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  • Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for the rest of my life would feel awkward and self-conscious around me, except maybe kids like Jackie who just didn't know any better.†   (source)
  • I feigned hurling my Intellivision controller at him.†   (source)
  • When the Admiral is present, he feigns obedience, but when others are gathered around him—and there are always others gathered around Roland—he takes every opportunity to cut the man down.†   (source)
  • He feigned toughness, but was secretly tormented.†   (source)
  • Taking his cue, I nudged Christopher-John and Christopher-John nudged Little Man, and the three of us forced ourselves to stare into the fire in feigned disinterest.†   (source)
  • As slowly as he can, he exhales, feigning sleep, but despite himself his breath hitches.†   (source)
  • I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.†   (source)
  • Lale's yelps are not feigned.†   (source)
  • Sam shook his head in feigned despair.†   (source)
  • Mr. D looked at the wine and feigned surprise.†   (source)
  • I would pretend to be surprised to see him, and he would feign shock that a busy girl like me had time for a stroll.†   (source)
  • Teabing held up his right hand and feigned a courtroom oath.†   (source)
  • "I haven't been anywhere near your office!" said Harry angrily, forgetting his feigned deafness.†   (source)
  • Bastian feigns frustration.†   (source)
  • "Come now," Count Olaf said, his voice faking—a word which here means "feigning"—kindness.†   (source)
  • She feigned wiping tears from her cheeks.†   (source)
  • She told her husband she thought she might just feign ignorance and pretend she had not read the newspaper at all that day.†   (source)
  • Ishmael, at school, feigned detachment in her presence and ignored her in the casual way she gradually taught him to use.†   (source)
  • Annie feigned confusion.†   (source)
  • She had managed to slip by her mother, feigning a headache.†   (source)
  • It has such a happy ending, too—why, the assassin was really feigning her illness in order to get the prince's attention!†   (source)
  • I do my best to feign confidence, not wanting to attract unwanted attention from anyone.†   (source)
  • "It wasn't anybody," I said, dropping my eyes in feigned shame.†   (source)
  • Joffrey feigned a yawn and turned to his younger brother.†   (source)
  • And so he feigned that he no longer cared for women's stories.†   (source)
  • Sticky was scrubbing his glasses so hard they squeaked, and Constance had her eyes squeezed tightly shut, unconvincingly feigning sleep.†   (source)
  • Feigning calm, she continued cutting the rolls for her sisters and Nacha to fill.†   (source)
  • It was my one day in life of being a bad kid—of at least feigning the moves.†   (source)
  • Feigning nonchalance, Cinder thrust a thumb toward the hall.†   (source)
  • A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run so: "Yes, Captain, I feel better already.†   (source)
  • HARRY: Albus, whatever you're feigning, it isn't working.†   (source)
  • Could I feign ignorance?†   (source)
  • He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indifference so he can maintain his role, so he'll never, ever have to show his feelings.†   (source)
  • If you move there, will you take me to see it drop in real life?" he asked "Sure, Teddy," I said feigning enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • Then I slow and feign exhaustion.†   (source)
  • I could do this more easily than feign sadness.†   (source)
  • The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference.†   (source)
  • "Nor I," Alice said, feigning breathless excitement.†   (source)
  • She feigned anger, while the others laughed and laughed.†   (source)
  • Feigning a casual attitude, I pulled a short stack of manuscript pages closer and moved them out of Billy's reach.†   (source)
  • "Let's see," I said, feigning puzzlement.†   (source)
  • "Ahhh," Hemme said, feigning disappointment.†   (source)
  • He feigned throwing up.†   (source)
  • Seivarden still feigned sleep.†   (source)
  • Holmes did not think her so clever as to feign coma, but he held tight just the same.†   (source)
  • As a result of this session and the astonishing revelations it produced, Dr. Jordan gave it as his opinion that Grace Marks' loss of memory was genuine, not feigned — that on the fatal day she was suffering from the effects of an hysterical seizure brought on by fright, which resulted in a form of auto-hypnotic somnambulism, not much studied twenty-five years ago but well documented since; and that this fact explains her subsequent amnesia.†   (source)
  • The engagement is feigned, but that does not keep her from spending hours at a time playing "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" in her new green glass earrings, then throwing tantrums of protest against her upcoming marriage.†   (source)
