Sentence examples for the feigned from inspiring English sources

All the feigned shock and awe about Rafael Palmeiro's steroid use is about as newsworthy as the runaway bride.

We didn't need to be told how to crouch anymore, and we assumed the position with the feigned indifference of blasé veterans.

Many younger teenagers, especially girls, aren't allowed to go into the city on their own, and so one of the great shared traditions among suburban kids is sneaking into New York via the feigned slumber party or skipping school.

The feigned comic suicide of Basil, her sweetheart, now takes on an edge of desperation, and when all is set right, with Kitri's father blessing her and Basil (Mr. Carreño), the festivities roll right into the celebrated grand pas de deux.

But what he did do was to capture the paradoxes of the Occupation, where horror and pleasure coexisted in shockingly close proximity, where the active resistance to Nazi occupation was in fact far less prevalent than the feigned daily oblivion of those who kept their heads down and tried to cope.

And what's even worse than the feigned astonishment we are seeing is this insistence on framing everything as an individual "corruption" scandal.

Overall, nearly 90% of the larvae leaped within the first minute; the remainder feigned death for the full minute.

Noticing the approaching Germans below and behind them, the Spitfires feigned ignorance.

The reporters feigned sensitivity.

The worshippers feigned ignorance.

Mr. Hirsch, flat on his back in the booth, feigned indifference.