Sentences with phrase «as the knight holding»

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During the recession of the late 2000s, he served as a white knight - at - large, coming to the rescue of Goldman Sachs, General Electric and Swiss Re, while rejecting pleas from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

En route you pick - up a talentless criminal after he fumbles a hold - up on a bridge; the spirited and estranged daughter of a noblewoman, who longs to avenge the death of her murdered brother; and, finally, a flop - fringed knight who is just as likely to try to flirt his way out of an altercation as to draw his rapier.

: Having skillfully blended ethnic instruments with the orchestra for a tiny, tiger - holding rowboat in «Life of Pi,» as well as given way more of a mystical Celtic spin to the knights of the round table, it's easy to see the ancient - sounding credentials that the Dannas have brought to the Mouse House that could evoke the «real» music of the prehistoric era.

For all its absurdity, this sequence is actually kind of enjoyably campy, held together by a game Stanley Tucci as the boozy wizard and one of the most incredible sights I have ever seen: a black knight whose hair is flat - ironed and gently braided into a half - up, half - down hairstyle, like a medieval version of Andre 3000 in the «Hey Ya» music video.

Before becoming a knight, a squire also held a prayer vigil in which he stayed up all night contemplating his duties as a knight.

«And then the knight was held over the pit of writhing snakes, which hissed and spat as their twining lengths ensnared the whitening bones of their previous victims...» «And then the black - hearted villain, with a hideous oath, drew a secret dagger from his boot and advanced towards the defenceless...» «And then the maiden took a pin from her hair and the golden tresses fell from the window, down, down, caressing the castle walls until they almost reached the verdant grass on which he stood...» Arthur was an energetic, headstrong boy who did not easily sit still; but once the Mam raised her porridge stick he was held in a state of silent enchantment — as if a villain from one of her stories had slipped a secret herb into his food.

It said 15,070 Czechs registered as Jedi knights in the census held in March, against 1,083,899 Roman Catholics and 707,649 people who said they believed in God but did not belong to any church.