Sentences with phrase «of ruthless men»

In A Game of Thrones, an ancient kingdom was torn by the ambitions of ruthless men and women; in A Clash of Kings, war, sorcery, and madness swept over the kingdom like a voracious beast of prey.

This is much to the dismay of the SVR (Russia's intelligence service), represented by a trio of ruthless men: two military leaders (Jeremy Irons and Ciaran Hinds) and the deputy director of the SVR, Ivan Egorov (Matthias Schoenaerts), who happens to be Dominika's uncle.

Not exact matches

Business Insider put together a list of the most ruthless leaders of all time featuring men and women who employed merciless tactics to achieve their political and military agendas.

I've seen many portrayals of Jobs over the years both in print and film, and based on how ruthless «Going Clear» was, I went into «The Man in the Machine» expecting something similar.

Millions of young men were killed, thrones were toppled, and Communism was established in Russia in what was to become a 60 - year regime involving misery on a massive scale, with famine, secret police, concentration camps and the ruthless stamping out of any attempts at opposition.

And there have certainly been plenty of ruthless, violent, horrible religious men.

If we import into our thinking ideas about rewards and punishments, as these are commonly understood, we turn God into «the ruthless moralist» who, as Whitehead once remarked, is one of the false «gods» that men have worshipped to their own frightful hurt.

The possible blight which might come to the human spirit if a minority of wholly ruthless men should achieve a monopoly on the instruments of power that make the world all one province, technically, is a reasonable cause for fear.

Aside from being politically ruthless and famous for holding grudges, Perry's the kind of guy who almost certainly executed an innocent man, never pretended to care about it, and brazenly disbanded a commission investigating it.

He writes, The term «individualism» was coined by the Saint - Simonians to characterize the condition of men in nineteenth - century society - their uprootedness, their lack of ideals and common beliefs, their fragmentation, and their ruthless competitive and exploitative attitudes which evolved from this legitimized anarchy.»

Wakefield recalls Van Doren's startling insistence that Jesus «was the most ruthless of men,» ruthless in «following his conception of truth and iron in his will.»

The only solution for the referee's unfair and wrong decision against our lovely club is to strengthen our squad quality specially in the defensive areas and be ruthless in front of the goal just like the current Man city team.

This is a player that the manager treats specially, giving him all the necessary support even when he is below par but yet he wants to return to a man that blasted him in front of his team - mates and one who won't tolerate his inconsistencies... Why??? Does it mean these players appreciate or love a ruthless manager more than they a gentle and loyal one?

Go and pee man, we had a fairly good game against Stoke, we paid for not being ruthless enough in front of goal, yes we were terrible against Liverpool, its start of d season, stop moaning and leave our club, bunch of retard idiots, rubbish

The man at the top has to do more to instill a ruthless hunger for wins into these players, a hunger I've no doubt he has himself but maybe has become more of a steady simmer than a rolling boil down the years.

The quick version of it is this: Brady and Belichick are both «ruthless and proud self - made men, both secure though still unfinished in their legacies,» as described in the article.

the reason you don't get the goalkeeper argument is because fans in general don't know how to assess keepers we think if he makes a few saves he great, but thats not how it works, its a specialist position, where the lay man fan can't really see the defeciecies, the fact that Bob Wilson Wengers ass wiper himself cast doubts speaks volumes.i don't think Wenger will do whats required for us to push on hes not capable of it, not ruthless enough.We all know Arteta, Flamini an Diaby should be gone, but will they be gone thats the question.If they are still in our squad next season then Wenger has failed us again like the last 10 years

With the talk of his right hand man Boro leaving at the end of the season and getting a sporting director in I'm hopefully that should AW sign da ting, which I have a funny feeling he will, despite knowing he should probably just go, then I hope he can somehow develop a ruthless streak and cut some deadwood out of the team, secure some top players at all cost, and bring in the Terminator as his new assistant and save his name by somehow winning league am going out in a blaze of glory

There I met the 82nd Airborne Division of sports talk callers, men trained in a harsh environment by a ruthless taskmaster who harangues and abuses them, who forces them to stretch, to be all that they can be.

If we want to beat the likes of Chelski and Man Sh!tty we need to drop the sentimentality and get ruthless.

Admittedly Middlesbrough weren't the toughest opposition Jurgen Klopp and his men will face this season, but the ruthless and stylish manner of their win will not have gone unnoticed amongst their title rivals.

Klopp's men have won only one game since then despite dominating in most of the matches owing to the fact that they were simply not ruthless enough.

Arsene Wenger and his men have battened down the hatches at the back and developed a ruthless streak that has seen them win 11 of their last 13 Premier League games and book another Wembley appearance in the FA Cup final.

As any of my Adams Morgan barstool colleagues will tell you, I am ruthless in pursuit of my dream, which involves tons of money, plenty of chicks and enough blow to kill a lesser man.

