Sentence examples for pretends to reject from inspiring English sources

(The rebooted Mayor, unlike his 1984 predecessor, never doubts that the ghosts are real or that the Ghostbusters are doing important work, although he at first pretends to reject them for political reasons).

Was he going to reject me, pretend that I didn't exist?

It has a name, "the Venetian alternative" — meaning a readiness to turn one's back on history and retreat into a perfect simulacrum of the past, not to reject modernity but to pretend it isn't happening.

Now is the time to reject Republican proposals to pretend we live in a fictional version of the 1950s and keep our minds focused on the real challenges we face--in the real world of today.

As you know, to reject that love and to pretend to love a man just because someone told you to would be a sin.

Try to reject perfectionism.

Mr. Schumer argues that senators pretend to accept or reject candidates for nonideological reasons, but really do so on the basis of political bent.

Yes, he displays a self-infatuated glee when he steals Bolingbroke's birthright, and, yes, he thrusts his head forward like a venomous cobra when he rejects a man he pretends to love.

I'm pleased that our longlist had so many funny books, and that we rejected the invidious false dichotomy that pretends to distinguish between "readable" and "literary" books.

The English conqueror pretends to be a wooer to Catherine of France who cannot reject him freely.

So Asta now pretends to be pretending.