Sentence examples for vast action from inspiring English sources

(Journey, hardship, backstory, skirmish... gunfight! Scouting, diplomacy, failed diplomacy, kiss the wife... battle!) As a critic in The Atlantic Monthly wrote of the dime novel in 1879, you can expect a fresh corpse every two pages: "The whole vast action pivots, as it were, around the muzzle of an extended revolver".

They say it is an invitation to vast class action lawsuits on issues that could be resolved out of court.

Literature, on the other hand, was as "a vast rearguard action against these basic facts in our lives".

Exploring a possible settlement of a potentially vast class action lawsuit, Sotheby's and Christie's have turned over confidential company information to lawyers representing customers who have accused them of price-fixing in the wake of a federal antitrust investigation.

Nintendo describes the title as "a vast multiplayer action RPG" with a bunch of dragons.

The move was a sign that the houses may be exploring a possible settlement of a potentially vast class-action suit.

GTA's vast and action-packed virtual world is frequently more appealing to players than the real one, with 14% of British men admitting they are likely to throw a sickie on the launch day of a new game.

The impact could be vast but is action being taken to embed these principles within design and if so, how far has this movement progressed?

Fuller's aphoristic script sketches a plethora of characters in deep perspective, and his brash, low-budget methods prompt him to cram vast swaths of action into long, relentless tracking shots.

He played his first nonaction dramatic role in Haiyang Tiantang (2010; Ocean Heaven) as a terminally ill man with an autistic son and was part of the vast ensemble of action stars in actor-director Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables (2010) and its sequels (2012, 2014).

Taken together, these two great books present a vast and tragic action: the Red Army, which heroically defended and then liberated Stalingrad against seemingly impossible odds, goes on to burn, pillage and rape its way across eastern Europe, to take the German capital with massive cruelty (particularly against German women civilians) and profligate loss of life.