  • Now he could see how necessary that bad been, how his father had only been feigning drunkenness, how his wits had been sharp and alive underneath all along, watching for the slightest sign of disrespect.†   (source)
  • I replied, feigning confusion.†   (source)
  • Socrates could feign ignorance—or pretend to be dumber than he was.†   (source)
  • I waved back at everyone and feigned surprise each time the group of children following me appeared on various streets grinning, but I didn't stop and ask for help.†   (source)
  • "You tore my heart out years ago," he said, and even Clary could not tell if the sorrow in his voice was real or feigned.†   (source)
  • I am still feigning illness, although I'm pretty sure I'm fooling no one.†   (source)
  • Alice just shook her head sadly, feigning disappointment, and Edward's eyebrows lifted.†   (source)
  • He feigned indifference.†   (source)
  • Was his affection feigned or real?†   (source)
  • I thought I'd just feign sleep, so I pretended to snore.†   (source)
  • To her great surprise, there was no need for her to feign a migraine.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza sat in the park where he was sure he would be seen, and then he did not have recourse to his feigned reading but sat with the book open and his eyes fixed on the illusory maiden, who did not even respond with a charitable glance.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist smiled at her feigned surprise.†   (source)
  • Then she leans over and I'm sure she's going to kiss my forehead like she used to when I was a little girl, but I roll away from her, still feigning sleep.†   (source)
  • I feigned sleep until my mother left for school, but even my eyelids didn't shut out the light.†   (source)
  • A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.†   (source)
  • Not sure if I should scoot away and show fear, or do nothing and feign boredom, I chose the latter.†   (source)
  • However, the possibility had already occurred to me that Mr Farraday was simply feigning indifference in order to minimize my embarrassment, and such a surreptitious delivery could be interpreted as complacency on my part towards my error — or worse, an attempt to cover it up.†   (source)
  • Annie tried to look casual, feigning interest in the pictures on the wall.†   (source)
  • And feigned ignorance.†   (source)
  • As if in reply, Ronaldo snorted and turned to his dials, feigning disinterest.†   (source)
  • Just serves me right for being too polite to his parents and feigning interest in his bloody limed oak units.†   (source)
  • While among them, I may have feigned disinterest, but like my father I watched them closely and listened whenever they spoke.†   (source)
  • In the morning I woke Mandy and tried to convince her to feign illness so she could call Lucinda immediately.†   (source)
  • Come on nerdboy, you and me, let's do it, right now," says Phillip, feigning a punch as a girl holds him back and two boys, standing nearby, giggle.†   (source)
  • He had sensed Miro's approach and had immediately feigned sleep.†   (source)
  • He feigns surprise.†   (source)
  • I am interested, however, that the doctor at the work farm added this statement: 'Don't overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery of the work farm.'†   (source)
  • She would be able to anticipate his every attack, and your spell would show her how to counter them, and as long as countering them did not require her to sacrifice her life, she would prevail...For the good of the Varden, Eragon, for the good of everyone in Alagaesia, couldn't you feign your attempt to cure Elva?†   (source)
  • "Why, I'm just going to look out the window for a while," I say, feigning surprise.†   (source)
  • Perhaps a quarter of the men were sick, and officers, as well as men in the ranks, often feigned sickness.†   (source)
  • But instead of taking the paper, the man from the Ministry spread his arms in feigned amazement (the same gesture the Pope uses to bless the crowds from his balcony).†   (source)
  • They could feign illness, if they liked, but that wouldn't earn them a trip anywhere, either.†   (source)
  • They hesitate, feign deafness, ride away north.†   (source)
  • They watched a man come down the grand staircase, feigning injury as he went past the mural.†   (source)
  • But he sat down and knocked it back with expertly feigned pleasure, just as he did in Haiti when eating from the fifth food group.†   (source)
  • He woke up on the floor with a bleeding nose and exactly the same distressful head symptoms he had been feigning all along.†   (source)
  • Quinn didn't have to feign the surprise.†   (source)
  • Chaz asks with feigned innocence.†   (source)
  • He threw his hands up with feigned disgust, brushing past them into the hallway, where the others were now darting in packs to explore the various rooms in a chorus of shouts and slamming doors.†   (source)
  • Feigning sleep, I made my decision quickly.†   (source)
