Sentence examples similar to act of make from inspiring English sources

A pastiche of the Dodgers' former field in Brooklyn pasted onto the façade of a different team's twenty-first-century ballpark in Queens is less a historical tribute than it is an act of make-believe.

To Pynchon, innocence includes a mess of stupid jokes, naïve ideologies, and the act of make-believe, whether in an online city built by the protagonists' sons, or in a novel by a family man on the "Yupper West Side".

That the audience is now closer to the actors — and even more aware of the hoary old tricks used to simulate cinematic scenes of moving trains and cross-country chases — only increases the feeling of complicity in the ridiculous, wondrous act of make-believe that is theater.

Perhaps it is simply that in panto or spaces such as the Globe, where the audience presence is genuinely felt by the actors, those moments when they accidentally break character remind us all that the absurd but moving act of make-believe is a collaborative effort – unpredictable, delicate, messy and very human.

In his article about the architecture of New York's new baseball stadiums, Paul Goldberger writes, "A pastiche of the Dodgers' former field in Brooklyn pasted onto the façade of a different team's twenty-first-century ballpark in Queens is less a historical tribute than it is an act of make-believe" (The Sky Line, March 23rd).

I like the act of making pictures.

The performers sound exhilarated by the act of making music.

The act of making a single phone call requires instantaneous network performance.

There was no overt act of concealment which followed the act of making false statements.

The act of making is optimistic; it's an act of faith.

The act of making gives him much needed balance and perspective.