Sentence examples for whether pretended from inspiring English sources

The same pattern of conformity, whether pretended or sincere, continued through Calvert's early life.

Researchers Stéphane Côté(University of Toronto), Ivona Hideg (Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario), and Gerben A. Van Kleef (University of Amsterdam) set out to examine whether pretending to be angry has the same effect in negotiation as actual anger.

In a 2013 study with Stéphane Côté (University of Toronto) and Ivona Hideg (Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario), van Kleef examined whether pretending to be angry has the same effect in negotiation as actual anger.

Whether pretending to be a British aristocrat in New York or unsentimentally confronting his dismal childhood, De Feo's hit man is extremely likable, and the novel emerges as a study of the delights and dangers of reinvention.

Whether pretending that the war on terror -- not tax cuts, which have cost the Treasury three times as much -- is responsible for record deficits, or that those hugely elitist tax cuts are targeted on working families, or that opening up wilderness areas to loggers is a fire-prevention plan, Mr. Bush has taken misrepresentation of his own policies to a level never before seen in America.

Some harbored doubts as to whether I had truly changed, or whether I had merely pretended to do so in order to deflect police attention.

The issue is whether they pretend to do so.

The motive is the same, however, whether conservatives pretend to take the "therapeutic" route or not.

The choice, correctly framed by the economist Simon Wren-Lewis, is whether to pretend Osborne's version of events is true and own up to perceived past mistakes or to contest it.

The only choice you get is whether to pretend you have secrets and let others control the dialogue or adopt a policy of transparency so you can lead the conversations.

Whether, if she had pretended to have no recollection of him, he would have gone away, left her alone.