Sentences with phrase «brutal experiences of»

But just about every man alive has had that brutal experience of being instantly dismissed the second he walks over to introduce himself.

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To experience the G - Wagon is to understand the piece of mind you have knowing your car was meant to handle conditions far more brutal than anything you can throw at it.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

Harris» campaigns for the President landed at a time Kenya was experiencing widespread media suppression and intimidation, the brutal murder of a key electoral official, and tit - for - tat accusations of hate speech by Kenyatta's team and Odinga himself.

The Bolivian experience provides a lesson hyperinflation - with the effect of daily pauperisation for the very large majority of the population - can serve to have people «accept» brutal neo-liberal policy measures, while preserving democratic forms.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

As anxious as many Christians are about religious freedom in America, nothing we've experienced» and God willing, never will» comes close to the brutal persecution of Christians abroad.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

I don't have a personal deity and haven't for many decades, not since I was a teenager reeling from the brutal religious experience of my childhood.

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.

For Leonard it had been a brutal, taxing experience — in the testing of his will, his instincts and his intellect, it was by far the most difficult of his 28 - bout professional career.

I thought that those stages were all really, really fun experiences and I don't want it to get passed that sort brutal early weeks which I think honestly parenting newborns is kind of tiring at the beginning and parenting two newborns is tiring, however, you feel like feeding them is you know it's a little crazy.

The body has been through quite a brutal experience in terms of it being twisted, turned, and accommodated for the little human that has recently emerged out of it.

That was the year Robert Sedgwick left Yorkshire, England, for the New World, where he experienced the best of entrepreneurial opportunities when he opened the Colonies» first brewery, and the worst of imperialist fates when he died during England's brutal conquest of Jamaica.

Mark has 22 years of experience on stage and a passion for brutal workouts.

Experiencing the natural wonders our world has to offer can be some of the most rewarding (not to mention physically brutal — but hey, cool scar stories) trips you'll take in your life.

Not only are you deprived from experiencing love, but the sting of rejection can be brutal.

Written by an actual therapist following his own experiences, this gripping drama offers an extremely realistic view of prison that makes us feel like watching a documentary, and it is brutal and touching when it needs to be, anchored by superb performances (O'Connell is a revelation).

It's something action role - playing game fans looking for an experience more up - close and brutal than genre entries of the third - person variety should have a blast with, and one of the more memorable products of 2009.

The 25 - year - old actor, who ably held together Angelina Jolie's WWII epic Unbroken and David Mackenzie's intense prison drama Starred Up, is now at the center of Yann Demange's brutal» 71, and once again he experiences the tortures of the damned.

Delicate, thoughtful, and unreservedly brutal - The Walking Dead is one of the most mature gaming experiences that money can buy.

When a Hell's kitchen prank goes awry, a group of boys are sent to a reform institution, where they experience brutal sexual assaults by the sadistic «caretakers.»

Her eventual flowering provides one of the most joyous experiences that expands through the years 1909 to 1949 where she is treated like a non-human by a brutal farmer she calls Mister (Danny Glover) who beats her, uses her as a servant and a low - life and convinces her that she is ugly.

What happens to this teenager, whose closest friend is an aging quarter horse near the end of his racing career, becomes a draining and often brutal experience.

Following these two clumsy, unpretentious doofuses as they jump from one brisk gag to another is a gentle, cozy experience, especially if you compare these harmless vignettes to the brutal and vitriolic spirit of, say, a comedy by the Farrelly brothers.

FBI agent Darwyn Al - Sayeed reluctantly infiltrates another L.A. - based terrorist group but questions the competence of his new government handlers, while Farik experiences brutal interrogation tactics at the hands of his captors.

A frankly disturbing experience since Cage is at his most manic, the images are brutal, the documentary - style background intense and the (inevitable) theme of redemption a long time emerging.

If the experience of reading Collins's novel is one of being inside a horrifyingly brutal reality television show, the experience the film adaptation offers is one more akin to watching one, and its success depends on our awareness of this relatively new medium as well as our willingness to critique it.

