Sentences with phrase «many gladiatorial»

Gladiatorial.

Where Spicer's first appearance before the press corps could charitably be described as gladiatorial, Scaramucci blew the news media a kiss.

The match is not a gladiatorial battle during which someone dies.

Into this gladiatorial context, Christians from various political parties have come together to counter-culturally support one another and say that «kingdom comes before tribe».

There he's imprisoned and forced to fight in the planet's gladiatorial arena, where he runs into a few new allies and one old green friend played by Mark Ruffalo you've probably heard about.

For some reason this brought to my mind Louis Ginzberg's «The Legends of the Jews,» where it says that at the end of all things the righteous get to «view the mortal combat between Leviathan and Behemoth, as a reward for having denied themselves the pleasures of the circus and its gladiatorial contests.»

Though we no longer watch gladiatorial contests, Lena Dunham's celebrity suggests that we now take a prurient interest in watching young women exhibit their hangups, insecurities about body image, and sex lives, all in excruciating detail.

Whether one considers the cessation of the gladiatorial games in the days of the early church, the ending of savage bestial games in Wilberforce's day, or the banning of dueling in the nineteenth century, Christians have often led the culture in critical analysis of its pastimes.

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

Small in number, they were big in commitment... they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest...

Such a vision of life has implications for questions of war and peace, infanticide and abortion, slavery and the rights of women, justice and privilege, orgyism and gladiatorial amusements.

Stamina, gladiatorial.

The best coaches will tell you their work is more cerebral than gladiatorial.

As Liverpool wound down the clock to what should have been a nail - biting 2 - 1 win over Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday, Emre Can smashed the ball into the stands, throwing his hands up in a gesture of gladiatorial combat.

He went against the projection of the game as a very serious and gladiatorial battle, against the gritted teeth and crunching tackles, against the super efficiency and grand narratives.

Truly gladiatorial to the last 2nd as if it was a cup final.

«Formula 1 is the ultimate gladiatorial sport, and the future we envisage will be a high tech, high performance showcase that excites fans like no other sport.»

What loss or draw this season or last could we hold our heads high after a gladiatorial battle on the pitch?

It will further encourage political parties to choose a certain kind of leader who can dominate a gladiatorial politics rather than one who, perhaps, is best skilled at building a broadly - based party.

What we got in that selection was all that is wrong with these gladiatorial - style contests.

So, who in the political space will next jump into this new gladiatorial arena?

That's why Cameron wouldn't go into the TV arena for a gladiatorial fight to the death.

In 2002, the Magna Science Centre in South Yorkshire witnessed a surprising event: a two foot tall robot, Gaak, escaped from a gladiatorial experiment with learning robots.

Critics decry the gladiatorial, adversarial nature of the session.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

Gladiatorial schools purchased the finest physical specimens and then spent months or years training them in armed and unarmed combat.

At conferences she's first onto the microphone after every talk, jumping on the speaker with gladiatorial fervour.

«Miscenius Ampilatus makes [this] in Salonae» reads a baking mold found in modern - day Croatia that was used to make bread or cakes sold during gladiatorial games.

So ingrained were gladiatorial games in Roman culture that senior government officials dug into their own pockets and emptied public purses to stage them.

The Romans loved to be entertained, and few things riveted them more than the spectacle of gladiatorial combat.

It focuses on a team of players that are in a gladiatorial type game of capture the flag (or tower in this case).

But first, the Asgardian prince must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest against a friend and fellow Avenger who was last seen rocketing into outer space aboard a Quinjet at the end of 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Gary Ross played it too safe with the first installment, only vaguely sketching the story's dystopic setting and questionably delivering a bloodless blockbuster about kids forced to kill kids in gladiatorial combat for the reality TV era.

The copious action sequences range from goofy, bizarre, and brutal as needed, with the gladiatorial battle royale between Thor and the Hulk ticking off all of the boxes.

The green goombah pops up at the 50 - minute mark, first grappling with Thor in a gladiatorial contest after both are imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, a place ruled by the Grandmaster, a mumbling psychedelic thrill - seeker who is more than one toke over the line.

Synopsis: Imprisoned on the other side of the universe, the mighty Thor finds himself in a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against the Hulk, his former ally and fellow Avenger.

The star player of a gladiatorial future sport is ordered to retire by the corporate executives who see his popularity as a threat to their totalitarian grip on society, but when he resists they begin to change the rules of the game to ensure his failure.

There were other mysteries and not a few hypocrisies: the filmmakers who adapted the book shrugged off the gladiatorial issues implicit in the spectacle.

But his first attempt to stop her fails: He's deprived of his all - powerful hammer, and winds up imprisoned on Sakaar, a distant planet where he's forced into gladiatorial combat against his old friend the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), who doesn't seem to recognize him.

Played by Jeff Goldblum with all of his quizzical, hesitant Jeff Goldblum - ishness, and sporting a golden wizard's outfit that would have been rejected as being over-the-top by Elton John in the 1970s, The Grandmaster forces Thor to take part in a brutal gladiatorial contest, but the thunder god runs into two people who might just help him get back to Asgard: a mysterious warrior (Tessa Thompson) with a link to his past, and his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

However, Kit Harington doesn't quite create the same distance from a certain brother of the Nightswatch, with his Celt Milo just becoming Jon Snow in a Gladiatorial arena.

Synopsis: Slave - turned - fighter Milo (Kit Harington) is shipped to Pompeii to take part in a Gladiatorial battle.

The Gladiatorial bouts are breathtakingly brutal, made all the more immersive by the 3D which is less «throw things out the screen», and more about enriching the environment of the film.

But before Thor saves his Asgardian civilization, he has to survive the deadly gladiatorial fight against Hulk without his hammer.

Then he's been captured by a bounty hunter named Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) on a strange planet called Sakaar, given a haircut and forced to compete in gladiatorial combat against Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), which is controlled by a man called The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) who's hanging around with his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

And even if boxing, in its very nature, is a barbaric, gladiatorial pastime, and cinematic depictions continue to struggle with new ways to broaden its possibilities (this year's Southpaw is a great example of familiarity's hindrance), Creed is a rarity in that it matches its own paranoia on notions of legacy and manages to be a mighty successor to an iconic cinematic heirloom.

Rise of the Argonauts immerses gamers in a gladiatorial adventure, set in wondrously imagined vision of ancient Greece.

The story itself is also true to history, with some acceptable liberties taken for the film: Commodus really was a dangerous madman, and he really was in the habit of fighting in the gladiatorial arena.

But everything about this part of the film is beautifully done, from the gritty realism of the gladiatorial school, to the touch of bitter irony in the gladiators catering to the crowd's thirst for blood, to the build - up as the story takes us all the way to Rome and the Colosseum.

He's then sold to a gladiatorial school in North Africa where he proves to be an unparalleled killer.