The phrase "acting straight" is a grammatically correct and commonly used construction in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is pretending to be heterosexual, or to conform to societal norms of traditional gender roles. Example: "Despite being gay, John felt pressure from his family and coworkers to keep up appearances by acting straight in public."
We want them to get acting straight away... get on with it now.
It was weird at first as I'd not been there for three years, so I had to remember the thing about acting straight down the camera – I was quite rusty in terms of the tone.
Game Informer cited the low number of background tracks and voice acting "straight out of a renaissance festival" as poorer parts of the game.
For 32 years I have been rewarded for looking straight, acting straight, being white, being middle-class: money in my pocket, nights at hotels for my nonprofit job, and plenty of time to fine-tune all my big ideas.
His performance earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, and in a retrospective review from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com referred to it as Khan's best performance, saying "He is spontaneous, vulnerable, boyish, mischievous and acting straight from the heart".
We should not hide in our houses, we should not skip the parade, we should not avoid the clubs, we should not stop public displays of (queer) affection, we should not go back to acting straight or wearing "normal" clothes, we should not give up on pride.
After all, a few hours before his death, during the drive to the shooting range with Routh, Kyle texted Littlefield that Routh was acting "straight-up nuts".
As a performer, he was far less camp than Williams, and was thus able to take on a greater variety of parts, often playing exasperated officials, or acting as straight man on television to comedians such as Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Tarbuck and Morecambe and Wise.
At his age, following the "bro" code typically means acting as straight and narrow as possible.
He had proved himself a corporate team player by acting as straight man to a puppet on "The Morning Show" and covering the 1960 Winter Olympics along with weightier responsibilities reporting on political conventions and space flights.
We see the world through the eyes of (among others) variously cultured tourists, tour guides, exiles, geriatrics, carers, prisoners, fathers, mothers, truckers, long-term lesbian couples, queer boys, straight boys, queer-acting straight boys, born-again junkies and a self-loathing fundamentalist.
