Sentences with word «harpy»

A harpy is a mythical creature with the body of a bird and the face of a human. It is usually depicted as a female monster that is known for being greedy and cruel. Full definition
Recently we have also found some active nests of harpy eagles in the area, so make sure to ask if new nests have been found.
The crossbow is even great for flying creatures like harpies or if you're trying to back away from an angry mob of thugs.
Use spell cards to fight legendary monsters (such as Harpies, Cygors, and Exalted Bloodthirsters) or mystically have them fight by your side!
By the way, i believe a woman who used to go to church here in town was invalidated out of there by at least one (probably more — because harpies fly in packs) of the... uh - hem, church ladies.
In a word, she was seized by jealousy — the green - eyed monster that seems to turn the most sensible and intelligent of women into bile - spitting harpies when faced with something they wish they had.
obsessed harpy and I'm sure once we've been seeing each other for long dating, and our Typically at 2 months in, most people are in relationships at that time, or she should be bringing up the talk at least.
The assailant, who appears to be not much older than Kinsey, looks right back at her and summons her best sickie - harpy grin as she says, -LSB-...]
And Kahn already shows the ability to embody her role, a shrewish harpy, from the annoying voice to her frumpy walk, to a «T.» (That same year she would explode with her performance in Blazing Saddles).
Rauch, a pint - size actress with forceful energy, is very funny as a two - for - one spoof of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding — a onetime champion who has devolved into a small - town harpy with an outdated haircut.
And further up still, it's easy to spot birds like the enormous harpy eagle and animals like the black howler monkey, one of the loudest animals in the world.
At times «Good» seems to be making the point that the Holocaust was caused by harpies.
On the effect of his sensational portrait of Clinton, Brock aptly remarks: «My article depicted «Bill» as a sexually voracious sociopathic cipher, while «Hillary» appeared as a foulmouthed, castrating, power - mad harpy, joined together in a sham power marriage.
THE MOMENT Veterinarian Alexander Blanco collects a juvenile harpy eagle from its nest in the Imataca Forest Reserve in Venezuela.
Women are either cruel harridans (who, of course, get a nasty comeuppance in the third act), desperately clingy harpies, single - minded eating machines used for a gross - out joke (fat women only), or trophies for the male protagonist once he learns his lesson.
Stu Price (Ed Helms) is the yuppie dentist (or so we think) and his absolute harpy of a girlfriend, Melissa (Tracy Garner).
A feel - bad holiday film about a repellent family, with a milquetoast dad and a smug, devious harpy of a mom.
Apparently, not all women are emasculating harpies — just the ones who aren't hookers.
Yet when Barney's grown son, Michael, describes him as «a miserable ungrateful prick,» it seems a tad harsh given the preceding material, in which Barney's affection for, and jealousy over, Miriam seems born from genuine affection, not to mention the depiction of his previous two spouses as shrill, repugnant harpies.
Everybody wants in on the action, from Ian's harpy soon - to - be-ex-wife, Eleanor (Vera Farmiga), who takes to the talk show circuit to promote a brazenly pandering charity single, to the separatist group that later takes credit for Ian and Frank's abduction.
To the film's credit, it doesn't drag out Maddie's annoyance that her mother is squatting on her senioritis — no need to swap one lead harpy for another.
Tormented by his seven harpy sisters, treated as a joke by his business associates, he radiates the aura of a beaten puppy.
Allen stacks the deck by both casting Gil's fiancé Inez (Rachel McAdams) as his materialistic - harpy opposite, and by giving her a transparent perfect match in pseudo-intellectual blowhard Paul (Michael Sheen).
I Saw the Light, and to be honest Olsen herself, tend to frame her as a nagging selfish harpy, rather than the possibly tragic figure of the abandoned wife whose career dreams are crushed.
Fatal to the production, then, is the introduction of an unsullied male hero — a literal martyr this time instead of the figurative types of LaBute's last couple pictures: a man of action (no milquetoast intellectuals here) struggling against a rising tide of castrating, hippie harpies.
Her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) is not the usual harpy nemesis, but is urgently trying to adjust to her daughter's quicksilver adolescent changes before she leaves for college.
They're all desperate, agitated harpies and relentless sources of internal and external conflict in «Third Person,» writer - director Paul Haggis» exasperating multistory drama about how hard it is for a nice, quiet, sensitive guy to be left alone to...
She's dramatically cast against type here playing a rigid stiff of a Christian harpy, but does she even have eight lines?
She doesn't bring anything notable to the character of Violet (in part a function of the script), opting to make her a fiery harpy of a woman with nothing to show of it beyond a scare wig and some stereotypically druggy behavior.
I'll admit, when I'm in the middle of taking down a Major Biomechanoid and a flock of Scythian Witch - Harpies simultaneously, the sound of mind - numbing screeching inching ever closer from headless suicide bombers never fails to send me running in the opposite direction for dear life, and more then once I had to pause the game and catch my breath after an insanely intense battle.
Lucille runs cold and hot and then even colder still, ultimately erupting into a shrill, maniacal harpy that's scarier than any ghost, any corpse del Toro could show us.
Each of these maternal harpies is a character out of an in - your - face sitcom, though Christine Baranski, putting a caustic spin on lines like «It's December 19th — even the Jews have Christmas trees by now,» acts with such impeccable sourpuss bravura that she steals the movie.
Even less appealing is his partner in executive treachery (and lover), played by Theron as a snappish hypersexualized harpy who the screenwriters have seen fit to saddle with dialogue larded with profanity seemingly for profanity's sole smutty sake.
His character is one of the film's more complicated — as the evil harpy boss, Sigourney Weaver is similarly fantastic.
Women are irritating harpies; men are self - serving shits who need to be trained to follow their hearts and not their dicks.
She was perfectly fine in the movie, but there was nothing extraordinary about it, certainly not compared to her hilariously stone - hearted harpy in «Burn After Reading.»
For a century, the wife of the mighty author of War and Peace has most often been portrayed as a nagging, materialistic harpy, but The Last Station tells the story of Leo Tolstoy's last year from a refreshing new perspective.
Only Elizabeth Banks seems to be having fun, reveling in her role as an aggressively fuchsia harpy of a chaperone.
I hate that I've become the anti-touchscreen harpy «round here, but until automakers get it right, you're gonna hear me complain.
I didn't quite like Anna May Bates (née Smith) because she was too good, and I didn't quite like Mrs. Sarah O'Brien because she was a scheming harpy -LSB-...]
This tale of his travels through China by train, ironically, rose to a climax on a hair - raising rental car journey across the wastes to Tibet with a neurotic Chinese driver and his crazy harpy girlfriend.
Belize Zoo emphasizes rehabilitation — this zoo runs a jaguar rehabilitation program as well as a Belize harpy eagle restoration program.
Because the great and charismatic harpy eagle, Panama, with talons larger than the claws of a grizzly bear (and capable of exerting over 50 kilograms of pressure) loves to swoop in REAL CLOSE to carefully observe his visitors, and being that close to an animal of such exquisite beauty is nothing short of awe inspiring.
The plentiful rainforest landscape at Corcovado National Park is home to some of Costa Rica's most fascinating wildlife including the endangered tapir, the rare harpy eagle, the American crocodile, the spider monkey, the two - toed and the three - toed sloth and the rarely seen feline species of puma, jaguar and ocelots.
The Viva Lifestyle and Travel also highlighted the fact that more than 500 species of birds have been recorded in Belize, including harpy eagles, keel - billed toucans, and scarlet macaws.
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