Sentence examples for unique act from inspiring English sources
His choice of self-immolation was not by itself a unique act of despairing self-sacrifice.
To do this for the dead is a last rite only artists can perform: a unique act of love and memory.
Another unique act, the Koch sisters, performed on a giant semaphore arm that revolved slowly as they balanced on the outside edge.
Our own civilisation inherited such a concept from ancient Hebrew sages who imagined a unique act of creation that inaugurated change within changelessness and time within eternity.
What Petit brought off was a remarkable, even religious gesture of devotion, both to the building and to New York itself; this was, in fact, a unique act of homage no other artist could have managed, and New Yorkers instantly appreciated it.
This was in the age of travelling circuses and the like, and Mr Electrico had a unique act: he sat in an electrified chair, thus in turn electrifying a sword he held, with which he in turn electrified the spectators, making their hair stand on end and sparks come out of their ears.
And unique acts seem to do well when they qualify: gymnastic troupe Spelbound won in 2010, and shadow theatre act Attraction in 2013.
But given that all the BGT finals have featured at least one dance act and multiple singers, it is fair to say that unique acts are holding their own.
Chinese acrobats also became especially renowned for unique acts emphasizing balance and coordination, such as the "Peacock Bicycle," which featured a human pyramid of 17 people atop a single bicycle.
One of the most unique acts I stumbled upon was Magick for the Masses, a quirky psychedelic-electro duo whose one-of-a-kind SpaceHarp hypnotized and magnetized the audience.
By showing that the need to feel special and unique acts as a strong motivation for believing in conspiracy theories, Imhoff and Lamberty build on previous findings that the conspiracy mentality might be the result of cognitive biases and taking mental shortcuts, or about establishing feelings of control amid the bewildering complexity, if not chaos, of the world.
