Sentences with phrase «something of an outlaw»

Even though the preponderance of commissioners, rulings, hearings and owners tends to sap some of the delight out of baseball, football and basketball, overwhelming them with a righteous brand of bureaucracy, boxing is something of an outlaw game, rife with greed, confusion and sleaze.

While bitcoin has become more of a mainstream investment in recent years, it still has something of an outlaw reputation among regulators who are wary of the digital currency's history of wild price fluctuations and its popularity for use in criminal activities.

Not exact matches

But at the same time, I have a lot of trouble with the idea of outlawing homebirth or something like that; I still think women should be able to choose it.

Take the psychoactive substances bill, in which May outlawed drugs which did not exist, by banning something she could not define, despite plenty of evidence from other countries that this would exacerbate the legal highs problems.

Liberal organizations and some Democrats have recently begun framing the outlawing of marijuana as racially biased, something that Nixon has been talking about.

It's a reconsideration of the instinct to venerate the outlaw (something embedded in the DNA of yanks and Kiwis alike, I reckon)-- particularly one as peculiar as Jesse James, who, in the last years of his life, became something of a doddering domestic.

But Peter would rather be called Star - lord, the legendary outlaw of his still - juvenile imagination, despite his 30 - something age.

«Whether it be the fascinating story of San Francisco gem, Armistead Maupin... the bold Chavela Vargas, iconic macha chanteuse and sexual outlaw... or Alan Cumming capturing the dynamic between queer generations — Frameline41 presents a Festival that has something for everyone.»

«I play a citizen, living life, finding love, being myself in a society where that makes me an outlaw, something «dirty» that the society needs to get rid of.

The trailer implies we'll be erring more on the side of the outlaws in this game, something that is further reinforced by the description:

Even so, and despite Black's bland presence, the third Fast and the Furious film offers the first glimpse of something truly engaging with this material, allowing Lin's friend and collaborator Sung Kang to walk away with the film without much effort and hammering home the franchise's broader themes of noble outlaw codes by transplanting them to an entirely separate group of people from the previous casts.

Japanese lawmakers debated outlawing these establishments when a wave of bunny girls entered the central Diet building and began massaging their bald heads with something...?

I'm pleased to say that we've got three new PS3 games available this week; from gun - tootin» gunslingers in Lead and Gold — Gangs of the Wild West, to furry domesticated animals running riot in Hamsterball Unleashed, to high - speed arcade action in After Burner Climax... a little something for everyone, and for all those hamster owning fighter - pilots with dreams of wandering the prairies hunting outlaws, you're especially well served this week.

Stacking is something of an under - the - radar practice; some states even outlaw stacked insurance coverage.

Shooting is something you do a lot of in Red Dead Redemption, and presumably will in the sequel as well (lacking, of course, any magic or superpowers to dispense of those meddling lawmen and outlaws).