Sentence examples for unlikely action from inspiring English sources

Vampires also enjoyed popularity as unlikely action heroes.

Liam Neeson's latter-day renaissance as an unlikely action star should give hope to performers and viewers of a certain age (i.e., over 40) everywhere.

Meanwhile, Sullivan has a lot of nifty tricks to draw the audience into the unlikely action, especially those ticket holders seated onstage.

"Mr. & Mrs. Smith," of which Mr. Goldsman was a producer, was a tale of love-struck assassins trying to kill each other; "The Kingdom," directed by Mr. Berg, was an unlikely action caper set in Saudi Arabia.

Never was there a more unlikely action star: soft of voice and unfreakish of stature, with a genial grin that broadens in direct proportion to the number of villains he happens to be wasting at the time.

Chris Pratt, meanwhile, used the profile gained from playing lovable schlub Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation to emerge as an unlikely action hero in Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World.

An unlikely action-heroine, nicknamed "Unco" for being unco-ordinated at school, Lawless – who was born Lucille Ryan, and chose her stage name long before she dreamed of trespassing on oil rigs – hated the stunts in her six years as the mythological Xena, who rarely got through an episode without a sword fight.

She is skilled at making her chilly cast of characters accessible, and even their most unlikely actions make sense, thanks to her tightly drawn portraits.

Andrew Neil found out the latest odds on some of the most, and least, unlikely actions on the day.

(Note to director Apatow: Hader may be talented enough to persuade us to overlook his character's unlikely actions and motivations; Marv Albert is not).

Unlikely: Military action An option, though extremely unlikely.