Sentence examples for action down from inspiring English sources

DeMille relishes the chance to shoot the lavish interior scenes he loved, but he also strips the action down to faces and shadows when need be.

Farce, they say, is speeded-up tragedy; but here the songs both slow the action down and pointlessly adorn Pinero's still-viable, time-proof play.

A log or other piece of timber was laid on the ground or floor, and the carpenter stood astride or on it, swinging the adz in a picklike action down and toward himself.

When a hot tracer round hits a gas canister and it explodes sending Monarch goons flying, the camera lovingly slows the action down and the sound effects become muffled.

Looking up at her long form, as she turns this way and that — she has an interesting, off-center rhythm that slows the action down even as the script and the director want to speed it up — you may mistake the subtlety of her movements for depth, but clouds are surface attractions, and Hall's performance is mostly just that.

Especially during the match-day sequences, director Greg Whiteley knows exactly when to slow the action down, when to cut away to a furious coach or a fretting spectator, when the music should swell with expectation and when it should dissolve away to nothing.

Who wants to see action down low to the left of Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, anyway?

It was a historic day for climate action down under, but it is possible that this infant policy may not get a second birthday.

In another case, sorafenib reduced cortisol and ACTH with modest reduction in calcitonin and CEA, suggesting a selective inhibition of ACTH and cortisol secretion; reduction in POMC mRNA expression through MAPK pathway inhibition, ACTH action down-regulation by downstream signaling pathway inhibition, and adrenal ischemia were postulated [ 10].

In 2008, the peak of the crisis, Finra filed 1,073 disciplinary actions, down from 1,204 two years earlier.

At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Finra filed 1,073 disciplinary actions, down from 1,204 two years before.