He bent the Senate by intelligent manipulation, force of personality and ambition, but in The Path to Power, Caro also exposes his ruthless underbelly., from his vindictiveness towards opponents, the occasional dismissive treatment of his loving wife, and includes a set of photos, entitled «The Johnson Treatment», that shows how the big man used his physical presence to intimidate.

Without a ruthless clean - up man, all this referendum seems designed to do is cover politicians of every stripe with ordure — fuelling voter disillusionment

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery Wendy Moore; Broadway Books, $ 26 A dedicated anatomist, ruthless vivisectionist, and rigorous experimentalist, John Hunter (1728 — 1793) transformed surgery at a time when most practitioners were little more than tooth - pulling barbers.

A third person shooter where the player takes full control of all four squad members, Conflict: Vietnam does not set out to depict the course of the war; instead we witness four men struggling for survival in the hostile Vietnam jungle against a ruthless terrain and seemingly ever - present «invisible» enemy.

You do not grow to admire and respect this man as you do in most militaristic flag wavers; he is a ruthless sadist who punishes every tiny error with the kind of physical and emotional abuse that would be deemed unconscionable in any other environment.

Roam through the dark and smoke - filled history of the most ruthless men and family enterprises that changed crime in America!

There was a great role in there for Geoffrey Rush as her scary Protestant hatchet man, and his ruthless manuevers to protect her from dangerous intrigues of the court gave the movie drive.

But Johnson's view of these ultra-violent loners isn't in any way glorified: These are weak, ruthless men, constantly concerned with the hurt that's inflicted on them, and rarely with the hurt they inflict.

After a brief prehistoric flashback to the dawn of man, the film quickly deposits us in present - day Taipei, where Lucy (Johansson), a hard - partying American blonde, finds herself lured into the web of a ruthless Korean crime boss named Mr. Jang (the splendidly villainous Choi Min - sik).

Jackson, buried under makeup and adopting an elderly stoop and geriatric traits, is outstanding in what must have been a challenging role as the «house nigger» - aside from a black slave owner, the most despised of roles for a black man in this era - and shows that he can be as ruthless as his master.

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

Based on true events, this thrilling, epic action drama tells the story of the ruthless, charismatic Pablo Escobar and the man who risked it all to try to bring him to justice.

The South Carolina militias, portrayed in the film as a ragtag band of good - hearted family men, could be exceedingly ruthless, not just against British troops but with neighbors who refused to join them or take sides — the lynching of perceived loyalists and destruction of their homes was not uncommon.

Those men perfectly represented the psychotic side of crime and the ruthless nature of business.

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).

R100 / Japan (Director and screenwriter: Hitoshi Matsumoto)-- A mild - mannered family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless dominatrices — each with a unique talent — in this hilarious and bizarre take on the sex comedy from Japanese comic mastermind Hitoshi Matsumoto.

A prologue establishes how ruthless the film is willing to be, and then we pick up over a year into the apocalypse as a competent, intelligent, desperate family man (Krasinski) tries to keep things together in his little kingdom, knowing that even the most negligible dropped clanger will attract toothsome, long - armed creatures with avocado - skinned skulls which are composed entirely of inner - ear architecture and teeth.

He exudes a ruthless oiliness that only a man who has consistently put his fortune ahead of his relationships could permeate.

As luck would have it, an opportunity for redemption and enough sorely - needed cash to tide him over conveniently arrive when ruthless Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), the most wanted man in the West, is collared and needs to be transported across the desert to a train station located in the town of Contention.

But unlike Rain Man, there's very little moral redemption in the Safdies» nightmarish vision especially in the third act, which includes the ruthless manipulation of an underage girl (Talia Webster, pictured above with Pattinson).

Following Rise and Dawn, this third film in the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy sees Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his kind at war with an army of humans - led by a ruthless man known as the Colonel (Woody Harrelson).

Swerve (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Aussie crime thriller about a Good Samaritan (David Lyons) who ends up on the run from a ruthless hit man (Travis Hitman) and a crooked cop (Jason Clarke) after stopping to help a gun moll (Emma Booth) with a suitcase of cash at the scene of a car accident which claimed the life of her mobster beau.

Enter Niels Arden Oplev, who many know as the director of the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, makes his Western debut with Dead Man Down, which follows Victor (Colin Farrell) as a ruthless gangleader hellbent on getting revenge on Alphonse (Terrence Howard) for ruining his once happy life.

In addition to Las acacias, there was another strong Argentine movie, Santiago Mitre's The Student, a narrative of a callow but ruthless young man's attempted rise to power, set within a complicated background of student unrest and political intrigue.

Our Man in Havana is a film that I've wanted to see for quite some time after I reading about it years ago in a biography of Ernie Kovacs — who co-stars as the head of the police with a ruthless reputation (Kovacs, ever the cigar connoisseur, supposedly smoked 25 Havanas a day during production in Cuba).

Film Review by Kam Williams Grieving Father Turns Vigilante in Grisly Revenge Thriller Nils Dickman (Stellan Skarsgard) had no idea his son Ingvar (Aron Eskeland) was a heroin addict until the day the young man was murdered by acouple of ruthless dealers who made it look like an overdose.