Sentence examples similar to act of fly from inspiring English sources

The Oculus also completely separates your visual attention from the act of flying the ship, allowing you to independently track other craft and obstacles while flying by intuition.

Lodge renders the act of flying so poetically – the rhythmic rising and falling of aircraft; the unique blend of anxiety, exhilaration and sangfroid exuded by passengers; the intricate latticing of the atmosphere by innumerable contrails – that it comes to seem almost an art.

In recent years, various studies have looked at whether air travel itself is a significant risk factor in D.V.T. Russell Rayman, executive director for the Aerospace Medical Association in Virginia, said most concluded that prolonged immobility, not the act of flying itself, was the primary contributing factor.

Groups such as the Anarchist Federation (Afed) and Solidarity Federation (Solfed), which constitute a majority of the scene in the UK are involved in open, public-facing, class-based community work handing out leaflets, helping workers who go on strike, that kind of thing rather than acts of fly-by night vandalism.

The relationships among the characters could be more crisply defined, and the second act of "Come Fly With Me," in which nightclub and bedroom merge, could use some sharpening.

The second act of "Stick Fly," Lydia R. Diamond's meaty soap opera about an affluent black family, begins with its youngest character, 18-year-old Cheryl, the daughter of the family's maid, on the phone in the family's well-appointed kitchen.

And high on the list of this year's joys are the graceful, sultry and amazing tango-spiced acrobatics of Sophie and Virgile in a most welcome return to the Big Apple; the soaring "Fireworks Over the Skyline" trapeze act of the Flying Pages; the tennis racket juggling of Serge Percelly; and the daring gymnastics of Yuri Slipchenko and the Slipchenko Trio.

Importantly, small forest fragments act as reservoirs of fly taxonomic diversity, but for some fly functional groups (pollinators and predators), small forest fragments and their edges have lower functional redundancy than larger forest patches and their edges.

The apparently simple act of a bird flying from a tree to the ground illustrates the complexity of directional control.

In 2012, Joshua Oppenheimer jolted the nonfiction film world with "The Act of Killing," a fly-on-the-wall account of the perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide as they stage re-enactments of their horrific crimes.

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