Sentences with phrase «daggers hidden»

Those unnervingly sharp little daggers hidden behind that adorable little face.

In our Western cultures we often greet each other with a handshake, which began as a custom to prove that there was no dagger hidden in our sleeve.

He looked like he should have a dagger hidden in his belt and rescue the fair princess from the evil dragon.

Not exact matches

On the list of 200 items that fall under the agency's «artful concealment» category: A knife hidden in a stick of Dove deodorant found at Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Connecticut; a stun gun disguised as a tube of lipstick found at Baltimore - Washington International Airport; and a dagger - in - a-hairbrush found at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

They recruited and trained a group of secret assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers by slitting their throat, or stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.

Twisting the dagger into the Senate Democrats» hide on Fred Dicker's radio show this morning was former Cuomo aide Steve Cohen.

«In this coalition, the Lib Dems are the cloak that hides the dagger.»

And the film truly is beautiful, certainly the most visually stunning martial arts movie ever made, which is saying a lot given the recent competition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (# 1, 2000) and director Zhang Yimou's own follow - up to Hero, The House Of Flying Daggers.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

Speaking of Zhang and Zhang, Senses Of Cinema has an interesting, comprehensive and somewhat confusing article on House Of Flying Daggers, Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Curse of the Golden Flower (imdb quicktime trailer) Let's see, let's see: Zhang Yimou (aka best Chinese director ever, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Gong Li (aka one of the top Chinese actresses ever, Raise the Red Lantern and many others), Chow Yun - Fat (aka one of the best current Chinese action actors, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), story set in historical China, with full - on Crouching Tiger - style flying martial arts?

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

The dedicated group of volunteers also dug through the muck and cloak and dagger tactics of the pet store that was going to great lengths to hide where the puppies were coming from.

The collection of Kris daggers is a little hidden on the second floor, but this interesting exhibit should not be overlooked,

Archers are mentioned, as well as elite enemies, dagger wielders, «Brutish» armored troops with heavy armor and 2 handed swords and axes, and an intelligent halberd enemy will probe hiding places with their weapons if they think you're near by.

Solve the mystery of the sacred dagger as you investigate creepy, deathtrap filled ruins, and uncover hidden treasures.

You kill all sorts of men, some masked and many not, in every Assassins Creed, but nearly 10 games later, Origins has provided players with its most compelling reason to employ a hidden dagger over and over.

You're given a much slicker weapon wheel this time around where you can instantly change to your dagger, smoke bombs, hidden blade, throwing knives, poison, or even your pistol.

Some scenes of this game look like they've been ripped directly from the likes of «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» or «The House of Flying Daggers» and got mixed into here.

Just watch out for hidden daggers...