Sentence examples for Feigned astonishment from inspiring English sources

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Milosevic feigned astonishment: "Me?

When the Ngô brothers confronted Đính with what occurred in Mỹ Tho, Đính feigned astonishment at his deputy's behaviour.

And what's even worse than the feigned astonishment we are seeing is this insistence on framing everything as an individual "corruption" scandal.

I yelled to her, "Great crash!" Her father yelled to her, "Nice one, honey!" Her brother, the nicest one of all of us, immediately stopped running, turned around and scooped his little sister up for a hug and even feigned astonishment at her barely reddened knee.

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He would feign astonishment at Daly's navete about the important things in life -- things like TV theme songs and masturbation.

It is true that we have grown adroit at feigning astonishment at the episodic convulsions of violence in American cities, but that doesn't make them any less predictable or their roots any less apparent.

Feign astonishment for a moment.

Feign astonishment for a moment.

It comes off too frequently as affected; the astonishment is feigned.

When I expressed astonishment at his withholding information about my grandmother's whereabouts, my father feigned ignorance, before telling me that he had probably seen her only about 30 times in his life.

Mr. Melendez feigned shock.

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