Sentence examples for act worth from inspiring English sources

The only Dream Act worth passing is simple.

With all that, Murphy can't act worth a damn.

And it's a great act, worth about $75 million a year to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives the awards.

It might not be for you if … You tend to see this band as more of a self-referential indie-music punchline than an act worth exploring.

And if a student wants to try the stage, even if she can't act worth a darn, or chirp along with the choir, aren't parents paying for the privilege?

Representative James E. Clyburn, the No. 3 House Democrat, said Monday that "articulating the constitutional principles" on which the country was founded and "calling for tolerance on the part of all of its people" were part of "a presidential act worth exercising".

Showcasing the best in contemporary music, here are some of this year's acts worth your attention.

He spent the following year working on Act 2, and by 1984, Mr. Holmes had three acts worth of material at his disposal.

But like the twisting journey of its missionaries in AIDS-riddled Africa, the eight-year path to success had two acts' worth of dramatic moments: creative challenges, critical business decisions and a few castoffs.

Noting that one of the themes dominating this year's Iceland Airwaves festival is Icelandic hip-hop, an article in the Reykjavik Grapevine, amusingly titled Get Rich or Freeze Tryin, lists some of the acts worth looking out for.

Rather than a full-scale operatic piece, Britten, working at almost feverish intensity, compresses five acts' worth of the fated anti-heroine Phaedra's agony and catharsis into just 15 excoriating minutes of three arias and two recitatives.