How To Use Playact In A Sentence
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She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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So gender is a kind of playacting? he has asked her once.
Enowning
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He was more interested in playacting and over-reacting, something we thought he had taken out of his game years ago.
The Sun
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She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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(It is a perception that applies to changes taking place throughout the culture at the very moment, in the mid-1960s, when he was looking at those bricks — whether in Capote and Mailer's attempts to break down differences between fiction and reporting, or in Godard's movies, where we all became self-conscious watching films that felt like essays as much as narratives and seemed more playacted than acted.)
An Eye on the Tremors
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Sometimes their emotions read more like playacting than real life; at others they scare you with their deadly intent.
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This was not tourist playacting, but a community exploring its own talents without a shred of irony.
Times, Sunday Times
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A man could get very confused from this kind of playacting — I don't know how you do it, Renoux.
Mistborn
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It was quite well done all-round--no weak links in the cast or direction--but what makes it worth $65 is Kline's performance as Falstaff, which is revelatory in the sense that it allows Shakespeare's words to shine through clearly without additional "playacting" on his part.
Fun at Lincoln Center.
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Here I was masquerading as a teacher, just as I'd playacted being an altar boy, or a civil servant, or a student.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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(It is a perception that applies to changes taking place throughout the culture at the very moment, in the mid-1960s, when he was looking at those bricks-whether in Capote and Mailer's attempts to break down differences between fiction and reporting, or in Godard's movies, where we all became self-conscious watching films that felt like essays as much as narratives and seemed more playacted than acted.)
The New York Review of Books
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It was quite well done all-round--no weak links in the cast or direction--but what makes it worth $65 is Kline's performance as Falstaff, which is revelatory in the sense that it allows Shakespeare's words to shine through clearly without additional "playacting" on his part.
Fun at Lincoln Center.
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Chase most Gay guys do not have a lisp thing those who do that want to do so as some kind of playacting!
Think Progress » “Dogs aren’t born mooing, and people aren’t born gay.”
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But in McCain vs. Obama — the first general election matchup in 56 years that will not include a sitting president or vice president — two senators with minimal executive experience seem to be falling all over themselves to playact the role of president.
The Early Word: Focus on the Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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There was a lot of playacting in the match.
Times, Sunday Times
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They practiced this fantasy for hours at a time, as Kakfa playacted waiting tables, all the while laughing together.
Rodger Kamenetz: Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka
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Hats, of course, were a key element in defining a fisherperson's on-stream image, imparting a quality of costumed playacting to the sport of fly-fishing.
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It would improve player safety and perhaps reduce the playacting.
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He will have seen a willingness to attack and an absence of playacting, shirt pulling or cynical fouls.
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He just couldn't bring himself to turn in his fellow brethren, so for the moment, he had to playact as one of them.
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The vast majority of its members playacting as class warriors are well-heeled yuppies.
The Sun
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Don't take any notice of him - he's just playacting.
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Had she playacted her affections for him for all that time, in order to put her hands on the greater prize?
Forbidden Enchantment
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For 18 months, he pinched cheeks, bowled with oranges in the aisles of his campaign plane, and playacted flight attendant.
Going After Gore
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There was always a touch of irony, the hint of a little playacting.
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How was I to playact, behave as if nothing was wrong, when I knew what they were all up to?
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom
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Or a player sues another player for playacting.
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Ultimately, at 8 Hearts, there is an Event that is similar to the Marriage Event in the 1st Generation, although it is a 'playacting' event to some extent.
IGN Complete
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I wanted to playact a grown-up relationship just like other kids would playact being a doctor.
Unbearable Lightness
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And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, at 10 Hearts, there is an Event that is similar to the Marriage Event in the 1st Generation, although it is a 'playacting' event to some extent.
IGN Complete
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Being little, I used to playact my own scenes to them, right in my brother's bedroom.
Music Sweet Music
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It was a transparent charade for both of them: one they'd both playacted before, during previous crises.
The Sinister Six Combo
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It is all a kind of playacting, which they perform with remarkable skill.
The Child of the Dawn
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It reflected the cocky, swaggering, rough-tough cowboy image of someone who likes to playact at being a "real man.
Robert S. McElvaine: "Bring 'Em On!" - The Fifth Anniversary of Bush's Declaration of Indecency
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Singapore armed forces playacted at subduing a cabal of "terrorists" who had shot a half dozen flower-bearing children in red leotards, leaving them "dead" on the stage.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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Within the corp-town, everything went cheap; play money let the poor playact at being rich.
Crashed
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Stop and think about it a second, what qualifies a person that lives in a 'playacting' world to be smarter than these residents?
Canadian Beauty Queen Stands Up For Seal Hunt
