The make-believe world of theater. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Playing make-believe: Yes, the warrants are confusing. From Wordnik.com. [How About This Loophole, Uncle Sugar?] Reference
But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me. From Wordnik.com. [Erin McKeown Reinterprets the American Songbook] Reference
Young Kim, by contrast, used make-believe to get ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Women, Wine And Weapons] Reference
It's all make-believe to me, but to her it's just work. From Wordnik.com. [If Everything is Inevitable] Reference
Unless you are good at make-believe, it is no fun at all. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Granted it is make-believe, yet not more than practising at. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
And make-believe we're home in bed, and cuddle close and snug. From Wordnik.com. [Abroad] Reference
Pictures of various make-believe pirates hung behind the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Man Loses Life] Reference
So there we were with nothing to do but schoolwork and make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Postman] Reference
The selling of the green economy involves much economic make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Selling the Green Economy] Reference
Well, the sermon stinks: the "" savings gap '' is mostly make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Is There A Savings Gap?] Reference
Mr. SAADIQ: Well, that was a make-believe girl at that time, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Raphael Saadiq Brings Back The Love Song] Reference
Ah! the songs of those days, the last of romanticism, the make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When children play make-believe, they're exercising their imaginations. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Make Believe] Reference
Like his predecessors, Sarkozy is engaged in the politics of make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [A Bloody Battle] Reference
It will not be a mere "make-believe" experience, but a gloriously real one. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Bush's proposed tax cuts-based on unannounced spending cuts-were make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Not So Bad A President] Reference
She sat and took a sip of her tea, then held out a plate of make-believe cookies. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Party] Reference
"Well, if it's only a make-believe fire we can sit here and cool off," went on Nan. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in Washington] Reference
A very little make-believe and you were lifeboat-men landing survivors from a wreck. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
The stories about software jobs and call centers moving to India aren't make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Jobs Albatross] Reference
But the psychological road between real life and make-believe doesn't run only one way. From Wordnik.com. [Violence In Our Culture] Reference
"But maybe, if Flossie wants it, we could put a make-believe chimney on the snow house.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
And I'm not kidding about the rushed part, even when measured in make-believe court time. From Wordnik.com. [As the network onslaught begins, what if the TV critic picked out shows just for you?] Reference
Some of the most popular kids 'programs start with images of a make-believe on-screen world. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphor Is The Message] Reference
DAVID LACHAPELLE IS A 35-year-old fashion photographer who never outgrew playing make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [High-Fashion Fantasies] Reference
Then the larger reindeer that had lost their antlers started off to make-believe higher lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
Perhaps it furthers a make-believe narrative that the Obamas are out of touch with real America. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Peyronnin: Michelle] Reference
(Soundbite of song) Mr. NASCIMENTO: (Singing) Love will always win when you give it make-believe. From Wordnik.com. ['Pieta': Milton Nascimento's Homage to Women] Reference
Now I realize if you have the money part even the make-believe part just comes along; so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [A Message from Upstate VII] Reference
The child is an adept at make-believe, but his make-believes are, as a rule, practical and serious. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
But for SDF soldiers, forbidden to deploy overseas except as peacekeepers, the drill is mostly make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Alarm] Reference
As children tell stories and act out make-believe situations, they rely on language to articulate their actions. From Wordnik.com. [Playing Ye Olde Way] Reference
If a teenager can easily become a make-believe guitar hero, does that mean he won't ever bother to master the real thing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Low Cost Of (Guitar) Heroism] Reference
Our ideal system is make-believe, and if the next president pursues it -- by perpetuating our illusions -- he ensures failure. From Wordnik.com. [NATIONALIZE HEALTH CARE] Reference
It's an appropriate place, since the "straw poll" to be held there this Saturday comes straight from the "land of make-believe.". From Wordnik.com. [The Usual Suspects] Reference
To get everyone psychologically prepared to finish the song more than 15 years later, McCartney asked them to play make-believe. From Wordnik.com. [Come Together] Reference
When it was all over, the chopper rescue squad had lost four men: two to parachute mishaps and two more to make-believe casualties. From Wordnik.com. [TOMORROW'S FIRE FIGHT] Reference
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