Sentence examples for bouts of action from inspiring English sources

"Hanna" is an eccentric affair, with abrupt shifts of location and flamboyantly insouciant bouts of action.

King does wonderful scenes, great energetic bouts of action, nicely turned accounts of alchemy, images like the accidental shipboard spilling of a whole collection of horrors, or a ship rebuilt with sandalwood.

Nevertheless, it has engaged in two bouts of industrial action during the lifetime of this Coalition Government – both in protest against cuts to the teachers' pension scheme in 2011.

Backbench rebellions, unrest within the Cabinet, fierce opposition and regular bouts of direct action from the green lobby – the battle to create a third runway and sixth terminal at Heathrow Airport has it all.

Such handouts helped ensure that Niger's food shortages did not cause a full-blown famine earlier this year.Mr Muñoz acknowledges that repeated bouts of emergency action are no way to tackle a recurring problem.

It was a rare clean sheet for the Jets, who were defensively sturdy despite the absence of key players Daniel Mullen and Jason Hoffman and made their case for a first bout of finals action in six seasons.

(Perhaps Kirk's lack of success with the ladies will become a major theme of a third Star Trek reboot; despite his puppyish eagerness, and occasional bout of bedroom action with an alien chick or two, women never seem as keen on him as he is on them).

Sidney J Furie conceives of Palmer's work as largely a trudging matter of desk-work and paper-shuffling, interspersed with frantic bouts of low-tech action.

In George O'Brien's performance, prolonged, paralytic bouts of conflict lead to explosive action — he's like a fullback bursting into the clear.

Set in the West Bank, "Fauda" makes a promise to go beyond the usual ingredients of the thriller series intelligence gathering, interludes of violent action, and bouts of lugubrious reflection and splenetic recrimination.

Rudolph, who wrote the script with the journalist Randy Sue Coburn, anchors the action in bouts of lacerating wit exchanged like blows at the celebrated Algonquin round table, and extracts a full measure of the pain that the verbal combat of brilliant talkers and frustrated writers both conceals and inflicts.