Sentences with phrase «into gladiatorial»

Birth control: Health probably shouldn't be much of a governmental issue beyond ensuring and encouraging, but policymakers have managed to turn this basic human right into a gladiatorial arena; women in particular must watch on as their bodies are politicized rather than humanized.

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.

Deep gameplay and glistening visuals only go so far in making a standout multiplayer game; only humans can provide the surprise and scheming that transforms the average first - person shooter or puzzle game into a gladiatorial showdown or co-op crusade.

Shortest Circuit on American Le Mans Series Schedule Promises Constant Action LAKEVILLE, Conn. — It's been called a bull ring and a short track with hills, but perhaps Corvette Racing driver Oliver Gavin's description of Lime Rock Park is the most accurate: «It's like stepping into a gladiatorial arena.»

It's been called a bull ring and a short track with hills, but perhaps Corvette Racing driver Oliver Gavin's description of Lime Rock Park is the most accurate: «It's like stepping into a gladiatorial arena.»

Large portions of the film take place instead in a spectacularly cluttered, Mad Max landfill metropolis, where Thor is taken prisoner by a drunken mercenary «scrapper» (Tessa Thompson) and sold into the gladiatorial ranks of hedonistic aristocrat The Grandmaster (a hilarious Jeff Goldblum, who's like Jabba The Hutt by way of... well, Jeff Goldblum).

It's a sentiment that once cruelly downplayed the grotesqueries of young people entering into gladiatorial arenas and killing one another for sport (and for great television).

Captured by the mercenary Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), he's taken into the hands of the eccentric, nefarious Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) and entered into a gladiatorial contest — against the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

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.

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.

Into this gladiatorial context, Christians from various political parties have come together to counter-culturally support one another and say that «kingdom comes before tribe».

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.

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.

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

That's why Cameron wouldn't go into the TV arena for a gladiatorial fight to the death.

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

But first, the Asgardian prince must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest against a friend and fellow Avenger who was last seen rocketing into outer space aboard a Quinjet at the end of 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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).

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

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech - savvy 27 - year - old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.

But then we run into the post-Hunger Games gladiatorial arena into which our internet sensation friends here are dropped and ordered to eliminate the other.

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.

Opening track «Overture» is momentous and gladiatorial, like Vangelis doing Hans Zimmer; from there you'll be locked in to your laptop, as we descend into the glitch and fuzz of a computer motherboard brought to sonic life.

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

A fight scene begins with a boy on a bike leading us into the tableau, and ends with him leading us out again; in between, a group of marching boys stride in a straight line to the scene of the rumble, a gladiatorial spectacle conducted in silence, although crowds of kids cheer the fighters on with signs alone.

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.

Hiding in a pile of bodies, Milo manages to escape death until he is caught and sold into slavery where he becomes a fan - favourite at the local gladiatorial games and is thus moved to Pompeii's much more extravagant games.

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.