Sentences with phrase «by a gangster in»

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Just by hinting at the existence of moral knowledge, Dawkins gives us reason to doubt that we actually do live in a world ruled by gangster genes.

In such a world honest teachers (if there were any) would be telling their students that a pretense of morality is merely a stratagem by which one gangster induces others to enter into temporary alliances, or cozens some gullible victim to lower his guard.

He rose to fame as bandleader at Harlem's Cotton Club, run by gangster Owney Madden, where well - heeled white patrons would go «slumming» and enjoy (in the words of a Harold Arlen song that made its debut at the club):

This is what I like to call the OG vegan protein powder (that's original gangster, in case you were not in the know), and by that I mean it's my tried and tested brand and flavour that I come back to time and time again.

arsenal is owned by a member (by marriage) of the walmart family with a line in dodgy sports franchises and by an uzbeki gazzilionaire who managed to come out of the gangster capitalism of eastern europe with his state assets in tact!!!

In a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.&raquIn a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.&raquin Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.»

Lightning Partners, Ltd., as the franchise is formally known, has a mystery owner from Japan named Takashi Okubo, who bought a limited stake in the team in»90 through his Tokyo golf resorts company, Kokusai Green, and is identified by a source in one lawsuit as being a «gangster.»

I don't doubt you had a decent time as a tourist but open your eyes to what goes on in the world, courtesy of corrupt Russia, run by a deranged and hedonistic gangster, young man.

Diaz brothers have so many other things to them, two vegeterian triathletes who came up from the lowest of the lows, nothing to eat at home, in a rough neighbourhood saying no to all the drugs, later on to all the roids, serving their community, teaching kids,... they have been awarded many times by their local authorities and all... but all UFC wants people to think of a Nate Diaz is a mexican gangster who smokes weed and does not give a damn...

The region has been targeted by gangsters to kill person in the name of armed robbery, and this to me, is clearly connected to politics like it happened in the 2000 elections.»

Barrow MP John Woodcock branded his own party «pound - shop gangsters» in a Twitter outburst today prompted by party plans to make his fellow MP Dan Jarvis quit the Commons if he becomes mayor of South Yorkshire.

A media - centric, consumeristic celebrity culture, the erosion of civic responsibility, & the effectiveness of machine /» gangster» politics on a dynastic scale all contribute in challenging the assumption that a government of the people, by the people, & for the people can sustain itself in the long run.

«Kaduna State is in a state of war and annexation of its lands by armed bandits, kidnappers, Armed robbers, political thugs and gangsters.

The murder of two students in Colombia last week near a manatee study site — possibly by paramilitary gangsters — sent a chill through the local research community, highlighting dangers to field workers in the strife - torn country.

Notorious gangsters Al Capone and Carlo Gambino were famously done in by tax evasion charges.

This is what I like to call the OG vegan protein powder (that's original gangster, in case you were not in the know), and by that I mean it's my tried and tested brand and flavour that I come back to time and time again.

Hollywood movies made the trench coats fashionable by dressing gangsters, detectives, cops and lovers in trench coats in the 1930s and 1940s.

Sunday's message delivered by Elder Kevin Matthews titled, «We Have a Guaranteed Contract» also spoke volumes to that Spiritual Gangster in me.

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The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

Unfortunately, Rita's locked in a battle with the charmless gangster Toad (voiced by Ian McKellen)-- and she wants the epicene Roddy's help.

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

A retired gangster is living the «good life» in Spain with his ex-porn star wife, when an old «business» acquaintance drops by with an invitation to re-join the old team for one more heist.

A small - time gangster lives in a trailer and makes a living by doing petty crimes.

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading) stars as Gerry Lane, a former field investigator for the United Nations who finds himself running for his life in Philadelphia, along with his wife (Enos, Gangster Squad) and two daughters, as a major viral pandemic that causes infected people to turn into raging, mindless «zombies» whose only purpose is to infect the uninfected by biting them.

After his best friend, Joon (Leonardo Nam), a small - time dope dealer, is murdered during a shakedown by gangsters, Sam Kim (Sung Kang) leaves the United States and spends a year in Singapore, trying to sort out his emotions.

Jimmy Cagney is just as touch, reckless and compelling as an FBI agent as he is as a gangster in tis fast - moving Warner feature which was embraced by J. Edgar Hoover

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

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Much as «Live by Night» did with a period gangster film, Red Sparrow takes its compelling potential and fails to deliver in almost every respect.

In this fast - paced mystery, Robert Young plays the manager of a department store targeted by gangsters.

As it happens, a handful of gangsters led by the sexy but dangerous Riley (Carmen Electra) have learned that Jude's valuables are in Harlan's car, and they'll stop at nothing to get them back, including kidnapping Tuesday.

Ostensible bad guy Sullivan does good by collaring a number of prominent gangsters (Costello's rivals) while supposed good guy Costigan amasses considerable evidence against Costello by participating in all manner of gangland horrors.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

Pluto is approached by Mogan (Joe Pantoliano), a gangster who wants to buy the nightclub; Pluto has no interest in selling, but it seems Mogan isn't about to take no for an answer.

After Lucy, unwillingly, gets a kilo of illegal smart drug surgically implanted in her gut by Chinese gangsters, the bag accidentally bursts open.

PLOT: Lucy (Scarlett Johansson)-- a young student living in Taiwan — is coerced into becoming a drug mule by a ruthless gangster (Choi Min - sik).

FINAL SAY: Though predictable, rather forgettable, and mediocre in most respects, Gangster Squad is elevated by the star power of its stellar cast and colorful, stylistic action and production design choices from director Reuben Fleischer.

New Zealand director, Andrew Dominik («The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward John Ford») brings more gangsters to the fest in «Killing Them Softly,» starring Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Scott McNairy and Ben Mendelshohn in a modern, stylized tale of revenge.

The Lehane story, about a noble, good - guy Boston gangster in love and war and bootlegging, spins variations on the usual Tommy - gunning melees and cheap manipulations to keep the protagonist, a dull man portrayed dully by Affleck, in our good graces.

The two American gangster movies in Competiton are, ironically, by foreign directors.

By the end of Joshua Oppenheimer's disturbing documentary The Act Of Killing, it was tough to say if the film's subjects — Indonesian gangsters reenacting their genocidal crimes — felt any remorse about the murders they committed in 1965.

Reviled in her early roles by critics, she only found true success in international productions, her most memorable performance being the fatally naive American girlfriend of the doomed small - time gangster played by Jean - Paul Belmondo in Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless (1960).

I'm always thrilled to see him added to a cast, even when the film in question has the unlikely logline «An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.»

A pair of criminals are forced go highjack a bus as they are hunted by a feared gangster in Heist, arriving in theaters this November.

She made her film debut in Brian DePalma's 1987 gangster flick The Untouchables and went on to become the darling of the indie film world with her stunning turn in 1998's High Art, followed by strong roles in such lauded films as Far from Heaven, The Station Agent, and Pieces of April.

Sent by his gangster boss on «one last job» to bring back the gangster's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from Brazil, Beck is soon caught in a local war between ruthless American goldmine boss Hatcher (Christopher Walken) and native rebels, while helping Travis and mysterious barmaid Mariana (Rosario Dawson) in a race to find the legendary El Gato, a priceless golden statuette.

The nominees for best performance by an actor in a motion picture - drama are: George Clooney (Michael Clayton, Daniel Day - Lewis (There Will Be Blood), James McAvoy (Atonement), Denzel Washington (American Gangster), and Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises).