Sentences with phrase «menace as»

-- Yoda, Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace As I entered the final stretch before Christmas, I paused, amidst my color coded lists of menu planning, decorating, present wrapping, gift creating, house cleaning and broken toy mending....

In several paintings, scissors or other pointed objects suggest danger or menace as well as the activities of an artist's studio.

Red Alert is imminent, the aggressors are already here, defend against the Russian menace as vigorously as you can in this superb tower defense game situated in World War 2 era.

More will be revealed in coming months about this terrifying alien menace as humanity's relationship with the Thargoids evolves throughout Elite Dangerous 2.3 and 2.4, bringing a new dynamic to the Elite Dangerous galaxy.

Emma Tate who voices Nico Collard, Maria de Santos, a young Tiago Marques and Sofia has a massive amount of experience in voice - overs having voiced characters in television series including Captain Scarlet, The Jungle Book, Angelina Ballerina and more besides, alongside roles in videogames such as Telltale's Wallace and Gromit episodic games, Rogue Trooper, Shinobido, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, LEGO: The Hobbit and Bloodborne, amongst others; while Nicholas Boulton voices Richard Langham having voiced characters in Killzone 3, The Witcher 2, Mass Effect 3, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward and much more besides; Toby Longworth voices Marques having voiced Senator Lott Dodd and Gragra in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace as well as videogames such as Tropico 5, Sacred 3, Risen 3: Titan Lords and more besides; Terry Wilton voices Father Simeone and Vlad having previously narrated the Trine games, alongside an incredibly talented cast.

It means the game, for better or worse, doesn't really cultivate the same oppressive menace as previous Dead Spaces.

While returns are fairly uncommon with Kindle, they are starting to become more of a menace as people understand how to return books.

A bold, original fantasy that conjures up a land of magic and menace as Merle and Serafin begin a journey to unimagined realms in the extraordinary world of Dark Reflections.

Michael Shannon gives the movie a jolt of menace as a suspicious cop with an Old Testament sense of justice, and Laura Linney, as Susan's monstrous high - society mama, leaves a mark even though she's only in one scene (her necklace alone, with glistening pearls the size of bowling balls, deserved its own screen credit).

Gaunt and watchful, Abdi is a mesmerising screen presence, exuding a sense of fearlessness and menace as soon as he steps on board the ship, and engaging in some absorbing one - on - one standoffs with Hanks.

Another puzzling aspect of this entry in the series is the addition of RZA as the bad guy, who not only seems completely out of his element, but provides more unintentional laughs than menace as the villain.

Tilda Swinton is as subtly fascinating as always as Eva, and the glowering Ezra Miller in particular deserves huge credit for a performance of sinister, tightly - coiled menace as the demonic Kevin.

One of many great actors wasted in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Terence Stamp appeared in The Phanton Menace as Finis Valorum, Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic whose removal from the Senate facilitated soon - to - be Emperor Sheev Palpatine's corrupt rise to power.

Opposite them, Marvel's current villain - du - jour Josh Brolin delivers the same reserved menace as Cable that he did as Infinity War's Thanos, albeit without the chin scars that make it look like he fell asleep on Roger Federer's racquet.

Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider) oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire), in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight — but when the two become embroiled in an ever - deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond.

is done with the same chilling menace as Mitchum's «Children?

Michael Shannon astutely judges every microsecond of menace as the heavy, adding trace elements of twisted levity, some scripted, some not.

Walter Brown - also know as Walter the Softy - is aged 10 and counts Dennis the Menace as his worst enemy.

«We must commend the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, for this great move in raising awareness about the menace as drug abuse among our youth is not only harmful but on a geometric increase.

, Swifty rescues heroine Helen (June Gale) from such reliable western menaces as Bob Kortman.

Charmy Bee, Vector, Chaos, Silver, and even Zavok from the somewhat recent Sonic: Lost World pop up throughout, with the heroes and villains either fighting against Dr Eggman's usual robotic menaces as well as a new threat that seems like another man - made anthropomorphic creature.

Endless waves will allow you to test your skill against Phinnegan's mechanized menaces as wave upon wave of robots seek to dispel you from this mortal coil.

Not exact matches

«Things are not quite the same as in the previous decade, when Iran was regarded as a menace and a threat.

Positive stories are also used quite often, stories where individuals solve a huge menace in their life or get to where most people would like to be serve as transportation vehicles to recruiting new people to the cause.

You've probably already heard that chairs have replaced cigarettes as the newest public health menace.

Summary: «Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter - ego Spider - Man, and must confront a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.»

Few films in celluloid history have been as eagerly anticipated as the first installment in the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, 1999's «The Phantom Menace.»

Young men are prohibited from wearing modishly long hair, which the chairman regards as a symbol of the Western counterculture and a menace to the work ethic that he prizes.

In addition to older threats such as Cryptolocker and CryptoWall, new families such as CTB - Locker and SynoLocker has emerged as PC - targeted menaces.

As far as I'm concerned all religions are a menace, but there are degrees to everythinAs far as I'm concerned all religions are a menace, but there are degrees to everythinas I'm concerned all religions are a menace, but there are degrees to everything.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

But it is interesting to note that the systems of thought which are best adapted to it would seem to be precisely those which at first regarded it as a menace to them.

But as I've learned on a recent study trip to India, these freedoms are threatened by the rising menace of Hindu nationalism and its communalist ideology.

The Reagan Administration, since its inception, has characterized Nicaragua's revolutionary Government as a menace to the Americas and to the Nicaraguan people.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

The menace of criminals, likewise exploited, is as great as it is because criminals have ready access to guns — thanks to the NRA.

In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of her slow trudge through the far - spreading and ever - uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind... [The shoes] are pervaded by uncomplaining worry as to the certainty of bread, the wordless joy of having once more withstood want, the trembling before the impending childbed and shivering at the surrounding menace of death.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

But the way McCarthy pursued his anti-communism campaign was, as the Times said in a 1998 editorial, «a menace to the body politic.»

They longed to belong to something, and thus arose the new solidarities, which are of so perverted a kind as to menace the future of the human race.

Most of us have photos of ourselves that are ridiculous or terrible or in compromising situations but by fixing a victim in the mind of the public as a menace, they change the narrative on a subconscious level.

It is these that have together caused, and continue to cause, «advanced» culture's menace to our common resources and to our natural environment as a whole.

As at the time of the decay of the Roman Empire the success of Christianity in winning that Empire and becoming largely identified with it proved almost its undoing, so the passing of the culture which the Church had helped to nurture and with which it had unavoidably become closely interwoven proved a menace to the Church and its faith.

In my time in Moscow, one day each May was marked by the sight of stocky, grizzled old men, excusably tipsy, dancing and singing in the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menace.

What I want to suggest is that we have to see the work of God in Christ as that which secures against the ever - present menace of their dissolution, our frail, but genuine, human perceptions and affirmations (in action) of the morally excellent.

The same history which narration founds as certain is suddenly undercut by the menace announced in the prophecy.

Our greatest menace is not from Germany, great as this has been, but rather from the same mood that gripped Germany so powerfully and so destructively.

So we launch a half - hearted, half - funded, half - baked war against a menace that only mirrors what we have ourselves become as a nation.

My point isn't to rail against technology as some kind of culture - destroying menace — my enthusiasm for GarageBand is proof enough of that.

During at least eight centuries wave after wave of invasion menaced such recovery as had been achieved in the interval between the successive incursions, and the prospects both of a high culture and of Christianity seemed grim.