The phrase "act of waiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or experience of waiting for something to happen or for someone to arrive.
Example: "The act of waiting for the results was more stressful than I had anticipated."
Alternatives: "process of waiting" or "experience of waiting".
But hating the act of waiting in line and hating the mere existence of lines are two different things.
"Simply because at Cannes, unlike anywhere else, the act of waiting justifies what you are waiting for, and deepens your need to get there.
The play's narrative is defined, as its title promises, by the intransitive act of waiting for someone who is unlikely ever to show up.
While we may not like to admit it, most of us can understand where Bateman and the Sheepshead Bay impostor were coming from — at least with respect to hating the act of waiting in a line.
Above her snubbed nose, black eyes are fixed wistfully on the middle distance – caught, perhaps, in the act of waiting for a young man to ask her to dance.
Since it is a theatrical imperative that playwrights heralding the act of waiting for someone are dealing with the metaphorical, the abstract or simply with a Godot-like being who exists or not, it is no surprise that it is Tadashi who is waiting to find himself and his identity.
As always, the simple and familiar acts of waiting in line, surrendering our tickets, finding our seats, listening to the calm voices of the flight attendants will help reassure us.
It is unfortu nate that Canada felt impelled to act unilaterally, instead of waiting for an international agreement on the wider territorial sea.
It is unclear why Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, chose to act yesterday instead of waiting until the next regular meeting at the end of the month -- whether he knew something about the economy not evident to everyone else.
If we had not been so naïve, we should have prepared earlier and acted earlier instead of waiting and seeing.
The bulldozers cut a swath through historic grounds to destroy evidence of the graves and to stake corporate claim to the land as a preemptory act of violence instead of waiting for a pending court decision.
