Sentences with phrase «old lion of»

How could it, when this spare story of aging and fading memory stars Frank Langella, the old lion of stage and screen who dominates every role he undertakes in the winter of his acting career?

So when Rivera drew a challenger in the September 9 State Senate primary, the 84 - year - old lion of the US House of Representatives may have figured it was just old - fashioned political payback to support Rivera's foe.

Those fears were reinforced late in the day when Gary Gensler, an old lion of financial services regulation, confirmed for the crowd that in his view, bitcoin's two largest rivals may fit the description of securities in U.S. law.

Two grand old lions of the screen, Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, play two grand old lions of the law, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, as they grapple in the historic 1925 Scopes «monkey trial» in backwoods Dayton, Tenn..

Not exact matches

The 28 - year - old whiz kid and Harvard dropout is the CEO and co-founder of Facebook and he owns the lion's share (24 %) of the company.

If you currently have an older version of Apple's Mac OS X, you might be interested to know the latest version, dubbed Lion, is now available from the Mac App Store for $ 30.

Gorsuch, a 49 - year - old father of two, memorialized his predecessor Antonin Scalia as a «lion of the law.»

The young lion will overcome the older one, On the field of combat in a single battle; He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage, Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

First, we may not be cub - eating lions, but we do have cougars [a term which, for the benefit of readers not familiar with North American slang, refers to an older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man].

The Golden Fleece: Padraic Colum City of the Golden House: Madeleine Polland Detectives in Togas: Henry Winterfeld Sarah, Plain and Tall: Patricia MacLachlan Happy Little Family: Rebecca Caudill A Lion to Guard Us: Clyde Robert Bulla and other read - alouds, though I'll be having the 7 - year - old do a good bit of «tandem» reading with me.

Judah, also, is presented in the Old Testament in the form of a lion.

In fact, LION Coffee is one of America's oldest major coffee companies, getting its start in Toledo, Ohio, in 1864.

Oh and buying in Wellbeck (who has the heart of a lion) but the ability of a four year old child.

Joel Campbell The Costa Rican and his representative have been fuming over Wenger's decision to not let the 22 - year old go out on loan, for the fourth successive season, when it is rather obvious that he is «not» going to enjoy the lion's share of game time in this Arsenal squad.

It took the form of a note in neat, old - fashioned handwriting, inviting me to meet Mr. Jones in the Red Lion Hotel in Brecon «to discuss the matter at hand.»

Malcolm Glazer's takeover of United, after buying out the lion's share of the club's shareholders between 2003 and 2005, is by now vividly engraved into the minds of the Old Trafford faithful.

Incredible 2,200 - year - old Greco - Roman temple featuring a sculpture of a man's head and two limestone lion...

The Old Testament prophet Daniel miraculously survived the den of lions.

As the name implies, psychological warfare goes after people's feelings and thoughts, and intentional psychological warfare is as old as war itself, dating perhaps to the first time a paleolithic hunter / gatherer donned the skin of a lion to frighten a rival group out of a fight for territory or food.

At 88 years old, suffering severe arthritis and other ailments, Molinari is a political lion in winter, relying on Grimm as a kind of health aide, caretaker and more.

She has been part of the Aquarium's sea lion family since she was only two years old.

The Aquarium of Niagara's oldest sea lion «Diamond» shows her support for breast cancer awareness!

Michael Bloomberg is your typical New York republican in the mold of Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller and of course the old lion himself, Teddy Roosevelt.

Rangel's endorsement of Cabrera likely reflects political payback against Rivera, who supported the 84 - year - old congressional lion's unsuccessful primary challenger, State Senator Adriano Espaillat, in both June 2012 and June 2014.

The jaguar (Panthera onca)(Brazilian Portuguese: onça pintada) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four «big cats» in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World.

In the lion - free conservancy, 26 percent of the giraffes were less than one year old.

For years, scientists have hotly debated the age of some of Europe's oldest cave art: Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls (examples above) in the Chauvet - Pont d'Arc cave in southeastern France somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 years old, as some researchers have suggested, or had they been painted millennia earlier?

This week, meteors» hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century - old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm.

I think a prime target market of 30 - 35 year olds is beginning to move more towards online dating in the UK and we want to grab the lion's share of this new market.

Until Lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter» Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the Lion that shall keep it may prosper, but the Lion that shall br..

Semi-retired, have a part time job 3 nights a week, 67 years old, debt free.I am a member of Zion u.m. church, a member of Marshall lions club, an a member of spiritaul disciples a motorcycle...

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Francis of Assisi is more of the stale old stuff the Sixties were trying to address: another airless, suffocating costume melodrama (moreover, another»50s spiritual epic) that hits on the highlights of a saint's life with slipshod brevity (and an almost feckless sense of fait accompli), looking for tension in sainted Francis's (Bradford Dillman) relationship with worldly best pal Paolo (Stuart Whitman) while plucky ingénue Dolores Hart is saddled with the lion's share of horrific faux - Biblical dialogue.

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest organized critics group in the country, held their annual end - of - the - year award gathering this afternoon, with «Birdman» and «Boyhood» taking home the lion's share of the major awards.

Directed by Garth Davis (TV's Top of the Lake, in his feature film debut), Lion tells the true story of a five - year - old Indian boy who gets on the wrong train and is taken thousands miles away from home.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

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«He paces the grotty flat in his sharp suit and overcoat like an angry old lion in a cage, and regards the piece of sweaty cheese that Kyra plans to use in a pasta sauce as if it were marginally less enticing than dog poo.»

Some of the tributes to the almost 75 year old original film include a gingham dress, the witches crystal ball, a bunch of singing munchkins, the wicked witch's cackle, horses of a different color, fire balls, the poppy field, crows of caution, Glinda's bubble, creepy wicked green skin, a lion and creative use of scarecrows.

Lion's Den (Unrated) Argentine crime saga about a pregnant, 25 year - old college student (Martina Gusman) who ends up raising her baby (Tomas Plotinsky) behind bars and falling in love with a fellow inmate (Laura Garcia) after murdering the father of her child and his gay lover (Rodrigo Santoro) in a jealous rage.

The 36 - year - old actor took to Twitter on Tuesday (November 7) to share a video of Dodger singing along to «The Lion Sleeps Tonight» and it's too adorable.

Based on the incredible true story of Saroo Brierly, an Indian orphan who used Google Earth to locate his biological family after getting separated from them 25 years earlier, «Lion» is a good old - fashioned tearjerker that boasts some powerful performances from its two leads.

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Teplitzky sets up Winston Churchill (Brian Cox, in a pantomime performance) as an out - of - touch underdog — «a moth - eaten old lion who has had his teeth pulled» — so as to amplify the effect when he inevitably leads the allies to victory.

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For mature children and teens, this coming - of - age story (for both young and old alike) will likely provide the perfect mix of softness and bite - much like a Secondhand Lion.