Sentences with phrase «from war hero»

If GMC dealerships had made room for Hummer, it would have been easier to phase out when its brand perception went from war hero / tough guy «cool» to gas - guzzler anachronism.

Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen...

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«It is the American flag that is draped across the coffins of our fallen heroes when they come back from war.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

Though it is easy to tell whence Loeb's confusion comes from, reading his description of Broadwell, who - far from the tabloid-esque accounts of a spoiled «prom queen» - comes off, indeed, as a very unlikely «other woman» for the closest thing America has to a modern day war hero.

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

You have to be awful daring to compare yourself to a war hero and a prophet from the Bible.

The huge gallery surrounding the 18th green in the late afternoon shadows applauded these two survivors of so much Masters drama as if they were heroes returning from foreign wars.

Iwobi has gone from Star Wars hero to Star Trek Klingon in One failed swoop... His even starting to look like one.?

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie directs UNBROKEN, the epic drama adapted from the wildly popular New York Times Bestseller about the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louie Zamperini.

Consider a baby name inspired by military heroes from the Revolutionary War to present times.

It has gone from near - barren to bustling under the leadership of supervisor Jim Hobson, the former gang leader - turned - Vietnam War hero who organized this year's banquet just as he did for 11 years at his former park district post, Kiwanis Playground on the Far North Side.

Here are names inspired by military heroes from the Revolutionary War to present times.

Quilo is a boy's name and comes from the Greek mythological story of the Trojan War, in which he was the hero filled with «manly beauty and valor.»

Naming your baby boy after a Star Wars hero and an Irish hero from myth and legend will be so much fun and it may set the stage for your own infant son to grow up and do some heroic deeds of his own!

From the Cockleshell Heroes daring 1942 raid deep into Nazi - occupied France to the dangerous sorties into enemy territory during the Gulf wars, their actions have epitomised heroism.

They are lining - up to position the race against Eldridge as a campaign of personalities — Gibson, the local war hero from a working family vs. Eldridge, the multi-millionaire outsider trying to buy a Congressional seat.»

Lord Ashcroft's articles for Britain at War over the past six years have often been based on excerpts from his six books on gallantry: Victoria Cross Heroes, Special Forces Heroes, George Cross Heroes, Heroes of the Skies, Special Ops Heroes and Victoria Cross Heroes Volume II.

NEW YORK TIMES: Congressman Michael Grimm is a «war hero» and his de Blasio Democrat opponent Domenic Recchia is a «foreigner from across the bay»

The story of Army hero Charles N. DeGlopper reads like a Hollywood script: A small town boy joins the Army in World War II and gives his life to save his platoon, stepping out into the open to fight the Germans alone and stopping them from taking control of a strategic bridge in the Normandy campaign.

Women are more attracted to war heroes than regular soldiers or men who display heroic traits in other fields, such as in sports or natural disaster work, according to new research from the University of Southampton and partners in Europe.

Like the plot of a great epic «hero's journey» told over and over in its many ways; from the Odyssey to On the Road to Star Wars, and Harry Potter.

She had been a soldier and a war hero and found it very hard to adjust to life back home after returning from the battlefield.

First Northern California Recipient of the Congressional Youth Award (There are only two types of awards from the United States of America Congress in Washington D.C.; the Congressional Award for war heroes and the Congressional Youth Award for community leaders that excel from a challenged life and return to offer guidance to challenged youth in inner city environments).

All of their favorite villains and heroes from Star Wars: The Last Jediâ «cents are taking over their sleep space.

A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify.

Enter World War Z, a travelogue of sorts that takes our hero, UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), hopping from ruined place to ruined place in search of a cure for the virus taking over the planet.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

In a rare break from the Cold War origins Lee tended to give his heroes, the X-Men were not people who had been bombarded by fallout or bitten by a radioactive trout; they were «mutants,» people born with psychic talents or the ability to shoot red power beams from their eyes, not Homo sapiens but homo superior.

«John Carter» delivers one of its precious few delights shortly after the hero, a Civil War veteran from Virginia, finds himself teleported to Mars.

From playing the beta, I found that while the new heroes and units were extremely fun to discover and use at first, they get old pretty fast - the new units and heroes don't bring the same spice to warcraft that brood war brought to starcraft, disappointingly.

If bringing together Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and virtually every other supporting player from the first ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't enough, it seems that Avengers: Infinity War may be set to introduce another classic Marvel here... although you may want to have your pinch of salt at -LSB-...]

Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.

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Possibly around the time the film was drafted as «The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller,» Lucas was on the lookout for his story's main hero.

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Bursting with the same charismatic, comic book energy that skyrockets through most of his movies, old crime reporter, novelist, war hero, writer - director and sometime producer Samuel Fuller, almost 69, still moves and talks like his daffy action flicks — like the wild man from Borneo — in quick, short, blocky punches, like two - fisted slabs of socko headline type.»

Lauded by Winston Churchill as being the man who made the greatest single contribution to the war effort, the film is both a celebration of Turing's life and an infuriating look at the circumstances that turned him from a hero into a pariah.

Jyn herself is something of a street rat, with a rap sheet and a hardscrabble attitude that, at least in the beginning, separates her from the standard «plucky hero» type favored by Star Wars thus far.

The film features excellent support from the likes of Steve Martin who plays Norm Oglesby, owner of the Dallas football team, Tim Blake Nelson as Wayne Foster and one Vin Diesel as Shroom, a fallen hero from the war.

There were many details to glean from Marvel Studios» first look at the making of «Avengers: Infinity War,» from comments by the producer, stars and directors to confirmation, through concept art, that the Guardians of the Galaxy will indeed meet Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Audiences were introduced to Luke Skywalker more than 40 years ago, in Star Wars: A New Hope, and were captivated by his journey from restless farm boy to Rebel hero to, finally, legendary Jedi Knight.

It also takes a page from the Fire Emblem Heroes app in that many of the forces drawn to help wage war actually hail from other times and worlds in the Fire Emblem universe, including series favourites like Chrom, Lucina, Frederick, Ryoma, and Camilla.

I was most often touched by the predicament of Ronsel Jackson, who comes home from the war a decorated hero and still has to sit in the back of the bus.

In theory, DC has an edge over Marvel in that their big heroes crossed over into mass popular culture in the 1940s and are recognisable to audiences who can't distinguish Cap's armoured black ally (Anthony Mackie as the Falcon) from Iron Man's armoured black ally (Don Cheadle as War Machine) or the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Steve Rogers» side (Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch) from the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Tony Stark's side (Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow).

After years of build - up, the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe will come together in Avengers: Infinity War, where over two dozen heroes will try to keep Thanos from the all - powerful Infinity Gauntlet.

Apparently Arndt's departure was because of his script's focus on the next generation of heroes, while Abrams wanted to focus at least one more time on the main trio of heroes from the original Star Wars movies.

Thanos threatens to wipe the MCU's heroes from existence with a simple snap of his fingers in a high - quality TV spot for Avengers: Infinity War.

Infinity War will pick up from the events of Ryan Coogler's smash hit Black Panther and pits all the heroes of the MCU against Thanos and his forces, including the Black Order, as he aims to reshape reality in his own dark, twisted way.