72 Words to use with act

It was a five-act play, without head or tail, and it made no difference at which act we commenced the performance.

The visitation act-books of the period abundantly show the processes employed by the ecclesiastical authorities in enforcing these and other duties (which will be detailed in their turn), and prove that the courts Christian were emphatically administrative as well as judicial bodies.

The Tempest, act iv.

As the author himself states in his preface, Harlequin roi dans la Lune, a three act comedy by Bodard de Tézay, produced at the Variétés Amusantes, 17 December, 1785, has nothing to do with the old Italian scenes.

It can, I think, be proved beyond any shadow of doubt that they are wrong in this; that the act division was perfectly familiar to Shakespeare, and was used by him to give to the action of his plays a rhythm which ought not, in representation, to be obscured or falsified.

Here are a few specimens: He, Duval, had written a one-act piece with Dumas père; it had been refused at the Français, and then it had been about, here, there, and everywhere; finally the Variétés had asked for some alterations, and c'était une affaire entendue.

Col. House's diary refutes Bank act claim, Glass says.

House go-between for Bank act foes, Glass declares.

For literary news, in my poor way, I have a one-act farce going to be acted at Haymarket; but when?

Cornish and John Heywood (1497?1580?), a court dramatist of much versatility, incorporated in the Interlude many of the elements of the five-act drama.

This may be a convenient place for a few words on the modern fashion of eschewing emphasis, not only in last acts, but at every point where the old French dramaturgy demanded it, and especially in act-endings.

All that is necessary in regard to time is, that, either by the act-pause, or the intervention of a fresh scene, the passing of it should be indicated.

R71807, 20Dec50, Loew's inc. (PWH) THE CRITIC, a one act thing by James Montgomery Flagg.

Her second-act costume alone had cost $700, but even Russian sable bands can't carry a bad play.

I propose to consecrate this yere church with an act o' justice.

Second act curtain.

While punishing the slaves for crimes with vastly greater severity than it does their masters for the same crimes, and making a variety of acts crimes in law, which are right, and often duties, it persists in refusing to make known to the slaves that complicated and barbarous penal code which loads them with such fearful liabilities.

Shrieks of horror from the young ladies, who desist from knocking their croquet-balls into the orchestra and the proscenium boxes; and triumphant falling of a new act-drop.

Many innocent acts occasion evil, and in such case all I am bound to ask myself before doing such innocent act, is, "Shall I occasion, on the whole, more harm or good."

A play with a well-marked, well-balanced act-structure is a higher artistic organism than a play with no act-structure, just as a vertebrate animal is higher than a mollusc.

Events not involved in that simple act follow of themselves.

Oh how can we thine acts foretell, When Thou art far more wise than we?

But now, when she finally held the gown itself in her handthe original "Splendour" second-act gown, a limp, soft black mass: just a few yards of worn and shabby velvetshe found her hands shaking.

The act headings might run somewhat as follows ACT I.TEMPTATION.

or was there the dread foreboding, the sense of impending doom which should stir the spectators with pity and terror as the fourth act hurries to its passionate close?

72 Words to use with  act