Every grand action is followed by a great, empurpled outpouring of words.
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.
The young John Broadwood, along with the Dutch-born Americus Backers, is credited with developing the mechanism known as the "English grand action". This mechanism, like its rival "German" or "Viennese" action, was a simplification of the Cristofori action; it was more powerful, offering a bigger, richer sound than the German action, but was heavier and less responsive to the touch.
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.
You're thinking that you should be putting together some grand action plan or mapping your next steps.
Now he is full of plans, most of them confidential, for more "grand actions," as he calls them.
Cate Blanchett steals this grand, action-packed movie in less than 10 minutes of screen time, as queen of the fairies.
