Sentence examples similar to pretended discourse from inspiring English sources
You'll see the headlines before they're in print and tomorrow's moves before they happen, and soon enough you'll learn to love the ceremonial peepshow we pretend is political discourse.
At that time he had still pretended to talk easily about his war and had prepared little discourses and picaresque anecdotes to recite on demand.
Instead of taking action, the president would rather hide behind the "rule of law" discourse, and pretend that he doesn't have power to do anything.
She told stories, I pretended to listen.
It would not be, and to pretend otherwise, as Mr. Trump did, is to substitute propaganda for discourse.
Last season, the men had a sweetly clueless exchange about how to talk to women ("Pretend you're putting a saddle on a skittish horse," Pullo suggested), a discourse that concluded with tentative musings on the clitoris.
But our discourse is being badly distorted by ideologues and wishful thinkers — boring, cruel romantics — pretending to be technocrats.
Others — in particular those who pretend that railing against movies they haven't seen is a form of rational political discourse — may persuade themselves that it is provocative or controversial.
I don't pretend that theatre can change political reality, but it can certainly contribute to the development of public discourse, if only by putting a forbidden word on posters.
A second distinction is between hermeneutic and revolutionary fictionalism.[1] Hermeneutic fictionalism about a discourse D is a thesis about the actual nature of the discourse: according to hermeneutic fictionalism we actually do not aim at the literal truth but only appear or pretend to do so.
