Sentence examples for pretended order from inspiring English sources

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And as Robert Bennett's essay in the catalog points out, two generations of city planners and designers rebelled against the fairs and their modernist fantasy (a "dishonest mask of pretended order," Jane Jacobs railed).

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One actress pretended to order Chinese takeout.

They discuss their favorite parts: the sign language, sitting at two working telephones and having an extended conversation (Julia pretended to order a pizza from Annabelle), clowning with videophones and, of course, the droppings.

I am the panic button on your car key, and I am here to tell you that I exist because the universe is nothing but a phantasmagoria of chaos beneath a thin, brittle veneer of pretend order.

Hoping to counterbalance widespread criticism over the NFL's handling of Rice's case, the 60-second spot plays a 911 call in which the female caller pretends to order a pizza in order to get the police to come to her house without letting her abuser know what's going on.

Our friends at Skagen have offered our readers 25% off their watches from now until December 31 which means you can order even after Christmas and pretend the order was held up at the post office.

In South Carolina, for instance, a similar dialogue, in which a caller pretends to order food, is used to train dispatchers to recognize domestic crises when the victim is unable to speak.

I evolved a speciality, a sort of tribute act; I would pretend to order a meal, using as much of my ridiculous vocabulary (paradicsom – por-odichom (tomato); krumpli – croom-pli (potato); mikrohullám – mee-cróhulam (microwave)) as possible.

I have read a couple of horror stories and I know that not everyone has their surrogate's best interest at heart and can be very good at pretending in order to get what they want.

"The idea of the fake geek girl, who pretends in order to get the attention of geek men, is harmful gatekeeping of the highest degree," says Polo. "Geeks should welcome people into our world.

That said, one does not have to be aware that they are pretending in order to successfully pretend.

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