Sentence examples for explosive act from inspiring English sources

Ripping that up would be an explosive act.

Ali's refusal, eloquently expressed as ever, was an explosive act of defiance.

The popular mythology around rape is that it is an explosive act of violence that occurs in the manner of a physical seizure, or an unexpected punch.

Some masterpieces are unintentional, the result of a freakish accident or an explosive act of sheer weirdness, and the fence that divides Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico, is one of them.

It is one of many small explosive acts practised here.

But Lautrec was engaged in something more subversive than anarchist propaganda, according to David Sweetman in "Explosive Acts".

The success of No Country for Old Men points to signs that audiences may be more prepared to accept such McCarthyisms as explosive acts of brutal, arbitrary violence that go unpunished – or, more aptly, are unpunishable – in mainstream cinema than ever before.

With a well-timed click of the camera, the explosive acts can come to life and stay crystallized in their most appealing state with no disaster debris to speak of.

The electronic music scene in 2009 that spawned him and other explosive acts like MSTRKRFT with synths that felt like guitars erupting with intense energy, has almost entirely faded away.

In 1875, a less stringent explosives Act was was passed.

Officers said that one of the teenagers was arrested in London on Tuesday on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act, while the other was held in Northumbria on Wednesday on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act.