Sentences with phrase «as playing dead»

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Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

This craze ended up with a 32 - page training manual, detailed care instructions filled with jokes and gags, such as commands like «playing dead.»

and Ezekiel in one of his most splendid passages deliberately played on the word's double meaning as he pictured the spiritual resuscitation of his dead nation: «Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.»

But where God plays no vital role in human experience and vision, he is either nonexistent, as for the Buddhist, or dead, as for the modern Christian.

From the first introduction of Bartleby as «pallid,» to his imprisonment in «the Tombs,» to the postscript's rumor of «dead letters,» Melville plays with common phrases that mention death, restoring to these dead metaphors more and more of their original morbid meaning.

If freedom of speech is made contingent on some other person deciding whether what you are saying is sufficiently logical to pass muster, then it is as good as dead and we non-believers will have played a critical role in destroying what we are supposed to be defending: freedom.

And as to the evening, which child would drop dead first if father had time to play anything, let alone parchesi?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Bernthal — who's probably best known for his role as Shane on The Walking Dead — will play vigilante anti-hero The Punisher (aka Frank Castle) in season two.

the earth just like the «tops» you played with as a child will eventually slow down that the earth will spend a day with one side facing the sun... however by the time that happens humans would have been dead for a few billion years.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

I feel so bad for this self - serving diva who had every opportunity handed to her but instead selfishly played the «me» card and is now dead, just as she new she would be.

When Emily Webb, in Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, comes back from the dead to the town of her childhood and finds her mother and father and all her long - dead acquaintances still «alive» and the town and its environs the same as when she was a child, she begs to go back to the grave.

Like this morning, I was just playing a brain - dead (as Pierre calls it because it's not only addictive but it drains your brain juice) online game like Bejeweled, out of the blue all the emotions, thoughts, recent conversations hit me just like that making me smiles and laugh at my childhood memories & fantasies that I have somewhat forgotten; reminding me what it was like to be a child the same age as my daughter.

Like, if you're gonna play dead wood, you might as well play dead wood that might still improve somewhat.

its Money cause if it was trophy's it have be Man City my guess I think pep don't like how Sanchez is acting if I was Man City fan I wouldn't want him I use love Sanchez but he's true colors are showing arsenal have try offer nice package now I think he's been bit greedy with everything but who can blame him we're shambles from top too bottom I don't care where he goes I don't care we're ozil goes and by looking at lacasette he looks like he wants out as promises have been broke he came play with Sanchez and ozil and he gets welbeck and iwobi not fair really, I just want wenger gone because them players are not playing for him a lot is not rite and we as fans are paying for it but I don't care anymore don't care who leaves who comes in club is dead watch Liverpool yesterday boy was I envy ahwell let's see what happens

ORL has Vucevic and a pupu platter at PG — they would probably go with Doncic DAL has DSJ at PG but need to reload at Center as Noel is dead to them and they have something named Maximilian Kleber playing bigtime minutes at the position — they probably go with a big, but is Ayton in their top spot??

Wow... How that stayed zero zero I have no idea... But that was a lesson in how to play passing and pressing football... May as well bring on ox and giroud for Walcott and Ramsey as this is a must win game and wi only do it on counter or from a dead ball

Although the game is a dead rubber, Wenger has made it clear that he will still be playing his experienced reserves to give them a little more match fitness ahead of our congested fixture list in the rest of this month, so it is certain that our front line will consist of Wilshere, Walcott and Giroud again, although I expect Welbeck to be given a run out as well at some point.

Hopefully, we won't let the opposition grow into the game & then concede a draw... Please Arsenal, if we can't play well at the Emirates, we're as good as dead!

We currently have Giroud as the fully fit 1st team striker, super Sanchez playing from anywhere has scored a lot more goals and don't talk about injuries, even if you take them game for game Giroud is dead in comparison.

As for Arizona State, they're always dead to me (Bear Down), but, in late October when they were playing a beat - up USC squad at home and getting +5.5, I let my guard down and put a little taste on the Sun Devils.

Apparently that sharp money was dead on as San Francisco dominated Green Bay — though the final 30 - 22 score was far from indicative of this one - sided play.

It is not a completely dead rubber after all as the Gunners do need to make sure that we don't have to play two nervy and unwanted games at the start of next season in order to secure a place in the Champions League group phase, and unlikely it may be there is still an outside chance of finishing above Tottenham in the Premier League table, which Arsene Wenger admits is only of value to us fans as bragging rights but still a worthwhile goal at that.

The everton game can also e viewed as a stepping stone, its actually a game that can inspire us to become champions, dead and buried for 83 minutes with a 2 goal deficit and we manage to get a point, quite reminiscent of the Manu glory days winning and getting a point when not playing well.

