Sentences with word «riven»

The Warmonger Orcs are masters of war and combat, they seek it out and relish it, honouring Sauron's name with every riven shield and battle won.

Instead of a stew of quest fantasy clichés, they attempted to give us a tale of ambition, compromise, loyalty, and love, set in a land riven by feuding pretenders — «A Game of Thrones» for the JRPG genre, if you would.

Today's modern realtime engines have plenty of horse - power to produce zillions of bullets per second, but they can also be used to make remarkable landscapes and architecture that approach and even surpass the pre-rendered days of Riven.

The questionnaire said, ««The empire of Orlais is riven by civil war; the Chantry is divided; the Templar order has broken away; the Mage circles have rebelled.

Originally called Under a Riven Sky, the game was going to be a trilogy based on secret societies, the end of the world, and an enigmatic race of creatures so advanced as to appear to be alien to the player.

Obduction — The creators of Myst and Riven are back with an exciting new first - person puzzle adventure game.

It is hard to believe that in recent memory the country was riven by civil war.

Our estate vineyard, dubbed Riven Rock Vineyard, is located in a coastal valley just outside Cambria's town center, only a few miles from the water's edge, just over the coastal mountains and rolling hills of the Westside Paso Robles wine region.

The broad walkway is riven by a neat, slithering line where timber planks and paving meet, this border marked by flower - beds filled with palm - trees and exotic shrubs.

Fiscal policy will remain riven by disagreements, and hamstrung by rising entitlement spending.

And like the riven skies above devastated shepherds, our modern ceilings collapse in heart - stopping pageantry that, truth be told, has much less to do with religion for many of us than with consummate expressions of scale.

But it's nearly a week later and Riven is still in the queue for review for premium distribution at Smashwords.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble got Riven up within 24 hours.

Enough so that I immediately uploaded Riven there to test it out.

So you solved Riven?

I got through Myst, but with Riven it just wouldn't accept the code I figured out from that (I think) toy ship in the submarine.

Coventry, city of Two Tone and Ska, is riven with battles between skinheads and young Asians.

I didn't do that with Riven initially, partially because I wanted to see what it would do on its own in this more -LSB-...]

The Hammer and Gobsmacker are both nearly finished with Riven.

Each stop Cora makes along the Underground Railroad reveals another shocking and malignant symptom of a country riven by catastrophic conflicts, a poisonous moral crisis, and diabolical violence.

Only a society riven by fear and desperation would have incubated a figure as initially uncredentialed and unimpressive as Adolf Hitler.

The Central Intelligence Agency has been riven by turf battles, political infighting, and the lack of qualified agents and analysts.

The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions.

But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant «Surrender - Not» Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven with suppressed conflict.

So once Riven is ready for release, I may set them up in a $ 2.99, $ 1.99, $ 0.99.

To his credit Tom raised an honorable son who now struggles to maintain his professional objectivity even as his personal life is riven.

A New Jersey suburb of Princeton University, which churns out high achieving high school graduates, is riven with conflict, the New York Times reports, because many Caucasian parents want the academic pressures relaxed, while many Asian - American parents fear that high expectations will be drawn down and a record of excellence eroded.

Now, two local AFT unions are riven by internal political squabbles, with Detroit's union president facing recall and the local for Orange County, -LSB-...]

Consequently, the education sector today is increasingly isolated, ignored in national and state policy talk, riven by internecine conflict over issues like charter schools and Common Core, and abandoned by historical allies like the business community and governors.

The campaign comes at a time when public education is increasingly riven by battles over the use of standardized testing in teacher performance evaluations and the rollout of the Common Core, new benchmarks for what students need to know and be able to do between kindergarten and the end of high school.

One district deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indignities.

But we are now confronting the prospect of disagreement even on the ideal of achieving such an inclusive community, which puts America into the same challenging setting as so many other countries riven by conflict.

Education is riven with such false dichotomies.

And this year, given that public opinion on many national issues is riven by partisan disparities, we compare and contrast the views of Republicans and Democrats.

The Kansas state board of education, which as recently as December was politically fractured and riven by interpersonal tension, appears to be moving in a more civil — if not entirely bipartisan — direction under its new, moderate majority.

In a stagnant economy or a nation riven with strife, students will goof off in the classroom or sometimes not show up at all, parents will often pull their kids away to work on the farm, and teachers will while the time away as overqualified babysitters.

Beneath that simple, serene surface, however, lies a spirit of roiling anger and discontent, as Haigh's camera perceptively captures a landscape riven with poverty and social inequality: crowded soup kitchens, ill - stocked convenience stores cruised by can - filching shoplifters, and rusty trailers spilling out on to the pavements, their inhabitants gnarled by hunger, brutality and substance abuse.

Such a life serves more than work, as artists are often control freaks riven with anxiety and social awkwardness that must be put to rest by the calming waves of routine.

The PGA nominees are packed full of female - riven films.

Rumors had swirled for days that Huppert's jury was riven by disagreements over the competition films, which were widely perceived by both press and industry attendees to comprise a weaker group than last year's lineup, dominated by such strongly received films as «The Class,» «Gomorrah,» and «Waltz with Bashir.»

Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the movie industry, too much excited chitchat about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller - horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.

If you enjoyed Myst, you'll thoroughly enjoy Riven.

Stone struggles a little with the play's most melodramatic elements, but generally finds sharp modern - day equivalents for its tale of two families riven by class struggle and buried secrets.

His chief antagonist is a long - lost cousin, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens (Michael B. Jordan), who grew up poor in racially riven Oakland and became a black - ops soldier.

Their wives, Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), have a warmer relationship, but one riven by inequality.

Baumbach's back catalogue is riven with stories that are so close to the bone, so perfectly observed in their carcass - picking of family life, that they must come from a degree of personal investment.

The music is riven with primal darkness, swooping to hold in the murky heartbreak.

Spectacular and eccentric details fill the frame, and unlike many similar labour intensive enterprises, Fantastic Mr Fox is riven with narrative digressions, single - serving side characters and brilliant throw - away details.

The beauty of this character study lies in intimate particularities: those of its internally riven, love - starved protagonist, Chiron, certainly, but also those of Jenkins's own tender, sensual gaze, coloured by such plainly cherished influences as Wong Kar - wai and Claire Denis.

So begins Paul Thomas Anderson's glistening, magnificent Phantom Thread, and it's a moment of rare, blithe sexiness in his oeuvre: a light little flirt - note — were the film set half a century later, it might be signed off with a smiley face — that sets in motion a far darker, more perverse and conflict - riven romance than most would expect from such breezy beginnings.