Sentences with phrase «pitted with perils»

But if PTL became more a resort for saints than a hospital for sinners, it would not be the first time — nor the last — that perfectionist Christians found out that the road to perfection is pitted with perils.

Not exact matches

Pitting the titular Appalachian dwellers (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon's Alan Tudyk and serial television supporting player Tyler Labine) against a gang of judgemental college kids on a camping trip (including 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden as an open - minded beauty thrust into peril from an unexpected source, and The Uninvited's Jesse Moss as a trigger happy frat boy obsessed with a previous massacre in the area), it subverts the conventions of the splatter genre to provide a playful paradigm shift of the oft - used (as seen in everything from 2000 Maniacs to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) evil hillbilly premise, proving that appearances can be deceiving as well as deadly.

With modern conveniences centuries away from development, a motley crew of characters pitted their wits against the perils of prehistoric living.