestyle" is deadly.
Noted; and we're going to keep pretending that Concerned Kitten just wants to know how we're feeling after a rough day at work.
And Joshua, an earnest Long Island Quaker kid with a close-trimmed, pious-seeming red beard, who played guitar and protested apartheid, which I pretended to be concerned about, too, although I wasn't certain what it was.
