Sentences with phrase «roving bands of»

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.

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!»

Deadly fights against roving bands of marauders.

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.

According to some reports from actual users, there are roving bands of «bullies» on the site, some of them actual moderators approved by Goodreads, who seek out titles to destroy with artificially low rankings and ratings.

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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.

According to some reports from actual users, there were roving bands of «bullies» on the site, some of them actual moderators approved by Goodreads, who seek out eBooks or ARC titles to destroy with artificially low rankings and ratings.

My program, is these roving bands of author communities that hit upload to Amazon and say «HEY I AM AN AUTHOR LOOK AT ME, WOO!»

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

Though Kohnstamm tries to distance himself from Garland's narrator and that easy trap of «spending your time with a roving band of people like yourself,» he never does.

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

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.

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.

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He held that the congregations should abandon their buildings and institutions and become bands of roving ministers, believing that the time for evangelistic mission work had passed.

Sometimes sickly, at other times testing his strength with that curious band of roving exiles who searched the land above the rippling railroad ties, he explored his soul as he sought to touch the distant past.

But no election - year incumbent wants a story line muddled by angry bands of roving protesters.

Either the future is one of immense government control, or there is chaos, with roving bands vying for dominance.

But teachers, administrators, and literacy coaches from around the country danced to a roving jazz band and joined in Mardi Gras - style revelry at the opening of the second annual national Reading First conference here late last month.

The Honey Badgers, named after the fabulously vicious YouTube - famous critter who puts up with zilch, is an all - star band including a roving cast of gallerists such as Jack Hanley and Phil Grauer, plus children.

Gordon's relentlessness in the face of Moore's betrayal is a welcome addition to the canon of tell - alls, but far better is her garrulous romp through the New York art world of the 1980s, which Gordon flitted around in various capacities — as an artist, as an assistant, and as a member of an alternative - rock band that functioned more as a roving sound installation, at home in both the regular rotation of MTV and the writings of Dan Graham.