Historical clue formulations

• Like toreadors, again and again — 2021-01-21
• Absurd pretense — 2020-07-26
• Absurd pretense — 2020-04-12
• Bit of acting-out in a parlor game — 2019-11-18
• It's all an act — 2017-10-29
• Going through the motions? — 2012-07-06
• Empty pretense — 2011-04-17
• 1963 Audrey Hepburn thriller — 2010-02-21
• *Total sham [1963] — 2009-11-15
• Blatant deception — 2006-05-11
• Acting out of a phrase — 2005-01-04
• Blatant deception — 2001-02-28
• 1963 Hepburn-Grant film — 1997-10-19
• It may involve finger-pointing — 1997-04-06
• Message in mime — 1995-03-13