Sentences with phrase «by turns violent»

By turns violent and comical, the project is a vivid, engaging and forthright attack on complacency.

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Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

The violent tenants, by contrast, are tending the vines, but as they work they are plotting how to turn stewardship into ownership.

If a satirist had come up with the idea of a violent criminal who had spent time in an asylum being admitted by a university to its doctoral program in «homicide studies,» thereafter turning into a serial killer, that satirist would have been denounced for poor taste.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

Let us turn now to the second question: Is the Marxist committed to an unending spiral of violence by his use of violent means?

If only they were / are more violent in their protest (not violent per say, i meant 100 % active enough to quake the Arsenal board), things coulda taken a better turn by the day....

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

In turn, they were soon targeted by elected officials and law enforcement who labeled them violent and criminal.

Aisha Santiago was hit by a stray bullet when an argument between two groups of men turned violent.

The Let My Vote Count Alliance embarked on series of demonstrations, some of which turned violent with members of the Alliance being allegedly manhandled by the police.

A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere Darko was flogged with horse whips by the Police on Wednesday, when the Let My Vote Count demonstration turned violent.

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Those turned off by the first part's reckless, relentless violent purges aren't likely to find cause for conversion, but Vol.

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The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

The man's life is turned upside down by the violent assault of a gay neighbor (Greg Kinnear) and the medical problems of a waitress» (Helen Hunt) young son.

Things take a sharp turn when Jimmy's estranged son Mike (Joel Kinnaman) takes an ill - fated chauffeur gig that leaves him witness to a murder perpetrated by Danny (Boyd Holbrook), Shawn's reckless and violent son.

Finding themselves locked inside their workplace by a series of iron shutters that slam down over every door and window, the staffers of the Belko Corporation don't instantly turn violent.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

For a time, she was compelled only by the all - consuming desire to start a family with him; but that desire would soon be complicated by her struggles to conceive, and her hopes of becoming a mother would in turn be interrupted by the coming of the brutal Balkan war and the longest violent siege of a city in modern history.

Sanaa Lathan stars as a political lobbyist who rebounds from a bad breakup by getting involved with a handsome and seemingly super-cool new guy (Michael Ealy), who — per the traditions of the genre — turns out to be a violent creep.

Following some solid supporting work in Drive, and surviving the unfathomable catastrophe that is Zack Snyder «s Sucker Punch, in 2011, 2013 brought him into the spotlight with his emotionally wrecked, exquisitely melancholic performance as the titular folk singer in the Coen brothers» Inside Llewyn Davis, followed by an excellent turn in J.C. Chandor «s A Most Violent Year, a better - than - average Sidney Lumet riff from 2014.

The movie opens with a rampant shootout by a recently dismissed employee whose bitter reaction turns violent and suicidal.

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An American crime film directed by Scott Cooper («Out Of the Furnace»), «Black Mass» centers on the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who turned FBI Informant.

Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior in the vicious games of one - upmanship played by both students and masters.

With an award - worthy performance by Patrick Stewart as an aging Professor X struggling to control his mental powers as his body deteriorates around him and a breakout turn by young Dafne Keen as a mysterious child whose connection to the title mutant hero is as violent and as uncompromising as one might expect it to be.

Quarantine Rated R for bloody violent and disturbing content, terror and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This documentary - style horror film tells the story of a group of people quarantined into an apartment building by the CDC when a virus erupts that turns humans into rabid, deadly creatures.

As per an article available here, «a massive strike organized by a radical wing of the country's largest teachers union [the National Coordinator of Education Workers (or CNTE)-RSB- turned into a violent confrontation with police» starting last weekend.

Set in a harsh landscape that engenders raw emotions, this gritty tale is by turns wise, violent, and compassionate... a darkly atmospheric novel that explores the evil done unto men and the evil they in turn do to others.

The Blondes By Emily Schultz Picador • $ 16 • ISBN 9781250081698 Blondes have decidedly less fun in Schultz's genre - straddling story about a rabies - like pandemic that affects only fair - haired women, turning them into violent attackers.

After her one night stand with a biker ends up in a kidnapping and the local sheriff's department prove themselves useless she turns to the only people who can help: The Sons of Mayhem.Pursued by her violent and dangerous ex Karen and the Sons of Mayhem have to fight for all their worth as the handsome but devious Dewey leads them on a trail of destruction.

The signs that a Reaping will come have already manifested: people are being affected by searingly painful ulcers on the back of their necks, a curse which turns men into violent lunatics, and the appearance of a strange, murderous, masked race known as the Ense.

You soon learn the ropes of free - running and zombie slaying when one of the factions (the less violent of the two) takes you under their wing and trains you to navigate the city by sending you on missions to locate stockpiles and retrieve Antizan (the serum that prevents you from turning).

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Looking back to when the suffragettes took a violent turn, attacking museum art and artefacts with «choppers», Carla Zaccagnini has amassed a fascinating archive of news clippings and created sculptures inspired by the weapons these early female freedom fighters used.

Defined by civil rights struggles that came to a head with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the ensuing riots across the United States, 1968 was a pivotal if violent turning point for race relations...

By turns playful and visceral, violent and witty, Ono's highly conceptual works are also informed by a profound commitment to peace activisBy turns playful and visceral, violent and witty, Ono's highly conceptual works are also informed by a profound commitment to peace activisby a profound commitment to peace activism.

After suggesting Climate Scientist Myles Allen presented a misleading graph about CO2, and after receiving an admission from Oceanographer Gary Griggs that ice ages and other violent climate shifts, far greater than today's mild warming, can be caused by natural forcings, Judge Alsup turned to the centrepiece of the conspiracy charge, the «Smoking Gun» memo.

A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.

The situation turned violent in March when, Crawford told the media, he was beaten in court by an investigator for the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

That decision inspired the bitcoin community to erupt in a somewhat violent display of solidarity against the company's products, and led to accusations that Apple had abandoned its principles by turning its back on innovation.

If you find yourself watching violent TV shows right before going to bed, it would be a better idea to turn off the TV an hour before bedtime, and instead plan to mentally wind down by doing mindful breathing exercises, taking a warm bath to calm the senses and let the mind factory rest for the night.