Word: pretenders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kind of dishonesty, and I feel awful about it now. But that's the driving force behind the contents of Inside Edge. Its editors are trying not to look like total geeks--and to them, being smart is being geeky. So when they write copy, they pretend to be stupid...
...have been part of a group which I believe is sizable but has been silent: Democrats who support the choice of General Powell as Commencement speaker. I do not pretend to speak for this entire group, but I felt it was time that this view was heard...
...says his sister Melissa, 13. He collected transit uniform shirts and equipment, read motormen's training manuals, drew pictures of the different trains and rode the subway for hours ; at a time. At home Keno would sit at a desk and, using a stapler as a make- believe throttle, pretend to drive through routes, calling out stops and taking on passengers. "For hours he would do this," says his father Francis Thomas, a construction worker...
...face it. Harvard has some sort of agenda. But there is nothing really wrong with that. It's unrealistic to pretend that the administration has no political beliefs. It is likewise unrealistic to believe that its opinions will never leak through to its policy. The debate on homosexuality is primarily one of morality. While most conservatives would like to believe that they have a monopoly on this precious commodity, the Administration believes that tolerance is a moral virtue. And it is the prerogative and the right of this private institution to teach whatever moral lesson it wants...
...Above all, never pretend to have sensations from a work of art that you haven't had. It's the greatest...