Sentences with phrase «roving bands»

You take on the role of Arnice, a knight of great skill and power, who is assisted by her friend and priestess Lilysse in a quest to rid the land of roving bands of fiends.

The researchers posit that trypophobia could be an outgrowth of an instinct to avoid dangerous critters, rather than just roving bands of English muffins.

When roving bands of players from both teams had a Close Encounter of the Word Kind on Bourbon Street, Thomas zeroed in on Lassic.

There were fewer buses, fewer roving bands of drunken college students, an enhanced police presence, and much more quiet overnight Friday during the traditional first night of party season on the streets of University Heights in Buffalo.

This makes sense since the Beastmen work in roving bands that go around terrorizing the land.

Deadly fights against roving bands of marauders.

Will roving bands of gay folks break into straight homes and force folks to marry someone of the same sèx?

Again, on the surface of things I know this sounds wonderful to entrepreneurs and of course I read all the the tropes about «how VC is dead» and is going to be replaced by a roving band of altruistic former founders sprinkling funding dust on startups.

The Temple of Satan is less a religious body organized around rituals and regular meetings than a roving band of political provocateurs, according to Greaves.

A roving band wended its way through the procession, playing drums, maracas and guiros, singing folkloric and patriotic songs.

A roving band of cells take care of business in the brain, giving rise to our fertile and flexible minds.

In order for small, roving bands of nomadic humans to evolve into the organised societies we see today, social institutions such as government, a justice system and formal education needed to develop.

Whether zombies in Shaun of the Dead, a powerful Neighbourhood Watch organization of a small village in Hot Fuzz, or roving bands of artificial beings here, writers Pegg and Frost have always come up with the unexpected to throw at their characters.

Mercy and her religious family are there representing a support group for victim's families — basically a roving band of death penalty supporters.

A roving band of cycle - riding vampires haunts the carnival and accounts for the carnage, until Diane Weist moves her family to town.

Then an earthquake hits, and the heroes scramble for safety, while also trying to avoid the roving bands of looters and rapists.

Together, they form a roving band of outlaws to steal the money to pay their dad's ransom, and gallivant across a twisted, scatological version of the Wild West in the process.

The suffering isn't pornographic — the shocking opening sequence is as horrific as it gets — but the dangers are not just the roving band of Comanches, or lawless fur trappers, or the weather, or ranchers furious at trespass on their land.

He's been waiting for a chance to go AWOL to rescue Qi» ra, and finally gets his window when he runs across a roving band of smugglers: Jaded leader Beckett (Woody Harrelson), his hard - bitten wife Val (Thandie Newton) and pilot Rio Durant (Jon Favreau).

This movie (based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick) took the most terrifying thing about the New York City of that era — roving bands of gangs and criminals behind the sky - high crime rate — and moved it into comic book territory.

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Ever since losing their jobs and their house, they have been living out of their car, squeaking by on tips from Charmaine's lousy bartending job and doing their best to steer clear of the roving bands of vandals that now roam America.

That keeps the story a little tighter when it's not a roving band of weirdoes like a giant pink dog.

While the roving bands of characters explore the building in this «site visit,» the building itself becomes a character of its own, the way a haunted house might in a generic horror film — «that was a haunted ceiling moment!»

As this roving band of art - world rock stars bounced around town amid a week filled with fine - feathered dinners and fancy - pants cocktail confabs toasting SFMOMA's soon - to - open environs, one of the most festive fetes unfolded at a bowling alley.

And the US Senate stuck one near the head of its official seal, in honour of either roving bands of angry women or out of some mistaken understanding of the cap's ancient history.

who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.