Sentence examples for a staged act from inspiring English sources

Many thought this was a staged act to legitimise the presidential – rather than parliamentary – system that President Erdoğan has long been asking for, a change that would give him considerably more power.

As an adopted child-abuse survivor, I identified with the pain I saw on Devonte's face and bristled at what seemed to be a staged act of virtue, a black boy forced by his white adoptive mothers to overcome his fears and offer comfort and hope to white people.

Three days later, Eminem stated it was a staged act that they had planned together.

However, a staged act by a fake Google employee may have dampened the blockade's credibility.

A poll commissioned by the BBC found that one in seven Americans still thinks that 9/11 was a staged act.

To let the film go to premiere with the scene remaining – one that graphically shows a man performing a staged act of torture he would subsequently use on a woman whose life is now irrevocably changed as a result of it – boggles the mind.

The whole meeting was an elaborately staged act of misdirection.

The incident had echoes of a similarly publicly staged act of savagery carried out by the UDA nearby five years ago.

What began as a stage act based on traditional card tricks rapidly devolved into illusions and increasingly daring escapes.

The impetus to find new ways to freshen up a stage act is so strong that the live-album phenomenon isn't limited to grizzled classic-rock veterans.

(The W.W.F. came out of the closet as a stage act long ago, but no one seems to mind; pro wrestling is more profitable than ever).