Sentences with phrase «gladiatorial combat»
"Gladiatorial combat" refers to a type of fighting or battles that happened during ancient times, specifically in Roman arenas. It involved skilled warriors, known as gladiators, who fought against each other or against wild animals as a form of entertainment for the spectators. Full definition
Thor loses his hammer and faces the Incredible Hulk in gladiatorial combat in the action - packed first look at Thor: Ragnarok
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The glamour of gladiatorial combat in the public arena outshone the cerebral problem - solving of the lawyer sitting his office.
Then he's been captured by a bounty hunter named Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) on a strange planet called Sakaar, given a haircut and forced to compete in gladiatorial combat against Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), which is controlled by a man called The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) who's hanging around with his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston).
Developed by the same studio responsible for the Tenchu and Way of the Samurai series, Gladiator Begins combines the bloody, brain - smashing violence of Gladiatorial combat with deep customisation options — where your choices outside battle greatly affect your chances of victory in the arena.
But his first attempt to stop her fails: He's deprived of his all - powerful hammer, and winds up imprisoned on Sakaar, a distant planet where he's forced into gladiatorial combat against his old friend the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), who doesn't seem to recognize him.
These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.
Gary Ross played it too safe with the first installment, only vaguely sketching the story's dystopic setting and questionably delivering a bloodless blockbuster about kids forced to kill kids in gladiatorial combat for the reality TV era.
The Surfer is transported to Asgard where he confronts Thor, but the God of Thunder wants to finish his meal so they agree to gladiatorial combat following dinner.
And for the climax, Mann stages a glorious mano - a-mano gladiatorial combat amidst a grotesque celebration in the Roman forum as decadent as any Cecil B. DeMille pagan spectacle.
The action role - playing game will support up to two players and will feature gladiatorial combat against other combatants and animals, such as bulls and elephants.
In addition, the resolution of this episode before disaster struck is likely to further entrench the current system of gladiatorial combat between management and labor, which, in turn, increases long - term instability in the education sector in at least two ways.
Sometimes you might want to referee these little breakouts, especially if tiny children are involved, but other times you might offer them both a sword and settle the dispute the old - fashioned way, because nothing says a good night better than bloodshed and thrilling gladiatorial combat.
News - 1 day, 2 hours The first Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 zombie mode «experience» puts the 4 characters into zombie - killing gladiatorial combat.
Take a creature design, give it three special abilities, tweak them with a series of variables, and drop them into a cheerful gladiatorial combat.
The full PC game will be available October 10th and will come with all 4 DLC Packs (The Colosseum Pack, The Mars Chosen Pack, The Duel of Fates Pack and the Morituri Pack), Cooperative gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum, Colosseum Mode with 25 multiplayer maps and customization options for your gladiator with new armour, weapons, shields and consumables.
Late last year I wrote about Clone Drone In The Danger Zone, a short but already extremely enjoyable demo about robots clashing in ferocious gladiatorial combat.
Many gladiatorial combats were held in the Colosseum.
The cooperative multiplayer experience in «Ryse: Son of Rome» plunges you into the brutal world of gladiatorial combat.
Welcome to the Grandmaster's realm, where Thor is forced into gladiatorial combat with, of all superpeople, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)-- a fan - thrilling, visually turbocharged sequence that it's a shame Marvel couldn't have kept secret.
Stranded on an alien planet, the Thunder God's ordered to fight for his life in gladiatorial combat against his mean, green cohort the Hulk; of course the pair will eventually team up and devise an escape plan.
(PDF) Don't think of your expert as a participant in gladiatorial combat with your opponent's expert.
If we wanted to be truly technical, we could trace the history of wearable devices all the way back to the Roman emperor Nero, who used emeralds like eyeglasses in order to get a sharper view of gladiatorial combat.
As Liverpool wound down the clock to what should have been a nail - biting 2 - 1 win over Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday, Emre Can smashed the ball into the stands, throwing his hands up in a gesture of gladiatorial combat.
The Romans loved to be entertained, and few things riveted them more than the spectacle of gladiatorial combat.
Jeff Goldblum steals scenes as the amusingly amoral leader of a prison planet that serves up gladiatorial combat; the main event pits Thor against the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).
Failing to stop her, Thor is inadvertently cast onto a dystopian planet Sakaar, presided over by Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, in fully manic mode), who forces his prisoners to engage in gladiatorial combat.
The Dutch trading post at Dejima becomes a Pirates Of The Caribbean - like hideaway, where slaves fight ogres in gladiatorial combat.
Every Friday, as the new releases are sluiced out, advertised in flashing neon over the box office of your local multiplex, it's become a case of picking one film and catching the other one later, if at all — it's like movies are pitted against one another in gladiatorial combat.
We can definitely expect a new upgrade system and an eagle for a bird's eye view of the maps, while hints of gladiatorial combat and supernatural creatures were teased in the trailer.
The rumor states that the Hulk will play a larger role in Phase Three with his own standalone film that follows the storyline of Greg Pak's popular «Planet Hulk» storyline, where the Hulk gets shot into space and lands on a planet of gladiatorial combat, eventually becoming its king and returning to Earth to exact his revenge on those who exiled him into space.
Eight feet tall and made of rocks, this Kronan warrior — first introduced in Marvel's «Planet Hulk» comics story line — befriends Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on the planet Sakaar, where they each have been exiled and forced to fight to the death in gladiatorial combat.
Further complaints: Miguel Gomes is insistent that his «Arabian Nights» is three separate films and not one linked trilogy, which makes its inclusion as a single fourth - place entity a modest cheat, and that five - way ties at 14th place are just begging to be broken up by some form of gladiatorial combat.
A touch of Spartacus here, as Tarzan dominates the Games and gladiatorial combats in the Colosseum, and leads a desperate revolt against Caesar.
Set in the Roman Colosseum, Gladiator mode plunges you into the brutal world of gladiatorial combat, where you fight cooperatively with your friends against an ever - changing array of enemies, to the roar of thousands of spectators.
Unique items and gladiatorial combat against monster hordes can be enjoyed in Terra Incognita, with more stuff added when new campaign chapters are concluded.
Given the history of warfare and gladiatorial combat that persists in Legrand Legacy, it makes sense that there are many violent diversions that focus on martial prowess.
a 1984 Taito game of one - hit kills achieved through fencing, kendo, and gladiatorial combat.
«Gladiatorial Combat: The Battle of the Big,» New York Times, 17 May 2013 (Red illustrated).
Still, she says, «I loved Gladiator and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.»
Historical note: Lions used in gladiatorial combat in Roman times were most likely Barbary lions.
The lord chief justice has recently complained at the excessive length of trials through over-citation of precedents, but the complexity and consequent cost of litigation follow inevitably from the narrow focus of barristers on the gladiatorial combat instead of dispute resolution.