Sentences with phrase «of knife fights»

First we saw Tony Stark get way too serious in Iron Man 3, then an agonizing Clark Kent in Man of Steel, and now we have Wolverine sadly soloing through a series of knife fights with the expectation of serious cinema.

A 30 - year veteran in finance, McCarthy decided to stay and joked with coworkers that «you don't walk out on friends in the middle of a knife fight.»

Enunciating nuance in the middle of a knife fight is not a survival tactic.

Not exact matches

For me, the benefits of having a nice set of knives with which to cook was less about the time and effort it spared me (which was noticeable), and more about how enjoyable cooking was when it felt like I wasn't fighting the food to get it made.

The NDP is not taking a banana to a knife fight — this coming election will see the Liberals with massiive millions while the NDP — which gets almost 80 % of its funding from individuals like myself — will also face a colourful party that will likely get full page ads from the Liberals supporting said colourful party as it did in the last provincial election!

Justin, Sam and Claire also discuss the front cover feature on Christians fighting the knife crime epidemic in London, whether evangelicalism can survive the era of Trump and what to do when God doesn't heal.

They now also recognise the role of faith leaders in the fight against knife crime: asking them to join weapon sweeps of areas where gang members stash knives.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

* it's worse than bringing a knife to a gun fight... it's having the Good News that overcomes evil and choosing not to speak of it.

While brushing aside the gay - bashing remarks of his allies, Brock joined them in cheering for Robert Bork and Oliver North, and at the age of 26 he made his first television appearance (speaking about the Iran - contra controversy), which he viewed as «just another knife fight.»

We added some fresh vanilla seeds for a bit of extra yum and now we're literally fighting over who gets to lick the knife:)

Starting around the end of the 19th century, there was a war that was fought not with guns and sharp knives, but with food coloring and butter knives.

The act of always going into a gun fight with kitchen knife is nothing but foolishness and insult to the fans.The fans pay good money season after season just to watch wenger humiliate them, the fans deserve than what we are getting.

But after we slipped from the top of the table at new year into another fight for fourth, the knives were out for the boss once more.

New Manchester United manager, David Moyes once admitted that playing against Manchester City was like «going into a gun fight with a knife» and it certainly felt like that for Newcastle against the Citizens, as they had several injuries ahead of the game and star man, Yohan Cabaye, was the subject of a late # 10m bid from Arsenal and was therefore not in the right frame of mind to play according to an angry Alan Pardew.

Public perceptions of the rising tide of knife crime and youth gang violence in London have reached such a pitch that Boris needs to be equally clear, ruthless and relentless in his fight against crime in London.

For a high - quality version of a Counter Strike knife, you will want to look into purchasing a KA - BAR Fighting M9 Knife.

Uncertain who he can trust and ultimately forced to fight a handful of men solo, Gary's plight echoes the climax of «High Noon,» and similarly carves an effective political metaphor out of its one - man - army scenario: Literally bringing a knife to a gun fight during the tense showdown set around the exteriors of an apartment building, Gary becomes a killing machine by virtue of the only option at his disposal.

► Throughout the film, we see martial arts fights with acrobatics, punches and kicks, but no blood; a variety of weapons is used that includes daggers, metal darts, flaming arrows, spears, moon - knives (swords), wooden staves, axes, hooks, sledgehammers and a mace.

In one of Cronenberg's most audacious sequences, Mortensen, wearing only his manly pride, engages in a brutal knife - fight with two assailants.

It's difficult to imagine that even an ideal audience — i.e., people who harbor fantasies of being best friends with a president who's willing to kick some ass, and also believe that today's action movies don't feature enough knife fighting — would find much to get excited about in London Has Fallen.

Cranston brings Johnson to life with a bevy of Southern - twanged Big Statements (ex: «There's no place for «nice» in a knife fight») as his commander - in - chief berates his eventual VP Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford), spars with beloved mentor - turned - Civil Rights opponent Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (Frank Langella), and works closely with advisor Walter Jenkins (Todd Weeks), the last of whom he loves «like a son» and yet abandons when the man's homosexuality is exposed late in his reelection run.

In Prince of Persia Newell displays a real flair for action, especially with the scenes involving sword fighting and knife throwing.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a movie filled with running, jumping, fighting [with fists, words, knives, snakes and darts — among other things].

