Synonyms: forgery, counterfeit, copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction, lookalike, likeness, charlatan, quack, mountebank, humbug, impostor, pretender, masquerader, hoodwinker, hoaxer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, dissembler, trickster, confidence trickster, fraudster, forged, fraudulent, false, bogus, spurious, pseudo, artificial, synthetic, simulated, replica, ersatz, plastic, man-made, mock, so-called, feigned, faked, put-on, assumed, improvised, invented, affected, insincere, unconvincing, forge, falsify, feign, mock up, reproduce, replicate, pretend, simulate, put on, make-believe, affect
Antonyms: genuine, authentic, true, real, sincere, honest, actual, legitimate, veritable, natural, heartfelt, candid, bona fide, frank, truthful, unfeigned, straightforward, unaffected, valid, factual, original, open, literal, artless, pure, proper
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Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... . I'll fix your roof. JOASH: But you'll need Time to gain your strength back. HARETH: I'm stronger now than I was before my fall. I'll fix your roof. JOASH: Well, thanks. That's great. HARETH: It's the least I can do for a man that "opened up" his home to me. (THEY BOTH LAUGH AND HUG) JESUS: You see, Joash, everything can be healed.
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
... 6:52, 7:43, and 10:19. So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened." He said, "He is a prophet."17 "The crowds were saying, 'This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee'" (Matthew 21:11). For other ... where I am going'" (John 8:14). The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.30 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will." ...
Drama
... same set throughout, but substitute a bed with a lower end during the first blackout. Lighting is very useful for this sketch and proper use of it will make the production realistic and effective. The play is also good for reading and discussing in a group. Open on a man, asleep on a bed, on top of the covers, fully clothed. After a few seconds, the man wakens, stretches, moves around on the bed, swings himself into a sitting position, and goes through a brief wake up routine. He then stands and stretches ...
4. Adam And Eve And God
Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24
Drama
Jerry Eckert
... does not crumble. God smiles. He pinches the nostrils of the figure and blows into its mouth. He lets go and the man's eyes open. God steps over to him and embraces him. "Adam," God says. In modern Hebrew, that means "human being." The hug feels good to the man ... to go get something to drink. The curtain falls as we close our eyes and bow our heads. Act three, the curtain and our eyes open as we raise our heads. We have before us the garden's center. But no one is around. Even the animals don't want to ...
5. Yeah, Merry Christmas
Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20
Drama
Dave Marsh
... s 11:30. No, wait, my watch is on upside down. It’s 5:00am! Back to bed everyone! Kids: No. come on. Can’t we open the presents now. It’s Christmas after all. Don’t be a grinch, etc... Mom: (To Dad) Bah humbug! It is Christmas after all. Dad: (softly ... Stares at Mom and then at the gifts) These are your kids you know. My kids would never do this. Mom: Whatever you say dear. Now open your present. Dad: Okay. Let’s see. I wonder what you got me. Not too heavy. Let’s see, it’s…a…tie. Mom: Do you ...
6. Jesus Heals The Blind Man
John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
... perform such signs?" And they were divided. So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened." He said, 4: "He is a prophet." 1: The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and he had received his sight until they ... this is our son, and that he was born blind; but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself." 1: His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
... bury him? MARY: Yes, Lord. We’ve had the service in the church. There’s nothing left now but the graveside. It’s almost over. I can’t believe it’s almost over. JESUS: [At the casket] Oh, sin, what have you done to my Father’s world? You’ve opened the door for death, and now he walks among us, the uninvited guest, who asserts his power over us and evicts us from our homes. Nothing was made for him, and yet he claims everything for his own. Not even the holy circle of love can keep him out. Oh ...
Drama
Karren Boehr
... Christian thinks six months later is soon enough to pay up. You couldn't get that man's little toenail in through that door. And the gossiping, the back-biting, the bickering. It's what life is made of. Oh, I love it! (Gets up and swings the door open and shut several times as he talks) Oh, there might be an interested soul or two that will stick around when all this "get new members" hoopla is over, but I'm not looking for anything big. (Suddenly notices WOMAN on her knees in prayer) Whoa, what have we ...
