Sentence examples for repetitive act from inspiring English sources

Mr. Uribe uses screws to secure most of the pieces, and says that the repetitive act of turning each screw is an outlet for his anger.

Dreher's act of creation, returning to the same depleted subject again and again, seems like doing time, completing a sentence in the same repetitive act of looking and recording.

It takes players more enamored of the romance of the game's rich history than by the repetitive act of muscling shots on 7,400-yard 7,400-yard show up for an event layoutsis.

Through the repetitive act of interaction, individuals as actors in relation to social groups constitute symbolic and shared meanings.

Through this repetitive act of admiring perfection we have become accustomed to extremely rigid and uniform standards of beauty.

"The intention is to materialize the performativity of gender at a biopolitical level, as well as drawing a parallel between the repetitive act of cleansing with the act of maintaining one's own gender hygiene.

Compulsions are urges or impulses to commit repetitive acts that are apparently meaningless, stereotyped, or ritualistic.

Minimal gestures, bodily functions, dogs, dances, running, counting and other repetitive acts are woven through Creed's affectionate and sometimes all too human art.

Childhood is an oasis of repetitive acts, so much so that there is something shocking about the first time a young reader reads a book only once and moves on to the next.

In an article in the New York Times, Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote, "Childhood is an oasis of repetitive acts, so much so that there is something shocking about the first time a young reader reads a book only once and then moves on to the next.

The lawyer, Gregory Gianforcaro, said that one of the more notorious among the diocese's former priests, James T. Hanley, the former pastor at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Mendham, had "admitted to committing repetitive acts of child sexual abuse and has agreed to cooperate".