action
noun
the process or state of acting or of being active.
actionless
-
a word derived from
action.
Example Sentences
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He has an easygoing sense of humor and a feel for the theatre of live chess, which can seem actionless; he’s been sponsored by fashion companies and endorsed by Porsche.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 28, 2018
Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also has no fear of actionless panels of environment to pace out the story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its words are good and true, but passive and actionless, not of that dynamic type where words are "words indeed, but words that draw armed men behind them."
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
