catch in the act

Example Sentences

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Virginia Woolf says somewhere that Austen is the hardest writer to catch in the act of greatness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

But the “Invisible Circle” proved as elusive to catch in the act as that mystical moniker suggested.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2016

He was the freak you could catch in the act of raising his own pedestal, and then send away for the instructions yourself.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2016

Jane Austen … 'Of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.'

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that "of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness".

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012