Sentences with phrase «in gladiatorial»

(PDF) Don't think of your expert as a participant in gladiatorial combat with your opponent's expert.

Historical note: Lions used in gladiatorial combat in Roman times were most likely Barbary lions.

Like Dota 2 and League of Legends, Smite's main mode features two teams of five gods engaging in a gladiatorial - themed bout for dominance of the arena.

Breaking free from the shackles of discerning clear winners and losers in gladiatorial fashion, Ben Fruzzetti breaks down all the highs and lows of the Big N's Spotlight presentation with unwavering honesty.

In one mode, we see players battling in a gladiatorial arena with melee weapons against a swarm of zombies that seem to have been summoned by an ancient sun - worshipping Egyptian cult.

You can fight in gladiatorial arenas.

One win in every three duels seems to be average of Ken's performance in the gladiatorial arenas of Solaris 7.

This included in gladiatorial fights between humans and other animals.

Thor's father and the ruler of Asgard Odin's whereabouts are unknown, Thor's hammer Mjolnir is destroyed by Hela and he finds himself facing his friend and fellow Avenger Hulk in a gladiatorial style battle.

Half - ish of the movie takes place on a distant garbage planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's delightfully loopy Grandmaster, an ageless being who spends his time toying with various collected creatures in a gladiatorial arena.

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.

Despite the fact that the real life Commodus did actually fight in the the gladiatorial arena, the ending stretched credulity for me but I suppose dramatic license is commonplace in film's of this type.

The Dutch trading post at Dejima becomes a Pirates Of The Caribbean - like hideaway, where slaves fight ogres in gladiatorial combat.

The story itself is also true to history, with some acceptable liberties taken for the film: Commodus really was a dangerous madman, and he really was in the habit of fighting in the gladiatorial arena.

Rise of the Argonauts immerses gamers in a gladiatorial adventure, set in wondrously imagined vision of ancient Greece.

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).

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

However, Kit Harington doesn't quite create the same distance from a certain brother of the Nightswatch, with his Celt Milo just becoming Jon Snow in a Gladiatorial arena.

The green goombah pops up at the 50 - minute mark, first grappling with Thor in a gladiatorial contest after both are imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, a place ruled by the Grandmaster, a mumbling psychedelic thrill - seeker who is more than one toke over the line.

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.

It focuses on a team of players that are in a gladiatorial type game of capture the flag (or tower in this case).

Not exact matches

There he's imprisoned and forced to fight in the planet's gladiatorial arena, where he runs into a few new allies and one old green friend played by Mark Ruffalo you've probably heard about.

Though we no longer watch gladiatorial contests, Lena Dunham's celebrity suggests that we now take a prurient interest in watching young women exhibit their hangups, insecurities about body image, and sex lives, all in excruciating detail.

Whether one considers the cessation of the gladiatorial games in the days of the early church, the ending of savage bestial games in Wilberforce's day, or the banning of dueling in the nineteenth century, Christians have often led the culture in critical analysis of its pastimes.

Small in number, they were big in commitment... they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest...

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.

What we got in that selection was all that is wrong with these gladiatorial - style contests.

So, who in the political space will next jump into this new gladiatorial arena?

In 2002, the Magna Science Centre in South Yorkshire witnessed a surprising event: a two foot tall robot, Gaak, escaped from a gladiatorial experiment with learning robotIn 2002, the Magna Science Centre in South Yorkshire witnessed a surprising event: a two foot tall robot, Gaak, escaped from a gladiatorial experiment with learning robotin South Yorkshire witnessed a surprising event: a two foot tall robot, Gaak, escaped from a gladiatorial experiment with learning robots.

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.

Gladiatorial schools purchased the finest physical specimens and then spent months or years training them in armed and unarmed combat.

«Miscenius Ampilatus makes [this] in Salonae» reads a baking mold found in modern - day Croatia that was used to make bread or cakes sold during gladiatorial games.

So ingrained were gladiatorial games in Roman culture that senior government officials dug into their own pockets and emptied public purses to stage them.

Synopsis: Imprisoned on the other side of the universe, the mighty Thor finds himself in a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against the Hulk, his former ally and fellow Avenger.

There were other mysteries and not a few hypocrisies: the filmmakers who adapted the book shrugged off the gladiatorial issues implicit in the spectacle.

Played by Jeff Goldblum with all of his quizzical, hesitant Jeff Goldblum - ishness, and sporting a golden wizard's outfit that would have been rejected as being over-the-top by Elton John in the 1970s, The Grandmaster forces Thor to take part in a brutal gladiatorial contest, but the thunder god runs into two people who might just help him get back to Asgard: a mysterious warrior (Tessa Thompson) with a link to his past, and his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

And even if boxing, in its very nature, is a barbaric, gladiatorial pastime, and cinematic depictions continue to struggle with new ways to broaden its possibilities (this year's Southpaw is a great example of familiarity's hindrance), Creed is a rarity in that it matches its own paranoia on notions of legacy and manages to be a mighty successor to an iconic cinematic heirloom.

But everything about this part of the film is beautifully done, from the gritty realism of the gladiatorial school, to the touch of bitter irony in the gladiators catering to the crowd's thirst for blood, to the build - up as the story takes us all the way to Rome and the Colosseum.

He's then sold to a gladiatorial school in North Africa where he proves to be an unparalleled killer.

Free from all pretense of constraint by historical fact, the writing team of David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson crafted a simple but stirring action - adventure yarn cloaked in the pomp of the Roman Empire and the grizzly spectacle of gladiatorial games.

In director Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, the god of thunder is banished to the barbaric planet of Sakaar, where he's pitted against his fellow Avenger the Hulk in a deadly gladiatorial contesIn director Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, the god of thunder is banished to the barbaric planet of Sakaar, where he's pitted against his fellow Avenger the Hulk in a deadly gladiatorial contesin a deadly gladiatorial contest.

The film, which incorporates elements from Marvel Comics» popular «Planet Hulk» storyline, finds Chris Hemsworth's Thor banished to the barbaric world Sakaar, where he's pitted against his fellow Avenger the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) in a deadly gladiatorial contest.

The cooperative multiplayer experience in «Ryse: Son of Rome» plunges you into the brutal world of gladiatorial combat.

Director Ridley Scott is best known for large scale alien encounters and gladiatorial conflicts, but here he proves just as adept at handling the subtle characterisation involved in an awkward (but loving) father - daughter relationship — as well as pulling off a complicated scam.

For the first 20 minutes on The Grid, Legacy's velocity is thrilling: Sam is abducted, suited in neon - ribbed body armour, loaded into a gladiatorial stadium and hurled into a disc fight.

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.

Gladiatorial fighting begins July 19 on the PlayStation 2; gamers battle from slave to legendary combatant in Rome's famous arena.

Her character, Valkyrie, a traumatized Asgarian expat, fits right in; she makes a living capturing potential gladiatorial combatants and selling them to the Grandmaster (played Jeff Goldblum) for booze.

Taking the same basic premise — a despotic government that keeps its citizens in poverty and reminds them of its power by drafting the young into a modern gladiatorial ring to kill or be killed on TV — this one digs deeper into the idea of power and control and the way media is used as a tool of oppression.

Here's the initial one - sheet with Hemsworth's short - haired God of Thunder front and center in the middle of an alien gladiatorial arena.