Sentences with phrase «as gunpowder»

Throughout the adventure, various resources such as gunpowder, fuses, and herbs can be found or picked up from fallen enemies.

The city got its start during World War I when the federal government established it as a gunpowder manufacturing center, hence its name.

Waging her own more private battle for equality, however, is Frankie George, a trouser - wearing, bicycle - riding journalist about to get caught up in a conspiracy potentially as explosive as the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, 300 years previously.

Founded in 1802 as a gunpowder mill, DuPont is now the fourth largest chemical company in the world based on market capitalization as of 2017.

Not exact matches

Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire or Fireworks Night, is a celebration of the arrest of Guy Fawkes, who was guarding a stash of gunpowder in an assassination plot against King James 1.

Another name for the capital you have in the bank is «dry powder,» as in dry gunpowder your soldiers can use to kill and maim your enemies — and win the war.

Should we be taking profits when we are up a bit and either holding onto the dry gunpowder with the hopes of a drop (Something I personally do not plan on doing as nobody knows where the market will go) or should we cycle through our gains into cyclical industries that may be struggling at the moment?

One particular analogy I like is to think of it as financial dynamite, or gunpowder.

Back in 1968, the Conservative right wing Member of Parliament Enoch Powell made an infamous speech in which he described the race policies of the then government as «throwing a match on to gunpowder».

The earliest rockets were solid fuelled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese in warfare as early as the 13th century.

But as armor began to become obsolete in the 1600s with the invention of gunpowder, the greaves and sabatons were the first things to go.

They use saltpeter to accomplish this (chemically known as potassium nitrate) which is also used to make fireworks and gunpowder, and even dissolve tree stumps.

By focusing on the internal machinations of Catesby and his Protestant antagonists, Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.

The main plot revolves around Po (voiced by Jack Black) and the Five on a mission to stop a warlord who has discovered that, as well as fireworks, gunpowder can be made to propel cannonballs; and is threatening to conquer China using his new weapons.

The bulk of Gunpowder is a reasonably exciting costume drama combining history and suspense, with fine performances by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss as the King's vindictive secretary of state and Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake, Ozark) as Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest sympathetic to Catesby's efforts.

Her work as a writer includes the short film «Intersection» and the feature film Paper Chase (Gunpowder & Sky) which will shoot this summer.

Acquired by Gunpowder & Sky, the indie has brought in just over $ 1.5 million while playing as wide as 114 theaters starting at the end of June.

Below is the first trailer for Gunpowder & Sky's Tragedy Girls, a biting satire about social media stardom — think of it as a modern - day Clueless, only these girls murder people... and tweet about it.

Other deals included The Orchard and MoviePass picking up the ripped - from - real - life crime story «American Animals» for North America; Saban landing Chloë Sevigny's bloody turn as Lizzie Borden in «Lizzie»; and studio Gunpowder & Sky grabbing Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons» quirky «Hearts Beat Loud.»

Noted Meyer: «It was important to us to have a theatrical run before Netflix streams it worldwide later this summer and we found a great partner in Film Buff, who was acquired by Gunpowder and Sky right as we were finalizing our deal with them.

Use these resources to support learning of any topic connected to fireworks such as Bonfire night, Divali or The Gunpowder Plot.

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Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

It was hard to say how much they paid for her in Ouidah as she was part of a bulk purchase, eighty - eight human souls for sixty crates of rum and gunpowder, the price arrived upon after the standard haggling in Coast English.

In it I explored the use of gunpowder weapons in science fiction, notably in the movie Aliens but also on occasion even in places like the original Star Trek (where admittedly, they were described as antiques).

I named my first pup Gunpowder as it fit his personality perfectly.

Get the gunpowder ready as Super Bomberman R is heading to PC on June 12th!

As a port of the last March's iOS game, Rogue Rocket Games» Gunpowder now tasks PC players with creating snaking trails of the eponymous explosive.

Play as Incendio, our hero, armed with your wits and a keg of gunpowder to liberate the town's gold from the evil Boss Grimshaw in this explosive new puzzle game!

