Sentence examples for presentations of act from inspiring English sources

In traditional presentations of Act IV, Scene 1 of "Merchant" Portia, disguised as a male lawyer to rescue a man under threat of death, emerges as an avenging angel; Shylock, viciously poised to kill an enemy in an act of legal redress, is usually the vanquished villain or, in more fashionable contemporary readings, the Jewish victim of a Christian social order reasserting itself.

According to Reiff, in such cases, we are bound to encounter endless cycles of retaliation, as well as the presentation of murderous acts as acts of punishment.

Each student will then prepare a presentation of this act or item for homework.

"By failing to do so, we've concluded the presentation of the act was likely to have materially misled some people".

However, the presentation of the act did not make clear to viewers that a central part was performed by a second dog".

A shortcoming of that previous work was the block presentation of speech acts and resultant predictability of speech act types from context.

Peter Dinklage and Jessica Hecht will be among the professionals in this presentation of one-act plays by 9-to-11-year-olds.

This presentation of the speech act prepared the ground for Bacon's mature theory in his post-1260 works, the De signis (DS), Compendium studii philosophiae (CSP), and Compendium studii theologiae (CST).

Each woman is captured in an obvious moment of self-presentation, but the act of capture is partly what makes the pictures disturbing.

Presentations are the most basic kind of acts; we have a presentation each time when we are directed towards an object, be it that we are imagining, seeing, remembering, or expecting it, etc.

Chéreau has pulled off many feats in his opera-directing career — notably, his monumental 1976 production of the "Ring," at Bayreuth, and his glamorous and sordid presentation of the three-act version of Berg's "Lulu," in 1979.