Sentences with phrase «shot at human beings»

About a big - game hunter who longs to take a shot at human beings, «the most dangerous» of all game «animals,» it's been adapted every few years since Richard Connell's short story...

Not exact matches

These disturbing instances have coincided with a Human Rights Watch report released on Saturday saying that Turkish border guards are indiscriminately shooting at civilians trying to flee Afrin and returning the asylum - seekers.

As Bernard and the others are hiding in a barn, we see Trevor and his henchman shooting at a human guest with a glass balanced on her head.

So if you don't think we're past the great filter, and you don't think we're the first life forms with a shot at making it past the great filter, there's only one remaining conclusion: Humans are toast.

And I believe understanding this element of human nature — which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world, which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat race.

At last week's memorial service in Tucson for the victims of the Arizona shooting, President Obama said that «scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding.

At present, only an insignificant amount of that meat production is going for human use, and most of it is staying in the paddocks where the animals are shot.

In a move predicted for several months and one that will no doubt intensify the believe that she is gearing up for another shot at the White House, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has changed her position on same - sex marriage, saying in a video recorded for the Human Rights Campaign that she now supports letting gay couples legally wed..

Aside youth groups daily and openly declaring their support for him to use the justice system to fight what they described as injustice meted out to him, a number of big shots of the party are reported pledging solidarity and allegiance to the business magnate's action at the Human Rights Court in Accra.

At least six protesters have been shot dead and hundreds others arrested during the rare challenge to state authority, prompting criticism from human rights groups.

Law lords are expected to rule later today on whether a police force breached the human rights of a witness shot dead before he could give evidence at a trial.

In 1991, technology was developed that permitted «shot gun» sequencing, the identification of short DNA sequences scattered virtually at random throughout the 100,000 or so genes of the human genome.

«This recombinant method has a good shot at making HSA more abundantly and more safely than human plasma, and it will at least have a shot at being as cost - effective,» says William Velander, an expert in genetically engineered therapeutics at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Now experiments to shoot entangled photons at the human eye are under development, and should take place later this year.

To test if there's any scientific credibility to this, Christopher Pannucci, a plastic surgeon at the University of Utah, and his team analysed bullets shot through saline breast implants into ballistics gel — a substance designed to mimic human tissue.

Is NASA's Space Launch System a flying piece of congressional pork or our best shot at getting humans to deep space?

«When the [embryonic stem cell research bill] comes up, we were not able to get a clean shot at a prohibition on human cloning, which is why we're introducing the bill now,» he said.

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«If you happen to be shooting for someone «out of your league» (in terms of attractiveness, at least), you may be more likely to succeed if you get to know the person for a while rather than going for it immediately,» said the study's lead author Lucy L. Hunt of University of Texas at Austin's School of Human Ecology.

Detectives are investigating whether the shooting murder of a man at Bankstown on Tuesday afternoon was a Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

The Married at First Sight alum and Second Chances star blogs exclusively for PEOPLE about her shot at happily ever after Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

whose theoretical studies of the human brain's untapped potential make him an information source and then finally a kind of partner - savior to Lucy; the handsome nice - guy Parisian cop (Amr Waked) who assists Lucy during her climactic mission to acquire more of the experimental hormone to ingest and become whatever it is that she's becoming: a 1950s sci - fi monster, probably — the kind that can not be killed because everything you shoot at it makes it stronger and hungrier.

Lusciously shot in a hostile Sicilian landscape, this is darkly comic with a cast of infuriatingly selfish and amoral characters.With a counter-intuitive score, tantalizing close - ups and an immaculately clad Tilda Swinton at centre stage, the tangled relationships play out like a voyeuristic travelogue.At times overblown but never boring, there is enough exploration of flawed human behaviour to linger over and discuss long after the credits roll.

There is nothing scary or fun about giant spiders running around getting shot at and devouring humans.

