释义 |
suit the action to the wordCarry out one’s stated intentions: he backed away, fearing she might suit the action to the word...- He does, however, quote the passage from Hamlet on suiting the action to the word and comments: ‘The actors were not to identify with character.’
- Once achieved, such a profile makes it possible to ‘suit the action to the word and the word to the action’, as Hamlet told the players.
- Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
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