9. The Glory Of The Lord
Matthew 25:31-46
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. FIRST MAN: After this, I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: SECOND MAN: Come up here, and I will show ... of the saints. And they sang a new song: FOUR CREATURES AND TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation ...
Drama
Arlys M. Winkler
... 't worry. I don't want to expose you to the law, so I will divorce you quietly. (JOSEPH exits.) MARY: (Calls after him) Joseph, please, don't leave. (She slumps down on a stool, sobbing.) (Curtain closes.) Act IV Anne and Joachim's house (Curtain opens. MARY is sitting alone at her parents' table. JOSEPH enters.) JOSEPH: Mary. MARY: (Looks up, startled) Joseph? JOSEPH: (Goes to her and kneels in front of her) Mary, can you ever forgive me? MARY: (Takes his head in her hands) There's nothing to forgive. But ...
Drama
Matthew Powell
... Suddenly there was a crack. (Stamps his/her foot) Then he felt something pulling and tearing at his feet. He plunged down and down and down. (Willibald groans loudly) He heard a well-known voice, Wife: What's the matter? What's wrong, for heaven's sake? Storyteller: He opened his eyes. He was in his own warm bed, in his own room. Beside him stood his wife, shaking him by the shoulder. It was clear to him that he was being awakened from a deep dream. Wife: What's the matter with you, you silly fool? You were ...
Drama
Matthew Powell
... cup of some kind. He held it up to the light and then his strained nerves gave way. (Will utters a sharp, painful exclamation) Narrator 2: It was the silver mug he used to drink from when he was a little boy. (Mother enters) Narrator 1: The door opened, and a woman stood in the doorway facing him. The light from the hall streamed in upon him, but she was not afraid. Mother: Willie, Willie! Is that you? Narrator 2: He struggled to loosen her arms from him, to keep her lips from his cheek. Will: Mother - you ...
13. A Blind Man Sees
John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... . DOG: Woof. I hate division. I rather like addition and subtraction though. PHARISEE: What do you have to say? It was your eyes He opened. MAN: He is a prophet. DOG: Woof. I'll go along with that. NARRATOR: And the Pharisees still did not believe that the man had ... if He's a sinner or not, but I do know I was blind but now I see. PHARISEE: What did Jesus do to you? How did He open your eyes? MAN: I've already told you but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become His disciples ...
Drama
Donald Neidigk
... This is my blood shed for the forgiveness of your sins." How strange were those words. What could they mean? Moments passed. The door opened. Had I been discovered as an eavesdropper? In the dim light the one they call Judas hurried down the stairs. I pressed up ... 't have to come all the way to Jerusalem to see a house given to Jesus. You can give him your own house. Whenever you open your home to others in the name of Jesus; whenever you share with them the good news of Jesus' love, of his body broken, of ...
Drama
Timothy W. Ayers
... for us to finally get out all the hostility between us. I'm coming over tomorrow morning. And this time, let me get a few words in edgewise. beep Message 4: (Soft, soothing male voice) Bad day, huh? Listen, I left a gift for you. It's on the chair. Open it up to the bookmark. (Pause) Girl: What, who is this? How did someone get in? How did he know I was having a bad time of it? Message 4: (Continues) Let's just say, I've been watching and I wanted to let you know I care. Bye. Girl ...
Drama
Edward Long
... the door. Johnny rings the bells hanging there. Soon a man in a logger's shirt, leather pants, and tall black boots opens the door. He is a jolly looking man - with his beard and stoc_esermonsking cap he looks like Paul Bunyan ... NICK: Well, (Laughs ... got it. (Touches her hand.) I guess we've got so much in our lives ... (After a moment.) There's an envelope in mine. (Reads after opening it.) Peace and good will to the Apple family. Mr. Apple, be of good cheer for a job better than any you've looked at will ...
