Sentence examples for sell action from inspiring English sources

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If movies and TV didn't affect us, they wouldn't be used to sell action figures.

Movies don't sell action, either; they sell being over time, and the beings who are are the actors — or, rather, the stars, who, as a springboard for their stardom, act.

Movies don't sell action, either; they sell being over time, and the beings who are are the actors or, rather, the stars, who, as a springboard for their stardom, act.

At that time, action pictures were mostly being marketed to older audiences, but "Jaws" showed Hollywood it could sell action to kids too, with a few adjustments -- a faster pace, a hipper kind of humor, a stronger sense of horror and no Charlton Heston.

Insofar as it is possible to tell anything at all from this impressionistic splurge, it looks as if director JJ Abrams wishes to return to the verities of character and story and to move away from the inert digital gigantism of the last decade's prequel-trilogy whose masses of pointless minor characters seemed to be there simply to sell action figures.

A pneumatic, mostly naked sniper who is either unwilling to speak or incapable of speech – presumably designed to sell action figures and desk models – her character design drew pointed critique right from its first reveal.

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With cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, you don't have this, and instead just have a world where anything can happen depending on the buy or sell actions by holders of coins.

Or sometimes I'll hear something like, "This is not really a career moment, but I put myself through college by selling action figures on eBay".

Dr. Strange, a k a Vernon Hutley, 37, described his pain at selling action figures like his Skeletor doll, which went earlier this summer.

The store sells action figures, video games, View Askew T-shirts, DVD's of Mr. Smith's films and comic books, including the ones Mr. Smith writes: "Daredevil," "Green Arrow," "Clerks" and "Bluntman & Chronic".

When Mezco Toyz started selling action figures featuring the show's characters — notably its protagonist, Walter White, who came with replicas of a gun, a duffel bag stuffed with cash, and a sack of crystal meth — a Florida woman was not amused.

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