playacting
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Between 2018 and 2021, McIndoe, now 25, went from state to state, playacting the role of radicalized cult leader pushing an absurd conspiracy theory—that, as he put it, “birds aren’t real.”
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2024
Within “Housekeeping’s” restless, naturalistic aesthetic, Stolevski crafts complex and poignant images, contrasting the playacting the couple is forced to do with their searing gazes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
And Collette’s playacting of such a role becomes a source of tension throughout the book.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
But playacting the put-upon victims who aren't "allowed" to let their true feelings rip communicates their views well enough without them coming out and saying it.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022
Rowan had heard Jiller say that when they all were children, she had decided that Allun's joking and playacting formed an armor stronger than Val's and Ellis's iron muscles or Bronden's bad temper.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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