Sentences with phrase «like sword»

Success is like a sword — very useful but you can't sit on it.

In these homes, where one partner is wielding judgment like a sword, both partners suffer.

He has a thirst for knowledge and information because, as he puts it, «a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.»

«It is an acknowledgment that individuals should not have to live indefinitely with the prospect of prosecution hanging, like the sword of Damocles, above their heads,» she wrote.

Everything in our past adds steel to an ever - growing blade that hangs like the sword of Damocles from the horse's hair.

I said we believed that equity had hung like the sword of Damocles over the talks for too long, and that it was high time Parties took hold of that sword and used it to shape a fair and ambitious regime.

They are acting like the sword and shield of the Denialist Party, not an honest law - enforcement organizaton.

The major threat of climatic changes hangs like the sword of Damocles over the heads of many endangered species - and the rest of us.

«The key to her childhood home,» writes Aima, «is stuck, irretrievable like the sword in the stone, in a pile of sand from Dubai.»

Skills / Mechanics The game would play with the battle mechanics of more like a sword fight than a brawler.

I found myself frequently shooting a foe from a short distance in order to stun them and then taking them down in a few short slashes of my scythe - like sword, which seemed to be a very successful strategy.

You can equip him with «pins,» which give you various attacks, like sword swinging, projectile shooting, and elemental magic.

I definitely believe this could be a solid action game but right now my feelings are mixed because it does have some good things for it like the sword action, and difficulty, but the graphics and the iffy cheesy character dialog could definitely keep many away.

Then we could finally focus on important things, like sword fighting and how to kill a man with one punch.»

The combat system is a rather good one, and Nariko is certainly equally skilled in both defence and attack, making her a more than efficient wielder of a very big and un-lady like sword.

For years, the biggest selling point of the Wii was it's gesture - based controls, which allowed you to play a sword game by waving your remote like a sword or throw a football by mimicking an overhand throwing motion.

Plants and monster parts are needed for crafting weapons, upgrades, armor, traps, and ammo, and what's particularly interesting is that, while some of the weapons and gear are based on fanciful connections between living things — like sword blades that are enhanced by healing insects - there is no «magic» in the usual RPG - sense that gamers are used to.

Broad swords are easily out - maneuvered by the game's smaller - more pointy fencing - like sword.

Initially the Mantle can transform into giant fists to pummel foes or shoot bullets that seek them out, but as players progress, they unlock other options like a sword that attack in broad slices, or a shield to protect from harm, among other things.

I still think Azura be great for smash 5 The moveset will be unique like Robin It won't be like a sword fighter

Given that, it does make choices a little difficult because do I want to use my gunlance which is powerful but slow or something faster like a sword?

Dante once again has access to a nice selection of weapons gained throughout the campaign, in addition to the classics like the sword Rebellion and twin pistols Ebony and Ivory.

This continuous barrage of new enemies meets with my approval, especially while playing the game on the harder modes like Dante Must Die where big enemies that require specific attacks are mixed in with crowds of smaller enemies, creating some brilliant fights as you have to react on the fly to make sure you're hitting the right enemies with the right moves, otherwise you could find yourself in some serious trouble, like sword in the arse trouble.

Best example is the slash of an energy sword which now no longer sounds like somebody dropped a biscuit tin 300 yards away, it sounds like a sword made out of weird laser stuff.

It really does make you feel like a sword wielding Ninja!

This is also joined by the point that the Nintendo Wii was never just a console with your standard controller, it was a console with a plethora of peripherals, you could purchase wheels, balance boards, even a little addition to the controller to make it look like a sword or lightsaber.

As a young lad stuck in a magical realm Max has no traditional weapons like a sword or bow with which to directly confront any of the monsters he'll encounter on the way, but he's not entirely without help as he soon acquires a magical marker pen which fittingly allows him to draw helpful things directly into the world, essentially granting him magical powers.

That can feel like the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, but if you refinance you can often release your cosigners from their obligations.

Brock Clarke wields his wit like a sword.»

And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.

If you are all about the supper natural or even if you just like sword fights, then check this manga out!

Clang clang... A crisp, ear - splitting clang, like a hammer on an anvil, tore through the silent air of the grassland and straight into the ears and the seats of courage of every wolf in the pack, like a sword.

The gearbox has a slightly heftier feel than the petrol but there's still that wonderful metallic sound like a sword being brought swiftly out of a scabbard as you slice across the open gate.

Or look a few months back at the petulant theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson (Lindsay Duncan) in Birdman, who holds a negative review over Michael Keaton's head like a sword above Damocles.

Given that, it does make choices a little difficult because do I want to use my gunlance which is powerful but slow or something faster like a sword?

Plants and monster parts are needed for crafting weapons, upgrades, armor, traps, and ammo, and what's particularly interesting is that, while some of the weapons and gear are based on fanciful connections between living things — like sword blades that are enhanced by healing insects - there is no «magic» in the usual RPG - sense that gamers are used to.

The teaser focuses on the tech goodies, a new droid on a rolling ball, stormtroopers preparing for battle, a lightsaber that looks like a sword with a hilt.

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I've gone on a plant based low fat high starch diet and feel great but its always like the sword of Damocles with the possibility of Multiple Myeloma hanging over me.

Either way, your chest can rise up, too, following your lifted arms, which are like the sword of the warrior.

Jacob and his colleagues named one of the antiviral peptides they identified urumin, after a whip - like sword called «urumi» used in southern India centuries ago.

He warned: «The risks to the world economy and the Eurozone are plain to see, starting with the Greek default which hangs like the sword of Damocles over Europe, threatening a domino effect on Portugal and Ireland, followed perhaps by Spain and Italy.»

Mr Brookes argued that the UK's teaching workforce were likely a «neglected army» and called on the government to make the inspection system «less like a sword of Damocles».

I flared white - hot and brandished His Name like a sword, intent on conquering the world all on my own and presenting it as a treasure to my Love.

I have seen another post on this blog where the negative fans label this ability to be disruptive as «power» which they want to hold over all of our heads like a sword.

However I, brandishing a spoon like a sword, am here to stand up and say, «who cares,... [Read more...]

At his interrogation on that day he had said «the Act of Parliament is like a sword with two edges, for if a man answers one way: it will confound his soul and if he answers the other way it will confound his body».

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Like a sword — always at our side.

It took all the classic Robin Hood elements — like the sword fight over a river, the archery contest, the peasant revolt, and so on but they gave them a bit of a manic Who - twist that they simply worked.