It is the act of doing nothing by acting naturally -- but by acting naturally, getting things done.
I agree with you, Kathleen, it's the act of doing something or having a big life or experiencing something.
The act of doing that, just putting it on paper, calms me and allows me to go to bed.
My mother loved to gossip, but for her the act of doing so was never quite idle.
And it's in the act of doing that that someone will say, 'Well, what are you doing here?
"I didn't use a sewing machine — it was very much about the act of doing it," she told me.
And then you get there and everything's prepared and then you have the act of doing it.
"Joseph Beuys created social sculpture; it's the act of doing things together, where you, the viewer, can be part of the experience".
To show how a bill gets made, the films follow senators and Congress members, staff members, advocates, lobbyists and bureaucrats in the act of doing their jobs.
And in the act of doing it, you experience the unconfused purity of being a human predator, stripped of everything that is nonessential.
The act of doing so is commonly called a filibuster, although it no longer requires holding the Senate floor for hours.
