Sentence examples for action is playing from inspiring English sources

It's as if Schwartz realizes that Julian's desire to be a man of action is playing itself out in different terms, that he is learning to find purpose in everyday reality rather than in some romantic, idealized vision.

You really, really liked it!" Meanwhile, anyone with a brain and a hankering for some multi-player FPS action is playing Team Fortress 2. That, or Quake III Arena.

Parenthetically, it may be that the shift to glycolysis expected with HIF action is playing a role in preserving glucose utilization in these segments of underperfused heart.

The action is played against a curved wall of tangled trees and gray skies.

And most of the action is played on an apron of planks that extend from the stage, which brings the singers into exciting proximity.

Patriotism and the prospect of getting a chance to go to Iraq, where the action is, played a role in their decisions to enlist, the recruits said.

So, too, does the roughly chalked, child's-eye map on the stage of the small town where the action is played out.

While the action is played to the house, it is on stage these finer details can shine and in looking out into a sea of hundreds of faces the true epic scale of these stories can be discerned.

Dacre's production, which will travel to Salisbury Cathedral, and then Shakespeare's Globe in London later in the summer, uses the church setting to fine effect: the main action is played in the nave, with battles pitched in cruciform arrangements.

For another, when the action is played for laughs (as it is in the initial confrontation between Thor and the Hulk), it can be both satisfying and funny.

Although most of the action is played realistically, two sex scenes are conducted in silhouette behind a screen, a jarringly stagy choice that dissipates all tension.