Sentences with phrase «war hero with»

One man, however - a world - weary war hero with nothing to lose - has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten... Meanwhile, in two other Venices - Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today - two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret....

This tells the fictional tale of Benjamin Martin (Gibson, Chicken Run), a former war hero with a sordid past who is reluctant to take up the cause of his brethren in fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.

You're thinkin» shit, I'm a goddamn decorated war hero with three months left to serve, and they draft me into the angels - of - death squadron.

The office may no longer contain war heroes with Military Crosses, but its ethos, despite modernisation, has a smack of the military about it.

Domanović sees a deeper meaning in the replacement of war heroes with pop figures.

Not exact matches

The best thing about Ultron is that his origins paved the way for Stark and the heroes in the MCU to face serious consequences for their actions, starting with «Captain America: Civil War.»

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

BREAKING: DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter — with an AR - 15 assault weapon — unarmed.

«In the aftermath of «Captain America: Civil War,» Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.

In early September, an Apple executive described a shift in the firm's product line with a word usually associated with war heroes and disaster survivors.

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While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

Both veterans are struggling with PTSD, and Ronsel with the fact that he left war - torn Europe a hero where his race wasn't an issue, and returned to the Jim Crow South.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

So that something of the elite of their dreams may pass into them, these infants are named after a war hero or a theatrical star, and it is believed that they will survive the rapid decline of their patron's glory, even though nothing of this glory may remain with them.

Quilo is a boy's name and comes from the Greek mythological story of the Trojan War, in which he was the hero filled with «manly beauty and valor.»

Do not be put off by Eris's association with war for not all wars are evil, some have given rise to many heroes who otherwise would not have realized their full potential had they not been pushed to their limits.

Perhaps, as I have always been keen on motorcars and driving, I would go back to the days before speed limits were imposed out of towns and look at those heroes in adventure and detective stories that drove a pre or post - Second World War Bentley or Alvis, with their magnifi cent long bonnets and separate headlights standing up on either side.

During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket.

Before you knew it, an excited, beaming, dancing company was pumping fists and flashing «V» (for victory) signs, with their two fore - fingers, a sign original to Winston Churchill, Britain's World War 2 hero; but popularized in these climes by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first premier of the old Western Region.

If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

«Despite disparaging war heroes and denigrating women, Congressman John Katko hitched up with Donald Trump,» said Bryan Lesswing at the DCCC.

Mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio's estranged father, a World War II hero whose life careened out of control because of alcohol, took his own life after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, public records reveal.

Although McCain spoke at the Conservative conference in 2006 and Brown praised Obama's policies publicly, he may get on well with this war hero who entered elected office in 1983, the same year as Brown.

«Charlie Rangel is a dedicated public servant who has served the nation and the people of New York with distinction, both as a war hero and longstanding member of Congress.

My wife, Deborah, and I were sitting at a table with Dr. Jonathan Wright and his wife, Holly, and we listened patiently to the talk of the Revolutionary War heroes — a few speakers bedecked in 18th - century military garb — knowing that at some point we would be presented with an award for «Excellence in Integrative Medicine.»

Transform your bed space into an epic galaxy adventure with this Star Wars Heroes Comforter.

If you have in mind thinking about the western war heroes having fun with Asian women in Asia, erase those thoughts as most of the Asian women do not depict that picture and they are not dolls to play and trash later.

Featuring a unique single - player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II presents a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci - fi story filled with adventure and intrigue.

A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify.

It was a stretch when the hero (Cruise, oddly enough) of Spielberg's underrated War of the Worlds put reuniting his children with his wife ahead of everything else, but there at least the point was that he was just a guy.

In Sahara, Matthew McConaughey is the literary hero Dirk Pitt, searching for a U.S. Civil War ship loaded with gold and entombed in Africa.

In a rare break from the Cold War origins Lee tended to give his heroes, the X-Men were not people who had been bombarded by fallout or bitten by a radioactive trout; they were «mutants,» people born with psychic talents or the ability to shoot red power beams from their eyes, not Homo sapiens but homo superior.

More often than not, Two Men Went to War resembles a feature - length episode of «Hogan's Heroes,» with the brave but clumsy Brits continually managing to outfox the even more bungling Nazis.

As the nasty old piece of work who runs Panem quickly intervening realizes (as played with terrific levels of sour venom by a terrifying Donald Sutherland), simply killing our heroes would the make martyrs of them, and possibly kick off a full - blown civil war he «s trying to avoid.

Lewis plays Lieutenant Colonel Charles Doughty - Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell.

A game with its fair share of strengths and weaknesses invites us on a trip inside the WW1 trenches to see the real heroes of the war.

Play as one - of - four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.

(CNN) Marvel has set the hype bar high even by its standards with «Avengers: Infinity War,» a massive assembly of practically every hero in its cinematic portfolio, representing the culmination of a decade's worth of groundwork.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

The true story of a stray dog, who becomes a World War I hero and remains the most decorated dog in American history, is realized as an animated film with the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

«Avengers: Infinity War» will see the hero squad - Iron Man (Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner)- join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy.

There are even places where Infinity War improves on Marvel movies like making Doctor Strange a livelier hero with more interesting superpowers.

Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.

Last December, Star Wars began a new era of storytelling with The Force Awakens and this year it expands that story with a new cohort of rebels and heroes in Rogue One.

Following Josh Brolin's casting as Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy, fans are eager to see when the character will next appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and with the announcement of Avengers: Infinity War we know that we will see the Mad Titan take on Earth's Mightiest Heroes across two movies.

Their childhood rivalry eventually spun into their adulthood where they wage their repetitive hero wars in public view of the residents of Metro City with Megamind frequently abducting local news reporter Roxanne Ritchie (Tina Fey, Mean Girls).

, with cameos by horror heavyweights such as Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Lin Shaye (Insidious), John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), John Landis (Director of Animal House), Joe Dante (Director of Gremlins), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, We Are Still Here), Booboo Stewart (Twilight), Keir Gilchrist (It Follows), Grace Phipps (Fright Night), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills), Kristina Klebe (Rob Zombie's Halloween), Greg Grunberg («Heroes,» Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman), and more.

The LEGO Movie did a good job of bringing together several franchises in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many, many more — and it's producer would like to do the same thing again with Nintendo.