Sentence examples for powers of acting from inspiring English sources
As he strides across the stage with a lively gait, nimbly sliding from one role to another, he exudes a moment-to-moment engagement that suggests that this revival is not a lazy ego trip but a rejuvenating act of faith in the complementary powers of acting and storytelling.
The China Daily editorial accuses Western powers of acting as judge, jury and executioner before the UN has completed its investigation.
In the meantime, Territorial Secretary Nathaniel Pope, a cousin of Edwards, had to assume the powers of acting governor, creating Illinois' first counties and appointing officials to form the new government.
As Edmund Burke said, 20 years before the American revolution: "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear".
Taking over as Othello when Edmund Kean keeled over on the stage of Covent Garden in 1833, he was subjected to stinking racism by semi-evolved critics – "his features, though African, are considerably humanised" – and to sidling contempt by those who claimed that casting him as the Moor was like casting a fat man as Falstaff: the transformative powers of acting were being denied.
As Hume claimed in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), "By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will".
And so Spinoza sums up his account of virtue like this: "the more each one seeks his own advantage, and strives to preserve himself, the more he is endowed with virtue, or what is the same, the greater is his power of acting according to the laws of his own nature, that is, of living from the guidance of reason.
Only active affects and those passions that signal an increase in our power of acting are enjoyable.
David Hume, for example, defines liberty as "a power of acting or of not acting, according to the determination of the will".
This explains the attractive and aversive aspects of joy and sadness, which are simply the affects involved in a change in the power of acting.
They can spread as we reflect on ourselves, so when the mind considers itself and its power of acting, it becomes more perfect, and thus experiences joy.
