Sentences with phrase «as harpies»

[14] That same year Elaine de Kooning wrote about Bloom in ARTnews, noting that in paintings such as The Harpies, his work approached total abstraction: «the whole impact is carried in the boiling action of the pigment».

Use spell cards to fight legendary monsters (such as Harpies, Cygors, and Exalted Bloodthirsters) or mystically have them fight by your side!

Or in a salon, wincing as some harpy shrieks at her hairdresser for keeping her waiting an extra ten minutes.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of the forests and wetlands would be cleared for the canal, destroying the habitats and food sources of already endangered species such as the Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), the harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) and the jaguar (Panthera onca), a creature of mystical importance to Mesoamerican cultures.

The assailant, who appears to be not much older than Kinsey, looks right back at her and summons her best sickie - harpy grin as she says, -LSB-...]

The assailant, who appears to be not much older than Kinsey, looks right back at her and summons her best sickie - harpy grin as she says, «Why not?»

Yet when Barney's grown son, Michael, describes him as «a miserable ungrateful prick,» it seems a tad harsh given the preceding material, in which Barney's affection for, and jealousy over, Miriam seems born from genuine affection, not to mention the depiction of his previous two spouses as shrill, repugnant harpies.

Tormented by his seven harpy sisters, treated as a joke by his business associates, he radiates the aura of a beaten puppy.

Allen stacks the deck by both casting Gil's fiancé Inez (Rachel McAdams) as his materialistic - harpy opposite, and by giving her a transparent perfect match in pseudo-intellectual blowhard Paul (Michael Sheen).

It's to the film's credit that Jill never comes off as a shrill, nagging harpy when she brings up the topic of making wedding plans.

Even less appealing is his partner in executive treachery (and lover), played by Theron as a snappish hypersexualized harpy who the screenwriters have seen fit to saddle with dialogue larded with profanity seemingly for profanity's sole smutty sake.

His character is one of the film's more complicated — as the evil harpy boss, Sigourney Weaver is similarly fantastic.

Rauch, a pint - size actress with forceful energy, is very funny as a two - for - one spoof of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding — a onetime champion who has devolved into a small - town harpy with an outdated haircut.

For a century, the wife of the mighty author of War and Peace has most often been portrayed as a nagging, materialistic harpy, but The Last Station tells the story of Leo Tolstoy's last year from a refreshing new perspective.

With your two companions taking hearty swings at a massive Cyclops as you climb up its back to stab its eye out — not to mention the swaths of NPC combatants massing behind you, anxious to join the fray — it's fair to say that the battles in Dogma tend more towards baroque chaos than, say, Geralt's more - considered clashes with harpies and bandits.

Only Elizabeth Banks seems to be having fun, reveling in her role as an aggressively fuchsia harpy of a chaperone.

Large raptors, such as ornate hawk - eagles, black - and - chestnut eagles, and harpy eagles, also are known to hunt them.

6 natural Eco-systems have been identified in the park and it protects endangered species such as the jaguar, puma, crocodile, tapir, poison dart and golden frogs and the harpy eagle.

As we soldiered on through a cavernous area by stabbing harpies and using them as a short - distance flying assistant to reach platforms, the graphical qualities of this beast really started to pop ouAs we soldiered on through a cavernous area by stabbing harpies and using them as a short - distance flying assistant to reach platforms, the graphical qualities of this beast really started to pop ouas a short - distance flying assistant to reach platforms, the graphical qualities of this beast really started to pop out.

Using the harpies as what are essentially floating platforms is pretty funny.

You also have a lot more to deal with during the actual DPS phase, you have to worry about using all the Cannons as well as shooting your teammates out of the traps as well as making sure others are shooting the kamikaze harpies.

There was also a seemingly promising video game company I knew of that went bankrupt and closed down because the CEO did basically the exact same thing as the above - mentioned person: Destroyed their lives over some harpy they met on an online game.

The trailer showcases some of the combat mechanics, such as the use of bows and arrows and abilities like dodging and tripping up adversaries, and gives glimpses of several of the games enemies, such as skeletons, harpies, lizardmen, and a large and menacing Cyclops.

Hell: As Hell's cauldrons fill with the blood of your slothy victims, fire harpies will be summoned to claim the living.

Unfortunately, her housemates included Jade Goody as plug - ugly ringleader of a triumvirate of foul - mouthed, spotty, farting, peroxide, bitching harpies who had it in for Shilpa from the start.