Domino is seen several times throughout the trailer - fighting members of a weird Doomsday cult (more on that later), firing her submachine gun / knife combo in the middle of a battle, and standing alongside Deadpool and Terry Crews (more on that later) in the back of a helicopter.

Outside of that, Ilsa gets a moment to shine in a knife fight that feels weak.

But if you're looking for the sort of distraction that involves wild violence, exploitative action, and a knife fight with Mel Gibson, this is going to be perfect.

She learns to shoot, fight, throw knives, climb structures, roll when running is a perfectly acceptable alternative, face her fears while under the influence of a hallucinogen, and not question authority.

2017 TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: The concerns around the industrial production of food have been well documented in films like «Food, Inc.,» «Forks Over Knives,» «Jimmy's GM Food Fight,» «The World According to Monsanto,» and this year's «Okja,» to name a few.

Now while It's pretty predictable how the movie ends, getting there is an action packed explosion of bullets and knife fights.

As if aware that all that stuff about Bolivian peasants pining for water might be connected, and queasily, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (a daring cargo - jet escape is similarly cribbed from that film), Quantum of Solace does its level best to strip entire set - pieces from the Bourne series (a knife fight, the close - quarters disarming of government agents, the roof - top flight), forgetting in the process to port over the coherence of Doug Liman or Paul Greengrass choreography.

Instead of epic battles overflowing with CGI, Logan feels more like a knife fight in the streets.

Along with themes of betrayal and vengeance, there are plentiful swordplay, (including the graphic skewering of at least two unlucky combatants), knife fights, draconian whipping scenes at the Chateau D'If prison, attempted suicides, shootings, and premeditated treachery.

Knowing it's Carl Perkins he's pitted against in the knife fight scene adds a subtle touch of irony.

A third act knife fight is reminiscent of Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, as every puncture wound is felt in the audience's own guts - phantom stabs that make us squirm in our seats.

You can imagine the types of weapons they used such as hidden knives and fighting clothes that used a hood (shades of television's «Arrow») as protection.

Looking back, this was the racing equivalent of arriving at a knife fight with a machine gun, but there's no question it made for spectacular racing, both in Japan and abroad.

The Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R are the ultimate incarnation of what the Mustang can be — a gun brought to a knife fight, and a deft tool of lap - time destruction in the right hands.

«Cadillac now comes to the fight with a gun instead of a knife,» said Motor Trend.

All of the twist that maxes out at 1,500 rpm is almost diesel - like, and it's particularly helpful when charging into traffic or dealing with the knife fight that is rush hour.

We must strive to stay ahead of our rivals; we are capable of it and I think we will fight it out with the knife in the teeth.»

Following in the tradition of the well - established German horsepower race, Audi decided that it would bring a gun to a knife fight, fitting a 5.0 - litre twin turbocharged V10 into its S6 estate.

The book is in quarters, and chapter 4 leads into the ultimate conflict, a protracted knife fight where John and Eduardo debate the merits of love and free will and destiny as they slash each other slowly to death.

«I think everyone thought they were witnessing a knife fight,» said Sloan Harris, co-director of the literary department at International Creative Management.

In addition to the AWA, the federal law known as the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007 «amended the AWA to prohibit the interstate or foreign commerce of knives and gaffs used in cockfighting derbies.

Presence of animal fighting paraphernalia such as: inject able supplements, dog treadmills, written training records, heavily weighted chains used to confine dogs to the ground, knives and gaffs used to attach to the legs of fighting roosters, animal fighting publications that list fights between animals and the sale of paraphernalia used in animal fighting.

The 2007 federal law, Boylan explained, «amended the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit knowingly selling, buying, transporting or delivering, in interstate or foreign commerce, a knife, a gaff, or any other sharp instrument for attachment to the leg of a bird for use in an animal fighting venture.»

From this intersection rose the «Compadritos», whose songs, lyrics, and dances reflect «el duelo de cuchilleros», or knife fights characteristic of the social ambience.

A parody of unlockable minigame «The 4th Survivor,» «The Tofu Survivor» tasked players with fighting their way to the helicopter extraction point on the roof of the Raccoon City Police Department as a knife - wielding, beret - sporting block of bean curd.

That segment is full of one - on - one, up close and personal knife fights ended by merciless finishing moves.