Word: pretended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mostly, the movie is a tin of red herrings. That's particularly true of the triangular relationship between the cops and Kay. She, too, has been sexually abused and the movie seems to want to say that violent crimes against women were-are-more common than we like to pretend, which is doubtless true, but essentially irrelevant to the case at hand. Worse, Johansson seems lost in the role. She's just not old enough or worldly enough to enlist our interest. She does, however, inhabit an apartment almost parodistically stuffed with art deco artifacts, enough of it to stir...
Unlike Ec 10, you aren't in the least expected to do the assigned reading (i.e., you don't have to even pretend to apply economic concepts you learn in 1010a to the real world). For better or for worse, that and other aspects of Ec 1010a make this class a more technical and in-depth version...
...Biden Isn't Being Coy About Running for President While other candidates pretend to be weighing their options, the Delaware Senator views 2008 as his last shot - and he doesn't care who knows...
...just did a survey of 2,000 consumers, and 92% of them said that when they buy an item at a steep discount?a branded good?they tell their friends proudly. Only 8% pretend that the good was purchased at full retail price...
...violence issue, the ratings people might say - and since they never explain their rationale, we have to guess at it - that kids are programmed from their earliest days to believe that sex is for real, where as violence is pretend. It's the difference between watching a video game in the basement and making an untimely visit to your parents' bedroom. For most American children, sex education begins just before puberty, but violence they can get from infancy in Tom and Jerry pain-fests on the Cartoon Network. Whatever the MPAA's argument, their raters must believe that kiss-kiss...