Sentence examples for side of the action from inspiring English sources

And traders say that they have often been on the wrong side of the action, causing painful losses for some.

Then again, for all their entrances and interventions, the gods — like Homer's listeners and Armitage's readers — are to one side of the action, held rapt as Odysseus navigates the storms of his life.

Mr. Marisa's hands, clasped, rested between his big legs as though he were sitting to the side of the action on the bench, now watching events in play that he was helpless to call.

There are two musicians (Sean Hagerty and Isaiah Singer) at the side of the action, but the Avatar does much of the singing, and the dancer/musician borderline stays blurry on purpose.

The series emasculated Edward as it wore on, shoving him to the side of the action, while Bella grew increasingly impatient – it was the only vampire series in which the vampires were afraid of the virgins, and exploited Pattinson's greatest flaw as an actor: his passivity.

"Those are the hardcore people who don't mind getting arrested, but I'm here with my son and daughter so I'm going to stay here," said Paul Bazely, who some readers may know as Troy from the tv series Benidorm, standing just to the side of the action.

Seated on three sides of the action, we seem to be not so much watching a play as eavesdropping on life itself.

If you are going to make money in conflict, or the messy affairs of human life, Milo reasons, you might as well play as many sides of the action as possible.

The audience seated (unusually) on all sides of the action, one first encounters sand spilling steadily on to the stage floor, while the designer Lucy Osborne's defining image is of a curved walkway made up of multiply connecting chairs — a bridge of sighs that abstracts the action without really abetting it.

In other words when an action is observed from a first person perspective the right hand is always on the right of the screen and the left hand is always on the left making it impossible to dissociate effects of hand from those of side of space the action ocurred.

When you conquer a nation the "flip side" of that action is that the people you conquer want to emigrate to the mother country.