Sentence examples for modern action from inspiring English sources

Part of it is that I hate modern action films.

"My idea was to have a very campy 70's-ish action show with more modern action," she said.

Point Break is packed with quotable lines ("I caught my first tube this morning, sir") of a sort that's sorely lacking in most modern action movies.

They're in a western, albeit one made in the amped-up modern action style, rather than the more stately idiom of old-time oaters.

Not so in John Wick (Warner, 15), a cracking, straight-up revenge thriller that largely resists the modern action film's tendency toward snide irony.

Scott essentially invented the modern action movie and his amped-up, noisy, rapidly edited film-making method became the house style of the Simpson-Bruckheimer ascendency.

In the early 1980s, at the time when he was making an unsuccessful foray into English-language cinema, he moved beyond traditional martial arts period movies to modern action-adventure films, such as Project A (1983) and Police Story (1985), along with their sequels.

The most modern actions are primarily electronic, which connect the console and windchests via narrow data cables instead of the larger multiconductor cables of electric actions.

A modern Hollywood action thriller like this would need to show redemption for Doyle.

"Landscape, matter, environment" is the title of one section at Tate Modern, "nude, action, body" another.

Cristofori had arrived at all the essentials of the modern piano action by 1726, and it is from Cristofori's piano that the modern piano stems.