Sentence examples for act of type from inspiring English sources

The specific history lived by Aborigines in relation to photography ends up being conflated with a generic otherness, leaving us with an academic version of Barnum & Bailey's Great Ethnological Congress of the 1880's, in which native peoples from around the world were presented as a circus act of "type specimens".

But the grand mystery of computerkind makes the act of typing somehow more remarkable to her.

Even the act of typing "amuse bouche" makes me queasy, but this one was magnificent enough to ­justify attempted manslaughter.

Given the mechanical action of the keys on manual machines, the act of typing "requires a movement of the whole arm," he said.

But last week, as she packed up her belongings, she took a few moments to describe how she had once performed a life-changing act of typing.

The act of typing effectively turns the note-taker into a transcription zombie, while the imperfect recordings of the pencil-pusher reflect and excite a process of integration, creating more textured and effective modes of recall.

The act of typing is an intellectual one and creates a distance on the part of the viewer: social media lets us pretend we're not wallowing in low culture.

Library catalogues are peculiarly unhelpful in that they do not often distinguish between a novel and a collection of stories; still, the act of typing "and other stories" into the catalogues of the British Library and the London Library produced an immense number of interesting volumes by authors I knew of, as well as those I did not.

She is one of a rotating cast of images that are supposed to say something about Yahoo, images of fun, perky people, whose presence is perhaps supposed to distract from the mundane act of typing your password for the umpteenth time each day.

For example, Tom Hanks' well-built Hanx Writer typewriter app, which mimics the act of typing on old-school clickity-clack machines, shot up to the top of the App Store shortly after its launch in August.

Other, more practical acts of typing nonconformity followed: Occupy Wall Street protestors in Portland, Oregon, conducted type-ins once their power had been cut off by the local authorities.