Sentence examples for preceding acts from inspiring English sources

They also used comic episodes to lighten prevailingly tragic stories (as did the Venetians) and introduced instrumental overtures and overture-like pieces preceding acts or sections of acts.

The preceding acts hinted that the show might be heavy-going; Benjamin Clementine had sung an entire song about a boiling kettle, stellar Icelandic artist Asgeir sang some of his tracks in his native tongue and Nils Frahm created some beautifully improvised electronic melodies that were almost impossible to dance to.

Ask la Cour, a new Theseus, offered a witty touch when he first pondered and then proposed to Jennie Somogyi as the wonderwoman Hippolyta, who had whipped off triple fouettés in the preceding act.

Among the theoretical models developed to describe the nature of social behaviour, the stimulus response model (in which every social act is seen as a response to the preceding act of another individual) has been generally found helpful but incomplete.

This means that for each act A, we tested whether the preceding act X influenced the chance of transitions to the following act Y [ 15].

Our painful history -- both centuries ago and very recently -- shows that the use of the "N" word often preceded acts of violence.

Threats often precede acts, which is why the targets of online rape and death threats take them seriously, even though the sites that allow them and the law enforcement officials that generally ignore them apparently do not.

He also teaches that God gives us two different kinds of power, both the power simultaneous with the act (which is simply to do the act) and the power preceding the act (to choose either the act or its opposite).

Suicidal ideation is likely to represent a phase preceding suicidal acts among most suicidal patients with major depressive disorder (MDD).

The NIRC was created by Edward Heath's Conservative government and the preceding Industrial Relations Act was drafted by the then Solicitor-General, Sir Geoffrey Howe.

The dialogue preceding the Act II finale, starting with "Here, take her sir, and mind you treat her kindly", was originally recitative.