Sentence examples for grand action from inspiring English sources
noun
A pianoforte action, used in grand pianos, in which special devices are employed to obtain perfect action of the hammer in striking and leaving the string.
The Downtown Development Authority and Grand Action looked to Boston's Faneuil Hall, the market in Grand Central Station in New York, the Ferry Building in San Francisco, and Detroit's Eastern Market as institutions that encouraged commerce and civic spirit by acting as urban squares.
Every grand action is followed by a great, empurpled outpouring of words.
Most of those exemplary minutes were backloaded, occurring in the course of the grand action finale in Hong Kong (no spoilers here; let's just say, it has to do with magnets), so there are lots of dead stretches to account for — and most of the wonder that the movie packs has little to do with the shape-shifting creatures who are both its heroes and its villains.
A master of grand action, nail biting pace and atmosphere.
We need grand action, not just chatter.
Every grand action of ours begins with a decision.
It reminds me of the Howard Zinn quote: "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.
Cate Blanchett steals this grand, action-packed movie in less than 10 minutes of screen time, as queen of the fairies.
Now he is full of plans, most of them confidential, for more "grand actions," as he calls them.
"What Bernanke has tried to do has been grand actions that have a psychological impact," said Ernest Patrikis, a former general counsel at the New York Federal Reserve, and now a partner at the law firm White & Case.
She remembered discussing "grand actions" with a group of French squatters who had taken over a castle, similar to the recent occupation of a former Qatari general's mansion in London by the squatter collective Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, charmingly known as ANAL.
