Sentences with phrase «underworld who»

By Patricia Devlin CHRISTY «Bronco» Dunne was once the King of Ireland's criminal underworld who made millions from heists, armed robberies and trafficking drugs Today he lives in a Co Dublin council flat with just $ 3.50 in his pocket.

In the grander forefront of the story, Dante also deals with a big baddie from the underworld who has a huge influence on the world you and I schlep around in.

Eight members of London's underworld who are sent to guard it.

It's true he landed in Alcatrez at a young age, but the older the more dangerous he becomes; a kingpin of the South Boston criminal underworld who escaped justice by informing authorities of all movements of the rival gang, the Italian Mafia, as suggested by his most useful contact and friend John Connolly.

Reynor plays a young taxi driver on the fringes of the criminal underworld who finds himself facing a life - changing moral decision.

Glassland tells the story of a young taxi driver (Reynor) on the fringes of the criminal underworld who in an effort to save his mother (Collette) from addiction and unite his broken family, is forced to take a job which will see him pushed further into its underbelly.

Not exact matches

It applies not only to the god of the underworld, but also to the underworld itself, and in Greek mythology the souls of those who defied the gods were tortured there, doing things like rolling rocks uphill forever.

Does that mean he was a demi - god who ruled for 125 years and took a trip to the Underworld?

Here an eternal divine order prevails, here it does not rain both upon the just and upon the unjust, here the sun does not shine both upon the good and upon the evil, here it holds good that only he who works gets the bread, only he who was in anguish finds repose, only he who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved, only he who draws the knife gets Isaac.

But if the Aztecs were right, then the only people who don't go to the gloomy underworld Mictlan are those who die either in battle or childbirth.

Of course, the author implied that the underworld of Sheol continued to remain the permanent resting - place for all others (whether good or bad, and presumably all Gentiles) who were not to be raised for participation in the great judgment.

In the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworld.

If he's underworld, then everyone who gambles with him is underworld.

The boatman is Charon, the mythical ferryman who carries souls across the river Styx and into the underworld.

I have been trying to work out who are the likely instigators of bias in EPL and the only group that I think that can most benefit are shady underworld types involved in betting syndicates who often try to influence the outcome of games worldwide.

The source who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to hear his confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.

The four people killed were men of the Nigeria Police Force, who braved up to stop the activities of the men of the underworld.

The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new horizons in exploration, and scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

The ex-planet's moons P4 and P5, discovered in 2011 and 2012 and both less than 25 miles wide, are now officially known as Kerberos, after the mythological multiheaded «hellhound» that guards the gates of Hades, and Styx, after the goddess who watches over the underworld river of the same name.

The story told of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Hero Twins, who journey into the underworld to do battle with the evil lords of Xibalba.

After the planet was discovered in 1930, an 11 - year - old girl who lived in Oxford, England, by the name of Venetia Burney, suggested that this new planet needed to be named after the Roman god of the underworld.

I am a all around nerd as I love everything from doctor who to underworld to star trek / I enwars to anime.

«Lisa's guidance was like a GPS to help me navigate through the scary underworld of dating,» said Nancy K., who took Lisa's workshop on finding the right man.

cliff robertson plays an ex con who works his way into the underworld to get to the men who killed his father, then finds out getting out isn't as easy as he'd planned.

The legend of an immortal warrior who battles a thriving underworld of vampires seeking to decimate the human race.

Johnny is a vietnam vet who earns a dishoronable discharge and is sent back to the states where in 1970 not only is hard for a black man to get a job but a vet with a BCD, no way, so he joins the underworld in order to square things with a rival mob gang.

Tom Hardy deftly tackles two roles in this fact - based crime - thriller about twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray who rose to the top of the London underworld in the 1960s.

Unlike Kick - Ass, who is obviously an amateur at fighting against the city's underworld, Hit - Girl and Big Daddy are hardened professionals.

Unwittingly drawn into a dangerous urban underworld, he encounters dark, harrowing practices, and a sinister underworld figure who will test him to his very limits...

Hellboy and his team face an underworld prince who plans to awaken a lethal army and use it to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred.

He's one of Carter's many nemeses whom he drags up from the underworld — a slimy porn king who drugged his brother's niece so that she could appear in one of his films.

