play act
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When I was little, I would play act in a swimming pool, for example, creating fake scenes from fake movies.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
We get to play act a war when people are dying.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2024
“We don’t play act — it’s not a game. It’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2017
They are central to the creative process of the theatre but never have to write a play, act a part or sweep a stage; they have the perfect job.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010
Associate this with Falstaff's soliloquy about honour in the same play, act v. scene 1, and the true character of his courage or cowardice—for it may bear either name—comes out.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald
No, the preferred way to play-act "normal American man" is to be a massive jerk.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
Several times, the kids play-act the old cartoonish “Tom Sawyer” game—in which the rascal tricks his buddies into doing his fence-painting chore—and the reference is apt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
This seems a natural fate for the Morries of this world, men who play-act the tough guy and get in over their heads.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2018
They play-act traumatic scenarios, like getting a shot at the doctor’s office, in preparation for handling stressful situations in real life.
From The Verge ● Dec. 22, 2017
"But English people don't play-act very well," he commented to himself, reviewing the scene afterward.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
