Sentences with phrase «old war stories»

Also, while there wasn't much in the way of story presented in the trailer, the idea of playing through one of King Regis» old war stories is an interesting hook.

Bainbridge thoughtfully balances old war stories from the star names with archive footage and interviews that provide a substantial historical context that stretches from the shocking slaughter of ghost dancers at the Battle of Wounded Knee to the legacy of genocide, oppression and violence that has shaped Native American lives.

Unfortunately, it's only fun to hear old war stories when you're the old warrior.

Not exact matches

I appreciate Joseph Bottum's noble sentiments, but I wonder how his principle that «Jesus turned all our stories inside out,... especially the old, old ones about blood and blood's repayment,» which he applies to capital punishment, would apply to the story of war and just - war theory.

Set in Boston during the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the book tells the story of a fourteen - year - old apprentice silversmith.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

It is a beautifully sad story, an elegy on the world of New Brunswick woodsmen and their women after the Second World War, when the old ways of lumbering, around which everything turned, were being forced to give way to the mechanization brought by American companies capitalizing on an insatiable market for fancier toilet paper and endlessly multiplied government reports.

They begin to hide behind clouds of criticism of the Church or of particular Christians, or they create a diversion by arguing about the historicity of the Old Testament stories, or, for example, about the Church's attitude toward war or divorce.

There are still places where survivors of that struggle gather, like old soldiers at a retreat for veterans, to nurse their wounds and tell war stories.

Gamblers come equipped with war stories of losing money and winning money, stories you expect to hear from older, harder men.

Of course, like every other pregnant woman, I'd heard many well - meaning mothers recant their birth stories like old veterans retelling their war stories (and sometimes just as gruesome).

«It is a story of muddle - headed government initiatives, skewed police incentives, racism, drug wars and the old, old habit of treating white people more leniently than everyone else.»

Newspapers were filled with stories and maps and casualty lists; people who had been children during the Civil War recalled years later that they had eagerly followed the progress of «their» armies — in which fathers or older brothers often marched — through their local papers.

The man my father's stories conjured up was physically and mentally tough: a first world war veteran who was boisterous with his drinking buddies and, at home, an old - fashioned head of the household.

Kingsway West, tells the story of a North American Old West ravaged by a long war between China and Mexico over a substance called Red Gold.

2018-04-07 17:25 Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000 - year - old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos A woman opened her heart and her door to a 12 - year - old boy who had fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents - or so she thought.

Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000 - year - old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos A woman opened her heart and her door to a 12 - year - old boy who had fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents - or so she thought.

To be sure, his story is extraordinary, thrilling, and tragic, familiar as old World War II movies and also terribly and apparently forever timely, focused as it is on torture and the limits of vision that might inform it.

A cavalcade of theatrical personalities, juicy war stories, unforgiven grievances and old - school cinema dazzle.

The game looks «old»: standard gameplay, standard «love and war stories», and a graphical engine that doesn't shows any virtues.

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

However, with games like God of War setting a precedent with taking an older game which already had a good story and combat and then just positively blowing away all my expectations with a captivating story, graphics, gameplay mechanics, missions, map, upgrade system... YOU NAME IT ALL INCREDIBLE....

A MMORPG that doesn't differentiate itself very much from other popular MMORPG titles (like World of Warcraft), but with a greater focus on story, companions and of course the Star Wars setting, The Old Republic is still a solid game.

Based on a true story, Rick Schroder stars as Calvin Graham, a mature - looking 12 - year - old boy who enlisted in the Navy during World War II.

not «when i was 9 years old my dad took me to a burger king in mississipi and it was then i realized i loved the cock, and this is the story Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones is trying to tell»

Except the movie seems like a poor pre-World War I story by Dan Stevens» old drama teacher who he had taken pity on — which is exactly what it is.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 opens with one of those scenes where an older actor is recreated as their youthful self through the wonders of CGI — think Carrie Fisher in Rogue One: A Star War's Story.

The 31 - year - old actor plays Chewbacca in «Solo: A Star Wars Story», and he insisted he didn't let fans» expectations weigh him down when shooting the moment his character first met Han Solo - portrayed by Alden Ehrenreich, who has taken over the role from original trilogy star Harrison Ford.

Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.

