Sentences with phrase «by mysterious figures»

He then starts coughing up blood, and Lena calls an ambulance — but the trip to the hospital is intercepted by mysterious figures in black SUVs.

Than is being backed by mysterious figures, headed up by Matai Shang (Mark Strong), who have given him the destructive power of the ninth ray.

While this is happening Abby and Caleb are stalked by mysterious figures who seem to have a part to play in the grander scheme of the movie.

The «Nigerian prince» letter, one of the better - known frauds, is often perpetrated by mysterious figures.

Bitcoin was created in 2009, following the instructions set out in a white paper written by a mysterious figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity is still unknown.

Bitcoins were created in 2009 by a mysterious figure or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto and are used for transactions across borders without third parties such as banks.

In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.

Who: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong» o, Michelle Dockery and Corey Stoll What: An air marshal springs into action aboard an international flight when the plane is held hostage by a mysterious figure threatening to kill a passenger every two hours.

The movie begins, natch, with a dream sequence, where Tina (Amanda Wyss, a.k.a. Beth from «Better Off Dead...») is chased by a mysterious figure wearing gloves with talon - like knives on the end.

The storyline revolves around a band of mercenaries recruited by a mysterious figure (Willis) for a dangerous assignment, namely, to overthrow General Garza (David Zayas), the cocaine - dealing dictator of a Banana Republic.

The instrument is all she has to defeat enemies, manipulate the environment and find lost music sheets and the pages of a journal, written by a mysterious figure that could prove useful to guide her.

This update adds a few thing's like if you own the Old Hunters expansion, or even if you don't own it, you'll still have access to «The League» You align to the league, which is led by a mysterious figure in a constable's garb and bucket helmet, this is Bloodborne's Co-Op.

Set on the mysterious time - forgotten floating continent of Arges, Zwei: The Arges Adventure follows the exploits of socially awkward teenage step - siblings Pokkle and Pipiro as they find their monotonous, ho - hum village life rudely interrupted by a mysterious figure who steals six holy idols from the local shrine.

It is not owned by any government, it was invented by a mysterious figure or group Satoshi Nakamoto — only they know because he disappeared.

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Invented in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, a mysterious Japanese figure, the Bitcoin was envisioned as a decentralized monetary system for online transactions.

In Chapter 11 of William P. Young's «The Shack,» the story's protagonist, Mackenzie, encounters a mysterious female figure who represents Wisdom, (no doubt inspired by Solomon's personification of the virtue in the book of Proverbs.)

We can only salute as it passes that restless and mysterious figure, knowing at last that there must be in him something mystical as well as mysterious; that whether in the sense of the sorrows of Christ or of the sorrows of Cain, he must pass by, for he belongs to God.»

The mysterious Enoch of Genesis 5:21 - 4, since he had never died but had been taken to be with God, was an obvious figure to become the subject of creative legend by the imaginative mind.

Mary is the exemplary source, sign, and figure of what it means to contemplate, from close by, the mysterious joy and suffering and fresh hope of Christ's life, death, and resurrection.

But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

The narrative follows Dakota Johnson's Anastasia Steele as she and Jamie Dornan's Christian Grey attempt to start over after their breakup, with the pair's happiness together ultimately threatened by a variety of outside forces (including a mysterious figure from Christian's past).

The performances further distinguish this the portrayals of notable figures in this film, which delivers on plenty of neat cameos and supporting performances by recognizable talents who nail the recognizable figures, while leading man Alan Rickman more - or-less carries things with his trademark dry, soft - spoken charisma, which captures the mysterious madness and cleverness of Hilly Krystal.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Much of the film revolves around Jack's misadventures aboard said train, where he encounters a whole host of quirky characters (including a mysterious figure named Mark, played by Dean Stockwell).

As played by André Benjamin, a.k.a. André 3000, in this off - kilter biography written and directed by Oscar - winner John Ridley (who penned 12 Years A Slave), Jimi Hendrix is still as mysterious a figure as ever.

The leader of the group is Jacob, played by Jackson Rathbone, a mysterious figure who brings the newcomer to their home at an abandon psychiatric hospital for children on the outskirts of the city.

With appearances by Lying Figures, Mannequin and the mysterious «Fukuro,» a female creature that rides on the back of a Lying Figure.

Like Rey, Kylo Ren has several action figures, including a set where he stands by a mysterious, coffin - like contraption.

The plot involves a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley)-- a mysterious figure who makes videos like Al - Qaeda, wears ornate silk robes, and speaks in an American accent with heavy enunciation — and a think tank run by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a man with a chip on shoulder against Stark, that's creating super-soldiers who can increase their internal body temperature on a whim (Illogically, they can be killed by fire, except, of course, when the story calls for their immunity to it)-- sometimes with explosive results.

