There might have been some playacting in it; Tom could not tell.

Modo had dressed up in similar costumes while playacting with Mrs. Finchley.

And he had loved playacting -couldthat have been lost as well?

Did your little playacting make you wish it could be real?'

It is all a kind of playacting, which they perform with remarkable skill.

Dr. Whittaker looked weary, but Anders wasn't sure that he wasn't playacting at remorse.

I'll play my part. Never being sure what was real and what was playacting.

Maybe because-couldit be that the whole thing is just playacting on my part?

He was playacting, so Jane relaxed, content that he wouldn't be scarred for life.

Not until he gets past this playacting foolishness and marries.

That's going a bit far for playacting, isn't it?

Is this the end, I wondered, playacting to myself?

Hecht saw nothing to suggest that anyone considered this playacting for the benefit of the Empress.

You will continue the playacting until the end.

To the Auld Licht of the past there were three degrees of damnation-auldkirk, playacting, chapel.

In fact, it occurred to him that the time for his playacting as a deity was past.