It is, moreover, somewhat strange to talk about essential or fixed identities in a performing musician, who after all is an artist concerned with feigning a changing configuration of identities.
Cake, but no singing, in the menfolk's absence (and presumed or feigned ignorance) was a reasoned and negotiated compromise.
So she resolves out of fear for her life to feign reconciliation and consent, and she thinks that her self-preservation depends on her being as convincing as possible.
It would be disingenuous to feign ignorance of why we are being treated to extra large helpings of gloom and despondency.
It is difficult to determine whether such reasoning was genuine or feigned.
Dancers are undoubtedly amongst the fittest and liveliest of their generation, and they are certainly not feigning their agility on the dance floor.
The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, no rhetorically realist evocation is even feigned.
Reply to me by return of post, and do not feign ignorance.
