Word: pretenders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Karen says that Indiana first-years, like their counterparts here, tend to hit frat parties in herds. At the frats, like final clubs here, she and her female friends line up at the door and pretend to know one of the brothers in order to be let in. Then they get to try to push through the throng around the keg to get a beer...
...Bush Administration vetoed the plan. (The Democratic ticket is divided: Clinton supports it, Gore opposes.) Critics call the Oregon scheme "health- care rationing," which is exactly right. But as frustrated defenders of the plan note, we ration care now, except we do it irrationally. We pretend to believe in unlimited health care for all, thereby making it harder to provide decent health care to many. Our refusal to acknowledge that trade-offs are necessary -- including, yes, the ultimate trade-off between money and human life -- makes intelligent debate about intelligent trade-offs impossible...
...home because Mia can be and has been violent toward me. I will not go into details, but her treatment of me was hardly maternal, even given our current problems. She is not who she pretends to be, certainly not the kind of mother ((people think)), and while my brothers and sisters are still dependent on her, they will say things and pretend to feelings I know full well not to be true. There is no question I owe Mia a great deal for adopting me. For that gesture I still love her. But responsibility does not stop...
...took me awhile to tell my sister about it. She took the news hard--her idol was tarnished. She refused to believe I really liked it, preferring instead to pretend it was all a sick joke on my part. Where was my taste for authenticity? For grunge...
...like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest try to schmooze as the closing credits roll. "Just pretend like you're talking to me," he tells her. Fine, Garry, and we'll pretend TV comedy isn't running into a self-referential dead...