Sentences with phrase «like old western»

Decided to listen to Cartel, the fictional book reviewed in the New Yorker about Mexican drug cartels, pretty interesting so far, but also like an old Western and maybe too macho, oh well, it's 23 hours so that'll get me through a couple days.

It's just like an old western showdown, hence the title of the game.

easy going, likes horse racing, loves animals, vegetarian trying to be vegan, has 2 cats & feeds ferals, like old western shows & all comedies

I have seen all too often where churches work so hard to put on their salvation shows by manipulating people down the aisle so like a old western gunslinger they can put another notch on their belts.

Not exact matches

The situation can not go on like that without serious long - term repercussions — without Western theology, in its splendid isolation, risking those vital connections through which old forms are renewed and fresh vitality released.

Apparently, there's an old North Korean myth about Tongmyong, who founded the real - life Koguryo Kingdom and is something like the Western world's King Arthur: a real person whose feats have slowly taken on mythic proportions.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

He burst onto the scene in 1982 as the cocky, grinning 26 - year - old «champagne» winemaker at Seppelt Great Western in Victoria — back in the innocent days before Australia had signed a major trade agreement with the EU to stop using generic terms like «champagne and «claret».

Like those closer - in communities, Arlington Heights is one of the area «s oldest suburbs, first settled in the 1830s on land that, in the 20th Century, would become a key stop on a busy commuter rail line, the Chicago & North Western.

Western New York has many older downtown areas in many of its towns and we want to have a downtown revitalization specific plan for places like Alfred, Tarrance Center, East Aurora etc. to revitalize those downtown areas.

In western Beijing, 62 - year - old retired truck and taxi driver Zhang Zhijun bought a BYD Tang hybrid last month and plans to trade in his gas - engine Toyota Corolla for an electric car for short rides like taking his grandson to school.

To piece together geologic clues about what the early atmosphere was like and how it evolved, Lowe, a field geologist, has spent virtually every summer since 1977 in South Africa or Western Australia collecting rocks that are, literally, older than the hills.

So we have the national «liberal» media, like the NYT and NBC, blowing this story, while the local, conservative media get it right, see «conservative San Diego Union knows climate change is killing Western forests» and «Oldest Utah newspaper: Bark - beetle driven wildfires are a vicious climate cycle.»

«We are oxidizing ourselves with our western diet, essentially we are rusting like an old car.»

I am about as much of a city girl as you can get - I don't like camping, or bugs, or being outside in places where you can't pop into a store to use a bathroom and get a bottle of water - but I grew up on the high plains of Colorado, and as the daughter of a man who listened to nothing but old fashioned country music, Western style is still pretty close to my heart.

I also see cute booties like the Raft Western Booties (now $ 48) and the Fileana Split Shaft Bootie (now $ 60) that would go perfectly with any of the Old Navy dress picks from the section above.

Like this, our architects additionally plan present day Maxi as this is the prettiest style.It is a western wear dress that origins from west yet now it is rapidly embraced in South Asian nations but in old ages, the maxi was the common style that is still following among ladies.

The historic downtown of Golden is a few minutes away and feels like you've stepped into an old western movie.

As someone who doesn't like country music or anything of the [sort], I found myself buying an old western - inspired studded belt and wearing it every two days.

I like to watch old western movies.

The film understands that it is about revenge (as so many westerns are), but it never gets under the skin like No Country for Old Men or deconstructs the concept through brutality in the manner of Get Carter.

A heist of a fuel train — more like a mountain monorail that seems to slither around the peaks like a metal snake — evokes an old Western where cowboys jump from horses onto the sides of locomotives.

The opening massacre is horrific, and Bale seems like a kind man, both things would seem to make this a throwback to old - timey westerns that depicted First Nations as a monolithic creature of vengeance, but HOSTILES peels away that stereotype.

Clooney is effortlessly charming as the laconic astronaut who behaves like a cross between Buzz Lightyear and a square - jawed hero in an old Howard Hawks Western.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

I mean that it sounds like a western movie to the point where I found myself wondering if they hadn't just gone back and picked up their sounds from the old Hollywood films.

