Sentences with phrase «different than a war»

Morris ponders his own father Alvin's wounded eye from a baseball, thinking that it is no different than a war wound because «part of his life had been shot down.»

Not exact matches

To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII economic boom.

Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

This is no different than the government requiring me to pay taxes that fund wars (any war) that conflict with my beliefs.

Although there are distinctive World War II and baby boom cohorts, generations since then have been more alike than different.

Mexico — after the Revolution and Cristero War — had (and has) a much different understanding of «church and state» relations as laicite / laiciudad than does the U.S. with its Puritan separatist foundations.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

Oh, and Kaiser says that this is WAY different than Jihad, or Holy War, of the Muslims.

This is no different than the Inquisition, witch hunts, religious wars, and Crusades of Christianity.

There would be bidding wars for top recruits, but again, how would that be any different than what happens now?

That's very different than bringing him in to help them work the draft day war room.

Rogue One is a much different film and worth seeing clean, it is as many have described a war movie set in the Star Wars universe, and I enjoyed it more than Force Awakens.

Women who have had an incredibly traumatic birth experience suffer from a type of psychological strain that's not too much different than the effects of a life - threatening event like war or a natural disaster.

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

It's true of Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists, political fundamentalists... For example, during the Cold War China was at times a bigger threat to the Soviet Union than the United States due to their somewhat different interpretations of what Communism meant.

The War Memorial opened in 1951, and it doesn't look much different now than it did then.

«War seems to be looming in Nigeria while the aggressors are no other than misguided individuals who had been armed to provoke different communities into needless battles.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

So this is a situation where the implications of harm reduction are greatly different and much easier to achieve than an all - out war on drugs.

Recently, it was disclosed that radiation experiments were performed on more than 23 000 Americans in about 1400 different projects in the 30 years following the war.

That filter left plenty of data: The final tally came to more than 500 elections from 86 different countries going back to World War II.

Had the author conducted a proper analysis of the role of the submarine today, rather than its former illustrious forbears of the Second World War, I suspect that he would have reached a different conclusion.

Space Wars: Interstellar Empires to Offer Billions of Customizable Crew Builds, 100 + Ships October 31, 2016, at 5:56 a.m. Space Wars: Interstellar Empires, a turn - based tactical strategy MMO from publisher ToHeroes and developer Desert Owl Games, will include more than 100 different ships and thousands of possible build combinations for crews when it reaches Early Access

That makes Infinity War feel different — bigger — than the other entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far.

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

This movie really depicts the utter senselessness of war — how lost soldiers will take up with enemy women for succor and warmth and vice versa and how the officers (the aristocrats of the day, the 1 %) inhabit a much different world than the hoi polloi.

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

Aiming to cruise past all of that, the featurette begins with an assertion by Howard that «the Star Wars universe that we see in Solo is different than anything else we've seen in any of the previous Star Wars movies.»

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

But even without that clarification, we still get the vibe that this could be a pretty big Oscar contender that is much different than The Artist from 2011 as it focuses on the war from the point - of - view of children as victims stuck in the middle of the danger.

For the fifth time in twelve months (following «Flight,» «Iron Man 3,» «World War Z» and «The Lone Ranger «-RRB-, the actor feels like he's in a different, and much better, movie than the one around him.

Various comments from directors of Marvel movies, characters rumors, and plot points set up in more than a few films, all seem to point to the MCU being totally different after Infinity War.

And of course there are the immensely popular franchises of «Star Wars» and «Star Trek», which both chose a different path than the «grounded» nature of the others.

Aside from the death toll in Avengers: Infinity War, one of the movie's biggest surprises was the reintroduction of Captain America's former nemesis, the Red Skull, albeit in a far different role than he held when he debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

More importantly, as Captain America: Civil War proves, they can balance a full - to - bursting line - up of superheroes and what is essentially three different movies — an extension of Winter Soldier's espionage vibe, an Avengers movie in everything but name, and a PTSD psychological drama — while still delivering something coherent, character - driven and more satisfying than the a series of things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces.

Having to travel in a country at war, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II features a different tone than its predecessor, which featured a school setting.

I don't think us as fans were expecting the next «Star Wars» film to be like «The Last Jedi» but it was definitely different... much different than «The Force Awakens».

It's no secret that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has a very different ending than the one we saw in theaters.

«It would have been bigger than 2001,» is how artist and designer Chris Foss describes it, while director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) wonders just how different the industry might have been had Dune come out in place of another movie about cosmic heroes and villians: Star Wars.

Before he was playing a larger - than - life superhero in Captain America: Civil War and now Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman had already had a lot of experience playing different kinds of heroes, as he played both Jackie Robinson and James Brown in two acclaimed performances (that likely led to him being cast as Black Panther).

The same scenario played out along slightly different lines in 1999 when Saving Private Ryan — whose battle sequences transposed some of Platoon's brutal modernism to the context of World War II — earned Steven Spielberg a second Best Director Oscar but the film was upset in the Best Picture category by Shakespeare in Love, a film whose virtues were perceived to be more literary than visual.

Apocalypse Now operates on a different plane than any other war movie I've seen.

Thanks to cinematographer Bradford Young, Solo looks different than most Star Wars films.

Rather than embed with just one individual or group or take only a drug war framing to the transportation of narcotics, «The Trade» follows a number of different throughlines: the boss of an opium poppy production field, addicts in various stages of treatment, police officials in Mexico City and Dayton, Ohio.

I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...

As if there weren't enough doomsday - themed films released last year, 2013 will see no less than five different movies on the topic — that is, if you include «World War Z.» But before audiences flock to theaters to watch stars like Brad Pitt and James Franco try to survive the end of days, writer / director Todd Berger's «It's a Disaster» offers a darkly comic tale about a group of friends (and one stranger) who are forced into an impromptu therapy session following a biological attack on the city.

It is well known that Chris Evans's Captain America will be a lot different than what we are used to in Avengers: Civil War.

Over the past ten years, much has changed in the world of education policy, and in particular the «war of ideas» today is very different than it was in 2001.

The recent mass immigration of thousands of displaced children together with their families to European countries, and their historical long march in the wake of a risk - laden and desperate journey across different countries and less - than - friendly seas in the hope to leave behind the miseries of war and move toward a better life that they are hoping to forge for themselves and their parents in their host countries, resonates with the life stories and conditions of the characters of a number of submissions this year.»