And finally here come the supplementary complaints: Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Evolution) looks ridiculous in this film, not only as the spineless wife of an annoying slob, but because she's completely unbelievable as the oh so clichéd stay at home mum who looks like she's just walked out of a hairdresser's at any given moment.

Glassland - which also stars up and coming Moyvane actress, Kate Galvin - tells the story of a young taxi driver on the fringes of the criminal underworld, who - in an effort to save his mother from addiction - is forced to take a job which will see him pushed further into its underbelly.

Stallone stars as Jimmy Bonomo, an unapologetically direct hitman who, when his partner gets killed after a recent job, is thrown together by circumstance with Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), a by - the - book visiting cop from Washington, D.C.. Each targets themselves, Jimmy and Taylor form an uneasy alliance, to try to bring down a shady figure of the criminal underworld (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) and the psychotic enforcer, Keegan (Jason Momoa), doing his bidding.

Kara Hui and real - life martial artist and former Peking Opera student Sharon Yeung Pan-pan are a pair of cops hunting fugitive triad leader Kenneth Tsang, who's come back to Hong Kong from Japan to shake up the underworld, bringing with him a tough and muscular female bodyguard (real - life powerlifting champion and «Girls With Guns» superstar Michiko Nishiwaki).

Written by Gosling, the story centers on Billy, a single mother of two, who is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town.

Also returning from the first movie this time around are Lance Reddick, Ian McShane and John Leguizamo, who help make up this universe of hired hit man living in an underworld of crime bosses and assassins.

Ms. Lopez's character, an underworld «contractor» who calls herself Ricki, is dispatched to Larry's place because his boss, a «Sopranos» understudy named Louis (Lenny Venito), thinks he needs extra help watching over Brian (Justin Bartha), a mentally challenged young man Larry has kidnapped on Louis's orders.

He confides in his best friends Evan - who will be played by The Social Network's Josh Pence - and Mike, portrayed by newcomer Derek Phillips, and cajoles them into helping him navigate the seedy gambling underworld in order to save him.

He plays Brendan, a brooding teenage loner with the panache of a wisecracking gumshoe (think Humphrey Bogart as a high - school senior), who follows a trail of clues through a drug - fueled criminal underworld while investigating the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

One of his first tasks is taking on the cartoonish supervillain and underworld thug, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), who covets the vibranium.

Fear resonates in the underworld as a new protagonist crosses paths with a familiar hero who seemingly inexplicably slaughters countless people.

Though it eventually squanders its intriguing premise of a math savant underworld forensic accountant who is also a sociopathic killer.

He plays Lou, a man in Los Angeles who becomes obsessed with the strange underworld of freelance videographers who race to show up first to crime scenes and sell off their footage to the local news.

Often featuring quiet men who commit savage acts while drifting through their respective worlds, his films are as hyper - violent as they are hyper - stylish — from the Viking - era brutality of Valhalla Rising to Bronson's dark corners of the modern penal system to the postmodern urban underworlds in Drive and Only God Forgives.

Will Smith and Joel Edgerton star in David Ayer's fantasy epic, which follows the story of two LAPD police officers — a human named Officer Ward (Smith)-- and an orc named Officer Jakoby (Edgerton)-- who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

SYNOPSIS: This dark tale of redemption set amongst the denizens of London's underworld, pits one man's angst against those who would destroy him.

But in this run the anti-social Holmes has become a media celebrity and Jim Moriarty not merely an underworld mastermind but an insane criminal who, like Holmes, just wants a challenge.

he meets up with some exvillagers who help things out by functioning as comic relief and bystanders for Jaa to rescue, he takes on an increasingly large segment of the Thai underworld, and performs some spectacular stunts.

I mention this because, however well done Pillars of the Earth might be [I've not read it], the television miniseries [Starz, Friday, 10 / 9C] is an overstuffed, frequently ponderous work that is most notable for its amazing cast — Ian McShane [Lovejoy, Deadwood], Donald Sutherland [Dirty Sexy Money, Salem's Lot], Rufus Sewell [Dark City, The Illusionist], Gordon Pinsent [Away From Her], Tony Curran [Underworld: Evolution, Doctor Who] and Allison Pill [The Book of Daniel, In Treatment] among them.