Sentence examples for feigned enthusiasm from inspiring English sources

Some of our party, good sports, feigned enthusiasm.

Ms. Thompson, a Bruce Springsteen fan, feigned enthusiasm.

Suzanne's treatment of her co-worker vacillates between coolness and feigned enthusiasm.

While prosecutors portrayed Mr. Kadir as an eager participant in the plot, he testified that he had feigned enthusiasm.

Tory MP Greg Barker told an audience in London on Tuesday that large energy companies had feigned enthusiasm but never seriously tried to sell the green deal to consumers.

In his gibe, Caragiale feigned enthusiasm about the young writer's debut.

"Maybe we could crush them up and use them for texture," she said, feigning enthusiasm.

"Moody dutifully slogs through the dreary early stuff, and explains it as best he's able, but he seldom feigns enthusiasm.

Perhaps you will feel pressure to feign enthusiasm for her charity; perhaps you'll feel the need to aggressively justify why you're choosing not to give; perhaps you will just wordlessly write a check.

The trade was so under wraps that Burke himself didn't discover he was Utah-bound until he was halfway through a live ESPN Radio interview in which he was attempting, unsuccessfully, to feign enthusiasm about playing for the T-Wolves.

The hype around "Drive" came from culture-industry people -- accustomed to feigning enthusiasm about the prospects of predigested, line-toeing, seemingly tube-grown actor units with lifeguardish names like Channing and Bradley and Taylor -- getting authentically excited about Gosling jumping to the A-list.