Sentence examples for act curiously from inspiring English sources

"A good part of that was the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act". Curiously, these districts, which some say have aided conservative whites, may be overturned by conservatives on the Supreme Court.

Tom Hooper's monarch-ish drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stammer on the eve of the second world war is a deftly shot, beautifully acted, curiously moving tub-thumper buoyed by a classy bromance.

Hooper's film is beautifully acted and curiously heartfelt.

In this context, Cary Grant, now in his 66th year and still slim, buoyant and project ing the manner of humorous intelligence that marked every role he ever acted, looked curiously lictional, much less real, much less total and complete, than he did in the marvelous montage of film clips that accompanied him to the podium.

Much literature concerned with speech acts is curiously disconnected from research in the semantics of natural language emphasizing pragmatic factors.

Similarly, the pay struggle that saw Kroll stand as a Women's Rights candidate in the 1974 general election led to the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act, but our curiously elastic gender pay gap is now widening again.

The Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act was a curiously skimpy bill that targeted only oil companies, and just the five richest of them at that.

Both possess the ability to make random acts of violence curiously attractive.

The transcription factor itself is not cleaved by caspases, but curiously acts as caspase inhibitor upon phosphorylation.15 Threonine phosphorylation of C/EBPβ within a KTVD sequence creates a noncleavable mimic of an XEXD cleavage site, which binds caspases and thereby inhibits caspase action.

This collective retweeting of information is a curiously benign act that can have far-reaching consequences.

A ravishing orchestral intermezzo in Act III served as curiously luxuriant accompaniment for the clearing of dinner tables.