Sentence examples for pivotal act from inspiring English sources

The drama's pivotal act of bigotry is directed at a local Greek family, not Cora's, which is the only African-American family in town.

This might have something to do with the fact that the plot's pivotal act of domestic terrorism — sabotaging the elevated transit system — was initially envisioned in a 1993 terrorism-assessment report issued by the Pentagon.

As Labor Day opens the curtain on the pivotal act in the 2000 presidential campaign, and Mr. Bush confronts the evaporation of his lead, he and his advisers said that it is no longer enough to tell Americans why they should want the Texas governor in the White House.

Jupiter Jones, the supposed heroine of the movie, is given so little to do (other than wear pretty dresses and outrageous makeup) that she is actually unconscious during the pivotal Act I battle scene.

When pooled with data from the three 'UC studies' (with the majority of the data deriving from the pivotal ACT 1 and ACT 2 studies), they are reported as 'IBD studies'.

Their cameras were stuck in customs, and they had to use a diplomatic pouch to transport the night-vision goggles they needed for the pivotal third act, a recreation of the raid on the bin Laden compound.

Searching for traveling wave solutions of NLPDEs acts a pivotal part in the study of nonlinear physical phenomena.

In a recent interview he recalled feeling that many audience members were not gasping or flinching at a pivotal revelation in Act I: the main character had just tried to kill herself.

Leopold was mostly a bystander to Mozart's astonishing feat, but he did make one crucial contribution: for a pivotal scene in Act III, when the voice of Neptune's oracle rises from the depths, he requested "moving, terrifying, and altogether unusual" music, and went on to suggest a series of sudden crescendos and decrescendos in the brass and winds, bracketing the vocal phrases.

As for his handling of Stache's big, pivotal scene in Act 2, I can only say: OMG.

Present-day voter suppression measures were bolstered last summer when the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby v. Holder gutted a key provision of the pivotal Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.