Sentence examples for act poor from inspiring English sources

But the story itself — a small family of actors in its country home, literally 45 minutes from Broadway, tries to fend off the disapproval of the "normal" daughter (she doesn't act, poor thing) — is cuddly with cliché, farcical but maybe not enough.

My first impression of Bangkok, when I lived here for a stint in the 1990s, was that it looked poor but did not act poor, a colossal failure in urban planning yet a place that managed to remain seductive, remarkably friendly — and safe.

When the lights go down at the end of the first act, poor Hugo looks like he could use a defibrillator.

Under the Act, poor Chris (or Roberto) may recover actual damages resulting from a broken engagement, including the costs of relocating, putting down all of those pricey wedding vendor deposits, and foregone wages or lost business profits readily attributable to the break up.

Study it and consider if you really want to look and act poor.

Emily, telling her mother about the incident says "Wouldn't you think anyone as fortunate as the Conteesa...would be above base motives and acts?" "Poor thing.

Universities should have to provide a response to their NSS results, and say how they will act on poor scores.

This makes the American Health Care Act a poor showpiece, to say the least, for Trump's alleged transformation of the Republican Party into a vehicle for white-working-class assistance.

An act of poor judgment as a young adult, followed by years of law-abiding behavior, can still mean deportation decades later.

Ferrazzi's piano bar showboating was not a random act of poor judgment.

However, we cannot observe the transition emission of Mn ion in this ZnSeMn nanobelt, which confirm that Mn powder act as poor dopant.