Word: pretender
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...where police procedurals walk viewers through an investigation--allowing them to pretend they're solving the case themselves--The Jury leads them each week through the nebulous process of argument, negotiation and judgment. As important as the facts are the jurors' biases and baggage. Evaluating an expert's testimony, one man grumbles, "My wife was diagnosed by three different experts. She died anyway." The same testimony can lead two well-intentioned people to opposite conclusions. It's 12 Angry Rasho...
...augured any remarkable success. His father Jack, who had never reached high school, was a shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside...
...Somehow we’ve got to advance people’s education and awareness about getting treatment for a mental health problem,” Barreira said in December. “People want to pretend they don’t need treatment...
Hailing from the Westchester town of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (“I try to pretend I’m from the city but I’m not”), Zuckerberg attended local Ardsley High School until his junior year, when he transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy...
...learn conceptually a lot more about technology, and conceptually I’m interested in it,” he says. “From a practical point of view, it’s not anything I do, and I wouldn’t pretend to be able to get down to the level of thinking out how this program should be designed or should work...