Sentences with phrase «violent power»

Drug operations would cease being violent power struggles and instead

The film generally keeps clear of the usual apocalyptic scenarios (looting, violent power struggles), favoring a more personal approach: showing people just desperately trying to adapt and maintain daily order amid escalating chaos.

Unrefined, violent power that would work until it didn't.

What viewers get instead is an ersatz approximation of a violent power fantasy: Banning glowering uncontrollably as masked thugs of implied Middle Eastern origin lunge at him and are killed just out of frame, leading President Asher to yelp out some variation on «Jesus, Mike!

De Palma's take sees the meek, sweet Carrie (Sissy Spacek) fall victim to merciless bullies and an abusive mother (Piper Laurie); there's no question where your sympathies lie when her violent powers prove fatal to her peers.

Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

Travis needs to rain down destruction on someone and so he buys some guns, bones up on his marksmanship, and decides to exercise his violent power on the only U.S. Presidential candidate he's ever thought about, who also happens to be Betty's boss.

On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers — one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty — the twenty - four - year - old Dalai Lama, Tibet's political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible.

Margaret River, too, will offer fresh challenges, with most of the rookies unfamiliar with the raw idiosyncrasies of Margaret River Main Break, or the violent power of the Box and North Point.

The Arkane studios have an interesting approach to player empowerment: Dishonored provided an array of violent powers, but then asked us not to use them, while Prey dares the player to break the rules, but then punishes them for doing so.

These mundane places are instantly transformed through the violent power of a climatic or terrestrial force, into dreamscapes of apocalyptic proportions.

It was a time of chaos, when the land was wracked with civil war, foreign aggression, and violent power struggles.

A staff that can be wielded as a symbol of violent power, its dominance is undermined by its pink color and submissive placement.

The installation, with its beautiful strands of light and its demonstration of violent power, is something of an explosion of conscience for the artist.