At different times sounding like an old - fashioned western musical and terrifying horror film, Greenwood's string - heavy score was at atmospheric triumph.

The western has enjoyed a bit of resurgence over the past few years with installments from the Coen Brothers like No Country for Old Men and True Grit, and others including The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the remake of 3:10 to Yuma, the kimchee western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and Django Unchained.

Arlo's kin behave much like the frontier family on an old TV western, valuing self - sufficiency, hard work and bonds of kinship above all else.

He's half - French, half - American, but I think he has something from old American actors like Randolph Scott or a character from the westerns.

Like a heist film crossed with a western, Solo is also a love story, with Han reconnecting with old flame Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke).

For all the urgency of the posse's mission, it's a journey of days through the desert and the characters fill the time with defining personalities: the easy - going affability of Sheriff Hunt that becomes sharpened by the focus of tracking the raiding party, the garrulous way that Chicory talks, like a lonely old man trying to be useful («It's the opinion of the back - up deputy that...»), the arrogance and urbane language of the educated townsman whose character recalls the gamblers of classic westerns but whose backstory reveals different tale, the resolute determination of the cowboy husband who will not shirk his duty despite the crippling ordeal.

The trim little town of Tesota, Texas, looks like some modern amusement - park idea of an old Western town.

How exactly does one go about remaking a western classic that's over half a century old, starring the likes of Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson?

By most measurements, Hostiles looks like an award - worthy prestige Western for an older crowd.

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

Some of these shots depict recent housing developments that went bust and now seem like ghost towns, while others depict the remains of the Old West streets constructed to shoot the so - called spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and»70s.

Part serial - killer thriller, part old - school anti-Soviet propaganda, «Child 44» plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

Or maybe a half - n - half deal where the top flips up and the bottom halves swing apart like a saloon door in an old Western movie.

Childhood is supposed to be a radiant springtime but mine seems to have been always autumn, the gales seething in the big beeches behind this old gate - lodge, as they're doing right now, and the rooks above them wheeling haphazard, like scraps of char from a bonfire, and a custard - coloured gleam having its last go low down in the western sky.

It's horror and suspense, with some sci - fi elements (it's set in the future, with some futuristic elements, like robotic horses), but it has an old - fashioned western feel to it most of the time (the cowboy kind, not geographically speaking).

We can also enjoy a morning walk through a moss - laden old - growth forest trail to visit ancient Western Red cedar trees - this feels like you're stepping into another world on Spring Island.

However, peering out from the old, dark eastern side of Terminal 2 I saw something bright and shiny and was pleased to be able to take a walk over to the new western wing of Terminal 2 — and the difference was like night and day.

Many people who visit Los Alamos say that it feels like they were dropped right into a movie set — bizarrely juxtaposing an old western and a biker down town.

Huffington Post reports that of all hotel chains that advertise free Wi - Fi, good old moderately priced brands like Quality Inns, Ramada Inns, La Quinta and Best Western are among the very best, according to a recent study from Hotel WiFi Test, a site devoted entirely to testing Wi - Fi service.

Wild West Online (WWO) is an upcoming Western MMORPG developed by 612 Games inspired by old American Western movies and games like Red Dead Redemption.

Also, I'm heavily involved in old - school western RPGs like the Icewind Dale series and detective point - and - click, such as Gabriel Knight and Broken Sword.

Now maybe you don't play a lot of video games, but the best mech games ever produced were old and western made games, like mech warrior, shogo and several others.

Schad writes: «Camino Real is a 1948 play by Tennessee Williams... and when it comes to entering into a dialogue with the works at Gagosian, reading the text can be illuminating... On the set, there is a wall and a gate that separates the town from what is simply out there - an unknown wasteland, a place where no one ever comes back from, Terra Incognita... I think about Twombly at the end of a long journey, which has taken him to places in the old world and the texts of our Western culture that I would like to visit.

Ryan painted distinctive images that look like stills from old Westerns movies — their colors and cropping have a cinematic feel and a strong sense of unfolding narrative.