I don't mean just go through the motions, I mean sincerely try to imagine how somebody who believes differently than you, but someone who you respect could accept this idea, and try to convince yourself of it.
Winners do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others.
Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.
I don't know what kind of hocus-pocus they teach in Rowley's karate classes, but the last thing I needed was for him to lay me out right there on the blacktop.
And this is the dynamic that you're going to see throughout the history of the detective novel, um, where you have the regular cops who are well-meaning, but officious and bumblingly inept.