  • Mr. Grunewald is pleased, but we know the feel of real music now, and it's difficult to feign interest in the merely pretty.†   (source)
  • When we all shouted "Surprise!" she feigned astonishment graciously, although her fresh makeup had been applied with extra care.†   (source)
  • Raleigh feigned being hurt.†   (source)
  • This is the way she goes through life as well, feigning ignorance and keeping a discreet distance from all but a few trusted confidants.†   (source)
  • Then he gave way before us, but only feigned to flee, and soon after came to the Dark Tower and openly declared himself.†   (source)
  • Guitar stopped feigning indifference.†   (source)
  • I was able to feign distraction — well, it wasn't entirely fake — when I noticed the folded piece of paper lying on my desk.†   (source)
  • Miss Bradford raised a hand to her brow, ostentatiously feigning a faintness that her avid eyes belied.†   (source)
  • Carlos feigned to his left, ducked low, and jerked back.†   (source)
  • And it was like somebody had uncorked something in me and I ended up just pouring out the whole story about how Jenny had been such a good friend to me, and then how she wanted to make Josh jealous by feigning interest in Nathan, and how I had just totally messed everything up.†   (source)
  • The man feigned surprise.†   (source)
  • The rest of the time I'm feigning twentiethcentury lunacy just like you are.†   (source)
  • He picked up the pen, remembering to feign discomfort.†   (source)
  • So whenever he was asked about slavery or the rightful treatment of freed blacks, Janes smiled and feigned indifference.†   (source)
  • I had not yet learned to feign knowledge that I did not possess, and as I had only a vague idea what a B.A. was, Iquestioned Mathona.†   (source)
  • Cesar yelped, feigning pain in his gloved hand as Angel's fastball struck the webbing.†   (source)
  • I joke around, feigning a flamenco.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps not," he conceded, with a touch of feigned distress.†   (source)
  • This letter was feigned to be written by Ahoshta and this was the signification of the writing: 'Ahoshta Tarkaan to Kidrash Tarkaan, salutation and peace.†   (source)
  • Feigning desperation, Drizzt glanced all about him.†   (source)
  • Halfway through the class, Nastya hasn't moved from her seat, but she can't feign disinterest.†   (source)
  • She feigned astonishment.†   (source)
  • Yes, ma'am," the man said, feigning fright.†   (source)
  • Feigning shame, I showed it to some hard grunge types, to their even harder women, to red-faced professionals.†   (source)
  • Charity asked, the feigned sweetness with which she had named me diminishing as fast as you could say "Day by Day" or Godspell.†   (source)
  • Shaded by a Pernod umbrella, he had nipped at a glass of white wine, feigned absorption in a worn paperback, and stared at her without reservation.†   (source)
  • But being curious as to how far Mike would go, to pull my leg, I feigned conversion and asked him to tell me more about Ootek's uncanny skill.†   (source)
  • "Please," I pleaded, not needing to feign abjection.†   (source)
  • Feigning drowsiness, I murmured something intentionally unintelligible.†   (source)
  • HELEN bangs her toe on the chair and sinks to the floor, crying with rage and feigned injury; ANNIE keeps hold of her wrists, gazing down, while KATE rises.†   (source)
  • Jan always feigned innocence-and, well, one ould hardly accuse Rashaverak.†   (source)
  • What's this I hear about you giving the nurse a hard time?" he asked, and there was no more feigning sleep.†   (source)
  • The bush boy feigned defeat; in mock terror he fled across the billabong; splashing through the shallows, still pursued by Peter, he clambered on to the farther bank.†   (source)
  • Feigning indifference to conceal his feelings, he asked, realizing at the same moment how silly it was: "Whom will you marry when you're grown up?†   (source)
  • They dutifully followed me around trying to feign interest in exhibits that would strike my eye but bored them to extinction.†   (source)
  • OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the HOUSEWIFE] Just a sip, dear little lady ...be brave ... [The WAITRESS forces her to drink it by putting the glass to her lips; the Housewife feigns refusal, but drinks all the same.]†   (source)
  • When the clever-looking wizard continued to feign sleep, some of them shouted his name, too.†   (source)
  • I crossed my arms and feigned arrogant indifference.†   (source)
  • I didn't make this observation aloud, as I was feigning memory loss on those recent events.†   (source)
  • We were feigning a normalcy, Saboor and I, that no longer was.†   (source)
  • But here, in Europe, women feigned a strength and independence that both amused and excited him.†   (source)
  • Tyrion suspected her delight was feigned, but she did it so well that it did not matter.†   (source)