The single - player experience also includes a number of different difficulty levels, again allowing you to tailor just how brutal your solo excursions are.

The cooperative multiplayer experience in «Ryse: Son of Rome» plunges you into the brutal world of gladiatorial combat.

Answers to a few of these are admittedly provided with a compelling, brutal honesty when Jon is able to convince the band to make an appearance at the SXSW festival, where he hopes their efforts to represent a very... different... music experience will finally provide them an audience willing to reciprocate their uniqueness.

Not exactly a shrinking violet, Smarzowski has established himself as a brutal realist with a taste for the ugly and the grotesque, with such movies as The Wedding and House of Evil presenting Polish experience in an unforgiving, and yet liberating way.

On that score, the film, written by John Ridley, is entirely convincing in presenting the brutal realities of slavery, as experiencing in a horrible waking nightmare for a dozen unrelenting years by Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

While much of the early and mid-game monsters can be hunted solo, the endgame Elder Dragons are appropriately brutal without a team of experienced players with varied weapons.

When estranged couple, Sara [Melissa Leo] and Sonny [Peter Gerety], come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiraling into spiritual crisis and brutal heartbreak.

It's a brutal, bitter, and cold - hearted piece of genre cinema, and one that any new horror fan should experience at least once.

Neeson is also still doing his action star thing, and still looking good doing it; Run All Night has some particularly brutal chase, fight and shootout scenes, all of which Neeson and Serra pull off smoothly, having so much experience under their collective belt.

Peter Yates's crime drama is a haunting, singular experience, brutal and minutely observed, with a remarkably authentic sense of place.

Experience three of the most brutal, violent, and dangerous cars in motorsport history — banned 500 + bhp Group B monsters that astonished a generation of rallycross fans, then race big - grunt, low - grip, American muscle courtesy of Professional Fun - Haver Vaughn Gittin Jr..

There are scenes so brutal «Mudbound» that actor Jason Mitchell found himself assuring white audiences that yes, the movie is in fact an accurate portrayal of the violence black people experience.

It's beautiful and brutal, a relentless experience of kinesthesia.

Over another stretch of about 10 minutes, we experience brutal rage (when Barry is overwhelmed during a date with Emily Watson's Lena, a woman seemingly out of his league, he steps into the bathroom and kicks in the stall doors, grunting with volatile distress), we experience achingly sincere emotion (when the date ends with Lena unexpectedly calling Barry back up to her apartment for a kiss, he sprints down the hall like a man on fire rushing towards an extinguisher, underscored by strings and accordions straight out of an Audrey Hepburn romance), and we experience stark terror (after the date, Barry is accosted by extortionists and flees on foot as they pursue with hurled invective).

With action and drama directing experience from movies like Law Abiding Citizen, The Italian Job, and The Negotiator, Grey makes this movie hard and brutal when it needs to be and interlaces moments of comedy to cut the tension.

A re-imagining of EA's cult classic from 1993, Syndicate blends fast - paced action and futuristic settings with an innovative chip breach gameplay mechanic to provide a brutal sci - fi first person shooter experience.

Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transport the viewer to a state unlike anything they've experienced... somewhere between Hell, the darkest reaches of outer space, and Atlanta, GA.

When 52 - year old Cheryl Troell got laid off from her job of almost 20 years in what she referred to as a «brutal, eye - opening experience», she welcomed the challenge and immediately began a new career.

Everything we experience with them and the adventures we take them on are exposed as we pile on the miles, primarily through the torture test of Michigan's beautiful — and sometimes brutal — four seasons.

Buyers of this car probably aren't looking for a truly brutal muscle car experience; with that in mind, the 2012 Dodge Charger SRT8 presents a pretty reasonable — and very rewarding — overall package.

After a decade of intense research, Gifford presents the first full biography of Robert «Iceberg Slim» Beck (1918 — 92), diligently chronicling his brutal and redemptive experiences at the epicenter of twentieth - century urban black America and zealously establishing Beck's standing as an influential antiestablishment writer, who inspired gangsta rap, hip - hop, and street lit.