Sentences with phrase «of oil prospector»

There Will Be Blood follows the story of oil prospector Daniel Plainview's (Daniel Day - Lewis) unquenchable ambition.

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And that oil prospectors look for traces of fossils that indicate there might have been life on that spot MILLIONS of years ago to help them determine if there's oil under there.

By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for tremors on the moon and Mars.

This is bad news for oil prospectors drilling in permafrost: if they encounter a pocket of hydrates, the released methane could rupture their drilling equipment.

Just to reach the crust of salt that overlies Tupi's oil, prospectors had to plumb the 7,200 feet of ocean and another 10,000 feet of rock and sandstone below the ocean floor.

Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film shows grimy prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) climbing from dark shafts into the blinding desert sunlight.

It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.

Ever since Boogie Nights, the untamable Paul Thomas Anderson has thrilled us with the mania of self - made men — porn stars, game - show hosts, oil prospectors and cultists.

, this epic tale of money, power and family cast an Oscar - winning Daniel Day - Lewis as prospector - turned - oil - baron Daniel Plainview, with explosive results.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

It was the story of one tormented man — the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day - Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too.

Ever since «Boogie Nights», the untamable Paul Thomas Anderson («There Will Be Blood», «The Master») has thrilled us with the mania of self - made men — porn stars, game - show hosts, oil prospectors and cultists.

Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.

The Guardian article, «Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land,» describes how plantations not only fail to deliver on the promise of jobs, but also hamper food security in the long run:

But it has been criticized for, what some say is, an over dramatization of the Huoarani Tribe's fight to keep oil prospectors off their land.

Once inside the Utah offices of the federal Bureau of Land Management, DeChristopher joined oil and gas prospectors in the bidding, raising a white laminated card with the number 70 in big black letters.

The interests of ecologists, native Alaskans, oil prospectors and the federal government are constantly rubbing up against each other, making for a lot of litigation work, often with a regulatory slant.