Sentence examples for pretended interest from inspiring English sources

While Guay and Ruest pretended interest, he told them at some length how to kill fish with lime, and then departed.

Edith hated attention when it was really obliquely aimed at her mother, and she would be rude or destructive rather than endure any pretended interest.

Yes, his pretended interest in certain policy-adjacent attitudes protectionism, restrictionism, nationalism, etc. corresponds nicely to the concerns of whole swaths of perennially underserved Republican constituencies.

In the evening, trains will be littered with abandoned newspaper sports pages, all pretending interest in the football transfers.

*** In Portsmouth, Jon Adams talks about what many autistic people call "passing": like Andrews' pretend interest in Australian soaps and techno pets, it's about managing to blend in, even if that means submerging whole chunks of your personality.

a pub looks good at 2 in the afternoon cool, dark, empty one soul sits the Barmaid cranes up to see an already-played soccer game conversation is long since past I order a cold draft, pretend interest in soccer "I'll be over there soon," the lone soul offers.

Contostavlos insisted throughout that she had been entrapped and only pretended an interest in drugs to play up to a "bad girl" image seemingly sought by the producers for the role.

But I am reminded that the late Hugo Young, at the time of the last great newspaper regulatory convulsion (the Calcutt inquiry of 1990), made a similar point He wrote: "It is time to end the professional blackmail by which it is pretended that the interests of The Sun have anything to do with the interests of The Guardian".

You pretended you were interested in his pictures.

You pretended to be interested in politics to snag mom, and the lie became true".

Curled up in the back seat, I pretended to be interested in the scenery.