Sentences with phrase «called death wish»

You can see why this self - dare would appeal to him: before Hopscotch, the novel for which he was best known was a little thing called Death Wish, published in 1972 and made into a film in 1975, both of which feature altogether ample quantities of shooting.

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A coffee producer has recalled a product called «Death Wish» over fears that some cans could contain a potentially - fatal deadly toxin known as botulin.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

He called me a whore and wished me, his father, and my circle a death by stepping in front of a semi.

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

I wish I could report that Sangji's needless death inspired a national drive among universities and professors to create what safety experts call a strong «culture of safety» in labs everywhere.

When Joe Carnahan left MGM and Paramount's remake of the crude»70s revenge thriller Death Wish, he did it with all the tact and good - neighbor diplomacy of someone calling the studio exec he was dealing with a «gutless turd.»

Call that prelude to a kiss of death because that's what I personally wish to bestow on United 93.

Every Earthling knows you don't call out a Gerard Butler character unless you've got some weirdo death wish.

Opening with an audio collage of 911 calls and news reports about Chicago's spike in violence, Death Wish lays out an oversimplified snapshot of urban decay as a foundation for the brutality unleashed by one man after inner - city violence spills over into an affluent suburb.