Sentence examples for an extended act from inspiring English sources

There are elaborate ensembles, including an extended Act II finale for soloists and chorus, rousing music of almost Verdian grandeur.

Does Scruton see all his own subsequent work, I wonder, his delight in the squirearchy, as an extended act of rebellion?

"The Double Life Is Twice as Good," his new collection of journalism, essays and stories, is the latest installment in a career, now entering its third decade, that has unfurled as an extended act of self-documentation.

There is no feeling of easy flow, no attempt to disguise the fact that this has been a laborious build up of paint, an extended act of raw application of crude colour.

Then, in an extended act of figuration worthy of John Donne, Amichai reflects that the pressure of his life has brought his date of birth closer to the date of his death, "as in history books / where the pressure of history has brought / those two numbers together next to the name of a dead king / with only a hyphen between them".

The story told by "Sacred Trash" is both lively and elevating; it is best read as an extended act of celebration of Cairo's historical Jewish community, their documents and their documents' 20th-century students (though the authors also find space to relate the less creditable activities of the storeroom's plunderers, pillagers and looters).

A high point comes in an extended number in Act 2 — perhaps the opera's finest piece — when the two tenors repeatedly trade high C's.

The film is nearly two hours long, yet the set-up is dispensed with in the first twenty-minutes or so, leaving an extended middle act of episodic incident and an entire last act that is one false ending after another.

He says nothing in an ordinary way; everything has a dreamlike smoothness, born out of his extended act of retrieval and the remembered violence of emotion and inconstancy.

It's true not only of Mrs. Madrigal but also of Michael, who at 62 has enjoyed an extended second act thanks to the AIDS cocktail, and Mary Ann, on the other side of cancer surgery.

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