He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.

Our model can categorize complex actions in videos, and perform spatio-temporal annotations of the atomic actions that compose the complex action being performed. […] it jointly learns flexible representations for motion poselets and actionlets that encode the visual variability of body parts and atomic actions […]

He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

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