Sentences with phrase «dagger drawn»

But we have ceased to live with daggers drawn.

It's daggers drawn.

Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and Senator Buruji Kashamu representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the Senate are at daggers drawn over the control of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

With time ticking away on the Brexit negotiations, the Cabinet is still at daggers drawn on the shape for future trade relations with the EU.

Not exact matches

But today, they are at daggers - drawn.

With Speaker Bercow barely able to warm his new big green chair, the daggers were already drawn, with some unpleasant off and on the record briefing against him, a less than gracious welcome by Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House, and a quite distasteful contribution from Nadine Dorries parading herself round the media outlets the day after Mr Bercow's election.

► A peacock draws a dagger on a panda and as he reaches to kill the panda a ship's mast falls on the bird amid smoke (we see no blood or gore).

Here, Macbeth (a curiously hushed Michael Fassbender) indeed spots a dagger that draws him toward the bloody murder of Duncan (David Thewlis), the king to whom he had been most loyal, but the blade does not hang from the air.

«And then the knight was held over the pit of writhing snakes, which hissed and spat as their twining lengths ensnared the whitening bones of their previous victims...» «And then the black - hearted villain, with a hideous oath, drew a secret dagger from his boot and advanced towards the defenceless...» «And then the maiden took a pin from her hair and the golden tresses fell from the window, down, down, caressing the castle walls until they almost reached the verdant grass on which he stood...» Arthur was an energetic, headstrong boy who did not easily sit still; but once the Mam raised her porridge stick he was held in a state of silent enchantment — as if a villain from one of her stories had slipped a secret herb into his food.

A young prince, drawn to the dark powers of a magic dagger, unleashes a deadly evil upon a beautiful kingdom.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time HD ($ 14.99) Drawn to the dark powers of a magic dagger, a young Prince is led to unleash a deadly evil upon a beautiful kingdom.

Swords, daggers, demons,, animal, human and hybrid beings, an imagery that often draws from art history and, more generally, from a spiritual and mystic dimension, guide us through a twilight where figures emerge from the scrawled surface — they seem to prevail, and then again they are absorbed by the invasive gesture of the pen.