Sentences with phrase «like old soldiers»

Sooner or later, however, old law reports in print, like old soldiers, really will fade away, while the law reports themselves may live forever.

There are still places where survivors of that struggle gather, like old soldiers at a retreat for veterans, to nurse their wounds and tell war stories.

Not exact matches

While news media like Time and 60 Minutes cast Grey in the role of David fighting the Goliath of the gambling industry, he prefers a different Old Testament story, comparing himself and his followers to Gideon and his unlikely band of soldiers handpicked to do God's will.

(Numbers 31:7 - 18) So were the young virgin girls lucky that they weren't slaughtered like the rest of their people, or were they unlucky that they were essentially taken as sex slaves to be used to satiate the lusts of the soldiers who slaughtered their fathers, mothers, brothers, and older sisters?

There are more moderate atheists too, but the radicals like this 20 year old soldier scream rather loudly.

Minus some flashes from both Sead and Iwobi, and a workingman - like effort from Elneny, we learned very little... so here are a few of my observations from today's game, which highlight my concerns about this team moving forward... the fact that Mertz started this game, regardless of our injuries or those being «rested», should be a serious red flag for any true Arsenal fan... if Wenger is preparing to use Mertz with any regularity then the whole thing is a moot point because we are in deep shit... the fact is no quality team would ever have this tin soldier anywhere near there starting eleven except to groom their youthful players, who in turn should be playing in this type of game instead... I can only hope he was simply throwing him a bone for the FA appearance and for agreeing to stay on following the season, but I think the most likely answer is that Wenger's fragile relationship with the fan - base can't be ignored so he felt his experience was a safer bet... unfortunately not a positive choice for a team trying to move forward (same old, same old)

It looks like the next player to vacate his position at Old Trafford will be Rafael Da Silva; a marauding and brave soldier from the hot - blooded nation of Brazil.

Heck, I drove like a little old lady when I had the the chance to drive a go - kart around the parking lot at Soldier field.

«As a 20 - year - old soldier wrote just a week before he died: «But for this war I and all the others would have passed into oblivion like the countless myriads before us, but we shall live for ever in the results of our efforts.»

By repeating the same old lines, Harman appeared like a Japanese soldier still stuck on a Pacific Island, refusing to believe that the enemy had won the war.

I am a former army soldier for those who feel like helping one out that has always dreamed of demolishing an older woman i'm 5» 7» yes im short but I fuck... like a jack rabbit fast and intense.

When eight - year - old Myles Eckert found $ 20 in a Cracker Barrel parking lot, he didn't spend it on a video game - he gave it to a soldier to thank him for The little boy who froze with emotion when his soldier father returned home had forgotten what he looked like and even asked a stranger «Are you my daddy

It doesn't seem like they wasted all that much time to start talking about how rough WWII was, but they had to hurry before Audie Murphy got a little too old to be a soldier again.

In addition to bringing back some old toys (Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, and John Turturro's Simmons, now a Transformers» conspiracy theorist), Bay also takes some toys away from the smarter kids, like Frances McDormand (as head of the toy soldiers), John Malkovich (as the CEO of the company that Sam works at, briefly) and Ken Jeong.

Curmudgeonly and vicious, it's a lighter - than - air farce with a black heart that feels suspiciously like the mad rantings of an old soldier describing his vision of a bucolic Valhalla to which he one day hopes to return.

However, like all machines he becomes redundant when even better genetically engineered soldiers are introduced and like a piece of machinery he is left for dead and discarded like an old piece of machinery on a planet used for dumping trash.

In an effort to beat his disease, he signs up for a super soldier program that turns out to be shockingly cruel and nefarious, becomes hideously disfigured («you look like an avocado that had sex with an older, uglier avocado» says sidekick / friend Weasel, played with a hysterical dryness by TJ Miller), goes pretty much insane (to the point where he repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the camera), but also becomes essentially unkillable.

Ripping huge chunks of inspiration from the likes of Luc Besson's sci - fi spectacle Lucy, Chan's own kiddie romp The Spy Next Door and... oh, let's go with Roland Emmerich's Universal Soldier, Zhang's hyper - charged, hardly - coherent head - spinner is a star - vehicle concoction for both old and new generations of Asia's favourite film stars.

In fact, First Reformed plays so much like old - school Schrader, you might confuse it for the work of a dutiful grad student: Once again, we get a tortured Travis Bickle voiceover (Hawke's Ernst Toller keeps a journal from which, in between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in Iraq.

And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.

As the game takes place in 1984, he would make an appearance as a 12 - year old child, like Liquid, but some fans theorize the game could also make another jump in time to the events of Outer Heaven, when Solid Snake was a young and relatively green soldier.

Maybe they just did them for no reason at all or because of stupidity or selfishness or cowardice or anger or for reasons that made no rational sense - because the clouds happened to be a particularly gloomy shade of gray that day, because the barking of an old dog chained to a sycamore tree just happened to sound exactly like the crunch of soldiers» boots on gravel or the hum of bees like an engine in the head driving you mad.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.

And through the concrete madness of honking horns and beep - beep - beeps, the shuttlecock, the raggedy dog, the yellow - scarved soldiers in green, the docking ships of night and the smog of modernity; silently cruised the noble old cyclo drivers in shorts and rag shirts, bobbing on forever over their chariots — these three - wheeled rickshaws with a large passenger seat at the front, like a bicycle attached to a wheelchair — visions of serenity and melancholy calm.

Like the real battles of old warfare is about huge columns of soldiers marching toward each other slowly before coming together in a bloody mess of screams and horror.

As the game takes place in 1984, he would make an appearance as a 12 - year old child, like Liquid, but some fans theorize the game could also make another jump in time to the events of Outer Heaven, when Solid Snake was a young and relatively green soldier.

But when a new threat (that looks quite a bit like the old threat) emerges in the form of The Swarm, father and son must rally JD's fellow new - generation soldiers Del and Kait to take up arms and beat back the evil once again.

His portraits refer to Christian iconography like the holy Mary or to German soldiers (the young generation in Germany mostly knows their grandfathers just from old photographs of the 30ties because they died in World War II) or philosophers of the romantic era discussing the German identity in the context of the poly national state.

These foot soldiers include developers such as Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corrallo, making the foundational technology work, innovators like Tadge Dryja, making solutions to help these nascent networks work better, and old school investors who fund the blockchain industry so people with these skill sets can still have day jobs.

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