The word
"bludgeon" refers to a heavy club or a similar object used to forcefully strike someone, usually causing injury. It can also be used figuratively to describe aggressive or forceful behavior in verbal or non-physical contexts.
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It's a years - spanning, dramatic cliché - wielding
bludgeon of a yarn, rife with too - convenient connections (roughly twenty people live in all of Paris, it seems) and heavily rendered sentiment, and the great thing about this movie is that it knows all of that about itself.
It makes strategic sense: the Liberals watched former leader Stéphane Dion get
bludgeoned with his own carbon - tax plan, while Michael Ignatieff was hammered for opinions expressed in his former life as an academic and journalist.
Kohn is a talented filmmaker and he's tackled a subject not seen before in documentary film, but you almost feel
bludgeoned by the depressing state of Brazil instead of introduced to the problems there.
Rather than spend the last weeks of session raging about inaction on the political priorities that Democrats plan to use
as bludgeons against their enemies, the governor once again chose a position in the middle.
I won't give the Amazon link to my eBook here, because I don't want to get
bludgeoned for self - promotion, but if you're thinking about writing for this site, this eBook will propel you in the right direction so you can start making money.
The pursed brass that play catch - up jazz are delicately
bludgeoned in time as each pipped note is hounded and pounded to peek past perfection, where the words «good job» are pitched past a mention.
It usually strikes in the middle of dinner service, when we are
getting bludgeoned with orders.
Frank is a whining, pathetic oddball with extreme prejudice — and Wilson, in a fearless performance, leaves us uncertain whether to sympathise with, or be repulsed by, this ridiculous schlub
who bludgeons not just a queue jumper but also his understandably protesting girlfriend; who acts on prophetic visions that he sees in his own vomit; and who ignores pleas for mercy from a (literally) unarmed man.
In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political
bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.
There's no surprises as far as how that subplot turns out, but Rodriguez does
n't bludgeon the viewer with his sentiment.
After Prick's jolting opening scene — an extreme close - up of the gore - flecked face of Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), who calls out for the man he's
just bludgeoned with a hammer — the film settles into a more conventional arc.
Osborne's feverish pursuit of it -
bludgeoning on regardless while missing every single one of his targets - had far more to do with an Ayn Rand fantasy of stripping away state provision, destabilising the lives of unemployed people and hiving off assets to the private sector than it ever had to do with the country's economic health.
On so many occasions in the passing hours of this day I've had to keep myself
from bludgeoning people with my laptop instead of searching for porn and illegally downloading advanced screenings of Onechanbara: The Movie.
Anyway
after bludgeoning a school bully to death with a tree branch, he kills off his entire family that night, except for his mother (who's at work) and baby sister.
Giants like Walmart, Target, JC Penney, Office Depot, Best Buy and others are all feeling what has gone from being a pinch from online to a full out
bludgeoning at the hands of Amazon, eBay and a never ending pipeline of hungry and innovative digital pure plays.
One unfortunate baddie gets spikes driven into his forearms, causing him to howl piteously; another fellow is blinded with boiling oil,
then bludgeoned with a wok.
The CryEngine, meanwhile, has always been
about bludgeoning even powerful PCs into submission, and I think it's interesting that its «tech showcase» video focuses on its specific capabilities, like Screen Space Directional Occlusion and Volumetric Fog Shadows, rather than a simpler and more consumer - friendly list of games it's being used in, as the other two do.
We don't have to go any further than Donald Trump to know that the incredibly rich often use frivolous litigation to intimidate critics and
bludgeon enemies.
The defeat of the civil rights protestors —
literally bludgeoned off the streets by the sectarian police - saw the advantage default to the «physical force» tradition, a pattern that has repeated itself in Irish politics time and again.
During the period of a plant's life, the plant is taking Evolutionists have long used the carbon - 14, or radiocarbon, dating technique as a «hammer» to
bludgeon Bible - believing Christians.
Indie authors beware: When Amazon is
done bludgeoning the publishing industry into submission with y ’ all's work, you'll see what it feels like to be pressured in a way you can't even fathom yet.
Oland had told police that he had been wearing a navy - blue blazer when he visited his father at his office (where he was later
found bludgeoned to death).
Watch Frank West
bludgeon zombies with an enormous candy cane, or deck zombies with a fully armored car in this holiday «slay ride.»
We see where this is going early on; by the end, despite the film's beautiful cinematography, persuasive subjects and ironically upbeat soundtrack, we just
feel bludgeoned.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S
simply bludgeons the tarmac to death with its 560 horsepower, twin - turbo six - cylinder engine, a unit that also produces 516 lb - ft of torque.
The show's sheer volume (over 900 works), together with the incredible quality and diversity of Picasso's art,
virtually bludgeons one into granting the most extravagant praise for the artist.
Plus, it is a blunt instrument used to
bludgeon folks who don't share your beliefs.
With his seventh pitch of the game, the soon - to - be-ex-Oriole looped a boring, flat slider to Miguel Cabrera, who paused briefly to laugh at the pitch
before bludgeoning it.
She'll run you over for criticising her parenting, prank call you and shout obscenities if you steal her parking space and may
even bludgeon you death with a leg of lamb.
Garland has a knack for offering ideas
without bludgeoning the audience over the head with them; they are part of the story and reveal themselves within the narrative structure.
So is his courage, as he took a
public bludgeoning for his defense of marriage rightly understood prior to the Supreme Court's imposition of «same - sex marriage» on the entire country.
It doesn't take an objective moral standard to know that
bludgeoning someone with a hammer is not «good,» or killing your neighbor, or raping your daughter.
In college, my Art History teachers spent so much
time bludgeoning us to death with dates, movements, spellings, and deducting points for failing to recall the complete title of Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a... Continue reading →
«RIMM more than doubled to 14 within a few weeks, a monster return from the depths that happened concurrently with the
Apple bludgeoning from 705 to 500,» Brown concludes.
Each has their own skill set, back story, and play style; ranging from the all
out bludgeoning Wrestler, to the more stealthy Thief.
There is an eyelash - curling article in Rolling Stone about Sasha Grey, «the dirtiest girl in porn,» which should be used as some kind of litmus test and
pedagogical bludgeon for retraining us in the virtue of protecting an uncompromised stigmatic remainder in our moral life.
Fishon, seeing how this seems to be a place where people who have been
bludgeoned mentally and spiritually by verbal two by fours for years, if not for most of their lives, by you and people like you, are supposed to be able to come for refuge from you and people like you, I wonder why you even bother to come here.
Instead, he turned in 2002 to using national security issues — particularly the bill creating a Homeland Security Department and the debate over Iraq — to win an election and to
bludgeon Democrats.