playacted

They practiced this fantasy for hours at a time, as Kakfa playacted waiting tables, all the while laughing together.

Rodger Kamenetz: Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka Rodger Kamenetz 2010

They practiced this fantasy for hours at a time, as Kakfa playacted waiting tables, all the while laughing together.

Rodger Kamenetz: Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka 2010

(It is a perception that applies to changes taking place throughout the culture at the very moment, in the mid-1960s, when he was looking at those bricks — whether in Capote and Mailer's attempts to break down differences between fiction and reporting, or in Godard's movies, where we all became self-conscious watching films that felt like essays as much as narratives and seemed more playacted than acted.)

An Eye on the Tremors Schwartz, Sanford 2009

For 18 months, he pinched cheeks, bowled with oranges in the aisles of his campaign plane, and playacted flight attendant.

Going After Gore Peretz, Evgenia 2007

Had she playacted her affections for him for all that time, in order to put her hands on the greater prize?

Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

Here I was masquerading as a teacher, just as I'd playacted being an altar boy, or a civil servant, or a student.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

It was a transparent charade for both of them: one they'd both playacted before, during previous crises.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

Singapore armed forces playacted at subduing a cabal of "terrorists" who had shot a half dozen flower-bearing children in red leotards, leaving them "dead" on the stage.

SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

Singapore armed forces playacted at subduing a cabal of "terrorists" who had shot a half dozen flower-bearing children in red leotards, leaving them "dead" on the stage.

SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

(It is a perception that applies to changes taking place throughout the culture at the very moment, in the mid-1960s, when he was looking at those bricks-whether in Capote and Mailer's attempts to break down differences between fiction and reporting, or in Godard's movies, where we all became self-conscious watching films that felt like essays as much as narratives and seemed more playacted than acted.)

The New York Review of Books 2009