Sentence examples for before the last act from inspiring English sources

Lincoln left quietly before the last act and so never witnessed the killing of Riccardo.

Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, came onstage before the last act and announced that the tenor was "not feeling well" but would continue.

After its initial success, the work's fate was sealed in 1936 when Stalin went to see it in Moscow, leaving before the last act.

Oberon remembers a certain identifiable "fair vestal throned by the west" in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the chorus alludes to "our gracious Empress" before the last act of Henry V.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — As is the wont with Hot 97's Summer Jam, an annual reckoning of the hip-hop and R&B pecking order, this year's show at Giants Stadium here on Sunday night essentially came to an end well before the last act finished its set.

("[M]any of the audience left before the last act," when it became "necessary to think of getting home before the [street]cars stopped"). "It must be cut..

You've done spectacle before with the "Pirates" films, but the last act of "The Lone Ranger" takes things to another level, while never becoming confusing or convoluted.

And before the happy ending, the last act switches to a battlefront in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, where the male factory workers, now soldiers, and the female workers, now Red Cross nurses, sing an ardent choral ensemble.

Gopperth raised his arms before it sailed through, the last act of a remarkable game, one so good that it should help winners and losers put themselves back together for their remaining month of the season.

Today's arguments on the relevant points of law bearing on the case were the last act before a verdict, which will probably be issued in the next few weeks.

However, certain general rules have been laid down; if the defendant has committed the last act before completing his offence, it constitutes an attempt, as in R v Jones.