Sentences with phrase «knight errant»

And there it wasn't a question of money, because I think he sold everybody reasonably well and what difference from the standpoint of money when if he bought it or a client bought it, but from the standpoint of feeling that this man is, you know, really your knight errant, your real protector and so on.

A Queen and her knight errant?

Using Cervantes» Don Quixote as their muse, this winery explores the difference between appearance and reality and engages in the noble pursuits of a knight errant.

An anachronistic knight errant takes a criminal as squire, mistakenly frees a woman charged with murder, and becomes a prisoner in this fast - paced adventure.

Readers of Sam Keith's brilliant «The Maxx» comic series (or of MTV's short - lived animated adaptation of the same) are already familiar with the idea of a homeless man placed in the position of knight errant and king of his own twisted demesne.

Galvin's conversion from money - grubbing drunk to principled knight errant transpires largely with Newman off - camera while we watch a set of Polaroid snapshots develop at the foot of a hospital bed.

It helps that he's cast Jonathan Pryce as his Don Quixote — or rather, as a shoemaker named Javier, who came to believe he truly was the knight errant after starring in Toby's film.

You have no rights...») Trusting that at a certain point she will turn into a boy, she aspires to be a knight errant, a priest, a man - at - arms, a railway guard.

It probably took no more than an instant for Cervantes to have the simple, fruitful idea that produced Don Quixote: take a middle - aged, down - at - the - heels landowner, fill his brain with the entire tradition of chivalric romance, and then have him ride forth into the world as a knight errant.

Clark no doubt surprised his viewers by then veering off in a different direction, with an encomium to a chivalric figure of a quite different sort, the spiritual knight errant who, by the time of his death, had captured the imagination of much of Europe: St. Francis of Assisi.

Let's be clear about this corporo - fuedal world we live in: the CEOs are the kings and queens, the board are the nobility, and economists and other business school academics are their knights errant, imbued with the holy quest of maintaining power for their corporate masters.

We are a bunch of knights errant ready to ride to the defense of Dame Judith, but due to our circular and biased reasoning we misunderstand you and misrepresent you.

The «female knights errant,» banned from gathering, were left to sit sullenly in public, often at the newly inaugurated guillotine, knitting, knitting.

Not exact matches

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

If he was a knight, he was an errant one, a wanderer in search of adventures, mostly the kind that can be had in women's beds.

Alonso Quexada loves stories of knights - errant, so he decides to become one — the great Don Quixote de la Mancha, Knight of the Sorry Face.

So rough, in fact, that a party of women appealed to the newly formed Convention Nationale, complaining that these groups of women militants («adventuresses, female knights - errant, emancipated girls, and amazons,» one legislator called them, intending to disparage) were forcing them to wear certain revolutionary garb.