Sentence examples for essential acts from inspiring English sources

"The details are deliberately quite primitive," says project architect John O'Mara, describing how the material junctions of brick, concrete and oak are simply expressed as "essential acts of assembly", in line with the building's archaic, primal form.

But one of her most essential acts of lawyering came when she patted Mr. Loughner on the back in court last month, leaned in close and whispered in his ear.

This kind of protest song, like Anohni's, is an essential act.

I assure them very firmly that the action that I am taking is an essential act of leadership.

Some Jewish activists see the trial, which is likely to last a day, as an essential act of recognition of a murderous career.

But buying the P.C.N. & R., as the newspaper is known, was more than an anthropological exercise; it was an essential act of local citizenship.

They had four fielding errors and two runners became too distracted to touch home plate, the essential act in this sport.

And yet voting, the essential act, has to be supported by speaking, and by telling the truth about how we got here.

It's an essential act, because a caregiver who burns out, who becomes overly stressed, exhausted or ill, is no help to anyone.

For writers, desks remain nerve centersNthey are the concentrated spaces where the essential act of putting ideas into words takes place, and they wear an aura all their own.

Almost any denomination confronts the question of whether sacred architecture should strive in its simplicity to pare away distractions from the essential act of worship or aspire in its magnificence to convey some sense of divine majesty and mystery.