Sentence examples for to pretend himself from inspiring English sources
With the courage of an almost beaten man attempting a probably final throw of the dice, he seizes the opportunity to pretend himself dead and to assume the character of a man facially very like him, victim of a fatal heart attack, whom he has met in a remote part of Africa by chance.
Rejected by Una as a lover, he compensates by taking male lovers in order to pretend to himself that he is Una, as they penetrate him.
For example, any person having control on Lucie's private particulars can make any fraud message to her pals by pretending himself as Lucie.
I was happy to pretend that the genius himself had dropped in for a chat.
Gradually, Soulie came into view, and when Thor Olsen realized he was closing the gap, he told himself to pretend he was in a sprint.
In fact, the president himself is forced to pretend he has no ambition to be re-elected.
Billy, able to make himself visible at will, reveals himself to the sobbing Louise, pretending to be a friend of her father.
His health has been poor, his colleagues and friends have been dying, and though he has no reason to think that his own death is imminent, he can no longer pretend to himself that he will never die.
In part he refused to admit failure – but he also pretended to himself that failure did not matter.
