Sentences with phrase «assailed with»

In theaters, Atmos allowed movies to distribute up to 128 separate audio tracks and spatial - audio description metadata so moviegoers could be assailed with music and sound effects from precisely where directors intended.

Although they found themselves assailed with racial slurs like «slut» and «savage» while out on dates, the hostility only served to intensify their feelings for one another.

Then again, it's no surprise that we Baby Bunchers are assailed with this question... after all, the number of twin births has risen by 50 percent in the past three decades *.

In the past several years we have been assailed with reports of the benefits derivable from the transcendent dimension.

Meanwhile, back to Polisse: for over two hours, Maïwenn's third feature film assails us with such unpleasantries as a father accused of raping his own daughter (when he tires of sodomizing his wife) and a gymnastics coach who gets a little too close for comfort with one of his young athletes.

Orlando Bloom's iconic Legolas is somewhat disappointing in this latest installment, as is Ian McKellen's brief involvement as Gandalf, but this is to be expected with the script focusing so much more on assailing us with erratic action scenes than portraying the complexity of these characters.

One old, hairy curse on two legs, Keeyaw, the grim reaper of our trees, hunkered over the roots of the Giants, assailing them with his anger and dragging them away to the underworld.

Then there's «Version 1.1», which implements the same graphical upgrades as 360 Mode alongside several other changes, the foremost being the ability to directly control your familiar's movement: you'll be making frequent use of this, as enemies and bosses now assail you with extra «suicide bullets» upon being attacked (in previous versions of the game this would only happen on high difficulty settings), and only your helper can absorb them to prevent you from being completely overwhelmed.

Most of his verbiage is just authoritarian, empty arrogant blather like Donald Trump assails us with regularly.

Not exact matches

Those allies have assailed the Trump administration's move — and have even threatened to respond in kind, meaning the US may soon be in a trade war with its closest friends in the world.

The administration assailed China for «undermining true market competition» with state subsidies that encouraged excess production that depressed the price of key goods, including steel.

Meanwhile you assail the church and insist on tainting our children with the lie of homosexuality, being taught in our schools upon your insistence.

My friend, who considers himself interestingly irreligious, was once assailing religion with considerable dash and spirit.

Here it is assailed by the King of Kings, not with soldiers and siege engines, but riding humbly on a donkey.

But of course this faith in providence is assailed by quite another question, with which the idea of law could adequately deal in its own way — the question of suffering, of the justice of God, of His righteousness in the ordering of the world.

If one goes to the center's website, there are no less than four articles or interviews assailing Pius XII (one of which combines criticism of Pius with criticism of Palatucci), repeating all the standard errors about the wartime pontiff» e.g., that he was «silent» or indifferent during the Holocaust and did little or nothing to protect Europe's Jews during their darkest hour.

From the moment King entered the public square, determined to counter evil with good, he was questioned, challenged and assailed.

Here's Malpass appearing with state GOP Chairman Ed Cox (and a big check from «our children to Washington politicians») at a press conference where he assailed the national debt and government spending that is «out of control.»

In the days before the September 13 primary, mailers and hand - outs created by NYIA assailed Harris, as well as suggesting that Cucco — and not Harris — was supported by popular City Councilmember Mark Treyger, whose district overlaps with the 46th Assembly District, now represented by Harris.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

Olatoye, seated near the de Blasio administration's top lawyer, Zachary Carter, did not apologize, and council member after council member assailed her over several matters, including testimony in December before lawmakers in which she wrongly testified that more than 4,000 lead - paint abatements had been completed by workers with the proper certifications.

The WEP was formed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was promoting a package of legislation aimed at impacting, but has been assailed by liberals for potentially competing for votes with the Working Families Party, a liberal, labor - backed organization.

His statement was released shortly after Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a Gracie Mansion press conference with Mr. Bratton to assail the recent news reports surrounding Mr. Banks» resignation and tension among NYPD brass and City Hall — with the mayor and commissioner taking particular issue with a New York Post story that reported Chirlane McCray, Mr. de Blasio's wife, was furious about Mr. Banks» departure, and never trusted Mr. Bratton and fought his appointment.

With his wife, Cindy, standing next to him at a Toledo campaign stop, he called the report «untrue» and assailed the newspaper, saying it was waging a «smear campaign» against him.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's re-election attempt has stirred passions in California, with rank - and - file party liberals assailing the 26 - year incumbent as too moderate.

