Sentences with word «bearskin»
"Bearskin" refers to the skin or fur of a bear, often used for making clothing or rugs. It can also refer to a tall and distinctive hat worn by certain military regiments. Full definition
Antonio Banderas plays a banished Arab aristocrat who joins forces with a party of barbaric, big - hearted Norsemen to free their Scandinavian homeland from a marauding horde of ruthless cannibals who dress in bearskins and take no prisoners.
theguardian.com
In images of gunmen appearing and disappearing out of tall grass as if part of a giant Whac - A-Mole game, and of Mendelsohn placidly standing amid these killers while wearing a giant bearskin coat and a look of let's - get - on - it - with - it viciousness on his face, Slow West's climactic shootout exudes a strange and haunting ugliness.
An individual who sold pelts in this fashion, a so - called bearskin jobber, would benefit if the market bottomed before the hides were delivered.
The Daily Mail: Sikh soldier makes history as he guards Buckingham Palace wearing turban instead of traditional bearskin Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace yesterday also offered a glimpse into the changing face of Britain.
Here's Bob May's house — a spacious but unpretentious domicile with shoes, sandals and sneakers strewn about the foyer, a four - year - old named Madelyn prancing from room to room and a giant brown bearskin draped over an ottoman.
This ultra-cozy rug playfully reinterprets bearskin with unparalleled softness, visual texture and attractive hues.
Highly attuned to the terrifying grandeur of its milieu, it discovers, at every turn, a wondrously frightening new sight to behold, none greater than that of Ben Mendelsohn's bandit leader Payne emerging from, and disappearing into, the wild landscape while wearing a big bearskin coat.
Three novellas from a master of the genre offer characters that have staying power: a wealthy 67 - year - old man, describing events leading up to the drowning of a younger friend; a Native American tracking a double - dealing friend to recover a clan relic, his stolen bearskin; and a middle - aged writer of formulaic biographies who glibly narrates his tribulations.
But one has to wonder how one would access this «state of cosmicity» while confined within a dead bearskin that has been outfitted with electric plugs for electronic devices, and which will be surrounded by curious onlookers day in and day out — all in the stuffy framework of a museum, no less.
Congratulations are in order, but before you can lie down on your new floor like a human bearskin rug, sipping some wine and watching «Dancing with the Stars,» you have some prep work to do.
Like muscly men in bearskin and epic CGI landscapes?
In this controversial photo shoot in 2000, Melania posed naked for the cover of British GQ wearing handcuffs and sprawled on a bearskin rug aboard her then - boyfriend Donald Trump's Boeing 727.
Sikhs have guarded the Queen many times before but have always worn the bearskin.
Standing alongside his fellow Scots Guardsmen resplendent in their bearskins was Sikh Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar — the first soldier in his 180 - year - old regiment to swap the traditional headwear for a turban.
Some of these are as innocent as the feeling of hairs on a bearskin rug, but most are violent or pornographic.
Maybe we're just old or maybe this is why those scenes usually feature a bearskin rug, but sex in front of the fire was not nearly as much fun as you'd think.
What is clear though is the respect that the British army has shown for the turban in allowing it to be worn without a bearskin.
We have recently witnessed the sight of the first guardsman to wear a turban rather than a bearskin.
Then this chap from the Czech Republic hikes up a mountain in a pair of bark - net, straw - stuffed, bearskin - soled boots modeled on the footwear of a 5,300 - year - old frozen mummy — and he doesn't develop a single blister.
And the bearskin soles of Ötzi's shoes — tanned with bear brains and liver — provided an excellent grip upon the rocky mountain paths.
Yet it's still unmistakably a Coen brothers movie, from the stray weirdness of a bearskin - clad dentist to the bulls - eye delights of the dialogue.
Worst - case scenario: Iñárritu slices up the chronology of this primal true story, emerging with a bearskin Babel or an Old - West answer to 21 Grams.
Scenes such as an encounter with a bearskin - wearing dentist deep in the territory who seeks to trade Rooster and Mattie a man's corpse are invented for the film, though the cadence of the language and unusual diction feels lifted straight from the book.
«We're really working with stones, knives, and bearskin — a truly rudimentary system,» says Dan Weisberg, vice president for policy at the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit organization based in New York City.
Kindle devices and apps are still in the «stone knives and bearskins» stage for that.
A bearskin hat was pulled down shadowing his eyes.
You've got your range of fantastical abilities and weapons, including a very Edward Scissorhands - like glove of blades as one possible Drain weapon, and Mia's insistence on wearing a bearskin hat and running around with what seems to be a 19th century musket... Somehow, it actually works quite well.
«Most of the Turner Prize entries are a load of... exhibition of himself at Tate Modern; WHERE»S YOUR BEARSKIN...
For example, in «Untitled» (1986) a torn canvas that resembles a bearskin rug riffs on familiar themes of jazz music, luxury items, and Batman logos.
«I am sitting by a roaring fire, have a screen before the door, which is closed, so that I can sit here with a sable fur piece around my neck and my feet in a bearskin sack and I am still shivering with cold and can barely hold the pen.