play-acting

Full-grown men play-acting at being hurt when absolutely nothing happened.

The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.

On the other hand, as William F. Buckley shrewdly observed, there was always a lot of sham and play-acting with Vidal.

While Don was play-acting at romance with Joan, his home life was becoming increasingly fraught.

The subject was date rape; the teaching model two actors on a stage, play-acting a sex scene.

At the time I looked on as at play-acting, rejoicing in the happy ending.

Now, Rusty, I want to have you do some more play-acting—only turn it around.

There's a drama in all this, if we only knew it, a panorama of human play-acting.

It made me smile again, tight as the corner was, to see the play-acting spirit creeping over him.

One would like to make a long chapter out of those play-acting evenings alone.