Sentence examples similar to a feigned effort from inspiring English sources

Some of the concertgoers were able to escape through a side entrance, and dozens took refuge on the building's roof, while others hid or feigned death in an effort to avoid the attention of the gunmen.

All of these rules, of course, are really just a human effort to feign control over the uncontrollable.

One feigned a panic attack at Starbucks.

For a while, she feigned sleep.

"Omni!" Lee feigned a loss of interest.

Ms. Thompson, a Bruce Springsteen fan, feigned enthusiasm.

Ms. Bonnefond feigned a cough; everyone laughed.

During the evening, Mary feigned a headache and asked to go upstairs and rest.

She feigned a pout.

"We feigned a normal life.

Aciman cites Madame de Lafayette's "Princesse de Clèves," which was particularly dear to him; in it, a woman who wishes to regain her lover doesn't merely feign indifference, but feigns an effort to mask her feigned indifference.