Sentence examples for lay in action from inspiring English sources

But Guillermin's strength lay in action movies, his best being set among the military.

Stallone is gregarious and perceptive; he knows his forte lies in action movies, but his creative intelligence reminds you that he's also an accomplished abstract painter and a romantic who turned down big-money offers when he was broke and starting out to make the first Rocky film his way.

He believes political merit lies in action, not demeanour.

Theodore Roosevelt I will not steep my speech in any lies; the test of any man lies in action.

The answer lies in actions taken almost a decade ago, in the time of the first Giuliani administration.

It suggests that his true interest still lies in actions rather than objects.

Clearly, the history lay in the action, not the words.

Scientists once thought the explanation lay in capillary action, the phenomenon by which liquid flows up thin tubes through surface tension alone.

Matteo Palmieri wrote that the true merit of virtue lies in effective action, and effective action is impossible without the faculties that are necessary for it.

the true merit of virtue lies in effective action, and effective action is impossible without the faculties that are necessary for it.

The cause of internal waves may lie in the action of tidal forces (the period then equaling the tidal period) or in the action of a wind or pressure fluctuation.