Word: feignedly
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When San Diego took the second game 5-3, he turned around and declined to feign the customary contentment with a split of the opening two road games, preceding three at "home: "We feel like we can win every night." After Detroit won the next one 5-2, he reversed again: "Now we're sure we're going back to San Diego." Williams, the more stolid manager, said with less conviction, "I know we're going back, but I'd like for the Tigers to come with us." One of them had to become the first...
...election summit might turn out to be politically risky, his advisers believe. Some voters would see it as a campaign gimmick, and conservatives might accuse him of groveling before the Soviets. Moreover, a face-to-face encounter would give the Soviets a chance to cause mischief. They could feign interest in a summit, then stay home because of some trumped-up U.S. offense, or walk out of the talks with words of derision for the President. Either way, Reagan would have trouble repairing the damage before November...
Most teams reflect their coaches, but this one favors its owner. Davis is the only proprietor in the N.F.L. who does not feign piety, and he is one of just two (Cincinnati's Paul Brown is the other) whose understanding of the game is profound. A middle-age rock 'n' roller in a '50s hairdo and a black leather jacket, Davis casts a slim shadow, but it managed to cover elephantine Coach John Madden for ten years. After five seasons, including the championship year of 1980, current Head Coach Tom Flores remains a minor presence...
...encouraged. The Druze neither drink nor smoke nor swear. They steadfastly observe complete submission to God, mutual support, repudiation of all other religions and strict truthfulness. Yet the faith remains eminently pragmatic: when abroad or in trouble, a Druze is permitted to dissemble to unbelievers and even to feign adherence to another belief...
...premise is safe and sound. The unconscious breeds symbols and images; art is the unconscious made visible, and dreams are the bedtime stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...