One episode is framed, clumsily, by flashbacks in which a younger and more virile Hank, seen exclusively in silhouette and shot at what appears to be magic hour, mewls misterioso about the chemistry of the human body as though he were screen - testing for an Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu film.

The reel for WAG included brief looks at upcoming movies «Storks,» co-directed by Stoller; «The LEGO Batman Movie»; «Smallfoot,» about a Yeti who believes in humans; «S.C.O.O.B.,» a new take on Scooby - Doo that was billed as «our shot at unlocking the entire Hanna - Barbera universe»; and «The LEGO Ninjago Movie.»

He expertly synthesizes influences (he writes dialogue like Cassavetes, shoots like Scorsese, and embodies Altman's generous compassion for human life) without getting smug or derivative, blends humor with nerve - shredding tension (the scene at Rahad Jackson's is virtuosic) and plumbs the depths of the darkness of which men are capable.

Maybe the only hope for the genre is for grand shock - master Takashi Miike, who throws everything from aborted fetuses to full - grown human birth into his movies, to take a shot at this market.

«We wanted Gary to be a walking car crash, but we also wanted to give him a shot at redemption, and it has to do with the idea of being flawed, of being human, and embracing that,» Wright said.

That the film's final credits roll over multi-layered, repeated shots of Yalini fondly stroking Dheepan's hair seems incongruous at first; but seen as an animation of pure, human intimacy, it's perfect.

The movie consistently seems to be taking shots at both gang culture and pre-established ideas by society of what it means to be a manly human being.

Speaking of Pussy Riot, Madonna's all up in Pussy Riot and here are some shots of her with her grill in a toque speaking at the Human Rights benefit the other night... as I type this I'm watching the Sochi Opening Ceremony right now where athletes are not supposed to be gay.

Some characters are hit by human beings, shot at, outcast from the herd and roasted over a fire.

The film, with backlit shots of pilgrims strolling across twilit hillsides exhibiting amazing detail, has never looked brighter, so the few instances that the dragon is inserted into the frame betray the sort of sharp lines that James Cameron would finally address in Terminator 2 with his own animation blurring techniques, replicating the imperfections of the human eye at a distance and while observing motion.

Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.

Aside from a bird's eye view of Manhattan at night in the film's opening moments, Greengrass permits himself to shoot only from camera positions that can be justified by the conceivable presence of a human observer — we never see the exterior of the plane once it's airborne, and the devastation of the Twin Towers is seen only from the remove of the Newark Airport control tower and the television screens in the various control rooms.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

This isn't a film trying to convert you to knocking down borders or embracing anyone and everyone who crosses the border illegally; this is a film that wants you to have some sympathy and understanding that the person being shot at is a real human being, just like you and me, who has a family whom they love and who needs them.

Blu - ray Highlight: Though fans will probably get a kick out of the short film «Survivor,» which explores the human resistance forming around the world, the «Visualizing an Invasion» featurette is an interesting look at designing the aliens, their unique POV shots and the cool «shred» effect that happens when you come into contact with them.

The same is equally true of her tender, intimate relationship studies, like «Friday Night» and «35 Shots of Rum,» which are particularly attuned to the uncertainties of human existence, culminating in moments of bittersweet realization that seem to have been arrived at honestly rather than determined in advance.

Ostensibly based on the same short story that spawned the original Twilight Zone episode «Steel,» it takes no more than the basic premise (a future where human boxing has been replaced with robots, a down - at - heels former boxer trying to get by with failing equipment) and spins a story of father / son bonding and a real jerk of a would - be dad getting a shot at redemption.

It would be difficult to find a network of schools with a better shot at successfully implementing the new math standards given its track record, resources, and human capital, she said.

Unfortunately for OverDrive, it is human nature for people to take shots at whoever is out in front, and in the public library digital market, they are it.

When the thermometer shoots skyward during the summer months, your fur - covered feline may be at risk for the same kind of health problems that plague overly hot humans: heart difficulties, heat stroke, breathing issues and more.

Even humans are at risk if a rabies shot fails and the animal becomes infected with rabies.