In a series of visits to apartments with peeling paint and crumbling plaster, the Democrat, a former U.S. housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, also assailed the authority as grossly mismanaged.

A spokesman for Rick A. Lazio, the leading Republican candidate for governor, assailed Mr. Cuomo for the discussion with Working Families leaders.

«Just as people with cancer led the charge against big tobacco, so the victims of climate might assail big oil»

In October 2014, the Federal Trade Commission took its first law enforcement action against sexbots when it fined JDI Dating, a UK - based owner of 18 dating sites including flirtcrowd.com and findmelove.com, $ 616,000 for assailing members with phony profiles.

Panic stricken without his «right hand», he calls Margaret, who agrees to take time off from the verucca epidemic that is assailing her chiropody practice, to come and help him.While Penny alienates the florist's customers with her trademark brusque manner, Bob and Margaret are bickering about the way Margaret is answering the phone, how she keeps her hair, and whether or not she is passing the correct tool to Bob.

The Edge of Seventeen begins with Nadine assailing her history teacher, Mr. Bruner (Harrelson), with her umpteenth breathless — and phony — crisis.

Instead he assails his «recruit's» apartment with a military tactical team and he offers him the choice of cell time in a penitentiary to pay for his past misdeeds or a chance to serve his government overseas.

Sewn into the story is the debauched Grand Guignol behind - the - scenes world of rock star excess, compete with promiscuous groupies assailed by roadies and moguls, and somewhere in there is the wide - eyed, and well - intentioned ingenue Phoenix (Jessica Harper, magnificent), the beauty to Winslow's beast.

As are the new multiplayer modes: Mad Survival, which is the normal wave - based mode but with main characters assailing your party, and Dogfight, which sees players clinging to the undersides of helicopters as they attempt to blast each other out of the air.

Harding, assailed on all sides for being white trash; for being the wrong vision of feminine physicality; for being an overblown tabloid tale, Gillespie still shows us, and underscores that Harding was a dedicated, talented athlete ---- her execution of the triple axel amidst competition is rightly the stuff of legend and is shown here with the right kind of Silver Screen esprit.

This tense and frequently amusing reenactment of a covert 1979 CIA operation to smuggle assailed American political operatives out of Iran amid revolutionary chaos by disguising them as a film crew takes the material seriously while still having fun with it.

Native American Schools Ponder, Assail Dropout Rates With the high school dropout rate for Native Americans among the highest in the country, reservation and school officials are searching for new ways to keep teens in school.

She motivated and guided many of her students to excel as bilingual educators and she often fought shoulder to shoulder with legislators, colleagues and leaders against proponents of practices and policies assailing bilingual education.

Quite often, amongst the usually entitled (and overwhelmingly white) anti-charter, anti-high standards, and anti-progress groups, education reform is assailed as one of the problems with the American education system.

Assailed by Mayor de Blasio and union leaders, Ms. Moskowitz is fighting back with typically sharp elbows.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with the Assailed Teacher to answer the questions we've all wanted to ask him.

While there has been substantial rhetoric assailing the virtues of teachers with prior professional experience, no research that we know of has assessed the effectiveness of these teachers in terms of student learning.

With the introduction of the Q3, Audi in Malaysia now have a complete arsenal in which to assail the potential customer that walks through the doors of its showrooms.

In his book A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future, David Hancocks, an architect and former director of acclaimed zoos in Seattle and Tucson, assails the common practice of placing pink flamingos at entrances to dazzle visitors with an immediate «splash of color and exotica.»

It also showcases a huge Titan combat sequence, wherein a gigantic enemy creation forms a moving location during the game, with Dracula scaling the moving behemoth as it assails his castle.

[This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Ben Abraham, as he's assailed by Skyrim's dragons, on topics including the meaning and import of virtual death in Demon's and Dark Souls.]

Battle can get daunting at times, as you may find yourself in a poisonous room slowly leaking life while three different enemies with totally different attack patterns assail you from all sides.

As you frenetically traverse the 11 platform levels of your character's nightmares, you find you can utilise these grotesque crab claws in order to deal with the various monsters that assail her.

Giving a wry twist to the overheated debate around bathroom access, the artist assails borders between genders, and between bodies and their accessories, with a kind of dignified slapstick.

Rendered in a comical manner, with Day - Glo colors and enlarged female and male genitalia, each «sitter» becomes a parody of himself, a tactic Saul used to assail modernism and its practitioners.