Sentences with phrase «certain kind of war»

A WWII combat veteran, Fuller was the master of a certain kind of war film, exemplified by his 1951 Korean War titles The Steel Helmet and Fixed Bayonets and his memoir - like The Big Red One (80).

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«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»
Nevertheless, at least for the first hour or so, this war film from Peter Berg (Battleship, Hancock) is gripping in its tension, with a kind of harrowing set - up that rings of a certain authenticity that makes the peril the men face truly nightmarish.
After four days at Star Wars Celebration, a kind of semiannual gathering of Jedi and Rebels and Empire and Ewoks thrown by Lucasfilm as a great wet smooch of thanks to fans, you start to feel knee - deep in Sith, certain you'll have a seizure if you hear...
More than a tale of a son learning that his father was both a god and a murderer, God of War indicts the soul - crushing effects of a certain kind of manhood.
Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a certain kind of seeker or desperate kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed here between the wars, stubborn or demented individuals...
If you want to teach history to people with a game than don't make up BS for political correctness by including all kinds of races and genders as soilders who did not take part that way in the war and by taking out certain symbols.
You can't convince an entire country to go into an illegal war in the Middle East without having previously convinced them of a certain kind of image of a bad guy.»
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