Sentences with phrase «gambling dens of»

As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, «Junior,» and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his ex-wife than he ever did during their marriage.

And it's only about 30 minutes from the high - stakes gambling dens of Monte Carlo, made famous in James Bond films.

There are also many that thought of the cryptocurrency market as a speculative bubble, a gambling den of sorts where investors can make a killing or lose everything.

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When the original Lloyd's café degenerated into a petty den of stockjobbing and gambling during the 1760s, customers induced a waiter to open New Lloyd's Coffee House — with its own New Lloyd's List.

It was in any case Europe's great pleasure capital, with a flourishing high culture» literature, theater, art» and, on the wicked end of the spectrum, an abundance of high «class brothels, gambling dens, casinos, and race tracks.

Molly teaches herself about Texas hold»em and the vices of rich men, and then saunters around her high - end gambling den like a unimpressed demigoddess in designer stilettos.

Lando hangs out in a gambling den for a good chunk of the film, a setting that also allows for a showcase of the film's many cool, new alien designs.

Although opening with a smoky gambling den and an enigmatic woman on the periphery (Isabelle Adjani), Hill quickly switches lanes away from the recognisable landscape of film noir and heads for cheap motels, abandoned warehouses and nearly deserted streets.

«The most important thing is customer protection, to ensure players are playing something that's fair, that the odds are going to be known to them, and the rates of outcome will be consistent — and that's the problem with gambling dens.

She conjured up the roiling, riotous art camp that was East 10th Street in the 1950s, her home before this one; the leaky, cold - water lofts that she, Mr. Resnick, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and other members of the New York School colonized; the endless coffee fueling the endless, passionate debates; the feuds and factions; and the constant, hilarious presence of the F.B.I., trawling for the operators of the Mafia gambling dens the artists unwittingly shared space with.