For a moment I felt as if I were riding in an elevator as I looked at the blah dashboard.
At dinner that evening I felt uneasy, as if I were concealing a secret.
These days, I approach travel photography as if I were making a shot list for a documentary film.
My hands shook uncontrollably, and I was huffing and puffing as if I were running mile twenty five of the Chicago Marathon.
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In other words, I might answer a survey as if I were an ideal version of myself rather than reflecting a true self-analysis.
She said that I played just like those people, as if I were throwing music out the window, that I had no sense of music making, just crazy fantasies.
It was incomprehensible, impossible to take in, it was doomsday, it was the end of so many lives, that I turned away, got on my bicycle and sped away, crying and shaking and panicking as if I were being hunted by snipers.
If we were all engaged in a conversation, she would direct most of her contributions toward me, as if I were the front wall of a squash court.
Nana and Lili often joked that Huong treated me as if I were her boyfriend.
She looked at me as if I were part of this great conspiracy against her happiness.
It felt as if I were setting my right foot into soft mud or a sponge.
My husband gave me a car, as if I were a 21-year-old finishing college.
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The chief financial officer shook my hand as if I were an old friend.
Here Taleb looked at me as if I were suddenly standing a long way away.
It felt as though I were watching that classic dance for the first time in my life.
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They made the whole world seem as if I were swimming through honey.
She would force a smile and depart, quietly closing the door behind her, as if I were not hers.
But it bothered me that she was talking to him almost as if I were not standing there beside her.
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She neither smiled nor cried, but stared at me with a peculiar gentleness, as if I were a kind of nourishment.
But my inability to identify a role model left me feeling scared and alone, as if I were a study of one.
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They looked at me as if I were speaking a foreign language.
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Motahari evaded me as though I were a member of the paparazzi.
What I usually encounter from adults (is) people asking me who takes care of me or talking to me as though I were mentally challenged.
That would probably make me feel as if I were the victim of a ludicrous comparison underpinned by a busted rhetorical flush, to be honest.
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And as if I were waking from a trance, I pushed away the silence, I beat it down with a yes yes yes, of course of course.
The Times was happy to not only pay me for this, but to uphold the letter of journalistic ethics by paying for the lessons as if I were a regular customer.
To aid my adventure I'd been given a wooden walking stick complete with a small Japanese flag and bells that would tinkle with each step, as though I were an Alpine cow.
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