Sentences with phrase «scale battles of»

In this game variant, you play out full - scale battles of attrition, gaining ground or being pushed back depending on your team measures up to those you're facing.

And that's exactly what Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV delivers, including large scale battles of fire - breathing monsters, superhuman acrobatics from military style warriors and eye - popping vistas created with a sublimely crisp and seamless blend of human motion - capture technology and animation.

Not exact matches

Cover Story The U.S. Marines are looking for the few, the proud — people who can scale walls, strike hard with lightning speed, and make life - or - death decisions in the heat of battle.

The battle lines in Broadcom's hostile takeover bid of Qualcomm are still being drawn, but analysts see a handful of pivotal issues that could tip the scales for each side.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

As I step on the weight scale, I see evidence of losing the ongoing «battle of the bulge.»

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

In the middle east of course there is a battle raging between Sunni and Shiites with Iran tipping the scales (it's overshadowing their hatred for the Israelis right now).

These days, it seems I'm once again battling the mercurial ups and downs of my scale (ever since baked goods — albeit ACD - friendly — have reappeared on my menus).

Such alternatives may also be barriers to scale up as industrial formats are not yet available, meaning that early adopters and innovators have a harder battle ahead of them.

DOWNERS GROVE — Monday to a full - scale court battle over construction of a proposed wellness center near Lyman Woods Forest Preserve.

Tidying up a room to get rid of the consequences of the raucous doll party, large - scale construction project or a massive battle may not seem so fascinating to your kid.

ORANGEBURG — While Rockland County volunteer firefighters have made some progress, they are still waging a full - scale battle against a wildfire that has engulfed a large area of Clausland Mountain and has sent smoke pouring across the Hudson River and into northern Rockland communities.

Support is growing in the state Legislature for a full - scale legalization of medical marijuana, an issue that likely will be among a handful of battles in the Capitol over the next few months.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

The row underlines the scale of tensions within Labour during the leadership battle, with many Corbyn supporters furious about the action that has been taken to suspend individuals.

It is this battle in the Labour marginals that will determine the scale of May's expected victory and it is these working - class voters who hold the key.

Laws supported the idea of free schools before the Tories did but fought fierce battles with Gove over the programme's scale.

The Lagos State Government on Thursday indicated its intention to go into full - scale legal battle with the Incorporated Trustees of Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, a.k.a. Private Sector Participation operators of waste.

Early on, the universe was much denser than it is today, and the attractive force of gravity was winning the battle, on scales both large and small.

Now two ecologists working in Malaysia report on a tree frog that has taken this musical battle to a strategic extreme: It adjusts its pitch to match the resonance frequency of the hole it lives in, thus tipping the scales in its favor.

From the scale and brutality of the battle to the presence of a warrior class wielding sophisticated weapons, the events of that long - ago day are linked to more familiar and recent conflicts.

The number suggests the scale of the battle.

The 2016 movie «Suicide Squad,» rated PG - 13, includes «lots of action violence, from close - up execution - style murders to large - scale battles and widespread destruction that leads to the deaths of innocent bystanders,» Common Sense Media told parents in its review.

As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.

There were several smaller naval battles in the first few months after the outbreak of the war, but given the strength of the British Royal Navy, the Germans were reluctant to risk a full - scale battle until 1916.

Neuroscientists are mapping out a complete atlas of connectivity in the human brain, but what's emerging is a battle of scales.

Whenever I'm leading a group through a program and I encounter a participant that has hit this plateau — no matter what their age or weight — I know (at least if they're working within the dietary and lifestyle parameters that I've constructed), that their hormones have shifted out of balance, tipped the scale, and are creating an internal environment that makes weight management an uphill battle.

I then spent the next, oh, 15 years battling disordered eating patterns and body dysmorphia, as well as obsessing about how the number on the scale corresponded to the amount of approval I received from others.

Steve Coogan's transformations into Hades don't feel properly to scale, and in the museum battle the monster keeps changings size according to the demands of a given shot.

Darksiders II is full of enormous environments and dungeons to traverse to and explore, even more fantastical enemies and large - scale bosses to battle, and plenty of challenging hacking, slashing and loot collecting.

It's the largest - scale onscreen fight I can recall since the Battle of Helm's Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

For those looking for a PvP - intensive MOBA, Battlerite delivers some of the best small - scale battles you can find.

The strengthening of the multiplayer adds some much needed replayability, the sense of scope and scale is impressive and allowing you to see the climactic battle through the eyes of a smorgasbord of Autobots and Decepticons, each with wildly differing play styles was a definite step in the right direction.

It's $ 150 million worth of large - scale battles, bacchanalia and overwrought writing — particularly in its rendition of Alexander (Colin Farrell) as a mama - whipped, militarily gifted but emotionally unstable conqueror.

Thompson hinted at «sabotage and epic - scale battles» in Battlefront 2's story mode and said that Iden's droid will play «a big part of the moment to moment gameplay.»

Suffice to say that there's a thrilling large - scale battle scene, and a lot of slightly less - large - scale ones, and that the film's final 15 minutes or so have a genuine, unexpected emotional resonance.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

The scale of it all means pretty much everyone gets short shrift — I was especially disappointed to see a potential battle scene involving a group of badass women warriors cut off almost before it began — but nonetheless, those two - and - a-half hours zoomed right by.

And in the face of alien autopsies and bald - faced rip - offs of Aliens, Battle: Los Angeles takes itself far too seriously — as if this were the first film to contemplate the grand - scale destruction of L.A..

Still, for all the acclaim it has received, Zhao is well aware that a small - scale film such as «The Rider» — the cast of which consists entirely of non-professional actors, including Jandreau's father, Tim, his sister Lilly and several of his friends — is in a lopsided battle for attention against studio behemoths such as Dwayne Johnson's «Rampage» and the upcoming «Avengers: Infinity War.»

Speaking of which - with Civil War, directors Anthony and Joe Russo (who also helmed The Winter Soldier) deliver some of the most impressive superhero - based fight scenes and set pieces featured in any Marvel Studios film yet, in terms of both the sheer scale and creativity of the Avenger vs. Avenger battles.

This simple request unleashes a torrent of crippling guilt on both sides, with Randi voicing years» worth of pent - up remorse while Lee conducts a full - scale battle between his need to pacify her and his desperate desire to flee the area before she can speak another word.

This is indicative of medieval warfare, but it's a shame that not more was done to give you the sense that you are involved in large - scale battles for the fate of a world.

Advanced weaponry enables new tactical options and even more exciting real - time battles on an epic scale, while the highly detailed environments and improved battlefield buildings guarantee a realistic recreation of famous historical battles.

So what could have been a Werner Herzog - quoting battle of futility against the forces of nature, couched in myth but disguised in tentpole blockbuster scale, becomes an episodic series of CGI - disasters with little shape beyond its adherence to the «facts» of the matter.

«We have actually made the decision to specifically tailor certain maps to certain game modes,» Fegraeus continued, «and what we get from that is not only incredibly varied scales, but also gameplay that will allow players to live out some of their most memorable Star Wars battle fantasies.»

Over the course of his venerable career King Kong has battled mythological creatures, scaled skyscrapers and once had a soft spot for a blond.

The reasonably - coherent and sensible action scenes interspersed throughout the film are replaced by a full - scale battle, a swirl of mud - brown and grey with the kind of shoddy camerawork and random editing we've come to take as normal from 21st century Hollywood.

Despite all of the time Capcom spends hyping up this mountain - sized elder dragon, the battles simply have players scaling the beast's body to attack static weak points, and then standing on a wall firing cannons and ballistae.