Sentences with phrase «gladiatorial battle»

Something about two opposing teams trying to tear each other's creation apart while also strategizing to keep their own machine from getting destroyed really makes it feel like it did in the past with gladiatorial battles, minus the ending of another life.

• Gladiatorial glory — Rome is synonymous with the Coliseum and its epic gladiatorial battles, and in online MultiPlayer Ryse will plunge you into this brutal world *.

The doctors of the Knickerbocker Hospital are shown to engage in daily gladiatorial battles with the limitations of their own knowledge and of the human body, and their inevitable feelings of grandiosity are frequently cut down by the brutal, humbling biological, technical, and political specifics of their occupation.

But as the final match degenerates into a gory gladiatorial battle, viewers may feel Rollerball is more an exploitation of violence than condemnation.

And whether it's elaborate gladiatorial battles or a chariot chase through a burning city, Anderson directs with precision, rhythm, and ruthlessness — he has an eye and an ear for violence, for the visceral impact of a kill.

Take a walk up the Spanish Steps, see the sight of many infamous gladiatorial battles at the mighty Colosseum, take in some of the most revered artworks in the world by the likes of Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael and Michelangelo as you tour world famous galleries and museums, or explore the country within a country with a visit to Vatican City - home to St Peter's Basilica.

Players can fight alone or team up with others in a bloody gladiatorial battle.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

As we speak, thousands of men, women and children of all ages are forcing elemental critters to do gladiatorial battle, with Pokemon Black and White releasing last Friday and taking first and second place in the UK All - Formats Top 40.

Rome is synonymous with the Coliseum and its epic gladiatorial battles.

The match is not a gladiatorial battle during which someone dies.

He went against the projection of the game as a very serious and gladiatorial battle, against the gritted teeth and crunching tackles, against the super efficiency and grand narratives.

What loss or draw this season or last could we hold our heads high after a gladiatorial battle on the pitch?

The copious action sequences range from goofy, bizarre, and brutal as needed, with the gladiatorial battle royale between Thor and the Hulk ticking off all of the boxes.

Synopsis: Slave - turned - fighter Milo (Kit Harington) is shipped to Pompeii to take part in a Gladiatorial battle.

Among the reports suggesting that «Planet Hulk» elements would factor into «Thor: Ragnarok,» one noted that Hulk would engage in a gladiatorial battle on a «distant planet» at some point in the film — and this look to confirm that.

The game's gladiatorial battles were unforgiving and unabashedly violent.

Ricky Berg, with his inextinguishable fighting spirit and sweet tooth for rare candy, tossed some of his favorite Poké pals into a gladiatorial battle to the death in Pokkén Tournament's Switch debut last week.

Lawyers must move past the gladiatorial battle cry of «my ideas will crush yours» to «how can our clients benefit from what we do.»