If she moderates her tone, she's just play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Hamsher: Pushing Back Against the Hillary Haters] Reference
Anyway, we're play-acting here, so my age is irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
Indeed, play-acting is all they have left at this point. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Robo-Slime Suggests Electing Obama Will Push Us Into "Depression"] Reference
The Netherlands won the play-acting contest, and the match. From Wordnik.com. [The Armchair Critic] Reference
"Young man, do you approve of this play-acting?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference
I am tired of play-acting, and think we have had enough of it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892] Reference
"How I loathe fooling and play-acting!" he exclaimed disgustedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
If you ask me, he's some kid in his parents 'basement play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Associated Press Gets One Right] Reference
I know otherwise, but I will not be deceived by your play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
She begins to sense her attraction to Agnes wasn't just play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Teen Spleen] Reference
"Quite an effective piece of play-acting!" she remarked, forcing a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
We're going back to-morrow, and I guess we'd better finish this play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Antonia was discovering that this play-acting could be tremendously amusing. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Similarly, her dancers 'play-acting tends toward the general and monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [A Tharp Ballet That's Brand New] Reference
BRAZILL: No. SHINER: You weren't play-acting or anything like that, were you?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2001] Reference
He was strangled — but he might have been play-acting, or doing the real thing. From Wordnik.com. [A Movie Star Game for Two, Played by Kate and Hepburn] Reference
Which of these involves more play-acting, or a thinner skin, is an open question. From Wordnik.com. [Bonfire 2.0] Reference
I just hope there's some truth to the rumour that Joaquin Phoenix was play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Car crash television] Reference
"More play-acting -- and you are taking an unfair advantage again," commented Myra. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
You might be a play-acting spy, for all I can see, trying to get us to go with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
"You have no reason to flatter yourself on the success of your play-acting trickery.". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Japan, even now, play-acting is not looked upon as a respectable profession for women. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
This type of intrigue — play-acting and lies — was still awkward for Doctor Svenson. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
Cadillac's message, which I could forecast word for word, I felt like a play-acting fool. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Derec started grimacing and writhing in pain, with relatively little play-acting required. From Wordnik.com. [Perihilion]
Why, they seemed actually to believe that I was play-acting, that my part was a becoming one!. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
Were power to indeed shift toward Serbia's radicals, the play-acting could turn genuinely ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion: Dealing With Serbia] Reference
"At the play-acting again, Master Gilian?" said the dominie a little bitterly, a little humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
While we were play-acting, my father would continue persistently the work of his estate and county. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Are we not play-acting half our lives once we get a little beyond the stage of the ploughman and the herd?. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The young man intimated by these cabalistic words that the part of Hatteraick was to be his in any future play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Then John Splendid's play-acting came to its conclusion, as it was ever bound to do when his innermost man was touched. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"It wasn't play-acting," one contemporary spectator recalls, "it was reality, even to the facial expressions and grunts.". From Wordnik.com. ['His Name's Dutch Reagan'] Reference
I have my views about play-acting, and as my niece is a pupil here, I'm just a little anxious about how this school is run. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference
No wonder voters turn cynical if all the party tribalism, the ideology, the fury and passion was only play-acting after all. From Wordnik.com. [Labour's vain, venal has-beens should bow out and shut up] Reference
They were not gipsies at all, he added, but some sort of play-acting people journeying to join their party, who had preceded them to. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
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