Sentence examples for action is like from inspiring English sources

"Deferred action is like a Band-Aid," she said.

Action is like a film being run backwards.

For animators, turning to live action is like driving stick shift in Britain: familiar yet disconcertingly strange.

"To see DeGeneres in action is like watching a kite launched in a summer breeze: how light and charming," wrote People magazine's Tom Gliatto.

The nostalgia for realistic action is, like most nostalgia, a yearning for a time when fewer questions were asked, fewer assumptions were troubled — for the so-called realism that served as an escape from the actual complexities of reality.

As Amis puts it in Experience: "Auschwitz-Birkenau, where ideology becomes action, is like a formal dystopia dramatising the mind of the babbler, the monologuist, the man on the milk-crate with the flickering eyes".

He didn't say it but his actions were like; "I'm going to break you down and you will have nobody to trust but me".

Mohagher Iqbal, chairman of the rebel panel, said the government's action was "like changing the rules in the middle of the game".

Justice Jackson wrote that validating such an action was like leaving behind a "loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need".

Sir John suggested the government's action was like "shutting the stable door after the arms have bolted".

"Each one of these actions is like the Chinese water torture, individually," he said.