Sentence examples for striking act from inspiring English sources

The show's most striking act of anti-realism was its multiplied cast.

The most striking act was Green Velvet, a techno iconoclast from Chicago.

It was the most striking act of parliamentary defiance in the Putin era.Now Mr Gudkov senior is feeling the backlash.

The FT had notably been advocating monetary independence for the Bank of England - which turned out to be Brown's first and most striking act as chancellor.

The second has been complicated – maybe even so complicated, lasting a decade in itself, that many have forgotten how striking act one actually was.

"We view these words as a striking act of impudence on behalf of individuals whose professional duties make them accountable for this city, its projects and their implementation," the statement read.

The Ponnelle look is a familiar one: a love of beige and off-white, anti-color interrupted periodically by Ms. Larmore's striking blue (Act I) and red (Act II) outfits.

Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People Though he's made his name as a striking live act, Furman throws a potent energy into this personal album of cathartic rock'n'roll.

Galitsky, Igor's profligate brother-in-law, makes a striking appearance in Act I, contributes virtually nothing to the story, and then disappears from the opera.

The results were striking: the simple act of tapping one's hands in synchrony with another caused our participants to report feeling more similar to their partners and to have greater compassion for their plight: it increased the number of people who helped their partner by 31 percent and increased the average time spent helping from one minute to more than seven.

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