Sentences with phrase «than a war horse»

Indeed, you could argue that Jesus» entire life — from being born in a barn in the midst of a genocide, to hanging out with prostitutes and drunks, to healing on the Sabbath and touching the untouchables, to riding into Jerusalem on donkey rather than a war horse, to healing the ear of a Roman soldier after it had been cut off by Jesus» allies — was a stinging indictment of religious and political power.

To fuel this fire, I like Bridge of Spies quite a bit; better than War Horse, but not more than Munich, in my opinion.

There are countless horses to be found in the massive world of Red Dead Redemption, but none is stronger, faster or tougher than the War Horse.

Not exact matches

In the high - profile tussle for 6,000 wireless patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks, Google kicked off the tug - of - war with a stalking horse bid of $ 900 - million — far greater than anyone expected.

A friend of mine, operating in Arabia during the First World War, ran upon an Arab sheik who, hearing talk about telegraphy, was dogmatic that no message could possibly travel from Basra to Baghdad faster than his swiftest horse could run.

The war over horse - drawn carriages has garnered more media coverage in the past year than is probably warranted for an issue that will impact relatively few people and animals.

While Lincoln is an improvement on War Horse, it is still something that could and should be better than it is.

Steven Spielberg's film is less a war epic than a love story between a boy and his horse, a throwback to the sort of film Hollywood does make anymore, but that Spielberg has mounted with stunning beauty.

In the end I don't exactly have any huge complaints with «War Horse» other than the nagging feeling that a better movie could have been made.

You can do far worse than «War Horse», but with the talent involved, we should have gotten at least a bit better.

Boasting thoughtful compositions by Janusz Kaminski, the director's only cinematographer of the past twenty years, and yet another familiarly moving (and Oscar - nominated) score by John Williams, War Horse is a fine movie from a man whose directorial efforts have almost never been less than satisfactory.

Having emerged from the award season with little more than nominations and from the holiday movie season without having delighted the world, War Horse seems pretty likely to be forgotten pretty quickly, even as Spielberg returns to the prestige historical drama well with this coming Christmas» Lincoln.

War Horse is a polished work without any rough edges, focused more on the romanticism of heroism than the actual gory detail of battle.

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Rather than constantly flashback to a lonesome Albert sulking about his horse, War Horse has no trouble keeping the attention away from its leading man for quite some time, but then returning to him and making it feel as though you've never left, something that makes the final act of the film all the more powehorse, War Horse has no trouble keeping the attention away from its leading man for quite some time, but then returning to him and making it feel as though you've never left, something that makes the final act of the film all the more poweHorse has no trouble keeping the attention away from its leading man for quite some time, but then returning to him and making it feel as though you've never left, something that makes the final act of the film all the more powerful.

A special edition car with emerald green paint and white interior is set to debut in about six months, otherwise Ford's old war horse heads into the»90s unchanged and selling better than ever.

The sale is on Dark Horse Digital, which is offering a mega-bundle of 129 Star Wars comics for $ 100, almost $ 300 less than cover price.

Morpurgo is the author of children's novels such as War Horse and Private Peaceful and his books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, according to LBF.

The 100th anniversary of our Red Star ® Rescue Animal Emergency Services program, which began in 1916 rescuing wounded war horses on the battlefields of World War I Europe and which has saved, sheltered and aided millions of animals in disasters, including more than 80,000 in just the past ten yeawar horses on the battlefields of World War I Europe and which has saved, sheltered and aided millions of animals in disasters, including more than 80,000 in just the past ten yeaWar I Europe and which has saved, sheltered and aided millions of animals in disasters, including more than 80,000 in just the past ten years.

There was a fanboy war back than and I picked the wrong horse.