Sentence examples for feigned from from inspiring English sources

And one can never rule out the look of momentary confusion, sometimes genuine and other times feigned, from the cocktail party guest, hotel clerk or maître'd who doesn't quite grasp that you're together, a couple, a pair.

He recounted a succession of titles the team had won in the past year and then feigned collapse from exhaustion.

John Franco emerged from the athletic trainer's room yesterday, spotted a few reporters who wanted to ask him about his Saturday afternoon fiasco and feigned running from them.

Church in Jamaica, Queens, Mr. Sharpton said that he had only found what he characterized as disturbing signals or feigned indifference from the Gore campaign on racial issues.

"But this occasion, yet again, somebody had feigned injury from Patrick, and had gone over.

Later, MacFarlane addressed both Palin's statement and Friedman's rebuttal in an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher calling Palin's outrage a presumptuous attempt to defend people with Down syndrome, and characterizing Friedman's statement as her way of saying that she does not need feigned pity from Palin.

On 12 June, the former king and his family escaped undetected from their residence by feigning departure from one gate while exiting through another.

Fortunately my canine assailant was being expertly restrained as the camera captured my far from feigned fear.

A few resounding yeses, but also responses ranging from feigned confusion to momentary loss of comprehension ("I don't know what that word means"), to MPs who are feminist, but only certain days of the week.

Shot through the neck, he feigned death and escaped from a burial trench.

One night, just after the Flyers had won the second game, I feigned sleepiness, stood up from my friend's couch and rummaged in my purse for my car keys.