Sentences with phrase «as gladiatorial»

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

Not exact matches

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.»

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

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

Director Ridley Scott is best known for large scale alien encounters and gladiatorial conflicts, but here he proves just as adept at handling the subtle characterisation involved in an awkward (but loving) father - daughter relationship — as well as pulling off a complicated scam.

And for the climax, Mann stages a glorious mano - a-mano gladiatorial combat amidst a grotesque celebration in the Roman forum as decadent as any Cecil B. DeMille pagan spectacle.

This gladiatorial spectacle always leads to death for the challengers, but as trailers have already revealed, Thor thinks he's caught a break when he discovers the reigning champion is none other than the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), the monstrous green alter ego of his friend and fellow Avenger Bruce Banner.

Taking the same basic premise — a despotic government that keeps its citizens in poverty and reminds them of its power by drafting the young into a modern gladiatorial ring to kill or be killed on TV — this one digs deeper into the idea of power and control and the way media is used as a tool of oppression.

Every Friday, as the new releases are sluiced out, advertised in flashing neon over the box office of your local multiplex, it's become a case of picking one film and catching the other one later, if at all — it's like movies are pitted against one another in gladiatorial combat.

Opening track «Overture» is momentous and gladiatorial, like Vangelis doing Hans Zimmer; from there you'll be locked in to your laptop, as we descend into the glitch and fuzz of a computer motherboard brought to sonic life.

Also, the first official look at Tessa Thompson as fellow Avenger member Valkyrie along with Thor's new gladiatorial look.

But as the final match degenerates into a gory gladiatorial battle, viewers may feel Rollerball is more an exploitation of violence than condemnation.

This is tactical mistake in the story department, as the intrigue of political scheming and the bloody display of gladiatorial battle far outweigh familial sentiment, and it makes one impatient.

Black Swan: Only tutus and pointe shoes separate the dainty stage in Darren Aronofsky's eagerly anticipated new mindfuck from the gladiatorial ring of The Wrestler as an arena for contorted bodies and obsessed souls.

Wade / Deadpool thinks of the unruly teen as a surrogate son; he also needs help protecting him, so he forms his own X-Force, including the gladiatorial Shatterstar (Lewis Tan), the acid - vomiting Zeitgeist (It's Bill Skarsgard), and the mind - bending Bedlam (Terry Crews).

Further complaints: Miguel Gomes is insistent that his «Arabian Nights» is three separate films and not one linked trilogy, which makes its inclusion as a single fourth - place entity a modest cheat, and that five - way ties at 14th place are just begging to be broken up by some form of gladiatorial combat.

The action role - playing game will support up to two players and will feature gladiatorial combat against other combatants and animals, such as bulls and elephants.

Take a walk up the Spanish Steps, see the sight of many infamous gladiatorial battles at the mighty Colosseum, take in some of the most revered artworks in the world by the likes of Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael and Michelangelo as you tour world famous galleries and museums, or explore the country within a country with a visit to Vatican City - home to St Peter's Basilica.

The game does support multiplayer as you can join a friend in co-op at the Colosseum for classic gladiatorial waves of enemies.

As we speak, thousands of men, women and children of all ages are forcing elemental critters to do gladiatorial battle, with Pokemon Black and White releasing last Friday and taking first and second place in the UK All - Formats Top 40.

When Joan entered the «gladiatorial» atmosphere of the infamous Cedar Tavern — hangout of Pollock, de Kooning, and the rest — she found herself groped as a sex object, like all the other women, but had the guts to grope back.

(PDF) Don't think of your expert as a participant in gladiatorial combat with your opponent's expert.

As dispute resolution adopts different forms and emphases, the gladiatorial method of legal combat is looking increasingly old fashioned.

Birth control: Health probably shouldn't be much of a governmental issue beyond ensuring and encouraging, but policymakers have managed to turn this basic human right into a gladiatorial arena; women in particular must watch on as their bodies are politicized rather than humanized.