You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.
I do not feign hypotheses.
I feign no hypotheses.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
