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The experiment is said to have "accelerated the movement to reform mental institutions and to deinstitutionalize as many mental patients as possible". [4] Rosenhan claimed that he, along with eight other people (five men and three women), entered 12 hospitals in five states near the west coast of the US.
Other characters also feign for love. [5] Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt [6] or plowing the beach. Palamedes believed that he was faking and tested it by placing his son, Telemachus right in front of the plow. When Odysseus stopped immediately, his sanity was proven.
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Another translation of the Anglo-Norman word feindre is "pretend, feign, turn a blind eye to", which is what the more powerful child does whilst granting respite. [5] Spoken English south of the Danelaw became, from at least the 11th century onwards, characterised by a pronunciation known as Southern Voicing, such as vrog for frog, or zummer ...
As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake. According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any other time according to their research.
The phrase is derived from the French word "air" which means appearance or look. The phrase has been in use since the 1500s. [4] To "Give Airs" was also referred to as a fake way of acting. [8] "Put on" is in modern emphatic use means: "to assume deceptively or falsely; to feign, affect or pretend." [9]
This is Trump on stage at a rally, pretending to perform a sex-act on a microphone. Trump appeared to make the gesture on stage at a rally in Milwaukee on November 1 (Fox News/YouTube) “This is ...