Sentence examples for brief acts from inspiring English sources

The act of donning a costume becomes a silent farce in three brief acts.

There is a clever economy to the four brief acts of "Francesca," with a dramatic ebb and flow that potentially could keep you on your toes — assuming that you can stomach the girlish tittering and flouncing and bellicose roaring that pad the scenes in alternation.

But whereas Sherriff perhaps made the wiser decision to write a traditional drama, O'Casey -- in four (brief) acts -- preferred to achieve his angry ends through shifting theatrical tones.

It is a brief act of physical heroism, with a note of defiance.

Mr. Gilhooley and Mr. Czitrom show restraint in confining the terrible events of March 25 , 1911 to a brief Act I scene and the recurring monologues.

That brief act of solidarity did not diminish the hostility felt between the sides and when Juventus's team bus arrived at their hotel in Naples on Saturday it was greeted by an angry mob.

It's a sort of vast and visually overwhelming nature documentary, albeit with brief acted sequences, and, as such, it's an easy film to parody and to mock say, as the Terrence Malick Science-Wonder Visual Encyclopedia, or "The Tree of Life" with the funny bits cut out.

These results suggest that a brief ACT-based intervention may be efficacious in treating the psychological challenges of parents of children with autism.

The study aims to determine feasibility and effectiveness of brief ACT for persistent pain delivered by an integrated behavioral health clinician in primary care from pre- to post-treatment, and to examine mechanisms of change in ACT participants.

In that one brief act of bored impatience, Bush revealed his disdain for the election, and therefore for his audience.

Approximately 168 patients will be recruited from an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation unit and randomly assigned to receive usual care or usual care + a brief ACT-based intervention.