The show, which is created by Sam Esmail, stars Rami Malek as Elliot, a cyber-security engineer, and Christian Slater as Mr. Robot, a mysterious figure who start a revolution to change the world.

But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

As production continues on X-Men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer has posted a mysterious new image from the mutant superhero sequel, which shows a young girl flanked by military - type figures armed with bows and arrows, complete with the caption «the past catches up».

When he's sent by his boss Yondu (Michael Rooker) to steal a mysterious orb, only to double - cross him in order to keep the artifact for himself, Quill becomes the target of a power - hungry alien named Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), who's made a deal with the Mad Titan Thanos (the purple - skinned figure teased at the end of «The Avengers») to give him the orb in exchange for destroying his enemy's home planet.

Our lead is aided by a mysterious male figure on a motorcycle, their duplicitous dealings painted starkly.

It's one thing to go into the backstory of how and why a typically bright and cheery fairy can be horribly hardened by heartbreak at the hands of the duplicitous love of her life (the king / Aurora's father, played as an adult by Sharlto Copley), but it's quite another to completely softpedal any sinister sentiment, which is more or less what occurs as Maleficent warms up to Aurora as she grows up into a perky and pure hearted teen (Elle Fanning, sleepwalking when not sleeping) who believes the mysterious, ever - lurking figure to be her fairy godmother.

As Gamora and Thanos make their way to the top of a high cliff, they're greeted by a mysterious hooded figure who is the keeper of the Soul Stone.

In a fluid opening tracking shot we're guided through a busy carnival late at night by a mysterious male figure.

After losing an arm and a leg to a ravenous cannibal, Arlen kills her captor and escapes, navigating her way across a Texas wasteland occupied by the muscular Miami Man (Jason Momoa), a mysterious hermit (Jim Carrey) and a revered figure known as «The Dream» (Keanu Reeves).

By the end of my first hour with the game I was completely invested in unearthing the ultimate truth behind the world of Rime and the mysterious figure in red who called to me with nothing more than their presence.

On the other side of the pond, Shane Meadows's Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is also about a guitarist treated unkindly, a mysterious stranger with a fearsome reputation, an idyllic relationship disrupted by tragedy, a self - described «mysterious Zorro figure,» and another take on the western genre complete with an ambling Southwestern - flavoured score.

When a shady agent pops by his local street revealing information that one of Ethan's most devoted apprentices (Ethan semi-retired into a trainer figure since we last saw him, it seems), has been kidnapped, trying to retrieve a mysterious weapon, called the Rabbit's Foot, Ethan is forced back into the fold.

The episodes are linked by a mysterious, omnipresent figure who turns up at crucial moments, a young blond man with searingly watchful eyes and an Old Testament intensity.

The cast is led by Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash's loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.

The story begins with the painting of the first portrait, when More was almost at the peak of his powers — in which the mysterious John Clement doesn't figure — and ends with the second portrait five years later, after the deeply Catholic More had lost his job and was being hunted down by his Protestant rivals at court.

Chappell's diverse range of clients include: historical novelist Golden Keyes Parsons, whose novels are published by Thomas Nelson; «Survivor: Panama - Exile Island» cast member, Austin Carty, whose book High Points and Lows: Life, Love and Figuring it All Out is published by Penguin / Plume; Boston - based infectious disease expert, John Ross, M.D., whose book Shakespeare's Tremor on the mysterious medical maladies of great writers is forthcoming from St. Martins; University of Virginia professors / psychologists Peter Sheras, Ph.D., and Phyllis Koch - Sheras, Ph.D.; and Atlanta - based relationship expert Dr. Janet Page, author of Get Married This Year: 365 Days to «I Do.»

It is an eerie novel of disambiguation as the character by the name of «K» arrives as a land surveyor in an unamed village and seeks to gain entry into the castle but his path is blocked by mysterious authority figures and indifferent locals.

You play the unluckiest survival expert and father in the world, as your plane crashes on a remote peninsula and your son is kidnapped by a mysterious red figure.

By the end of my first hour with the game I was completely invested in unearthing the ultimate truth behind the world of Rime and the mysterious figure in red who called to me with nothing more than their presence.

After defeating DIO, all is well until Jotaro and his allies are ambushed by deceased allies from his past; they have returned surrounded by a mysterious, sinister energy and speaking of a villainous figure called «The Noble One.»

Zero Time Dilemma sees returning characters Junpei, Akane, Sigma, and Phi accompanied by five new characters, a new Decision Game, and of course a mysterious figure known only as Zero.