Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object of his search is Jesus the human being, and in no sense the Christ of religious and theological controversy, which somewhat scornfully "he does not pretend to understand." From the confusion of scholars' profusion of detail, Ludwig recreates the world Jesus lived in: the peaceful hillside where he loved to lie and dream his poet dreams, the bustling village on market day, the simple carpenter and fisherfolk, and finally, in glamorous contrast, Jerusalem, loud with...
...most significant open letter to the press last week: "I myself was asked to go to Scotland Yard in the same way. I escaped Miss Savage's unpleasant experience because I happen to know, as few people do, that the police powers are not all that they pretend to be. My solicitor informed the Scotland Yard authorities that I was perfectly willing to answer any questions they put to me at his office in front of him, but that I would not go to Scotland Yard. This offer was not accepted...
...inaudible, dark charm a man is taken, suddenly and forever, out of the world, into an unreal place. This last trick puzzles even people who know just how all the others are accomplished. When someone dies whom they have known, they may go to witch-doctors called mediums who pretend that by saying hocus-pocus or by going into a trance, they can make dead people say things to people who are living. This is false magic; humbler fellows who are content to imitate the mysteries of life and death with 52 cards, a white handkerchief and a tailcoat...
...this play she takes the part of a girl, of 20, who has to pretend she is but 12 in order to facilitate her mother's snaring a British millionaire. In the impersonation of the child, there are considerable possibilities, and Mitzi realizes them. The result produces a considerable number of real laughs...
...Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does the Stravinsky of today appear to a handful of those who pretend to understand...