pretends

pretended, pretended, pretending, pretends

maybe he pretends to be a hostage
to give himself plausible deniability later.

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davranıyor olabilir.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
Jenifer Lewis

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga

And so far as shepherds are concerned, we all know they belong to that puny race that pretends to be our masters.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding

He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.

He pretends to do one thing, and does something else.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.
Moshe Katsav

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Jean Kerr

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Jimmy Johnson

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