Sentences with phrase «as ruffian»

Bare - chested on the dust jacket of The Holy Barbarians — Lawrence Lipton's classic account of the Beat scene around Venice Beach, ca. 1959 — John Altoon was cast as a ruffian, a role that stuck.

Beginning as the ruffian son of Italian immigrants, Louis finds himself inspired by his older brother's advice, «If you can take it, you can make it,» carrying that mantra with him through years of performance feat as a track and field runner.

Not exact matches

In a sense the shocking breakdown of Go for Wand in the 1990 Breeders» Cup Distaff at Belmont, as she and Bayakoa went hammer and tongs 100 yards from the wire, poisoned the well even more deeply than Ruffian's demise, since Go for Wand went down deep in the stretch, in full view of everyone, and then tried to stand on a foot that flapped around grotesquely as she bounded in a panic in front of the horrified crowds that filled the grandstand.

Egan's characters were Englishmen of every sort: swells and clinchpoops, champions as revered as Tom Cribb and Jem Belcher, personages as marginal as Jack (the Young Ruffian) Fearby and «Big» Ben Brain.

Couldn't some ruffian pose as you, take your key and crawl into the bed in your hotel room?

I never want to be parted from this.2) Diaphanous Tunic — Super cute and versatile, I bought it in all three colorways.3) Translucent Initial Necklace — I've worn this almost every day since I got mine, and bought more as Xmas gifts for all my best friends.4) Dusky Needlework Dress — No blog love for this, but I thought the fit was stunning, enough so that I got it at full price.5) The Ruffian collaboration tights — all of them!

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Michael Keaton, «The Company» Kevin Kline, «As You Like It» — WINNER Oliver Platt, «The Bronx is Burning» Sam Shepard, «Ruffian» John Turturro, «The Bronx is Burning»

Chris Hemsworth as Huntsman: After two movies dressed up as comic Norse god Thor and now this, the charm of Hemsworth carrying a big weapon and a wise - ass ruffian attitude is starting to lose its muscle.

Not much is known about the four - player co-op shooter known as Hollowpoint, but Paradox Interactive and Ruffian Games are releasing a new story trailer to offer up some new details.

Alas, there's no attempt to present Bishop as a charismatic ruffian whose evil has been sponsored by some higher power.

Her phrase «ruffian» is a pun, as «ruff» is a noise a dog makes, and a ruffian is a person who appears untidy.

What a lovely day indeed, in this post-apocalyptic Australian outback, where bands of ruffians riding improbable motor - vehicle contraptions are trying to catch you as soon as you let your guard down.

These points can specifically be spent during the ongoing match for temporary use of ruffians, star hunters or heroes / villains such as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or Boba Fett.

Certainly, they're from Australia and we've come to associate the platypus or the wallaby with cuteness, but these animals have such vile human characteristics as drunkenness and murderous rage that the reader quickly forgets that these are animals and not ruthless ruffians.

He had hired the first unshaven ruffian who grasped his sleeve and offered himself as a guide.

On May 1, Dr. Norm Ducharme, James Law Professor of Large Animal Surgery at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), will be taking over as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists (CRES), A Cornell University affiliate center for equine sports medicine & critical care, located in Elmont, N.Y.

Clinical Sciences faculty are responsible for many programs independent of the department such as Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists, Cornell Veterinary Biobank, Estimated Breeding Values (EBV's), Equine Performance Clinic, Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research, and the Swanson Wildlife Health Clinic.

She also currently serves as a Large Animal Staff Surgeon for the Cornell University Hospital for Animals in Ithaca, NY and an Equine Surgeon at Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists in Elmont, NY.

As part of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists» (CRES) Hospital provides state - of - the - art surgical, imaging, diagnostic, and rehabilitation services to enhance equine health.

Ruffian are also beefing up the multiplayer aspect's of Crackdown by throwing in a 4 player co-op and a 16 player multiplayer that will include the standard Deathmatch game's and other game mode's such as Rocket Tag.

This time around Ruffian have tried to inject a little direction though as each new set of Absorption Units that you must activate flash up on the map but you're still at perfect liberty to wander around and find the others first.

Among the new staff is former Free Radical network programmer Rob Cowsill, who joins Ruffian as its newest Senior Engineer.

That shift from triple - A to other models globally has left Rockstar North and Ruffian as the bastions of traditional console gaming in Scotland, and fostered a spirit of nimbleness that the nation's developers seem particularly comfortable with.

In the Alola region, a group of ruffians known as Team Skull causes a lot of trouble.

[Quotations as in Cordingly's Billy Ruffian, since it is to hand; but the best treatment of those days is Gilbert Martineau's Napoleon Surrenders.]