Perhaps their stories are an elaborate game to gain my sympathy.

There was no longer any need for Kirov to keep up his act, play the elaborate game.

I'd forgotten how hard it is to look someone in the face without making eye contact, like some elaborate game.

There was a sense in which it still seemed to all of them like some great, elaborate game.

Not of me, exactly, but that this was some elaborate game to hurt him.

Surely you know by now I am not just playing some elaborate game here.

It's all part of a very elaborate game they play.

The situation then was so similar to this one that it seemed all at once like some elaborate game.

The ship passed some of the time by making up elaborate games for the humans to play.

She had never been good at the whole elaborate game of courting.