Sentences with phrase «as the warriors held»

Not exact matches

As the story goes, some warriors walked into the water with the right hand held high and dry.

Though I do like this as a running gag, like the new «Did you know the Warriors blew a 3 - 1 lead in the NBA Finals:» Please hold an «IS NEBRASKA GOOD?»

The Warriors are still listed as 8 - point road favorites, with the total holding steady at 206.

Memphis was held to 40 second - half points as the Warriors improved to 5 - 0 this postseason.

As we approach the trade deadline, those leans were proven to be accurate with the Cavs (38 - 14) holding a three - game lead in the Eastern Conference and the Warriors (48 - 4) leading the Western Conference by 3.5 games.

With colleagues there and at China's Hebei University, Chang wondered whether military weaponry and paraphernalia hold the same seductive value as antlers, horns and risky behavior, allowing warriors to best nonwarriors in the competition for mates.

Jan Storå, who holds the senior position on this study, reflects over the history of the material: «This burial was excavated in the 1880ies and has served as a model of a professional Viking warrior ever since.

I was shocked as I broke a sweat while holding Warrior 1.

What's really being commemorated in this pose's name, and held up as an ideal for all practitioners, is the «spiritual warrior,» who bravely does battle with the universal enemy, self - ignorance (avidya), the ultimate source of all our suffering.

Yogic postures like balancing on one leg, warrior poses, holding downward dogs and doing handstands can build tremendous strength in the limbs as a yoga kids learn to use their own body weight to balance.

Follow Afro Samurai as he fights to become the number one warrior, a title currently held by Justice, the man who killed Afro's father when he was a child.

Whether playing a butch serial killer (her Oscar - winning turn as Aileen Wuornos in Monster), a gun - toting warrior (as in Mad Max: Fury Road) or a svelte and lethal spy (as in last year's Atomic Blonde), she hurls herself into her roles, holding absolutely nothing back.

In the case of One Piece Pirate Warriors 3, it looks vastly superior to the PS Vita version in portable mode as seen with our comparison, and the frame rate also holds up well even though it is not perfect either.

A nation with more than 2,000 years of history, Japan was firmly rooted in a tradition of honor and obedience that held the emperor as a figure chosen by heaven, at whose command young warriors would gladly sacrifice their lives.

The rest of the cast easily hold their own against the two leads, including Lupita Nyong» o (12 Years a Slave) as Nakia, a warrior princess who is T'Challa's main love interest; Danai Gurira (Michonne on AMC's The Walking Dead) as Okoye, the head of Wakandan security; Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) as W'Kabi, a disgruntled prince; the aforementioned Wright and Serkis; and Martin Freeman (Bilbo in the recent Hobbit films) as a CIA officer who unexpectedly finds himself fighting alongside T'Challa and his family.

John Connolly, played by Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus), grew up on the same streets as Bulger and wasn't really corrupted by money but instead by a little brother like affection and admiration that he held for the gangster.

Luke and Leia are spotlighted in especially dramatic scenes in «Last Jedi,» in which the young warrior Rey (Daisy Ridley) seeks Jedi training as Poe (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega) and Rose (newcomer Kelly Marie Tran) help the Resistance try to hold off the First Order as led by Snoke (Andy Serkis) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver).

Berserk has been around as a manga series since the late»80s so let's see how it holds up as a Dynasty Warriors style adventure.

As an Amazonian Warrior she fights with her indestructible gauntlets which allow her to defect almost anything they strike, a mystical sword and shield, and the Lasso of Truth: an indestructible lasso that drains the strength of any one it holds and forces them to speak the truth when questioned.

- first 30 mins or so can be confusing if you haven't played the demo - Yew Geneolgia is the leader of the Three Cavaliers, who guide the Crystalguard into battle - mission of the Crystalguard is to Protect pope Agnes Oblige from harm at all costs - Agnes is captured by this game's new villain, Kaiser Oblivion - together with Cryst - Fairy Anne, they hatch a plan that becomes more apparent as you move along - one of Yew's longterm partners, Janne, has betrayed everyone and actually works for this newly formed Empire - he killed most of the remaining Crystalguard - Yew finds the final member Nikolai of the Cavaliers before his death and requests of him to simply walk away - Yew is determined to bring Agnes back from the airship she is being held captive on - Yew is young and gets easily scared - Edea Lee from the previous game returns - Magnolia Arch, a Ba'al Buster warrior who claims to come from the moon also appears - between lines of English dialogue, she speaks lines of French as well - there is a long chat between all three characters about how adventuring and camping can be a ton of fun - Party Chat makes its return, and seems a bit more humorous this time - Tiz Arrior will also join your team - some things in Luxendarc have changed since the last game - the world is more united against this common threat - if you beat all enemies in a single turn, it enables the «Bring It On!»

And just like the previous games in the Shadow Warrior franchise, the developer doesn't hold back on the blood and guts as the new game features an advanced gore system that even allows you to perform precise blade swipes to sever specific body parts if you're feeling especially sadistic.

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

As much as I adored my cute little warrior, I still wasn't sure if she would be able to hold my attention long enough to prevent my latest experience with Final Fantasy from falling aparAs much as I adored my cute little warrior, I still wasn't sure if she would be able to hold my attention long enough to prevent my latest experience with Final Fantasy from falling aparas I adored my cute little warrior, I still wasn't sure if she would be able to hold my attention long enough to prevent my latest experience with Final Fantasy from falling apart.

Marius becomes a signature warrior that destroys any man who dares hold a sword against him and climbs to the highest ranks as a powerful General in the Roman Empire.

Then I read Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, which explains that many of the key scientists behind the denier movement hold a similar point of view — they are old - school Cold Warriors who came to see fighting environmentalism as a battle to protect «freedom» and the American way of life.

The unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, held that the true warrior must hold loyalty, courage, veracity, compassion and honour as important, above all else.