Word: feignedly
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...rate science education makes little headway when the artsy-tartsy group controls many deaneries. When will some members of the academic establishment recognize that sophisticated, detailed work in the sciences is an essential part of a liberal education? But of course, teachers in the sciences do not have to feign frenzy to stir up interest; science is interesting for its own sake. It seems clear that large segments of the humanities can be made interesting to undergraduates only if actors, not scholars, strut on the platform in front of students...
...doubt the lassitude that overhung much of the show last night was temporary and correctible. Actors can be encouraged to deliver their lines with more conviction, members of the chorus told to feign interest in what they're singing, light and curtain cues picked up, the entire show made faster, snappier. The audience last night wasn't the sort that can energize a cast; it had, after all, passed up both "a tragedy of sex" and an original play for adults only in order to see a 20-year-old musical comedy...
...RUNNING MAN. With Britain's Sir Carol Reed (The Third Man) deftly applying each turn of the screw, Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey sweat it out as a couple who feign death (his) and grief (hers), then flee to Spain with the insurance money...
...supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different roles and not know it is the same woman. Even though she will feign annoyance with movie directors for "shooting me from my barracuda side," she seems to have no real vanity about her appearance, willingly adopting whatever face best fits a role. But she admits that she "en joyed being glamorous" in Sweet Bird of Youth, and in the early acts of Strange Interlude...
...Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends when he wants to feign emotionalism...