Sentence examples for passages of action from inspiring English sources

There are scraps of talk, and whole passages of action, that are reproduced with near-paranoid fidelity; when a character serves coffee in tall wineglasses because she can't locate the cups, she is aping a French initiative.

It is one of the smartest passages of action, allegro sostenuto, that I have seen for a long while — as neat, indeed, as the infamous bomb-on-a-bus sequence from Hitchcock's "Sabotage," and true to his faith in the revelatory powers of excitement, in what it means to have movies burst against our nerves.

And what really galls is not the songs themselves but the greasy way in which they are wrapped around crucial passages of action, to muffle any awkward transitions; thus, once Mark has armed himself with white lies, he strolls off to reassure all the other miserable folk we have encountered so far — old-timers, bums on the street, a bickering couple — with a smile and a word in their ears.

This is the prelude to a headlong passage of action — the unmistakable core of the movie — in which the team invades the Holy City in a bid to kidnap Owen Davian Philip Seymour Hoffmann), who has been identified as the most dangerous ginger-haired threat to global peace.

The narrative alternates between passages of blasting action and lower-key character interaction: a convention of thriller plotting that, though a little cheesy, is certainly effective.

Although current risk assessment monographs often contain a passage on "mechanism/mode of action" for the effect regarded as critical, this does not usually include information on how the findings were generated, e.g. by "-omics" analyses, and in what form they may be stored in, e.g. the CTD.

It is a disquieting, demanding play in which long monologues are interrupted by passages of highly sexual action.

The drug is the most pharmacologically active of several alkaloid substances found in belladonna, partly because of its greater solubility, which permits more rapid passage to the site of action.

There are countless didactic passages, and only few moments of action or feeling.

The compromise intended to give both Washington and Paris what they want comes in adroit, if arcane, turns of phrase in the action passages of the resolution.

The blood brain barrier (BBB) prevents the passage of therapeutics to their site of action.