Sentence examples for feigning concern from inspiring English sources

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"Oh, honey," Ms. White said, feigning concern and popping another éclair into her mouth.

The owners aren't just feigning concern for their eventual employees, they're not even trying very hard to make it seem sincere.

He simply took another opportunity to stir up resentment towards the most vulnerable while feigning concern and taking no responsibility whatever for the economic situation.

Tanya Watts, Becky Watts' mother He added: "In my judgment the behaviour of both Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare in feigning concern with the family, as the family desperately searched for Becky, is a further, and serious, aggravating feature.

Feigning concern about hidden microphones, he turned my shortwave radio to full volume and, whispering in my ear, launched into an account of a Soviet naval accident in the Black Sea that he said had resulted in many casualties.

Graeme Virtue 9pm, BBC4 After recent traumatic events, Beck isn't sleeping so well, and his boss is feigning concern while harbouring thoughts of getting rid of the old fella.

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These cabbies are a smooth-talking, philosophical bunch, well versed in the art of negotiation and feigned concern.

Like today's celebrity weeklies, "Courtesans" feigned concern and moral acuity (see OK!'s recent description of a Britney Spears meltdown as "heartbreaking") while reveling in the scandal.

"And we're going to go through the same cycles of periodic violence, and the occasional riots in the streets, and everybody will feign concern until it goes away, and then we go about our business as usual".

And we'll go through the same cycle of periodic conflicts between the police and communities, and the occasional riots in the streets, and everybody will feign concern until it goes away, and then we go about our business as usual.

Instead, they feign concern for babies while doing absolutely nothing to help children and everything in their power to make women's lives harder and more dangerous if those women dare to believe that they're entitled to a fulfilling sex life.

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