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1. ‘If only that were true rather than some desperate make-believe of mine,’ Torbin thought out loud
2. A child‘s maturity level is determined in part by that child‘s (incipient) understanding of things that are factual or real (or possible) in contrast with ideas considered to be a product of wishful thinking or make-believe that are otherwise agreeable in themselves provided that the (rational) limits and conditions of the imagination are properly outlined
3. Although the purpose of television is to entertain (and instruct) and to provide a meaningful outlet for a child‘s (incipient) imagination, it should do so in a manner that correctly distinguishes between what is real from implausible or uncertain (impressions) that that child normally receives; that is to say, that otherwise obscure what is real from what is not real (or make-believe) but only appears to be real whenever taken out of context
4. Her Father looked serious and he never strayed into the realm of fantasy and make-believe
5. That would be the only thought coursing in his mind, and he would make-believe if he had to
6. In this electronic world with its speed, with its make-believe, with it‘s out of world attractions, an autistic person can find all manner of restricted interests which make him or her comfortable
7. He had devised a make-believe illusion to compensate for everything that was
8. The best way to do this (especially with younger children) is to play make-believe
9. “It means,” Ceder said with frost in her voice, “that he wants us to haggle over the price of his make-believe magic
10. Why, hasn’t it become burdensome already? Though vacuous, life was still a make-believe in the past
11. ‘What’s heaven but hearsay? Won’t the benedictions therein seem make-believe? The Hindu swarga, the Christian salvation and the Islamic hereafter, are they really real? Had anyone called back to earth from those summits of faith? And without a body how does the soul enjoy the earthly pleasures of the religious heavens? How naive is man in envisioning heaven! If the swarga is not make-believe, won’t Sneha join the company of the pativratas, in wait for their husbands they had left behind? But, having sinned so much here, would I gain admission there? Well, if hell were to be my destiny, why not make the best of the rest of my life here itself? It looks sensible
12. Thus, he realized that the media was but a manifestation of the make-believe at its best
13. In some, smiling Mums and Dads with their blissfully happy children played on white sandy beaches, while in others, couples held hands, strolling into their make-believe paradise
14. And there was another crazy dictator who put people into fiery ovens or poisoned them in make-believe showers
15. He had never seen one in real life, only in the movies and on the viewer where it was make-believe
16. And she’d seen countless passionate kisses in movies and on television, but they were make-believe, performed by trained actors playing their roles
17. ‘It’s sad we’ve to choose between nature’s bounty in the villages and the make-believe of our cities
18. While I was impressed with her sensibility, Ruma was wary about her simplicity; by then, busy with a doting circle of lazy women, she started living in a make-believe world
19. How could supposedly intelligent creatures have ever known this and opted for motors & neon & make-believe everything instead, I wonder? "Damn, we're dumb! Dumbest, stupidest, blindest, most ridiculous critters Mama Nature ever came up with, is what we are," I yelled at no one in particular
20. a mere copycat, a make-believe
21. These are all just make-believes so that you are never allowed to know your loneliness
22. She wants to feel free, and sometimes likes to pretend, or to make-believe
23. “You know what, Joseph,” the man said, “sometimes dreams are only make-believe
24. It was no fault of mine for her built-up fantasies of make-believe to come to an end, but as I had expected I was the villain in it all
25. Peterson just make a make-believe man of hay or stubble so that he could pull down his stubble Annihilationist? The only difference is in what the punishment will be after the judgment
26. ” The excuses were of the most frivolous make-believe, none of them would have been hindered from honoring the invitation
27. A belief which is a 'make-believe’ can affect life only superficially
28. This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour
29. He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore
30. For no man, they argued, not even father, an habitual pursuer of dreams, would push the love of the novelist's art of make-believe to the point of burdening himself with real trunks for a voyage AU PAYS DU REVE
31. Ferrars did come to see them, and always treated them with the make-believe of decent affection, they were never insulted by her real favour and preference
32. It was, instead, as if they were small children, playing at some piece of make-believe
33. But those two days of absence had broken the charm of their delightful make-believe
34. Still, such comparisons might mislead, for no man was more incapable of flashy make-believe than Mr
35. “It’s not coming in clear,” I said, moving my hands over a make-believe crystal ball
36. ‘They were no more than make-believes
37. How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-appearing moon—all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world
38. “Enough of this make-believe
39. Ferrars DID come to see them, and always treated them with the make-believe of decent affection, they were never insulted by her real favour and preference
40. Any truth is better than make-believe
41. “They were no more than make-believes
42. For instance, the fact that she always signed the sign of the cross over Papa before going to bed, that she and Katenka invariably wept in church when attending requiem masses for Mamma, and that Katenka sighed and rolled her eyes about when playing the piano—all these things seemed to me sheer make-believe, and I asked myself: “At what period did they learn to pretend like grown-up people, and how can they bring themselves to do it?”