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

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

Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also has no fear of actionless panels of environment to pace out the story.

From Time Magazine Archive

To meet him then, you would not have known him for the sedate, actionless boy, whom you had seen in the morning looking listlessly on while his schoolfellows played.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George