Sentence examples for deliberately behaving from inspiring English sources

Several prominent atheists and skeptics have been accused of deliberately behaving like "dicks"; let's face it, calling believers "deluded", as Dawkins famously does, is not exactly diplomatic.

And of course one cannot deliberately forget things, though one can deliberately behave as if one had forgotten, or even as if they had never occurred.

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we're finding out about the phrase 'to give someone the runaround', which means 'to deliberately behave in an unhelpful way'.

Both of them draw a picture of a man who often, deliberately and gleefully, behaved badly: drawing on the faces of his hosts at a fancy restaurant with burned cork, entertaining company naked, making inappropriate statements while giving a funeral eulogy, biting and kissing people as it suited him.

We deliberately choose to behave in certain ways under certain circumstances.

But Whitty worries that the appetite for stories of stars behaving badly could create an atmosphere where awkward interviews are deliberately provoked.

After all, they had been successful with an enacted strategy that one of my colleagues has called the Field of Dreams approach—"If you build it, they will come". Now that the time had come for the company to behave more deliberately, segmentation could be the first priority.

Or behaving.

Actors behave so as to deliberately shape what comes out fictional in the games they play with one another and with salient inanimate bits of the world around them, thereby deliberately orchestrating their own imaginings and those of their fellow players.

For this study with preadolescent children covert bullying is defined as happening when children behave repeatedly with aggression that is deliberately or intentionally hidden from adults, with the intent of causing harm to a victim, who feels hurt, in a relationship that involves an imbalance of power.

"This is partly due to his own limitations as an actor, but partly also to script and direction which, with a quite unscrupulous dishonesty, require him to behave in a blatantly 'guilty' manner in order deliberately to mislead the audience".