Sentences with phrase «attempts at escape»

They represent, I shall argue, three attempts at escape from a corrupt art world.

The bad news is that if allowed to get bored or if left alone too often, you can expect trouble in the form of destructive behavior, attempts at escape, and even obnoxious and pushy behaviors that border on aggressive tendencies.

From the moment she wakes up chained to her mattress, she makes attempts at escape.

As flimsy as the love angle is, Heaven is still very interesting, and for much of the way, their plight and attempts at escape make for some compelling fare.

Confusion is a major player, as the family is unfamiliar with their surroundings and get lost easily in their attempts at escape.

attempt at escape from the boot of a car.

How, will always remain a mystery, for the surveillance was such as to discourage any attempt at escape.

He hires an Italian professional, as ruthless as they come, and things get pretty hairy as Bronson and Ireland (the moll) find they are in trouble at almost every turn in their attempt at escape from the Swiss mountains.

Both the captured Max and his car are stripped for parts (he's tattooed on the back with his status as a universal blood donor), and his initial attempt at escape goes nowhere.

It's centred on a UN representative Gerry Lane's attempts at escaping the escalating epidemic of the swarming legions of the undead, while on a mission to source it's origin and finding a cure.

Altered male dogs are also less likely to roam or to make attempts at escaping the house or yard in search of a female companion.

The dog may also protest to cage confinement by barking terribly as soon as the door is shut, or stretch frantically inside the cage as attempts at escaping.

This was Wenjack's first, — and last, — attempt at escape.

Not exact matches

Our present concept of Homo Faber («Man, the Worker») has, as we have seen, inhibited this exercise of freedom, causing men and women to turn potentially playful experiences into attempts to escape tension, boredom, or fatigue, or into exercises geared at accomplishing something constructive.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

The prospect of finding a naturalistic cause for the origin of the universe is bleak at best, since the laws of physics indicate that we will never be able escape the bounds of our universe to even attempt to look for the cause of the universe.

At the heart of Paul's theology is, therefore, an attempt to find a way of escape from death.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

This sense of alienation and longing is hinted at in other religious traditions: in Buddhism's attempt to escape the cycle of suffering, for example, or in Islam's description of paradise, where the righteous «shall have all that they desire.»

@Jibs, I'm sorry but your attempt at logic escapes me.

My parents had a friend whose fingers were crushed by a guard at a POW camp — over an escape attempt.

In the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by science.

Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).

Molly's first escape attempt came in 1975, in the summer after graduating from high school, when she was invited to the finals of the Pan Am Trials at Central State University in Warrensburg, Mo..

An inmate at the Oswego County jail faces additional charges after deputies say he broke a window and used a sharpened piece of metal to saw through a metal bar during an escape attempt.

What if there was a stampede at the entrance in our attempt to escape?

OSWEGO, N.Y. — An inmate at the Oswego County jail faces additional charges after deputies say he broke a window and used a sharpened piece of metal to saw through a metal bar during an escape attempt.

Senator Dino Melaye was arraigned in court by the Police on Wednesday, 2nd May, 2018 at Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse, Abuja for Criminal conspiracy, causing damage to Government property, attempted suicide and escape from lawful custody.

At first, the driver of the tipper truck attempted to escape but was quickly apprehended by sympathizers.»

found that Philip Morris identified a female market niche, the feminist values of individuals in that niche, and the stimuli to which they respond as they attempt to fill their needs.As women's needs change with age and over time, advertisements were developed to reflect the needs encountered at different stages in women's lives.Cigarette brands for younger women stressed female camaraderie, self confidence, freedom, and independence; cigarette brands for older women addressed needs for pleasure, relaxation, social acceptability, and escape from daily stresses.

(To the «monster» Woola who thinks its a game to quickly be waiting for Carter at every turn in his attempt to escape.)

The story is described as a tale in which «a young boy attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates and his mother's terminal illness by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

He escapes and attempts to murder Clouseau, but once again fails at his obsessions.

Bullets fly (and fly and fly), things blow up (and blow up and blow up), our hero makes one miraculously death - defying escape after another, and... we don't care anything about any of it because it insults our intelligence so repeatedly (attempts at witty dialogue or not).

Meanwhile, and through carefully crafted flashbacks, we learn more about Sarah, and her attempt to escape imprisonment at a concentration camp in order to rescue her brother, whom she left at home, locked in a closet!

So, when there was an escape attempt by the captives, or a resuce attempt by Maggie and the movie wasn't at the 2 - hour mark yet, I knew that those attempts wouldn't be successful.

The movie will follow «a young boy who attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates, and his mother's terminal illness, by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

John Sturges» The Great Escape tells the true story of the daring prison break attempt at the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AVClub.com: «Despite its illegible chase scenes, awkward slow - motion shots, and fumbling attempts at political commentary, No Escape manages to be intermittently interesting, thanks to an off - beat supporting turn from Pierce Brosnan and the intrinsic curiosity factor of watching a film mishandle an inspired premise.»

Much of the last 45 minutes of the movie follows Koromzay's attempts, along with a student, an ex-student and a detective (played by Bruno Campos), to escape the school that she teaches at.

Our hero is 15 year old schoolboy Conor / Cosmo (newcomer Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who, trying to escape an unhappy home environment and coping with being the new kid at his private Catholic school, forms a rag - tag rock band to attempt to impress a wayward wannabe model (Lucy Boynton).

Lady Bird's escape from home is at school, where she hangs out with her best friend Julie (the absolutely fantastic Beanie Feldstein) and joins the drama club in an attempt to pad out her college applications.

Since this is in 3 - D, Hurwitz and Schlossberg mildly poke the gimmick («Hasn't 3 - D jumped the shark,» Harold wonders), while director Todd Strauss - Schulson takes full advantage of such gimmickry as eggs and their yolks flying at the camera in slow motion as Harold attempts to escape the protestors» wrath.

The film stars Elisabeth Olsen in an extraordinary, nuanced performance as Martha, who, after escaping from a sinister cult, attempts to re-assimilate herself into contemporary society by staying with her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her fiancé Ted (Hugh Dancy) at their lake house in New England, but Martha begins to worry that members of the abusive sect she managed to run away from are plotting to bring her back to their corrupt commune.

Escape Plan, the newest Stallone vehicle (the fact that the man can still sell tickets on name recognition alone is amazing), directed by Mikael Hafstrom, isn't fun at all, and exchanges fun, blood - pumping, excessive action for a lame prison - breakout puzzle that we have to watch two oafs (masquerading as geniuses) attempt to solve.

Yet Clooney's attempt to honor unsung real - life heroes while recapturing the ensemble pleasures of some well - remembered Hollywood war pictures, notably «The Great Escape» and «The Guns of Navarone,» comes off as a modestly accomplished forgery at best.

Such narrative curlicuing is meant to engender questions of what is and isn't real, but as Baby Doll plans her escape from this malevolent house of burlesque and prostitution, Snyder's attempts at generating confusion flop miserably.

Escape Plan and The Last Stand have been attempts to revive the career, neither one did that well at the box office.

There is a dark beauty that occasionally escapes, only to be squashed by clumsy and completely unnecessary attempts at humor.

We were naïve to think that we could thread the federalism needle — that because the standards had been developed by the governors and state superintendents, and because there was no federal mandate to adopt them, and because there was an escape valve (states could develop their own college - and career - ready standards), we would avoid the political problems that sunk previous attempts at «national standards.»