Sentence examples for present day action from inspiring English sources

By present day action blockbuster movie standards, it's downright talky.

More often than not, these flashbacks merely show us again what is already overexplicit in the present-day action of the play.

Props and sets which are shifted during the various recollection scenes are dealt with awkwardly when the present-day action is returned to.

Lights up, stage right, and we're in Gremmar's bedroom, her memory cave, from which she recalls the three love affairs that punctuate the present-day action of the script.

They have also been able to keep apart future hopes and present-day actions.

Step Two: Develop positive mental attitudes and actions that convey present day philosophy and activity.

In a country famous for its ruins of antiquity, for Troy and Ephesus, this is both absurd and appropriate, like Westerners going to Dharamsala to find themselves, and it allows for the many revelatory flashbacks that give contrapuntal energy to the quieter (at first) present-day action.

Bold Endeavors is an urgent call for present-day action in this time of grave national crisis.

The manifesto also requires films to be set in the present day and to avoid "superficial action (murders, weapons, etc., must not occur)." Mr. Kragh-Jacobsen later confessed to some sins, among them covering a window in black drape and chasing a neighbor's chickens onto the location, but he was still given his Dogma certificate.

Kulyabin's production shifts the action to the present day, making Tannhauser a film director, which the director said is "fairly radical".

The Hollywood Reporter says the new film will update the action to the present day – Christie's character first appeared in 1927.