Sentence examples for usual action from inspiring English sources

Its use to wake the screen without a formal password and utilising the usual action of resting thumb on home button made this feature a big hit.

An origin story and presumptive franchise bid, the movie goes dark rather than deep, and Mr. Basset is too enamored of the usual action film clichés, down to some Hollywood-gangsta gun play.

It's hardly a conservative affair: turbine propellers establish an industrial atmosphere, the costumes have a distinct S & M component, and much of the usual action is discarded, including the entire Te Deum procession in Act I (Scarpia is alone onstage).

The concluding showdown follows the usual action beats, a disappointingly generic turn, particularly given that voluptuous programs called the Sirens suggest that the screenwriters Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were out for more.

Paul Howlett The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010), 9pm, Film4 This hitman tale is not your usual action fare: there's a lethal opening, a night-time car chase and a gunfight among festival crowds, but otherwise it's about the assassin as existentialist hero, George Clooney's Jack moving enigmatically across a beautiful Italian countryside, pondering the nature of his business and one last job.

To add in a staging by the radical American director Peter Sellars (already performed, available in HD online and on DVD but new to the UK) for a religious oratorio in which the usual action is only "sit" or "stand" was plain hazardous.

VIOLENCE -- Much brawling and killing of the usual action-movie variety, none of it particularly graphic or believable but violent nonetheless.

What comes after isn't a surprise, even if "Captain Phillips," which revs you up with frenzied action and violent spectacle, does surprise by denying you the usual action-movie high.

Obviously, this movie doesn't quite follow the typical boy-meet-girl rom-com format, let alone Kurtzman's usual action-packed resume.

When asked about the usual actions at a birth, the village leaders mentioned the officially supported actions of moving to the clinic near the expected time of the birth, and seeking the assistance of the midwife.

This suggests that heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones are not only involved in their "usual actions" such as oocyte response to environment by regulation of apoptosis (defense mechanisms) and protein folding but may also play a role in the process of oocyte maturation.