  • He selected a book, taking no notice of the title, sat down on a sofa, and feigned absorption.†   (source)
  • Morton and Smitty slid gently in, feigning interest.†   (source)
  • Chaol deflected, feigned, then thrust so hard that Dorian stepped back.†   (source)
  • Cole feigned surprise as if he had made a horrible mistake, then twisted at the handcuffs again.†   (source)
  • Chiron feigned interest in his pinochle cards.†   (source)
  • "Well," she continued, with feigned cheerfulness.†   (source)
  • The Baron raised his gaze to the ceiling in feigned exasperation while his thoughts raced.†   (source)
  • Amaranta feigned a reaction of displeasure.†   (source)
  • Still feigning death on the ground, he understood.†   (source)
  • First up, the Allies had feigned a raid on Munich in order to strike at Stuttgart.†   (source)
  • He held out his hand and favored me with a smile that had nothing feigned about it.†   (source)
  • How was it possible for her to feign such coldness without feeling it at the same time?†   (source)
  • His mother feigned indifference, as with a contrary pup, though he knew she felt otherwise.†   (source)
  • "Ask me a damn question," I say with feigned irritation.†   (source)
  • I shrugged, feigning a lack of interest.†   (source)
  • He never bothered to feign a single raspy breath.†   (source)
  • Ambrose's indignant tone wasn't feigned this time.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun tried to brush off the questions, feigning exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Seth was only feigning that he was hurt, Bella.†   (source)
  • The two men thanked her with feigned smiles.†   (source)
  • The man beside him, an estate attorney, nodded slightly, feigning interest.†   (source)
  • She feigned lack of interest in the fruit, and then took a piece.†   (source)
  • Ned did not feign surprise; Robert's hatred of the Targaryens was a madness in him.†   (source)
  • —from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan Paul lay on the bed feigning sleep.†   (source)
  • "Thank goodness," she said, feigning relief.†   (source)
  • Welsh had the high ground and he feigned first to his right, then to his left.†   (source)
  • I feigned sleep when my father returned.†   (source)
  • Archie asked, feigning surprise, trying to keep any trace of mockery out of his voice.†   (source)
  • He had some Valyrian as well, though not so much as Dany, but like her he was feigning ignorance.†   (source)
  • She gave consent as graciously as she could, feigning delight.†   (source)
  • "Sure," she answered, feigning nonchalance.†   (source)
  • My old age is not feigned nor due only to the whisperings of Wormtongue.†   (source)
  • "I don't knoweverything, " Brenda said, feigning indignation.†   (source)
  • "What are those?" asked Max, feigning ignorance.†   (source)
  • Henry tapped his finger in feigned concentration.†   (source)
  • Doc leaned forward, fascinated-or feigning fascination.†   (source)
  • Jason feigned drunkenness and turned around, taking up the second relay.†   (source)
  • Clary leaned back against the pillows, feigning weariness.†   (source)
  • Beth asked, only half feigning amazement.†   (source)
  • Your father taught you to feign human emotion the way one might teach a parrot to repeat words.†   (source)
  • "I know!" he said with feigned enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • The last thing she needed was for him to saunter up, feigning surprise at finding her.†   (source)
  • He comes back late at night and I'm in bed, feigning sleep, my head churning.†   (source)
  • Backing away, he feigned a stumble over a fallen block.†   (source)
  • Piper felt frost gathering on her eyebrows and freezing her ear canals, but she feigned a smile.†   (source)
  • "They have a dance?" he asked, feigning ignorance.†   (source)
  • "And what is a machine?" asked Dr. Rasmussen, feigning ignorance.†   (source)
  • His gray eyes examined the pencil with feigned curiosity and he said, "Interesting.†   (source)
  • Natalie, her head against the glass, feigned a coma.†   (source)
  • He doesn't try to feign innocence or offer an excuse to save himself, as I knew he wouldn't.†   (source)
  • Feigned innocence invites sex more than a frank come-on does.†   (source)
  • Drizzt stroked his slender chin and chuckled in feigned confidence.†   (source)
  • I don't understand," she said to Galbatorix with feigned calm.†   (source)
  • Mike feigned a look of offense before putting the ball in place.†   (source)
  • You don't know?" he said, feigning graveness.†   (source)
  • He wandered to the table, feigning disappointment.†   (source)
  • We shall deal with your uncle and his feigned boy in due time.†   (source)
  • Al-Ahmad feigned the searching of his mind.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (Feigned disdain) I've never heard of anything more ridiculous in my life.†   (source)
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