Sentences with phrase «mast of a ship»

He disappears and reappears to attack you throughout the opening area and it's incredibly satisfying when you finally smash its primary head through the sharp mast of your ship.

I swam for about two hours, and then over the horizon I saw the masts of a ship.

From Aristotle's claim that a dolphin could jump over the mast of a ship to tales of dolphins coming to the aid of drowning sailors, myths about this sea mammal have long overshadowed fact.

Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

The big action climax, in which a CGI - enhanced Spanish Armada takes a drubbing from the British navy, has Owen hanging Errol Flynn - ishly from the mast of a ship as a triumphant, wigless Elizabeth watches from a nearby cliff.

Throughout his life, the popular — if anarchic — member of the Royal Academy of Arts travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

In Mike Leigh's Mr Turner Timothy Spall, also wild and incomprehensible, straps himself to the mast of a ship to paint that scene.

This is a guy who strapped himself to the mast of a ship to paint a storm.

It almost seems like you can hear the boot heels of the past on its cobblestones, or spy the ghost of a Quaker peering out the tiny window of a half - cape, or see in the harbor the masts of ships, or dream of life in one of the fabulous Gilded Age «cottages» on Bellevue Avenue.

Highlight include Turner's request to his friends to call him Admiral Booth and the tale that he lashed himself to the mast of a ship for four hours to observe the storm pictured in «Snow Storm - Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth».