Sentences with phrase «but old beast»

Many of the stories are nothing but old beast fables adapted to Buddhist purposes simply by having the Buddha in a former birth take the form of one of the beasts of the fable.

Not exact matches

Again Blandina and a fifteen year old boy named Ponticus were thrown to the beasts, but Blandina encouraged Ponticus to be strong.

All three of the major religions holy books quote the same verse but they don't abide by it; The old testament which covers Jews and Christians says: «Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.»

The Ox looks like his back to his old beast like self, looking strong when running with the ball, but still poor when it comes to the end product (his passing is terrible)

It seems that Wenger is expecting Elneny to be used as a defensive midfielder but he doesn't envisage the 23 year - old being a «beast of a DM» like Le Coq.

have you noticed gabriel was absolute beast when he came, looked like an old fashioned adams type defender - but a year of being benched — in and out of side - no decent run, hes become shaky.

are you trying to sell nic to us or convince yourself andy becos, even tho i like him myself, hes not a goalscorer and is forced wide away from goal all to easy.not our answer cant even begin to tell you how wrong you are when you said we wer gettin by quite nicely without a recognised goalscorer, as iv always said you cant expect our little midfielders and little beast verm to continue in the great vain thev shown this season, big teams will negate them, you need another outlet, an ian wright or defoe that goes in behind and turns a back 4, its painfully obvious and riles me when fellow fans ignore or dismiss it and tell me to keep the faith with players who hav had so much time to show their capabilities and not delivered, so how their now gonna excel just becos thev been absent a while is beyond me but that old proverb must be true.....»

The Coens are rare beasts in today's Hollywood, as capable of turning their hands to thrillers like No Country For Old Men but equally at home with comedies like this one.

It means weighing or measuring, which in the old days made me «diet crazy», but I'm pretty sure that I've conquered that ugly beast now and it won't rear it's head again.

We all sleep less as we get older, but chronic insomnia is a different beast entirely.

I am a 25 year old puerto rican single father going through a midlife crisis im im open to more than just an arrangement but im damaged goods so take easy i am a beast in the kitchen when it comes to my national dishes and the food of my people i take much pride in Honestly im a 25 year old...

But Beasts of the Southern Wild is such a startling achievement, and the now nine - year - old Quvenzhané Wallis so compelling and defining a presence in the film's principal role, that the pre-teen talent may find herself up against the big girls come Oscar night in February - and rightly so.

First is Vladislav (Clement), a much older and Dracula-esque vampire with a more sexual appetite but a failing libido due to a past shaming by a particularly loathsome vampire named «The Beast.»

But as a story, «Stealing Beauty» (which Bertolucci wrote with Susan Minot) is a misbegotten, sentimental reunion with old European cinema: Sandrelli, who acted in Bertolucci's «The Conformist,» and Jean Marais, well known for his performance in Jean Cocteau's «Beauty and the Beast,» make idiots of themselves.

The Oscars have revolted against category fraud before — nominating 13 - year - old Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider), 9 - year - old Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and Kate Winslet (who eventually won for The Reader) in lead instead of following in lockstep with their supporting campaigns — but they apparently said «meh» this year.

Shiny but not exactly new, Bill Condon's live - action Beauty And The Beast is a curious nostalgia object, synthetically engineered to reproduce all the same sensations as a 26 - year - old movie.

Shane Black, a bright, experienced screenwriter directing his second movie, is an anonymous leader of a vast technical army, and the film's saving graces are Downey's Stark, a charming neurotic; Rebecca Hall, an old flame who seems to have taken a wrong turn but is infinitely more engaging than Stark's tiresome current girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow; and especially Ben Kingsley, a big surprise in every sense as the villainous «Mandarin», his best performance since Sexy Beast.

Tale as old as time... no, I'm not talking about Beauty and the Beast — now that Walt Disney Pictures is knee - deep in adapting all their princess films that's coming soon — but their latest effort, Cinderella.

Beauty and the Beast may be a tale as old as time, but the recent live - action remake wasn't afraid to make a few changes for the better.

Quvenzhané Wallis is certainly memorable in Beasts of the Southern Wild, but I don't think it's really possible to assess the craftsmanship of a six - year - old performer.

JUSTIN CHANG: The first time I became distantly aware of the Oscars was the 1992 ceremony, mainly because «Beauty and the Beast» was up for a bunch of awards — I wasn't much of a cinephile then but I was, like a lot of 9 - year - old kids, a total Disneyholic.

Whereas those films relied upon sources half a century old or older, distant enough to be remembered fondly by multiple generations, but not recent enough to rankle possessive, nostalgia - obsessed millennials, Beauty and the Beast is different.

Belle and the Beast dance to Tale As Old As Time, but then Belle leaves the castle.

One wonders how many pounds of insulation it took (note that this is a 2.5 - ton beast) to quiet down what's fundamentally an 8 - year - old chassis and body structure, but it worked.

The actual Nürburgring lap time of the new beast will be revealed shortly by Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn when the Nismo GT - R is unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, but it's safe to assume it will not be slower than the old model, which received between 7:24 and 7:29 or so, depending on your source.

Now you might think that the obvious fairy tale for this story would be Beauty and the Beast — and in a way you're right — but I chose a much older myth to highlight the story — The Minotaur.

But, like an old car, you need to factor in all the current and future repairs and replacements to determine if it's time to retire the old beast.

And of course the age - old problem of finding yourself having to jog for several minutes to reach the action also remains, but this is just the nature of the beast and something we need to put up with in order to maintain the scale that Battlefield is known for.

On the surface, Resident Evil 7 seems to be a different beast altogether but the game itself feels very much in tuning with any older Resident Evil title.

Both games have the same basic premise, about human military forces fighting against invading aliens and monsters, but while 4.1 has the sleek, modern feel of big - budget Hollywood, 2 hearkens back to the old B - movie days, when movies like Gamera, War of the Colossal Beast, and Them!

Granted, at the core of the experience, you'll still be running around a map to install various attack towers to dispel the coming threat of beasts, but the old hand - drawn aesthetic has been scrapped in favour of a 3D, almost Claymation-esque approach.

Serota joined the old Arts Council as a regional exhibitions officer in 1970, but it is a far bigger beast now.

First of all a new design concept not as old as other Redmi devices, but is very similar as iPhone X's design, then it's dual camera which is 12 +12 megapixel so very good picture quality, then it's Snapdragon 636 chipset which is a beast in multitasking and battery optimization department and lastly it is a budget centric smartphone it's base model which is 4GB / 64 GB is priced at INR 13,000 and it's 6GB / 64 GB is priced at INR 16,000 so with this specs and price it gives zenith to zenith performance to its competitors in its price range, but the cons are that it doesn't supports fast charging which is sad thing and wasn't expected from Xiaomi but with this specs it can't be demanded and lastly runs of Android 7.1 MIUI 9, now it has been months that Android oreo has been out but still Xiaomi are on MIUI 9 and so RN 5 pro runs on MIUI 9.

I always thought of my trusty old HTC One X as a bit of a beast, but the 4.7 - inch phone feels positively dainty next to the OnePlus One.