The idea is to pretend to accept the headline result while sabotaging the negotiating process, hoping the government slips up.
Surprisingly, Mr. Hare's play suggests that sometimes the best way to circumvent society's rules is to pretend to accept them.
One, who at least pretended to accept my claims of authorship, said, "Nah, people will just think it's been used".
Mr. Schumer argues that senators pretend to accept or reject candidates for nonideological reasons, but really do so on the basis of political bent.
The propertied classes, who were at first startled by this new government, pretended to accept the new circumstances, but they were unable to tolerate the fact that the working class possessed arms with which to defend themselves.
"For me, the idea of being able to represent a constituency in the Parliament of Ireland, without accepting the teachings of the church or pretending to accept them, had powerful existential attractions," he wrote in "Memoir: My Life and Themes" (1998).
His language recalled the contained fury of passages in the Koran where God promises Muslims that they will triumph over nonbelievers and hypocrites who only pretend to accept Islam.
The director Terry Gilliam, here with the noncompetition film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," delivered some funny onstage shtick by pretending to accept the directing prize, which he was meant to bestow.
Another is that reality won't be denied, whether the issue is climate change, which a ludicrous percentage of Republicans at least pretend not to accept, or the country's diversity, which a self-defeating percentage of them simply ignore.
