actable

The most intelligent performer is he who recognizes most surely this "actable" and distinguishes in it the more from the less.

Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

It is eminently "actable," presenting striking tableaus and situations.

Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

But it does not set itself genuinely free from the habits contracted in common experience, and to inform its research it preserves the postulates of common-sense; so that it always grasps things by their "actable" side, by their point of contact with our faculty for action, under the forms by which we handle them conceptually or practically, and all it attains of reality is that by which nature is a possible object of language or industry.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

I think these kinds of Gene Kelly-esque, Fancy Free-esque, highly actable comedic Broadway numbers are his thing.

Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries? 2010

Maybe that role is more actable for the woman, the one being left, because I felt more for her than for him.

Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries? 2010

Slowly has a physical connotation, so even though it's an adverb and needs walked to complete it, it conveys real actable action.

Archive 2009-11-01 Janice Hardy 2009

Slowly has a physical connotation, so even though it's an adverb and needs walked to complete it, it conveys real actable action.

Archive 2009-03-01 Janice Hardy 2009

Slowly has a physical connotation, so even though it's an adverb and needs walked to complete it, it conveys real actable action.

Golden Oldies: Show Vs. Tell Janice Hardy 2009

I agree with the judges that he excels at standard ballroom rather than Latin, but pro partner Anna Trebunskaya knows his strengths, that he's a performer who'll be most successful with a routine with an actable story-line, and I think if she keeps giving him those, with his charismatic personality, he'll go far.

Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars: Adam Carolla and Julianne Hough Survive First Round of Eliminations 2008

And when we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we're going to detain them and you bet we're going to question them because the American people expect us to find out information, actable intelligence, so we can help them -- help protect them.

CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007 2007