Sentence examples for pretended subject from inspiring English sources

Henry tells us everything about himself and his perceptions and sensations, while making the pretended subject of his book his brother's advancement toward wisdom.

The pretended subjects were pride and humiliation".

(Thus, in "The Journalist and the Murderer," her famous book about Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Green Beret convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two children, Ms. Malcolm suggests that the journalist Joe McGinniss, who had a contract to write a book about the case, pretended to believe in his subject's innocence in order to get access).

Let's not pretend that the subject isn't … interesting.

The subject pretends she's a nun in an old movie, moving silent and unseen through a ward smoothing blankets gracefully.

Being the only black person in a class about criminal law, where everyone else has the luxury to pretend that the subject has no racial implications, is unfair.

They've pretended that it's a subject incapable of resolution.

After recognizing the awkward silence that followed, Andrew quickly changed the subject and everyone pretended nothing had happened.

There are interviews, and what television producers call b-roll — slightly stiff sequences of the subjects pretending to go about their daily business at home or at work — and illustrative flashbacks to earlier episodes.

Boldly, I once raised this subject with him, and he pretended not to hear me.

The experimenter remained in the room with the subject for the entire time and pretended to enter their responses into a computer.