Sentences with phrase «liberdam as a gladiator»

To speak against gays and speak of himself as a gladiator is ludicrous.

He has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers and holds the distinction of being the only athlete to appear as a gladiator on both the original run of the TV series American Gladiators and its 2008 reboot (he was «Titan»).

Synopsis: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

After crash - landing on Sakaar — a scummy junkyard planet surrounded by wormholes — Thor is captured by scavengers and taken to serve as a gladiator for the planet's eccentric ruler, known as the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

The wounded Maximus collapses and is captured by a passing slave trader, who sells him and a black man named Juba (Djimon Hounsou) to Proximo (Oliver Reed, unfortunately sharing no screen time with fellow hell - raiser Harris) who trains both men as gladiators.

17 years later, the now grown - up Milo (Kit Harrington) is fighting in Britannia as a gladiator known only as The Celt when his skills in the arena impresses a Roman lanista and he's shipped off to the Italian city of Pompeii.

Maximus» rebirth as a gladiator is the highlight of the story; to start with, Russell Crowe gives us an excellent performance as a man who's broken down and then rebuilt in a different mold.

Him as Gladiator in this revised canon retelling could be awesome and he would be not recognizeable under the character's skin color if the character isn't more cg digital.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

The season will open on the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded «Spartacus: Blood and Sand,» as the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic.

Hugo has a lot going for it: It's got pedigree — screenwriter John Logan has previously been nominated for Scorsese's The Aviator, as well as Gladiator.

Very early in his career, Andrew Haigh worked as an assistant editor on such Ridley Scott blockbusters as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down.

Kirk Douglas stars as the gladiator slave who challenged the power of Imperial Rome in the name of freedom in this inspirational true epic directed by Stanley Kubrick.

It's invested in masculinity as a pain ritual and it characterizes hockey as a gladiator bloodsport; every moment on Goon's ice feels predatory and claustrophobic.

When Maximus is captured, he is enslaved and forced to serve a life as a gladiator.

The Irish wolfhound is of ancient origins, mentioned as long ago as 391 AD in Rome, where it was famed as a gladiator and courser.

The ancient Greek Mollossian war dogs gave rise to several tough strains of dogs, including dogs that specialized as gladiators.

Continue to Ouarzazate, a former colonial trading post now known for its movie studios where films such as Gladiator and Lawrence of Arabia were shot.

We have the introduction of Incendiors with long rage incendiary projectiles as well as Gladiators whose heavy melee attacks are fun and challenging to guard against at close range.

Condemned as a gladiator slave, you must face deadly trials and creatures to win your freedom; but Balfus, your Spirit Mentor, will guide you in your quest for recognition.

The story tells of a young fighter who sneaks into Castle Glaive one night trying to discover the plans of Dark Lord, but is captured by Julius and imprisoned as a slave, forced to fight as a gladiator.

The video features the bloody combat path that the player must take to make it through the rank as a gladiator.

Enlist as a gladiator and fight your way through the ranks in this fantasy - themed hack and slash adventure set in the world of critically acclaimed pc game \ «Hammerwatch \».

This feature allows for a player who has chosen to start out as a Gladiator in the beginning of the game, to become a Templar towards the middle, which comes with its own perks and skills to play with.

When Acclaim Manchester was set up in Castlefield he was installed as the Primary Concept Artist and worked on many exciting projects, not all of which came to fruition but games such as Gladiator Sword of Vengeance were met with great reviews.

Calame thinks of the Speedway as a gladiator ring for cars — technological extensions of our bodies that drive out our dreams of speed, death and victory.

Traditional divorce defines spouses as adversaries, courtrooms as battlefields, and lawyers as gladiators.

Not exact matches

JD: As Camp Gladiator grew, we added more trainers and locations.

With a stable of high octane energy drinks such as Full Throttle, Burn, Gladiator and Power Play, the company profited from consumers» lust for more energy.

Football has replaced the gladiator games of ancient Rome, and it still keeps everyone just as drunk and distracted as they were over 2000 years ago.

The Shawshank Redemption, which often appears at the top of «favourite film» lists, also fails, as does Gladiator.

Scoring was almost impossible, no one knew how to get up on those little octagons to trigger the sensor and — as in the above video — even when there was a THREE - ON - TWO ADVANTAGE, the competitors had no idea how to keep the Gladiators from schooling them.

This is actually a precursor of the Guts bungee - basketball thing, but it works a whole lot better than Rocketball and, as in the above clip, sometimes a Gladiator will haul off and pop a dude in the mush because of gamesmanship.

If in a gladiators ring you are in the middle surrounded by hungry Lions, you can fend them off as a group who are tightly packed together, giving nothing away.

However, at certain moments it is difficult to convince him of this — such as the time he was fastened by a bungee cord to a hot - air balloon, or the time he was pummeled with a jousting stick on the set of American Gladiators.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

«To those who loved, as I did, the old - time football — the very thud of the ball, the scent of bruised grass, the mighty rush of a hundred men, the swift and cool defense — there is something insufficient in the presence of a whole university sitting and shivering in the chill wind around an arena where a few picked gladiators push and wrestle.»

We have to create lore for our gladiators, and when the ascension happens as fast as it did for Norman, things are bound to get a little tangled up.

As these pictures show, the snap of the ball is the signal for what often appears to be inextricable confusion, although to the gladiators locked in man - to - man struggle there is a certain order and sense to the conflict.

The «Gladiator» star who was promoting his band's tour revealed that the choice of Leeds as the venue for his gig was more of an indulgence on his part as he had always been a Leeds fan.

As previously discussed, I was underdressed the entire trip, as in I was wearing gladiator sandals while my friends in LA were in snow bootAs previously discussed, I was underdressed the entire trip, as in I was wearing gladiator sandals while my friends in LA were in snow bootas in I was wearing gladiator sandals while my friends in LA were in snow boots.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injurieAs a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injurieas a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Boko Haram simply lorded it over us as a people; hoisted flags everywhere; imposed taxes; ran parallel governments while the bulk of the resources meant for tackling terrorism went into private bank accounts through the conduit of PDP's campaign offices and gladiators.

Imagine a packed but silent coliseum, in which the red - clad gladiator shakes his head sadly as he plunges his sword into the chest of his blue - clad opponent.

But, as in Gladiator, the sight of blood calmed everyone down slightly.

Marcus Agius, bit part player in Gladiator and part of the Barclays cabal, stepped down as chairman of the bank.

Scores of political gladiators in Osun, as well as residents of the state were in total confusion on Thursday as news filtered in that former commissioners...

The Central Regional chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the new Minister's hair as a «gladiator cut».

«As we are here this today, we are happy this is a gathering of gladiators in the political arena mixed with political consultants who have helped shape what politics looks like in some advanced democracies of the world.

Okai, in his own reaction asked the political gladiators in the PDP to see the victory at the Supreme court as an opportunity to return the party to the people.