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
And every one must have observed that animals at play act towards inanimate objects as if they were conscious and endowed with will.
From Myth and Science An Essay by Tito Vignoli
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
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
CBS’ show—the most-watched sitcom in America—is also one of television’s most frustratingly retrograde, a bizarre play-act of caricatured “nerd” behaviors that, it often seems, exists for other people to laugh at.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2015
Murray cannot let himself become distracted if Djokovic starts to play-act, as he did in Melbourne in January.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
"I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself."
From Youth by C. J. Hogarth
