Sentence examples for taste for action from inspiring English sources

(She puts up with former President Bill Clinton's taste for action films).

Perhaps it was his wartime Japanese naval intelligence codebreaking at Bletchley Park that gave him a taste for action.

Certainly Mr. Johnson doesn't have a real taste for action; much of the by-the-yard martial choreography is strictly by the book, as Hondo's martinet captain might say.

(The notion, sometimes found at large in America, that Sarkozy is in some way un-French, rather than merely unsuccessful, is bizarre, by the way, and depends on an absurdly shallow knowledge of French history and manners; small hyper-energetic men with a taste for action are not exactly unknown in its history. Bonapartism refers not merely to a man but to a whole political inclination).

Quibble aside, if you have a taste for Hong Kong action (and I do) then "The Legend of Drunken Master" has enough going on to make it a classic.

These experiences only intensified this remarkable woman's taste for political action: she worked for her PTA, for the integration of her neighborhood, for international peace and for women's rights.

The Bush administration's taste for unilateral action and its doctrine of preventive war pose a profound challenge to the U.N.'s founding principle of collective security and threaten the organization's continued relevance.

It was a shout of frustration from the pulpit, an attempt to rouse a middle-class black constituency whose taste for social action has faded with the relative contentment of the Clinton years.

Fontane's taste for withholding action, or at least delaying it improbably, is evident in the novel's most famous feature, a structural gambit of daring subtlety: the frustrated heroine's brief affair with a womanizing officer is never actually described — and is only discovered many years later, when Effi and her husband have settled comfortably into their marriage.

Is this really the same Tony Stark that kicked back and partied in full fusion power suit in Iron Man 2? Iron Man was always the most rock'n'roll of the Marvel superhero crew, but after almost destroying the world with his techy meddling in Avengers: Age of Ultron, it's clear he's lost his taste for unilateral action.

In particular, one element of Anderson's direction offers kinetic invention — his taste for sudden action bursting into the frame, which, during the movie's early scenes of a suburban setup (when an ordinary family finds itself thrust into a vortex of violence), occur with such a regular and ludicrous insistence that I expected the rest of the film to ramp it up into out-and-out comedy.