The phrase "act thinly" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when this phrase could be used, as it does not have a standard or recognized usage.
Example: "In the meeting, he seemed to act thinly, leaving everyone confused about his intentions."
Alternatives: "appear insubstantial" or "seem superficial".
It remains a rarity, partly because it is hard to find an appropriate companion piece for a one-act thinly veiled satire about Hitler by a composer and a librettist (Petr Kien) whom the Nazis murdered soon after his work was completed.
This idiotic suggestion would leave the EFSF wide-open to the attacks by credit rating agencies who act as thinly veiled proxies for Wall Street and the City of London.
Otherwise, Scott Reeve was an amusing Maximilian; Deborah Darr offered an industriously acted but thinly sung Paquette; Muriel Costa-Greenspon underplayed the comedic potential of the Old Lady, and Jack Harrold and James Billings did their familiar but amusing comic turns throughout.
Rights advocates criticized the prosecution of Mr. Chen's nephew, saying it was rife with irregularities and little more than a thinly concealed act of revenge.
Sometimes it was through deliberate provocation, such as my insistence on trying to include kidnap scenes in all of my films, where at some point the good guys would exclaim "we must free that lady!", a thinly veiled act of resistance which caught on in the industry and became obligatory for many film-makers during Aung San Suu Kyi's imprisonment.
They condemn tradition, history, and memory in the name of the progressive and innovative imperative, but for the past hundred years, their originality has consisted of thinly veiled acts of intellectual copying and often plagiarism from Western minds and the transposing and transplanting of these upon the Muslim native context.
As a traveling salesman of dry goods, Ward had discovered what railroads and the Homestead Act had wrought -- a vast, thinly settled inland empire of lonely farm families.
As all academic disciplines must make some claim to identify change or affirm continuity, the faded remnants of this basic act of history pops up thinly veiled in many templates for scholarship.
The Great Ethiopian Run proved to be fundamentally an act of mass civil disobedience thinly disguised as a running event; and to the great credit and dignity of the runners, there was not a single incident of violence or breach of the peace.
We must also reject Congressional efforts to weaken the Dodd-Frank Act -- most of which are thinly disguised efforts to help the wealthiest people and institutions in our country.
Once I could no longer get away with trick-or-treating, I started marking my calendar in eager anticipation for when thinly applied face paint would act as an excuse to get fucked up on a random weekday.
