actorlike
English
Alternative forms
- actor-like
Adjective
actorlike (comparative more actorlike, superlative most actorlike)
- Like or resembling an actor
- 2000, Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, Univ of North Carolina Press →ISBN, page 86
- Oedipus is actorlike in his taking upon himself words and deeds on the behalf of other characters.
- 2002, Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch, New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory, Rowman & Littlefield →ISBN, page 253
- They are thus more actorlike in some respects, but arguably less actors (than their forebears, or peasants) in other respects. In any case they are not plausibly the exaggerated actors marching around the metatheory of actor-centric social science.
- 2012, M. L. Longworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, Penguin →ISBN
- Rodier answered the phone on its first ring, his normally deep, actorlike voice cracking with excitement.
- 2000, Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, Univ of North Carolina Press →ISBN, page 86
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