make-believe
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"Madmen" can see through our disguises, our premises, our personas and our elaborate make-believe. And yet modern society is committed to "diagnosing" and "fixing" anyone who thinks in a radically different way.
'This proves how big of a tool of chaos and disruption social media is,' the minister said, adding that 'it later turned out that the news run by an anchor, on which the Supreme Court also took notice, was entirely make-believe.'
He titles each chapter as a semantic equation--"Make-Believe (Courtly) Love"; "Make-Believe (Faerie) Nation"--that captures the process whereby abstract concepts are reimagined as political realities.
Carol Hopkinson, owner of North Shire said: "We're aiming to create a magical world of make-believe during the weekend that will captivate children and will find parents easily getting in the spirit of it all."
In other words, to solve the Klamath's drought woes in 2015, Wyden and Merkley promise 9.8 billion gallons of real water and 48.2 billion gallons of make-believe water.
They pray to Jesus, who is make-believe; God, who is make-believe; why not Satan, who is make-believe?
The fascinating decor inside plays host to fairground props and a world of engaging make-believe, yes, as we meet Miss Sweetpea (Hannah McPake) in her rather outrageous costume and Cardiff hardman-in-a box Buddy Sprout (Katy Owen), with rather clever touches and humour.
LIFE'S so tough for Jude Law, running around playing make-believe every day.
THIS Morning again booking rent-a-gob Katie Hopkins to gush make-believe garbage about it being OK for parents to miss their child's birthday: "They're like trains - there'll be another one."
But new research has revealed that, surprisingly, modern children prefer make-believe play to spending time on the computer.
6 ( ANI ): A seven-year-old boy studying in the second grade in Colorado has been suspended from his elementary school for 'throwing' an imaginary grenade during a harmless make-believe game he was playing called 'rescue the world'.
Why would anyone in their right mind stay indoors this winter playing make-believe video games when a whole world of playing make-believe video games when a whole world of REAL predator hunting is right at hand and ripe for the picking?
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- make up
- make up a lack
- make up for
- make up one’s mind
- make use of
- make use of without permission
- make useless
- make valid
- make valueless
- make visible
- make vivid
- make void
- make vulnerable
- make war
- make way
- make way for
- make weak
- make well
- make whole
- make wholesome
- make wholly without effect
- make wicked
- make worse
- make wrathful
- make written application
- make-believe
- maker
- makeshift
- makeup
- making
- making amends
- making apparent
- making aware
- making distinct
- making evident
- Making his law
- making intelligible
- making less
- making lucid
- making one
- making over
- making perspicuous
- making precise
- making public
- making ready
- making reference
- making sense
- making specific
- making trenchant
- making useless
- mala fides
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- make yourself heard
- make yourself known
- make yourself known to
- make yourself known to somebody
- make yourself known to someone
- make yourself miserable
- make yourself ready
- make yourself ready for
- make yourself ready for her
- make yourself ready for him
- make yourself ready for me
- make yourself ready for someone
- make yourself ready for something
- make yourself ready for them
- make yourself ready for us
- make yourself ready for you
- make yourself scarce
- make yourself understood
- make yourself useful
- make, cause, etc. a splash
- make, etc. a mint
- make, etc. something by/with your own fair hand
- make, lose, spend, etc. a packet
- Make, Model, Series
- Make-A-Store, Inc.
- Make-a-Wish Foundation
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
- Make-A-Wish of Japan
- make-and-break circuit
- make-belief
- make-believe
- make-believed
- make-believed
- make-believely
- make-believely
- make-believes
- make-believes
- make-believing
- make-believing
- Make-Break
- make-break operation
- make-busy
- Make-Buy Decision tree
- make-do
- make-do's
- make-dos
- Make-game
- Make-Good
- Make-Good
- Make-Goods
- Make-It-Yourself
- Make-live
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-break
- make-or-buy decision
- make-out
- make-out artist
- make-out artists
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