Certain engrams require specific workbenches and things to build, such as you need a mortar and pestle to make gunpowder or tranquilizer, a smithy to build things with metal, and a fabricator to build more complicated things like electronics.

Crafting plays an important part in survival as you can combine herbs, gunpowder and other raw materials with Chem - fluid, creating vital resources such as health and ammo.

Gunpowder, grass, jasmine, pine, pollution, and patchouli are some of the odors wafting around galleries, museums, and studios these days as artists incorporate scent into the esthetic experience.

For a year she experimented with darkroom techniques before discovering a 19th - century process that would allow her to use gunpowder as a pigment.

«Portrait of American Pop artist Edward Ruscha as he poses with several of his «Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings», New York, NY, December 9, 1967» is on display in the exhibition «Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words».

This element of the installation is an exciting and somewhat subversive reference to the renovation of the space into a gallery, highlighting as it does the hybridisation of styles that the Serpentine Sackler itself displays: the original gunpowder store's red - brick functionality, with its classicised facade, and the organic white plastic and glass extension attached to its left side by Zaha Hadid Architects, 208 years later.

Everyone now recognises names such as the towering Ai Wei Wei and Cai Guo - Qiang's gunpowder - inspired pieces.

As a student, Cai made works consisting of stick - figure or abstract patterns in oil and burnt gunpowder, giving him a place in the experimental ferment preceding the»85 New Wave.

In his gunpowder drawings and outdoor explosion events, the Chinese multimedia artist Cai Guo - Qiang aims to «investigate both the destructive and the constructive nature of gunpowder, and to look at how destruction can create something as well.»

The entire gallery, previously a 19th - century gunpowder store, reverberates with the film's soundtrack: music as diverse as Bach's Erbarme Dich and Randy Newman's I think It's Going to Rain Today, along with swearing, shouting and exaggerated sounds of drinks being put down and cigarettes being rolled — noises of everyday life writ large.

And Warhol turns up here again and again, as does Ed Ruscha — starting with the word Safety painted in gunpowder.

Coton Tige (2015), a cotton cloud pierced with wooden stakes, was made in response to the site and in particular to the history of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, which was built in 1805, and was originally designed as a munitions store for the safe - keeping of gunpowder during the Napoleonic wars.

There will be curriculum - related panel discussions address topics such as «Logistics of Dual Credit, Articulations and Partnerships,» alongside artist presentations and demonstrations, including a lunchtime lecture from Summer 2014 Artpace International Artist - in - Residence Margaret Meehan, and studio - based workshops involving gunpowder media, digital animation, fiber arts and more.

His gunpowder and graphite drawings (made during a period of self - imposed exile from painting from 1967 to 1970)[15] feature single words depicted in a trompe l'oeil technique, as if the words are formed from ribbons of curling paper.

That Cai has never become conversant in English — his studio assistants interpret for him — reinforces his ongoing status as a migrant within the global art system Since establishing New York as his base of operations, Cai has continued to produce explosion events, gunpowder drawings, installations, and social projects and participate in biennials, group exhibitions, and solo exhibitions in cities around the world.

Opening this week at Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue location, «Custum - Built Intrigue: Drawings 1974 — 1984» exhibits a collection of drawings made in the middle of Ruscha's career, when his word works matured following the artist's exploration of language and experimentation with unconventional pigmentation — such as syrup and gunpowder.

Pritzker Prize - winning architect Zaha Hadid has transformed the interior of the Magazine building - a 200 - year - old former gunpowder store - and added a curvaceous new extension as a contemporary counterpoint.

Cai first came to the attention in the West for his spectacular use of gunpowder as an artistic medium.

Cai Guo - Qiang, Chinese pyrotechnical artist known for his dramatic installations and for using gunpowder as a medium.

Though partially blinded by a gunpowder explosion as a boy, Johann König opened his own gallery in 2002, when he was only 21.

The event is commemorated in England as Guy Fawkes Day (or Bonfire Day), because he was the man actually found standing over the barrels of gunpowder.