as though

“It’s as though the Supreme Court were talking about this very proceeding,” she said.

The chief complaint about pet parenting seems to be that it wastes valuable love that could go to a human child on a fuzzy facsimile of one, as though companionship is a zero-sum proposition.

He felt as though everyone had given up on him and imagined what the few people who visited him were thinking: “If you want to die, go ahead. You know, we’re tired of you. You know, you don’t change. You’re never going to change.”

"I felt as though I was doing a good job - and my daughter felt good with me."

From Lucy’s outward appearance and a quick peek inside Adore’s startup-chic offices, which look as though they’ve been furnished from the expensive side of Wayfair, one would think Lucy is rolling in dough.