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After that, while the audience clapped and stamped its approval and delight of the dog Caruso, Jacob Henderson would appear on the stage, bowing and smiling in stereotyped gladness and gratefulness, rest his right hand on Michael's shoulders with a play-acted assumption of comradeliness, whereupon both Henderson and Michael would bow ere the final curtain went down.

CHAPTER XXXII 2010

They were aristocrats among performing animals, and Michael's feud with Pedro was not so much real as play-acted.

CHAPTER XXVI 2010

They could sniff and snarl belligerently across at him, but he took no notice, reserving his companionship for the play-acted and perennial quarrel with Pedro.

CHAPTER XXVI 2010

I just once want to feel him use that in a performance instead of the play-acted passion we get week-to-week when he's on stage.

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While residents living in the western part of the village acted as relatives of the brides and those from the eastern part play-acted as relatives of the grooms.

Boing Boing 2009

For at least a few minutes Wednesday, South Koreans everywhere - border towns and beach towns, offices and schools - play-acted a worst-case scenario.

South Korea practices for worst-case attack Chico Harlan 2010

Lame as they were, they gamely play-acted their own stilted versions of Whit Stillman's party-fied New York.

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For me, it struck a sour note that it was so obviously play-acted.

McNally's nights at the opera 2010

I might give the phenomenon a pass if it turned out that, once they were older, little girls who play-acted at sexy were more comfortable in their skins or more confident in their sexual relationships, if they asked more of their partners or enjoyed greater pleasure.

Cory Silverberg: Media and the Sexualization of Children Cory Silverberg 2010

Summers, play-acted the best he could: "For $300 million to be spent on lobbyists trying to gut serious efforts at financial reform is not how this country should be operating."

Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks? 2009