Sentences with phrase «war bands in»

Select boys of the Srubnaya, or Timber Grave, culture joined youth war bands in winter rites, where they symbolically became dogs and wolves by consuming canine flesh, contend David Anthony and Dorcas Brown, both of Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y..

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Invariably, when we tell the story of how the band survived 10 years in the New York and New Jersey bar scene while struggling to get a record deal, people want to hear war stories about shady club owners and how we dealt with the implied «mob scene.»

Similarly, Garrison Keillor («Companion» host, writing in the liner notes to the anniversary record album) comments that his own earliest memory of radio, from his childhood in Anoka, Minnesota, is «sitting on my uncle's lap, his arm around me, my head next to his, as a tiny band played, and a man in New York said it was true, the war was over.»

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

It is no «moral equivalent of war,» but for a generation that had «known no war» as Pete Townsend put it (i.e., war in terms of a WWII type war), the tensions between these bands, their styles of music, and their fan bases often entailed an antagonism bordering on war.

The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars — the obligatory shots of middle - class worshipers, usually white, in corporate - looking auditoriums or sanctuaries, swaying to the electrified music of «praise bands,» their eyes closed, their enraptured faces tilted heavenward, a hand (or hands) raised to the sky.

The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars — the obligatory shots of middle - class worshipers, usually white, in corporate - looking auditoriums or sanctuaries, swaying to the electrified music of «praise bands,» their eyes closed, their enraptured faces tilted heavenward, a hand (or hands) raised to...

The power of the various dynasties in this period was based on the command of a war band, the support of a tribal or national sense of solidarity, or religious sectarianism.

The drivers, clad in red arm bands and headgears drummed and chanted war songs while they paraded the streets of the northern regional capital.

Getting back to basics at this well established end of season Tail End party event, the BMF's «Club Knockout» featuring Whelly Whanging, Dizzy Sticks and Tug O» War will run over Saturday and Sunday and in fact, for anyone making a weekend of it, those camping get the added benefit of live music on Friday & Saturday evenings from the ever - popular Hooker and The League of Mentalmen, plus, Pugma - Ho, Clutching at Straws, The Stones and our Bon Jovi tribute band, Bon Giovoni.

The Total Politics team is facing a ragged band of Westminster media types led by Guido Fawkes at the Macmillan Tug of War 2012 this evening in Westminster.

As University of Aarhus's Vandkilde puts it: «It's an army like the one described in Homeric epics, made up of smaller war bands that gathered to sack Troy» — an event thought to have happened fewer than 100 years later, in 1184 B.C.E..

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

The controversial finds, which date to between roughly 3,900 and 3,700 years ago, may provide the first archaeological evidence of adolescent male war bands described in ancient texts.

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An international arms dealer rewards his six - member sales division of corporate execs with a weekend team - building retreat in the mountains of Eastern Europe, where they encounter a renegade band of war - crazed soldiers seeking revenge.

With Avengers: Infinity War still in cinemas, the world is hardly screaming out for another effects - laden saga of superheroes banding together to defeat a baddie played by Josh Brolin.

BlackBerry People's Choice Documentary Award: Artifact directed by Bartholomew Cubbins [TIFF] Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, Artifact gives intimate access to singer / actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album This Is War.

In the mix is a small but ferocious band of guerrilla fighters, who also want to get their hands of the treasure to fund their war for independence.

There's the «good foot dance» incident in 1988, the trip to play for the soldiers in the Vietnam war, the baby mamas, the disputes with band members over money (this happens multiple times), and the childhood flashbacks to pivotal, crushing moments in James» life.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Tomorrow, When the War Began (R for violence) Screen adaptation of John Marsden's novel of the same name about seven Australian teenagers who band together to survive when they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile natioIn Spanish with subtitles) Tomorrow, When the War Began (R for violence) Screen adaptation of John Marsden's novel of the same name about seven Australian teenagers who band together to survive when they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile natioin the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile nation.

The movie follows three Southern women — two sisters and one African American slave — who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

Tarantino has long spoke of doing a film in the mold of The Dirty Dozen or Magnificent Seven and while Inglourious Basterds took that idea to World War II, maybe The Hateful Eight will finally see Tarantino take his band of misfits idea to the Old West.

But that's exactly what he's now forced to do under the direction of a leader he initially despises, but will learn to follow as he and his «band of brothers» try to play a major role in helping end the war as soon as possible.

Scheduled to hit cinemas as early as February 2018, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther will mark the 18th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and promises nothing short of thrilling, as a band of raiders aim to find the secret kingdom of Wakanda, fought at the brink of what can only be assumed as an impending global war.

