Sentence examples for conceived action from inspiring English sources

The film gets off on the wrong foot early, with stunts that are as over-the-top-implausible as those in "Knight and Day" and that wrench the story out of the realm of practical espionage and into the cartoonish; even the more cleverly conceived action sequences are filmed without any originality.

Now that it has finally been released, Dragon has proved to be squarely in the adventure genre, although it does follow in the footsteps of adventure classics like Sanitarium and The Last Express, which tossed in a few poorly conceived action sequences.

Properly conceived, action is that which brings projects and worldly events together, for action encompasses not only doing and making but also receiving and enduring.

Although the neoconistas are trying to bait the president to act as imprudently as they did (as Bill Kristol suggested, "oh just bomb a few weeks and see what happens"), it does not seem as if this president will be snookered into rash, unilateral or poorly conceived actions.

One thing we know about discretionary, poorly conceived military action is that getting into such conflicts is always a lot easier than getting out.

Mr. Serban conceived the action as naturalistic mid-20th-century melodrama, somewhere between O'Neill and Edward Albee, enacted under (and sometimes on) the heavily symbolic branches of one all-shadowing tree.

On a shelf sits a gift from a pal who obviously knows him well: it is an elaborately conceived Tom Fontana action figure that comes packaged with a tiny bottle of Wild Turkey, a miniature box of Cohibas cigars and a thumb-size yellow legal pad.

GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY -- I seem to be the only person I know who didn't love the violent, amoral and brilliantly conceived driving action game Grand Theft Auto 3. I also haven't fallen in love with its sequel, Vice City, but I do like the addition of motorcycles and helicopters.

To understand the difference between conceiving all action as economic and conceiving economic action as one type of action within an more encompassing life-world, one might compare Mises with Schutz with reference to a problem raised within contemporary discussions of collective action, namely, how traditional non-economic values (e.g., those of politics or ethics) ought to intersect the market.

Bergson thinks that Kant has confused space and time in a mixture, with the result that we must conceive human action as determined by natural causality.

Action stage A transformation is first conceived as an action, when it is a reaction to stimuli which an individual perceives as external.