Sentences with phrase «often brandishing»

However, Nara's illustrations of children, who are often brandishing weapons, are often more menacing and devilish than they are cute and innocent.

An older less effective technology is often brandished as a sign of credibility.

Not exact matches

Call them the party radicals or the grassroots, depending on your perspective: NDPers who like to wave signs or wear buttons often prefer to brandish a slogan, rather than some leader's name.

I would say that a lot of people were surprised when the man in the middle brandished a red rather than a yellow to Pedro, but in a way that is because you do not often see it in this sort of «semi-competitive» match.

Current Democrats like Assemblymen Robin Schimminger and Mickey Kearns still brandish a «C» behind their names, often to counter the perpetual GOP effort linking upstate Democrats to those crafty legislative chieftains from big, bad New York City.

Political amateurs brandish their inexperience in elective office as their primary credential, and while an outsider's perspective can be valuable, too often the result is low comedy (This is Herman Cain!).

What we get instead is often very deliberately mundane: The future fashions and gadgets brandished as a sci - fi convention seem oddly simplistic and mechanical, the action set pieces (if one can even call them that) are pared down to the basics, and even the overtly fantastical game environments look like normal places in the real world.

«This is appropriate,» she said, brandishing a page with his remarks, «because I'm often mistaken for him.»