Sentence examples for more acted from inspiring English sources
All Austen heroines can be said to be more acted upon than acting — that's their lot in life, and that's Austen's very subject — but, in the case of Fanny, the watchful, worried waiting that is the fate of nineteenth-century women in literature seems more like a character flaw.
The transfusion of biographical elements had once more acted as a pick-me-up.
The novel's narrator, Hayri Irdal, is one of those superfluous semi-modern men familiar to us from Russian ltrature: more acted on than active, simering with inarticulate resentments and regrets, a cross between Oblomov and the protagonist of Notes from the Underground.
Six heretics were executed during his tenure of office, three with his personal involvement; in this respect recent scholarship has concluded that while More acted with severity, in a deliberate counter to Wolsey's "gentle and courteous" approach which was evidently failing, he did so within the law.
This will encourage people like me to think more, act more courageously and voice their opposition more openly".
More acts are yet to be announced.
More acts will be announced shortly.
Many more acts are to be announced.
More acts will be confirmed on Monday 19 January.
More acts are doing that than they used to".
When you're sick, the act of living is more act than living.
