The phrase "acting large" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered informal or unclear.
It can be used to describe someone who is behaving in a grandiose or exaggerated manner, often to impress others.
Example: "At the party, he was acting large, trying to show off his wealth and connections."
Alternatives: "putting on airs" or "showing off".
There don't seem to be any adults at the top — nobody acting larger than the moment, nobody being impelled by anything deeper than the last news cycle.
This is defined as "something in the [person] that manifests by acting larger than life, constantly aiming to please, and demonstrating a greater air of competency and maturation".
The reef's mellow breakers are excellent for learners, which unfortunately meant smiling novices would often drop in on my wave and fall off, their longboards acting like large, heavy missiles.
These findings support the hypothesis that a driver input, acting through large boutons, conveys essential, raw information with maximal impact reflected as large EPSPs.
The paper also discusses characteristic extreme values of slightly nonlinear loads acting on large floating structures.
Loads acting on large floating structures usually consist of high-frequency and low-frequency loads.
His has compartments for dancing and acting, a large drawer for skating, even empty drawers waiting to be filled.
But, acting in large part because of lawsuits brought by female employees, investment banks and brokerage firms are taking the lead in cracking down on the practice.
Numerical experiments on decaying incompressible 2D turbulence illustrate the efficiency of the method, and in particular the fact that the diffusion stops acting in large coherent eddies.
Our results showed that variables acting at large scales represent an essential factor influencing predatory beetle assemblage and they validate the importance of conserving non-crop areas and landscape heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes.