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

War for the Planet of the Apes MPAA Rating: Pending In this third outing of the re-booted Planet of the Ape's franchise, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his band of apes battle against a humans army led by Colonel (Woody Harrelson) in a genocidal wWar for the Planet of the Apes MPAA Rating: Pending In this third outing of the re-booted Planet of the Ape's franchise, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his band of apes battle against a humans army led by Colonel (Woody Harrelson) in a genocidal waIn this third outing of the re-booted Planet of the Ape's franchise, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his band of apes battle against a humans army led by Colonel (Woody Harrelson) in a genocidal wain a genocidal warwar.

The latest rework centres upon seven gunmen who come together in the post-Civil War Wild West to help a poor village against a band of savage thieves.

by Walter Chaw Released the same year as Star Wars, Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes boasts of its own Luke Skywalker in the character of a blue - eyed towhead named Bobby (Bobby Houston) who, at an unwelcome call to adventure, finds himself embarked against the forces of evil with a patchwork band of heroes out of their depth.

Directed by «Godzilla» man Gareth Edwards and featuring a top - flight international cast including Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Diego Luna and Ben Mendelsohn, «Rogue One» tells of how, in the weeks before the first «Star Wars», a brave band of rebels stole the plans to the Death Star under the nose of Darth Vader and his dark legions.

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Taking over for Patrick Swayze, Thor's Chris Hemsworth plays the leader of a band of rebels, a shit - kicking Iraq War veteran who knows how to survive in the woods and use guerrilla tactics against a much larger force.

It's a directorial choice that some critics have questioned, but Attah never feels less than honest in those moments, even when high on drugs and hallucinating while part of a marauding band laying waste to a village; or when the exact nature of his and The Commandant's (Idris Elba) relationship is sickeningly revealed; or even in the quiet, tiny moments at the film's end when by the merest flicker across his face we understand how much the war outside has been internalized.

Formerly known as Horse Soldiers (the movie's subtitle is The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers), 12 Strong tells the true story of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in Star Wars anthology film, ROGUE ONE.

12 Strong looks to be resurrecting a few of those elements (well, the military fetishism and jingoism, at the very least), telling the «true story» of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child soldier tragically separated from his family and forced to join a band of rebels in the civil war of an African country led by Commandant (Elba) who takes in... Read

Lu Over the Wall Charming, if overlong, piffle about a childlike mermaid who befriends a morose teenage boy in a rock band, and in the process threatens to ignite culture war between human and merfolk in a Japanese fishing village.

The maximum outstanding rumor is that the detrimental fan response to boy band individuals showing in a Star Wars film ended in the photos being shelved, however this has but to be showed.

In his genre - defying war epic, overflowing with top British actors (Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh), director Christopher Nolan's casting of Styles — a former member of the boy band One Direction — felt stunty.

Set almost entirely in the trenches of Aisne, northern France, during World War 1, it focuses on a small band of British soldiers who are hunkering down, awaiting their fate.

The premise paves the way for the usual stuff about a virgin (Buggs (Kristin Wiig)-RRB- wanting to fornicate and indulging in wacky - tobaccy; about fag - hating rednecks in a honkytonk with a band that plays a bluegrass version of the Cantina Theme from Star Wars; and about referencing everything from Capturing the Friedmans to Close Encounters of the Third Kind (with an assist from Steven Spielberg on the phone, no less).

This was not necessarily in an invasion: one tradition holds that as groups of Romano - British warred amongst themselves, a band of Saxons were invited over as mercenaries and took a liking to the place, setting up their own space and gradually expanding outwards.

Other montages are a bit surreal, combining submarine footage with a related lyrics, and combat footage with singing troops and the live band back in Hollywood, inferring that war is heroic, jovial, collegial, and kinda fun.

A band of rebels led by Felicity Jones face off against storm troopers, dodge AT - AT fire and seek to infiltrate Empire strongholds in the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

World War I British war drama Journey's End heads to U.S. theaters in New York and L.A., with a marching band planned for its New York locatiWar I British war drama Journey's End heads to U.S. theaters in New York and L.A., with a marching band planned for its New York locatiwar drama Journey's End heads to U.S. theaters in New York and L.A., with a marching band planned for its New York location.

A five - part miniseries from Britain about an African American jazz band making its mark in pre-World War II Britain, performing for London aristocrats.

Set in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the film stars Zhang Hanyu as Yang, a courageous People's Liberation Army reconnaissance officer who discovers a thousand - strong horde of bandits in a seemingly impenetrable mountain stronghold, and goes undercover to see if he can bring them down from within — or at least keep them from slaughtering his tiny band of 30 soldiers.

Most of the MCU's A-listers have banded together or clashed in one way or another before, but Infinity War will bring together a whopping 67 characters.