Drama
Curt M. Joseph
... Let us in. Hurry, let us in. Thomas: (He goes over to the door.) How can I be sure it’s you? Peter: Come on, just open the door. Thomas: No, no, not unless I am sure it’s you. Peter: How are you going to be sure? Thomas: I know, you ... the password, and then we can give it to you and then you can let us in. Thomas: (He goes to the door, reaches out to open it, and stops suddenly.) Pretty tricky. Thought you would get me. I know; you have to answer the following questions. First, which one of the apostles ...
18. The Resurrection
John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9
Drama
Jerry Eckert
... here. Another of the soldiers is stirring. He still looks a little groggy. Officer 2: Oh, my head. What's happening? Field Announcer: Do you know where we are? Officer 2: The garden tomb. (Officer 2 looks around and "sees" that the stone is rolled away and the tomb is open.) Is he gone? Is he really raised from the dead? Field Announcer: I can't tell you. When I arrived, the stone was where it is now. I haven't looked in but your commander did and he said the body was gone. He thinks the friends of the ...
Drama
Edward Long
... Lights Down) NARRATOR: It is now nearly midnight and it is dark in Laura's room, as she prepares to retire. The maid is turning down the bedcovers. (Lights partway up) LAURA: Good night, Mrs. Smith. (She turns toward the bed. Then remembers the package; she opens it curiously) A rag doll? (Incredulous, she laughs. then throws down the doll) What on earth! (Seems to have second thoughts; picks up the fallen doll and tenderly holds it for a while). Mr. McKenzie's a strange old duck (Puts doll on a chair) old ...
Drama
... tire of the hearing just as you never tire of the telling. BISHOP: I was curé of Brignolles at the time. I had gone to Paris on some business to do with my curacy, and I was waiting in the ante-chamber of Cardinal Fesch. Suddenly the door burst open, and in walked the Emperor Napoleon himself. He, too, had business with the cardinal. I stood up and found myself staring at him in spite of myself. He was short of stature. He had dark, piercing eyes. He stood before me and said, "Who is this good man who ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... though it stung, the next time you fell you wanted it put on your cut again. That’s how it is on the other side of the colored glass. Each time a pain is encountered, each moment a human sore is shared with another person and healing occurs, that open sore becomes a mark of beauty, like the red color that fascinated you. [pause] Can you begin to feel the good news that radiates from a polished cross that once was an instrument of death? Son: It’s almost too much. You have left me standing here between ...
Drama
Jon Joyce
... used to age Herod, if necessary, as noted under "Costumes." Other than that, no particular make-up is required. Directions The drama opens with the excited voices of two women reading either offstage or from a microphone as the audience sees simply the empty set ... fate. It is sealed by the will of God. What must be done will be done. But I pray the Father for you that he will open your hardness of heart and you will come to believe what I have just told you. HEROD: Nonsense. JESUS: It is the only way to have ...
23. Airmail
Luke 3:1-20
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... 'll make it right. (READING) Good. You've made a decision to live as a servant of God. Now do it in the power of God that you have available to you. (TALKING TO THE LETTER) I know, don't tell me. Read my Bible, right? And pray, right? And open myself up to my Christian friends and care for them. Right? Right? Right? (READING) Now you are on the right track. Stick close to God. He has always been near you. (TALKING TO LETTER) God has always been close to me. I just didn't realize it. How close has ...
Drama
Dann J. Ettner
... to the cross which He had come tobear. P: As we stand in the shadow of the cross we need to look aswell at the open tomb. C: For in the open tomb is the promise of life. P: Help us to see past any lies which human reason and pridewants to teach. C: Teach us, O ... being from heaven had come down and rolled awaythe stone. At the same time we had to do something because thetomb was open, the body was not there, and we would be heldresponsible and punished, possibly even killed, for our failure. We knew that the ...
Drama
Dann J. Ettner
... moment the curtain of thetemple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook andthe rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy peoplewho had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, andafter Jesus' resurrection ... grave guards, All used by God above. 2. With a shout He gave His spirit; Into death to set us free. The earth shook and graves did open All to speak of His vict'ry. "Surely He was the Son of God!" The cen-tur-i-on declared. Seeing His innocent blood shed; Which ...
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