How To Use Playact In A Sentence

  • She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • So gender is a kind of playacting? he has asked her once. Enowning
  • He was more interested in playacting and over-reacting, something we thought he had taken out of his game years ago. The Sun
  • She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • (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. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was not tourist playacting, but a community exploring its own talents without a shred of irony. Times, Sunday Times
  • A man could get very confused from this kind of playacting — I don't know how you do it, Renoux. Mistborn
  • 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.
  • 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
  • (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
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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
  • There was a lot of playacting in the match. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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.
  • It would improve player safety and perhaps reduce the playacting. Times, Sunday Times
  • He will have seen a willingness to attack and an absence of playacting, shirt pulling or cynical fouls. Times, Sunday Times
  • He just couldn't bring himself to turn in his fellow brethren, so for the moment, he had to playact as one of them.
  • The vast majority of its members playacting as class warriors are well-heeled yuppies. The Sun
  • Don't take any notice of him - he's just playacting.
  • Had she playacted her affections for him for all that time, in order to put her hands on the greater prize? Forbidden Enchantment
  • For 18 months, he pinched cheeks, bowled with oranges in the aisles of his campaign plane, and playacted flight attendant. Going After Gore
  • There was always a touch of irony, the hint of a little playacting. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Or a player sues another player for playacting. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • I wanted to playact a grown-up relationship just like other kids would playact being a doctor. Unbearable Lightness
  • And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Being little, I used to playact my own scenes to them, right in my brother's bedroom. Music Sweet Music
  • It was a transparent charade for both of them: one they'd both playacted before, during previous crises. The Sinister Six Combo
  • It is all a kind of playacting, which they perform with remarkable skill. The Child of the Dawn
  • 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
  • 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
  • Within the corp-town, everything went cheap; play money let the poor playact at being rich. Crashed
  • 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

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