Joonas Suotamo didn't feel pressure while filming one of the most iconic scenes in «Star Wars» history.The 31 - year - old actor plays Chewbacca in «Solo: A Star Wars Story», and he insisted he didn't let fans» expectations...

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Last Flag Flying is a story about men from an old war colliding into men conducting a newer one, a conflict just as bloody and morally ambiguous as the one they experienced long ago.

It has been almost 28 years since John Boorman's semi-autobiographical work Hope and Glory (1987) brought us the story of nine year old Bill Rohan's life during World War II.

«If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you,» he said in a statement.

Maybe it's just that pre-May The Fourth excitement, but it was a pretty good day for Solo: A Star Wars Story promos; we already reported on Ron Howard's attempts to mash his adopted franchise home with his old Arrested Development narrating duties.

The play, written by «The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, features an all - black, female cast and the 33 - year - old actress said she found the story of five women, who during the Liberian civil war in 2003 are trapped by rebel commander, an important narrative.

When it comes to a story, Disney Infinity 3.0 features a brilliant Star Wars tale and as the galaxy descends into chaos, an old enemy rises again with Darth Maul and his nefarious allies as key characters from the TV series, Star Wars the Clone Wars are thrown into the mix that include favourites such as Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahskoa Tano.

Set on a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, story follows a lighthouse keeper and his wife who are faced with a moral dilemma when a boat washes ashore with a dead man and a two - month - old infant.

Paralleling our Old West battles with the Native American population with the initial resistance by the Martians (including a virus brought by the Earthlings that practically eradicates the Martian population), Bradbury's story contains lofty ideas about war, imperialism, and religion, but the script and acting here is the real killer.

The 31 - year - old British actress plays Qi'Ra in the new spin - off, Solo: A Star Wars Story, which opens on Friday.

Previous «Summer 2015» teasers have included call backs to Civil War, Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies, X-Men: Years of Future Past, Planet Hulk, Armor Wars, House of M, Infinity Gauntlet and Old Man Logan, and the new story Inhumans: Attilan Rising and the End of the Ultimate Universe.

According to Hudson, known for his work on the Mass Effect trilogy as well as Jade Empire, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate II, Anthem will finally solve the age - old issue of how to implement a proper story in a multiplayer environmeOld Republic, Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate II, Anthem will finally solve the age - old issue of how to implement a proper story in a multiplayer environmeold issue of how to implement a proper story in a multiplayer environment.

This is a riveting story of the old frontier but also a meditation on the Western, not least the sub-genre that draws on the violent heritage of the Civil War, which Tarantino quite rightly, in this film and in Django Unchained, identifies as the foundation myth of modern America, in sharp oppostion to the more comforting myths around the pursuit of human rights and liberty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the «John Carter of Mars» stories, appears as a character here, a young would - be writer (Daryl Sabara of «Spy Kids») reading the journal of his late uncle (Taylor Kitsch), a swarthy, two - fisted Civil War vet searching for gold out West who stumbled instead into another Civil War — this one a thousand years old and millions of miles away.

Her old friends want to hear war stories, but Kelli isn't really interested in the subject; her memories are more of tedium than action or heroism.

Previous «Summer 2015» teasers have included call backs to Civil War, Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies, X-Men: Years of Future Past, Planet Hulk, Armor Wars, House of M, Infinity Gauntlet and Old Man Logan, Age of Apocalypse and the new stories Inhumans: Attilan Rising and the End of the Ultimate Universe.

Previous «Summer 2015» teasers have included call backs to Civil War, Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies, X-Men: Years of Future Past, Planet Hulk, Armor Wars, House of M, Infinity Gauntlet, Old Man Logan, Age of Apocalypse, Future Imperfect, Spider - Man's Marriage, Avengers vs X-Men, and the new stories Inhumans: Attilan Rising and the End of the Ultimate Universe.

Nicole Scherzinger, Jude Law and others band together for an emotional video for the charity War Child, telling the story of 17 - year - old Syrian girl...

Following around ninety - three - year - old Alex Jefferson, Luft Gangster is the story of Jefferson's experience in World War II, dealing with racism while growing up in Detroit, and basic life in the 1940s and 1950s.

«Virunga» is the incredible true story of a group of brave individuals risking their lives to save Africa's oldest national park in the midst of renewed civil war and a scramble for the region's natural resources.