Quite like Aubameyang as a Podolski replacement, can play anywhere along front 3, good finisher, decent passer, good dead - ball player and massively rapid.

it will never change as long as the oldest dead wood is still our manager, even if he signs the players we need he would still play them out of position or not play them at all just so his favourites get game time even if its hurting the team

Langston Rogers, who served as Bull Cyclone's aide - de-camp and is now the sports information director at Ole Miss, swears that on one occasion when the coach got mad at the officials, he blustered onto the field between plays, right up to the line of scrimmage, and booted the ball 30 yards, soccer style, dead through the uprights.

Normally Marchand isn't afraid to chirp back at fans, possessing a sharp wit that matches his cutting playing style, but this time he stares dead ahead, eyes darting as Boston goes on the penalty kill.

He then continued and after the play was dead clearly pushed Shabaz to the ground as well.

He failed to get rid of his dead wood as they are very poor players as he is keeping Debuchy for three years without playing a single game and he bought Lucas few moth ago for # 17m and failed to sell him even for # 13m and sent him on loan.

«Beast mode» is overrated now — 2 players enter the same postcode and a foul is called and play stopped, tackling is as good as dead — timing, technique, stamina, tenacity and intelligence trump size all day every day.

Kansas City has been the poster child of average on offense as they.1 above what their foes normally allow rushing the ball, but.2 below passing yards per attempt and dead even in yards per play.

I didn't expect to read about how the squad travelling to Switzerland to play in the effective dead rubber tonight would be the same as the weekend.

A major inspiration for SPACE (as well as Rogers Park's Morse Theatre) was the 1970s coffeehouse Amazingrace, which drew such performers as the Grateful Dead, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bonnie Koloc, Asleep at the Wheel, Pat Metheny and Jim Post (who also played SPACE) to Evanston.

as a kid i used to play with bugs in my yard and collect the dead ones (okay, maybe that part was weird), but it was something i really loved and that post reminded me of how great our 6 legged friends can be.

But because some entities like Obasanjo were deemed to weighty to lose despite their atrocities against the party, they brought Jonathan to His knees, Publicly ridiculed their platform of accent by ultimately tearing their membership card and even met Sheriff in the heat of the crisis and publicly pronounced that «PDP IS DEAD» as if he was God as he usually plays.

Just as you ask in that ultra-dark play, Madmen, who is the madman and who is the specialist, you begin to wonder, in this morbid fever: who is the dead and who is the living!

Worms will play a crucial role in this system as they break down and recycle dead organic matter.

musical and artistic — I play percussion in a band — been a glassblower on and off for 17 years — I love gardening and the grateful dead — I am writing a book about my experience touring with the band in the late 80s and playing drums in drum circles across the country as a teenager — I live...

I enjoy playing RPGs such as Fallout and Elder Scrolls, I also enjoy shooters such as the Half - Life series, Left 4 Dead, Brink, and others.

After debuting onscreen in a bit as a bellboy in Dead Heat on a Merry - Go - Round (1966), he played secondary roles, typically a cowboy, in several films of the late»60s and in such TV series as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, and Ironside.

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

As Prince T'Challa, Boseman plays the latest Wakandan leader to don the catsuit, a matte - black onesie that receives a nice upgrade courtesy of his tech - savvy sister, Shuri (scene - stealer Letitia Wright, whose irreverent delivery makes a welcome counterbalance to Boseman's dead - serious attitude).

Chiselled new kid Macht plays the rookie cop from the mean streets, murdered then mysteriously raised from the dead as the invincible titular crimestopper.

No offense to Chris Klein and Mena Suvari, but their characters felt like dead weight by the second film, as did those played by Tara «I'll suck your cock for 1000 $» Reid and Shannon Elizabeth.

Hudd first came to serious critical attention with his portrayal of Guildenstern in a 1925 modern - dress production of Hamlet, and he later became a theatrical star in the play Too Good To Be True, in the role of Private Meek, a character modeled after T.E. Lawrence; as surviving photos from the production reveal, in costume he was a near dead - ringer for the real - life Lawrence.

Here, it's his father whose death haunts him, although as played by Patinkin, the character isn't already dead, with the drama here coming from the prospect of losing him.

Bettany, who played an imaginary friend to Russell Crowe in that Oscar - winning movie, spends much of «Creation» chatting with a ghostly vision of dead daughter Annie as he struggles to complete «On the Origin of Species» and his wife looks on.

While Z Nation (or as I prefer to think of it, The Running Dead) doesn't exactly play the gory low - budget mayhem for campy laughter, it's hard not to roll, or possibly cover, one's eyes at something this familiar and deeply shallow, with casting mostly so generic — with the exception of Lost's Harold Perrineau as a Delta Force soldier barking orders — that they're all so much chum in this kill - or - be-eaten apocalypse.

If I'd come out of Dead Island with a burning desire for more Dead Island, Riptide would go down a lot easier, but since that original game started out strong and just got weaker as it wore on, playing through another 15 hours of almost exactly the same thing, when the first one already felt like more than enough, instead just becomes a tiresome exercise.