Word: pretenders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...toys, and even a two-year-old climbing over my lap to get his ninja sword, I resigned myself to my fate. Forget dreams of that hot romance instigated in JetBlue row 24. Hell, forget even catching up on some of that forgotten homework. My only option: sleep and pretend this wasn’t happening...
...city than any rousing speech by a politician.Are there more mentally stimulating or globally important subjects that I could immerse myself in? Sure. But I am uniquely motivated by sports and sportswriting in particular, and I’d rather indulge my passion and create quality work than pretend to be interested in something more “serious” in order to attain some perceived added credibility and wallow in mediocrity.If that’s not significant, I don’t know what is.—Loren Amor ’10 lives in Stoughton Hall...
...Iraq War or, more generally, on the tense situation in the Middle East, and it fails to provide a modicum of enjoyment. The work’s basic premise is very intriguing: the CIA will construct an identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However, most of the book languishes on the wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker...
...simply couldn’t. Inevitably, as I fell further and further behind, it became impossible to catch up on my own; I was completely paralyzed by feelings of failure and inadequacy. Most of all, I didn’t want anyone to know, so I pretended, even to myself, that I wasn’t depressed and everything was fine. It is not necessary to justify why one is suffering. While I can point to a specific and admittedly uncommon cause for my depression, others are not afforded such a socially acceptable explanation. In March of my senior year...
...there's an open mike at C-Span Radio, and if there's really a hunger for such adult dialogue, does it really have to be accompanied by childish crudeness? Actually, don't answer that. In any case, the media figures and politicians who clown around with Imus can pretend that the show is really about informed conversation or pop sociology or anything except junior-high-level teasing, but its true appeal for them lies in the seal of approval Imus bestows...