Sentence examples for with a feigned from inspiring English sources

"Where to?" Sunney Leslie, the man on the bench, asked with a feigned look of wonder.

If that was the case, why did Kidd greet the mass of inquiring humanity at his dressing stall with a feigned smirk?

Ma Ninotte responded, with a feigned rage (for she loved Matador as much as we did), "Get away from my feet, you brats".

"Excuse me," the woman said, "but aren't you the man from 'The World According to Garp'?" "Why, yes," I said, with a feigned modesty I had only recently perfected.

Cooper revealed that Archie — who often served as automatic quarterback so as to mitigate any arguments — was also a fan of the play involving a receiver's sprinting off the line, falling to the ground with a feigned hamstring injury in an effort to trick the defender into easing up, and then miraculously recovering and flying past the unsuspecting rube.

When Roderigo, in the opening episode (set in a gondola), refers to the absent hero as "the thick-lips", we see Iago freeze and then decide to make light of it, burbling parodic raspberries through his own lips and cuffing Roderigo with a feigned jokiness.

He prefers to think that civilization originated with the simulacrum, feigned identity, anonymity with a face, endless flux.

Crucially, the slapstick hasn't been finessed, with badly feigned drubbings and a chase with little sense of escalating madness.

With Tehlirian feigning a form of insanity to a credulous courtroom, the testimony focused largely on Talat's crimes.

With elegantly feigned interest, he asked me what it was that brought an American to Vienna, muttering some rote quip about Freud that was both well-timed and very funny, but whose essential delivery entirely escapes me now.

Right before I came to America for university, my younger brother, a stick of a teenager with a playful grin on his face, looked me in the eye and told me with feigned conviction, "Priscilla, make sure you come back with an American accent".