Sentences with phrase «tide of war»
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Tides of War opens in England with the recently married, charmingly unconventional Harriet preparing to say goodbye to her husband, James, as he leaves to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain.
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From New York mobsters to the first woman diver at the Brooklyn Naval Station during WWII to the archetypally motley crew of a merchant - marine ship in U-boat-infested waters, Egan's insightful and propulsive saga portrays complex and intriguing individuals navigating the rising tides of war.
It's a little known historical fact that the American revolution was supported, and mostly won, by witches whose magic was capable of turning the entire tide of war.
This may well account for the terrible upheavals we have undergone; not an irresistible increase in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old disruptive surface forces driving against a merging in the depths which is already taking place.
Those seem to be several orders of magnitude lower than what would be needed to change the tide of the war.
I can't think of many other biopics that seem to be so «post -» In a way, the climax comes before the movie (as Lincoln is validated by the election and the tide of war finally turns after 3 long years) and the movie teases out a second climax from the material (I mean how often do we hear about the 13th amendment as the big breakthrough vs. the Emancipation Proclamation?).
Although an armistice is being debated, the American spy has information that a rogue German general (Danny Huston) and his chemist cohort (Elena Anaya) harbor a poisonous weapon that could turn the tide of the war.
Thanos» final act turned the tide of the war.
Its very title sounds definitive of the darkly, sometimes loathsomely brilliant film noir, a class — if not precisely a genre — of American movie to evolve in the wake of the Second World War or, more accurately, after the tide of war had turned in favor of the Allies: tortured imagings of a then - contemporary America, the high neurotic intensity of which would astound anyone who fancies the movies came of age this side of Stanley Kubrick.
Hellboy begins at the end of WWII as the Nazis, led by Rasputin (Karel Roden)-- yes, that Rasputin — and Hitler's favourite assassin, Kroenen, open a portal into elsewhere, ushering in a shift in the tides of war now and the apocalypse eventually.
Plan your routes carefully and use new units and powers to turn the tide of war against a horde of new enemy threat.
Use a combination of mobile firepower and stationary defenses to turn the tide of war in our favor.
Knowing which firing mode works best against certain opponents can be the key to victory, and your special moves are able to turn the tide of war in a flash.
Archangel picks up as players choose to play as either Gabe or Gabby Walker and accompany their son to field test a secret robot weapon called Archangel that promises to turn the tide of a war between HUMNX and the resistance.
ENIGMA makes a good companion piece to U-571, which deals with the search for an Enigma machine to try to turn the tide of the war.
As the tide of the war in the Pacific turns against the Japanese, tensions and danger in the camp escalate.
For Goebbels, such proof could turn the tide of war by destroying the Alliance, cutting Russia off from its western supply lines.
It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command — and turns the tide of war.
With hope nearly a memory, something must turn the tide of war...
After a brief visit to Berlin, Peter returns to Russia and the Battle of Stalingrad, while Katherina remains with her parents as the tide of war changes and the German march for world domination starts to falter.
It's beautifully written, the characters are deeply involving and the historical settings so right - in short, Tides of War is a triumph.»
Whether describing the daily lives and desires of strong female characters or the horror of battle, Tides of War is set to be the fiction debut of the year.
«The Wind is Not a River is a gripping tale of one man's battle to survive the physical elements, the tides of war, and terrifying isolation.
But in Tides of War, Stella Tillyard's first novel, the clever, messy heroine who prefers chemistry to needlework filled me with roughly the same longing I felt when reading Emma as a teenager...» - Lucy Kellaway, The Financial Times (UK) «Starred Review.
A club of fanciers was formed in France in 1897 and the breed's fortunes followed the tides of war in the early 20th century.
The trailer describes it as a «revolutionary breed of weaponry, a combination of mobile firepower and stationary defenses that will turn the tide of war,» but that's just fancy talk for giant mechs.
Rogue Aces asks players to turn the tide of the war as they battle for supremacy across the air, sea and ground over 100 increasingly challenging procedurally generated missions.
Can you rally your faction and turn the tide of the war?»
In a new mode like Obliteration, where a tug - of - war between teams requires teams to retrieve a randomly spawned bomb and deliver it to an enemy site whilst having to destroy all the opposing team's bomb sites, Levolution can help a team turn the tide of war at the most crucial of times.
With the act of returning this prototype to the Terrans, you know that it may well turn the tide of the war.
Plan your routes carefully and use new units and powers to turn the tide of war against a horde of new enemy threats.
Meanwhile, back in Cybertron, the Aubobots and Decepticons are searching for the same artifact in order to turn the tide of the war.
, or calling down your Titan from the skies above to help turn the tides of war.
Use the massive power of Battle Cards to shift the tide of war: such as healing (\» Hand of the Ancients \»), fire damage (\» Fire Nova, \» a fire tornado), heavy damage to a small area (\» Isochronal Annihilator \»), and much more.
While the maze - like environments are supposed to convey a tense push - pull dynamic as the tide of war constantly shifts, you can effectively ignore any type of tactical approach and just charge toward the nearest flashing icon.
Re-create some of the most decisive air battles of WW II and experience famous locations like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, where the courage of a single pilot could turn the tide of war.
As unexplainable events begin to unfold, Commander Shepard and crew must travel to unexplored locations in order to piece together a shocking theory that could turn the tides of the war against the Reapers.
It was the major strategic breaking point for turning the tide of the war and Normandy beach landings.
Become the Commander to lead armor troops through battlefield and whose special abilities can turn the tide of the war against alien invaders.
Alistel's rulers blame the spread of the rot on the despotic Queen Protea of Granorg, turning the conflict into a vicious holy war.Our hero Stocke, an Alistelian agent working for the Special Intelligence division, is sent with his new teammates to rendezvous with a spy possessing information that could turn the tide of the war.
Instead of skirmishing on key points of the battlefield to steadily turn the tide of war, the game directs you through a succession of tasks, grading you on the speed of your actions.
Discover and mine unique resources to build gigantic mega units which can turn the tides of war instantly!