Word: pretending
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...racist. but I am prejudice towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they claim is freedom when it is merely attention because you do not receive enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers...
...stress about deficit spending - especially in the wake of the worst recession to hit the continent in a lifetime? Because the habit isn't new, and it is clearly harder to kick than governments pretend. Observers note that the borrowing kick has already lifted French public debt to nearly 80% of GDP - a level that Germany is within shouting distance of, and which Italy, Belgium and Greece are well beyond. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...media or in the eyes of history. His critics hope to see him finally brought to book. They are likely to be disappointed. Blair has become used to being branded a liar. He won't concede any ground, because he believes it really would be dishonest to pretend he thinks he has anything for which he should apologize...
...California, she's in hysterics when Mitchum first sees her (they exchange hard slaps); later she toys portentously with chess pieces and glowers at us out of a fetal position. By the end Diane has been the agent of two gruesome car crashes and four deaths. "I don't pretend to know what goes on behind that pretty little face of yours," Mitchum tells her, "and I don't want to." Yet for the length of the movie he denies his better instincts to get closer to this petite praying mantis...
...possession of it rather than give the developer a construction loan for a building no one would occupy. There already was a newly constructed - and empty - building across the street. The bank that made the construction loan for that building would soon have to decide whether to "extend and pretend," as the industry saying goes, or take a loss. After that, we visited a neighborhood of giant new warehouses. On one side of the street was yet another building with an underwater construction loan that the bank was stuck with. Opposite was a facility that a vulture investor pounced...