playacting

1 They threw each other up against ropes and slammed each other to the ground, petticoats flying in an impressive display of choreographed acrobatics and playacting.

2 As if such playacting could help, now that we’ve come this far.

3 “It’s like, ‘What do you want?’ ” she said at her awards luncheon last year, playacting her suspicion of beseechers.

4 The kids do seem to be having a good time playacting in what appear to be their own backyards.

5 In other scenes as other people, she flops about with the weird violence of a marionette playacting a vixen only to become that sex object after a blood sacrifice.

6 You took the time to mention the detail, care and health-related playacting involved — so you must understand how significant this is.

7 There is a sweetness, Jones suggests, to romantic playacting, to the masks we wear while we hunt for love.

8 Because if there’s one message ringing out loud and true from “Wolf Hall,” it’s that playacting is serious business indeed.

9 Shot in richly toned, wide-screen black and white, “Aferim!” looks like an elegant exercise in period playacting.

10 What we need is a stable raft, not messy playacting.

11 Feldman winds up like he’s about to sock Miller in the teeth, either playacting the hot-tempered adolescent the press painted him as or just barely suppressing a sincere impulse.

12 The new overlord of the land of artifice and playacting hates artifice and playacting.

13 And a big part of that is context, which is why for me, the more multidimensional playacting performances trump the mere musical performances.

14 It trades gently and profitably in the present-tense intimacy between performers and audience in a small space and finds in the art of playacting a map of how we live our lives.

15 So much about the show is totally phony, but there's a core of reality to the people, even though they're all obviously playacting and putting on kind of guido minstrel show.

16 Today, Margaret would be playacting her own massacre in active shooter drills at school.

17 Their largely chaste relationship revolves around playacting, and they avoid exchanging real names.

18 That Bill's playacting is taken completely out of context and blown out of proportion doesn't matter.

19 It’s a story they write together, a shared fiction, a bit of playacting; and in the weird way of fiction it gives them access to certain truths.

20 The video marathon “I Want My ’80s” features George Michael playacting as straight, on a yacht.

1 假装

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2 演戏

dramatic theatrical acting dramatics histrionics play-acting play playact

3 做作

artificial theatrical unnatural contrived practiced feigned put-on orotund cutesie artificially cutely side Art artificiality playact