Like tragedy it must have a single action, but it differs from tragedy in not having the time of the action limited or determined.
With Aristotle as his guide, and Homer as his model, he had studiously and mechanically constructed an epic of a single action; and in the dedication of his poem to the Emperor Charles V.
There was no thought of restricting a play to the presentation of one crisis or a single action, and there was consequently no possibility of an approach to anything like the structure of classical tragedy.
I scarce find a single Action in these five Days that I can thoroughly approve of, except the working upon the Violet-Leaf, which I am resolved to finish the first Day I am at leisure.
This is a sort of Thrift or Good-Husbandry in moral Life, which does not throw away any single Action, but makes every one go as far as it can.
It will differ in structure from historical compositions, which of necessity present not a single action, but a single period, and all that happened within that period to one person or to many, little connected together as the events may be.
It should have for its subject a single action, whole and complete, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Yet these poems are as perfect as possible in structure; each is, in the highest degree attainable, an imitation of a single action.
When cutting cards for a double action machine, each card is cut from the design singly, just the same as if cutting cards for a single action machine.
The hook that passes through the first needle is considered the first thread in the pattern, although when standing in front of a single action machine, it is the last thread.
Even in rapid-fire shooting better results are obtained with a double-action arm if used as a single action.
Larger and more practical arms are generally carried in holsters, and such arms should be single action in all cases.
The simplest element of Plot is the Single Action, which may be defined as any train of incidents in a drama which can be conceived as a separate whole.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
