Sentence examples for performing an act from inspiring English sources

Maybe the ghost is performing an act of revenge on the father.

One implication of utilitarianism is that one's intention in performing an act may include all of its foreseen consequences.

A sorcerer named Laura Linney is performing an act of magic that happens only in live theater.

I believe many on the jury thought overwhelmingly that Zimmerman was performing an act of social good".

So Kant points out that there's three kinds of motivation that we might have in performing an act.

In the theater of a room that Abby has created for herself, she's performing an act of liberation that would make Virginia Woolf proud.

He has the dual satisfaction of performing an act of conscience and spite, as he was sure he and his wife would never hear the end of this.

Jesus was performing an acted parable, presaging in his actions the great going-out-of-business day to come.

It was a powerful performance, in which her character performs an act of genital self-mutilation and subjects Willem Dafoe to largely unspeakable acts of torture.

Ann Goldstein, a very gifted translator, has performed an act of kindness here.

Then, with great delight, he watched Dr. Yousof Asefi perform an act of sweet triumph.