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...have a Euro accent and can't effectively feign...
Psychiatrists say the killers commonly suffer from a variant of Munchausen's syndrome, a bizarre mental condition that impels people to feign or induce illness in order to get care and nurturing from doctors and hospitals. In Munchausen's by proxy, people injure their children in their place. They may inject the youngsters with poisons or drugs, or mix blood in their urine. Parents have even been caught by surveillance cameras attempting to smother their offspring in their hospital beds...
...magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never random or accidental or committed in the heat of passion; they are carefully planned by people with clear, easily understood motives...
...understand the nature of a collegiate prank, and perhaps assembling the co-chairs for a photograph could be found amusing to some. But to feign serious interest in our organization, to conduct both a phone interview with me and to meet with me again in person, and to elicit from me my heartfelt opinions on an issue to which I have devoted much of my time and energy, all for a joke--this, to me, is emblematic of the very attitudes that certain clubs promote. I have also been informed of another initiation rite involving the same club. This time...
...candidates lie -- in a technical sense -- every time they read a speech they paid someone else to write, every time they gush over how thrilled they are to be among the real people outside the Beltway, and every time they feign modesty after a particularly effusive introduction. But the voters have become inured to such petty fabrications. The big fibs are the problem -- the read- my-lips whoppers. So here, as a public service, are some rhetorical tricks ; that signal DANGER -- SHARP CURVES AHEAD...