Sentences with phrase «men shriek»

The old men shrieked, but I helplessly watched all this from my office window.»

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As the woman shrieks and rails («You there with your fancy man in the garden in the bright light of day... canoodling with him you in nothing but your floral swimming costume and showing your very thighs»), Mantel's mother, in a turn that anticipates Mantel's later descriptions of Anne Boleyn, rises from where she is basking, blinks, and dawdles indifferently indoors, leaving her daughter — small, foursquare, hands planted on her hips — to defend the family honor.

What a Tamberlane is able to accomplish by means of his Huns, that Faust is able to accomplish by means of his doubt: to frighten men up in dismay, to cause existence to quake beneath their feet, to disperse men abroad, to cause the shriek of dread to be heard on all sides.

Living men and women talk, shriek, sing, call, command, cry; the shades of Sheol are in a world beyond groans.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

► Two men hear crashing sounds coming from behind a door and a man tells another man that he hears scratching and shrieking coming from a behind a door.

A bull is tied with ropes, and a man slashes it across the throat (we hear it shriek, the man's face is sprayed with blood and we see another man examining the animal's bloody entrails).

A man rides through an opposing army slashing as he goes, rears his horse, and throws a knife at a man on a rearing elephant, who throws a spear that hits the horse and the man is shot with an arrow; the man falls to the ground, the horse is attacked repeatedly by men with swords and spears (we hear the horse shrieking, see blood gush from its wounds and then see it fall to the ground, although it does not die).

At heart, Tusk is really little more than a jokey riff on The Human Centipede, its mad - scientist character obsessed with creating not a surgical conga line, but a kind of shrieking man - walrus.

We jumped at the chance to speak with Kenn McDonald, the animation supervisor responsible for everything from a gold - dipped Angelina Jolie to a writhing, shrieking man - beast named Grendel.

Other Hitchcock memorable scenes include a glowing poisoned glass of milk in Suspicion (1941), a man chased by a crop duster in North by Northwest (1959), a stabbing scene in the shower to shrieking violins in Psycho (1960), and killer birds gathering in a schoolyard in The Birds (1963).

Ryan Gosling's Holland March is a meeker, less confident man who has some skills as an investigator but is undermined by his love of drink, women and swiftness to emit high - pitched shrieks and throw up.

From today's perspective, screen mothers and daughters interested in the same man (in «Pierce» and «Imitation of Life,» to name a few films) seem like relics, but so do a theatrically shrieking (and Oscar - nominated) Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in «August: Osage County.»

Midway through writer - director Michael Pearce's impressive debut feature, the troubled heroine Moll (Jessie Buckley), lets loose a shriek of such piercing intensity that two men who look intent on harming her immediately retreat.

Man and boy raced toward the scream, a long high note, a shriek without pause for breath, inhuman in its constancy.

Some visitors felt intimidated by the guard's action and walked away thinking there is a mad man in the room whereas others shriek with laughter.

But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the man - made destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.

Or will middle - aged men and women, for whom «global warming» ended when they were in grade school, still be shrieking that «climate change» is the greatest threat the planet faces?

The front page headline shrieked some like «This man wants to destroy 50,000 jobs!»

Bracelet - style straps can often be uncomfortable for men with hairy arms, but it didn't cause me to shriek in pain, nor did it get too sweaty under normal use.