Sentence examples for basically an act from inspiring English sources

For Vice President Al Gore, the second presidential debate was basically an act of contrition, a sustained and sometimes lightly self-mocking acknowledgment of where he had gone wrong the first time around.

You know, the one that thinks that anything that women do is basically an act of being a fame-crazed showy whore.

After all, sorting through our lunch options is basically an act of remembering lots of past experiences.

I explained that my social media image was basically an act, and that it didn't reflect my real-life situation.

It grated when, last fall, Donald Trump tried to get out of paying debts by claiming that the economic meltdown was a "force majeure" — the legal equivalent, basically, of an act of God — and not a logical outcome of a set of observable circumstances.

It is basically an opening act for the main event.

"When they were playing the gigs in Hamburg they were basically a comedy act," Owen said.

As for Eva, she was too politically unsophisticated to know the difference between a commie and a Nazi, as she was basically a lounge act.

Basically, Ryan had an act that played well with Beltway insiders for a little while, but eventually went first stale, then rancid.

If a three-day convention is basically a three-act play, then Eastwood seemed to have wandered in from a completely different production.

But if the same voter were to pull the lever simply because of the candidate's skin color or gender or faith, and without regard to matters of policy, that would, I said, be a quite different act, an act, basically, of tribal loyalty, and it might well deserve the criticism it received.