The phrase "as a second act of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a subsequent action or event that follows a first act, often in a narrative or descriptive context.
Example: "The artist's latest exhibition serves as a second act of her exploration into the themes of identity and transformation."
Alternatives: "as a follow-up to" or "as a subsequent action of".
And some now regard what has happened since that awful day as a second act of divine intervention.
Seeing this as a second act of defiance, Terlecki, Młynarczyk, Boniek and Żmuda were promptly sent home by the PZPN, escorted by General Marian Ryba of the Polish Army, who was also the football association president.
As a first act of revenge, he ordered the pre-dawn hanging on Wednesday morning of a man and a woman who had each been condemned to death for terrorist acts in Jordan years ago.
"In several of the cases, officers escalated to force too quickly in many instances as a first act of physical force in response to verbal resistance," Eure writes, calling officers' tendency to use a choke hold "alarming".
"While the substantiated use of prohibited chokeholds by members of the NYPD in any context is troubling, the fact that several of the subject officers in the 10 cases reviewed by OIG-NYPD used chokeholds as a first act of physical force and in response to mere verbal confrontation is particularly alarming," the report stated.
O'Nan imagines the last three years of Fitzgerald's life, from 1937 to 1940, less as a second act than an intermission; a moment of uncertainty, in which the familiar scenery disappeared.
But in Chicago his renown as a playwright came as the second act of an already established career as a performer.
"As a first act, one of the executive orders I will carry out in the first day is one saying that on federal projects, union or nonunion can work, not just union," Mr. Romney told workers in Charlotte, N.C., in May.
The opera composer in me recognizes that as being one hell of a second act curtain.
Her encore was "Träume" from Wagner's "Wesendonck Lieder," which can be heard as a sketch for the second act of "Tristan und Isolde" but also as a thing of beauty itself.
As the first act of a body, the soul is, like all act, ontologically simple, undivided, and un-composed.
