Sentences with phrase «of mysterious strangers»

It is not surprising that Fossett reports between 1682 and 1701, «several local historians in the Orkneys and northern Scotland commented on the appearance of mysterious strangers in skin boats along the coasts.»

With an (estimated) 35 million unique monthly users, Match.com has the largest active membership of all the dating sites out there - and for good reason, however with some caveats: it's geared more towards folks looking for long term relationships, you'll want to carefully craft your profile to focus on such, and make sure you carefully review all emails for potential romance scams, as Match seems to attract more than their fair share of mysterious strangers trapped in Nigeria.

The Guest Blu - ray — One of the best Halloween - themed John Carpenter movies that John Carpenter never made, The Guest was the most badass movie of 2014, the only one with the balls to feature some prominent Halloween III Silver Shamrock imagery amid the pounding synth score and carnage of the mysterious stranger who comes trick or treating.

He dodged death in Iraq and puts it down to a photograph of a mysterious stranger.

Main Street (Unrated) Urban revival drama revolving around several residents of Durham, North Carolina whose lives are changed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Colin Firth) with a controversial plan for saving their decaying hometown.

Along the way he acquires performing skills and the help of a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams).

And the characters start to act like only those in a movie would act in order to further the plot — for example, they decide to make an unnecessary stop for fuel, which lands them right next to the car of a mysterious stranger (Michael Rooker) who, of course, causes trouble.

The «script» is, of course, simply a frame for the killings: 11 on screen, four off and a final sequence in which another eight victims of the Mysterious Stranger litter the floor of a police station.

Generally considered to be one of the best western films of all time, Once Upon a Time in the West tells the tale of a mysterious stranger who teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin.

An isolated valley is torn apart by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

So here's the setup; you take control of the mysterious Stranger who has been locked up in some sort of celestial prison guarded by a variety of weird and wacky people.

Find out the secret of the lost tribe, solve the puzzle of the mysterious stranger who is following you everywhere, and find out the story of a charming beauty named Kitty.

If you play the shanty in front of the Mysterious Stranger, he'll grant you access to the new hub, where you'll meet a new quest - giving NPC with new voyages.

Not exact matches

While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be studied carefully before we can even begin to figure out how to fight or prevent them.

You can open yourself up to all of the possbilities in the universe and realize just how mysterious and strange life really is.

I thought about Cormac McCarthy's mysterious trout at the end of The Road and wondered whether they too were victims of disaster, or strange signs of hope.

Don't be fooled by the presentation, the depictions of «The Mysterious Stranger» and «Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven» are EXTREMELY accurate in some places.

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

Here's a timetable of Leonard's injury, which has been strange and mysterious, especially since Tony Parker supposedly suffered a similar but worse version of the same ailment, only to return earlier this year.

Strange and unpredictable, and yet as we head off into that most mysterious of zones, we all know that both ecstasy and horror lurk in our paths.

(One need only listen to Astrud Gilberto's Grammy - winning performance of the Girl from Ipanema to re-appreciate music's ability to capture strange and mysterious moods.)

The pattern is even stranger than a mysterious spider - shaped pattern of troughs found in Mercury's Caloris basin, during Messenger's first Mercury flyby in January 2008, says team member Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

This was an early hint of the mysterious ties between strange metals and black holes, which were also known to have staggeringly high entropies.

9 The Shark That Walks on Land: And other strange but true tales of mysterious sea creatures by Michael Bright, The Robson Press, # 12.99 / $ 16.99 This is a book about the ocean's marvels, mythical and real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fins.

A type of black hole predicted by string theory may help to explain the properties of a mysterious class of materials called «strange metals».

«People have been looking at these strange, mysterious structures since the invention of the telescope,» says physicist Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England.

You can view videos of some past Perimeter physics lectures below: Shape - Shifting Particles: Mysterious Neutrinos [Video] The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy [Video] Strange, Dense Matter: The Power of Neutron Stars [Video] How Radioactivity Can Benefit Your Health [Video]

The dark depths of our oceans are home to cold - water corals, sponge fields, seamounts, hydrothermal vents and a multitude of other ecosystems that shelter strange and mysterious creatures found nowhere else on Earth.

The baffling and strange behaviours of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA's Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR.

A couple of years ago I started having some mysterious health problems and one of the manifestations was during winter, I'd take outfit photos and I'd look not just pale, but that strange almost supernatural pale with a hint of grey (think Jack White at his most unhealthy - looking).

We can simply let our fingers do the walking and easily make contact with everyone from fascinating locals to mysterious strangers from the far corners of the world.

Contemporary screen depictions of Brooklyn's Hasidic community — for instance Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies or Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us — have tended to raise eyebrows with their meshuggeneh casting of Hollywood recruits like Renee Zellweger and Melanie Griffith, and their sometimes patronizing perspective on the exotic otherness of a mysterious, insular world.

His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings - on next door, in this insidiously - constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock on top of shock.

Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci - fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown - ups.

A mysterious stranger (Alan Cumming, in this role and many others) comes to lecture the kind parents one night in 1936 about the evils of the drug, marijuana.

Two Secret Service agents track down mysterious objects at the behest of a warehouse caretaker who oversees a top - secret facility in South Dakota that houses strange and power relics collected by the U.S. government in this sci - fi comedy - drama.

Soon, a mysterious werewolf is terrorizing the streets of the city at night Rex learns that its Wendell, transformed by a strange potion, intent on teaching Rex a lesson!

But when Zuzu steps in to stop his plans, a mysterious stranger comes out of the shadows to show her how it's done!

He becomes suspicious of his middle - eastern looking neighbor Khaled Abol Naga who has just moved in and seemingly fits the profile of a terrorist because of his friendship with other Arab looking guys who show up at his place with all kinds of mysterious packages and who has the strange habit of dumping his garbage at odd times at night.

With the situation spiraling out of control and time running out, five mysterious strangers appear to aid you in your quest for the truth.

Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking.

Shoot «Em Up (Unrated) Clive Owen stars in this high - impact adventure about a mysterious loner who teams with a proverbial hooker (Monica Bellucci) with a heart of gold and lactating mammary to protect a stranger's newborn he's just delivered from a gang of hit men led by a bloodthirsty mobster (Paul Giamatti).

As the machines prepare for a final attack, John Connor and a mysterious stranger delve into the heart of Skynet and uncover a terrible secret involving the annihilation of mankind.

The level follows Paper Mario as he investigates strange occurrences in the Dark Bloo Inn, a mysterious mansion set in the darker lands of Prism Island.

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man (Daniel Radcliffe) awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples - horns which compel people to confess their deepest secrets to him - or compel them to do uninhibited, even violent acts.

Together, you'll embark on a journey of discovery, investigating strange incidents across Rhyme City, slinking through the runes of abandoned theme parks, sneaking into heavily guarded warehouses, and even sailing on luxury cruise liners as you retrace your father's footsteps, researching the last case he was on before his disappearance: a mysterious substance known as R.

Netflix staged one of the most anticipated events of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour: A panel on Stranger Things, the throwback thriller that channels elements of 1980s horror and science - fiction cinema to depict the mysterious happenings in and around a small Midwestern town in 1983.

A first - person sci - fi RPG, Strange Journey centers around unexplained phenomena at the southern pole of the Earth, and a team of specialists is sent into the heart of the mysterious, growing black void to find out what's going on.

Propositioned by a mysterious stranger (Vera Farmiga) for a dangerously quick piece of cash and tasked with identifying a secret passenger, Michael soon ends up in over his head.