Sentences with phrase «death struggle between»

Epic / High Fantasy — includes a life or death struggle between good and evil, has many characters and a vast world, and generally is written in series or even multiple series.

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There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

Events of great consequence for the world took place in these centuries: the fall of the Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander the Great and their dissolution after his death; the long struggles between the Greek dynasties of Syria and of Egypt; and the advance of Rome as residuary legatee of them all.

Although Azzam had been the mentor of Osama bin Laden for 10 years, a power struggle between them ended in 1989 with the death of Azzam and his two sons in a bomb blast in Peshawar on their way to Friday prayers.

For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.

Until then, the world remains a place of struggle between light and darkness, truth and falsehood, life and death; and, in such a world, our portion is charity.

This perspective takes seriously that fundamental sense of lostness which echoes through so much of the alcoholic's conversation, and it accepts as fundamental reality the alcoholic's struggle between life and death.

If such a solution to the civil religion problem does eventually emerge, a solution based on the common acceptance of certain political values rather than a struggle to the death between different religiopolitical ideologies, it will depend on changes in both the church and the socialist left.

No one has expressed it so dramatically as Pope John Paul II: «The family is placed at the centre of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.»

The 85 personnel, who were dispatched from the Police Headquarters last week to calm tensions and protect lives and properties at Dwerebease and Hweehwee after reprisal attacks between nomadic herdsmen and some farmers, which led to the death of some 8 people, are struggling to access water which they say is affecting their work.

The movie wages an internal struggle between the loopy, Hope & Crosby «Road to Sakaar» vibe and protracted scenes of destruction and death.

Ultimately, then, the battle between creation and evolution is a struggle between two different histories of death and where humankind is going.

Still, the basics are there: the struggle between man and machine, morality and profit, life and death.

What makes the story truly special is the blurred line between Mark the actor, and Mark the character in this film who struggles with telling his real - life 2 - year old son about death.

In her documentary, director and writer Lana Wilson quietly captures the pain and profundity in the struggle between life and death via an unconventional Buddhist priest.

In portraying the intensity of Joe's physical and emotional struggle, Ramsay pitches him in a hazy place between life and death, haunted by traumatic memories of the past: an abusive father, unforgiving battlegrounds, former jobs that collectively take their toll, among them.

What follows is the struggle between Roxie and Velma to avoid the death penalty by gaining attention over one another and becoming as beloved as possible by the public.

The film draws parallels between these two captains, one young and one old, from vastly different backgrounds, and both trying to gain the advantage in this life - or - death power struggle.

Fifteen days after Sitting Bull's death, many Lakota died during the Battle of Wounded Knee, signaling the end of the long struggle between the Plains peoples and the United States for control of the Great Plains.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

Lizzie Stamford's family struggles to survive birth, death, and a changing way of life during the War Between the States.

Killzone 2 especially made me feel like I was inside a real warzone, the desperate runs between cover as I struggled to survive, the constant death handed my way if I didn't shoot at the opportune moment, creating risky manoeuvres just to survive one last battle.

Working predominantly under the sunlight of Pennsylvania and Maine with models who are most often her own three children, Madigan seeks to find «the essential truth in the teachings of nature; death and life as a continuum; the temporary nature of the body; and the struggle between human desire and spiritual evolution.»

This marriage of spooky beauty to evolutionary science plays out a struggle between life and death, the spiritual and the physical, and the banal and the sublime.

Artist Robert Rauschenberg used to say he intended for his work to fill the gap between art and life — and the morning after his death, friends and colleagues were left struggling for words to describe the gap he left in their lives and in the art world.

Guest curator Kamin Rapaport positions sixty - six sculptures and installations — antihierarchical juxtapositions of appropriated materials, such as ornamental molding, fabric, and discarded timber — and works on paper, all made between 1928 and 1988 (the year of the artist's death), against an archival backdrop in which Nevelson's struggles as a Russian Jew growing up in WASP - y Rockland, Maine, figure prominently.