Sentences with phrase «war stories by»

Kingsman is satire, poking fun at dark, dour Bond and grey Cold War stories by being the opposite — colorful, bright, splashy - flashy and gleefully violent.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Hope Madden and George Wolf It is a Star Wars story, no doubt... read more →

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«So much interchange had occurred across the line by early December» that a general «issued a directive unequivocally forbidding fraternization,» writes Stanley Weintraub in Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.

The story began, «One of the war's top secrets, an amazing machine which applies electronic speeds for the first time to mathematical tasks hitherto too difficult and cumbersome for solution, was announced here tonight by the War Department.&raqwar's top secrets, an amazing machine which applies electronic speeds for the first time to mathematical tasks hitherto too difficult and cumbersome for solution, was announced here tonight by the War Department.&raqWar Department.»

According to Headlines & Global News, the film industry ended the year with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.

We are starting to get more details on what it was like on the set of «Solo: A Star Wars Story» before original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired by Lucasfilm over creative differences, and Ron Howard took over.

According to an excerpt from «Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump» by Yahoo News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Trump had eagerly hoped Putin would attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that Trump hosted in the Russian capital.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

The president was trying to gain additional allies in the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War, which was racing towards an end due to stories and images like «Napalm Girl,» the eventual Pulitzer Prize - winning photo shot by AP photographer, Nick Ut.

«The story about «spreading the faith by the sword» is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims — the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

My story is about leaving the boxing gloves behind, about calling a truce on the culture wars that have left so many people beaten and bruised and left for dead by those who claim to follow a crucified Savior.

In the second part — on our history's major constitutional disputes — the book reaches its dramatic climax: an expertly told story of the constitutional transformations wrought by the Civil War.

But a researcher just found an unknown ghost story by the legendary author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and several other classics.

The Jews are hated by their inferiors — every other nation Using the Exodus story to call for shock and awe war, Shabbat Shalom The double speak of war being an act of empathy

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

It is a beautifully sad story, an elegy on the world of New Brunswick woodsmen and their women after the Second World War, when the old ways of lumbering, around which everything turned, were being forced to give way to the mechanization brought by American companies capitalizing on an insatiable market for fancier toilet paper and endlessly multiplied government reports.

A disturbing footnote to the story of Zionism: Burge reports that Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, mystic and prophet, was given a house owned by a prosperous Palestinian family which fled to Egypt seeking safety during the 1948 war.

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly:: A big thick novel about three intersecting stories of women in World War II is pretty much irresistible to me.

If the Bible can help us get out of this egocentrism, it will be profoundly relevant — even if the point is made by stories about the bloody wars of Jehovah.

We all here war stories of the good work being done by the US in foreign countries but then down the line truth starts to come out of hidden agendas and shady dealings and such.

All this is engineered by a secretive, deep - pocketed George Soros - type figure backed up by some mechanized two - legged war things, and hover bikes, the only true sci - fi elements in the story.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

It's an American penned story (Max Brooks, of the award winning novel World War Z) and helmed by China's greatest director, Yimou Zhang (the mind behind the spectacle of the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony).

And while the history of America's wars is hardly a story of moral perfection, it is, by human standards, a mostly heroic story of doing the right thing and doing it for the right reasons.

Therefore the other biblical and theological directives that limit violence to just war and self - defense are not contradicted by these biblical stories.

This is our new «Holy War,» and it is a story that has yet to be told by someone sympathetic to Christianity in Ireland.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

They begin to hide behind clouds of criticism of the Church or of particular Christians, or they create a diversion by arguing about the historicity of the Old Testament stories, or, for example, about the Church's attitude toward war or divorce.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Another version of the story related by Edmund McIlhenny, Jr. was that a certain friend, Gleason, a soldier in the Mexican - American War, brought seed to his friend Edmund McIlhenny.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

The short and long story is, change their mentality by telling them that match days are war days on the pitch.

Bills coach Rex Ryan remembers his father Buddy, who passed away this week at age 85, by telling stories about cheeseburgers and blitzes, war and leadership, and trying like hell to finish the job started by his dad

Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott The War of Art, Steven Pressfield The Tools, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels The Modern Library Writer's Workshop, Stephen Koch Still Writing, Dani Shapiro The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg The Hero's Journey, Joseph Campbell

First published in 2013, A Healing Landscape: Environmental and Social History of the Site of Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center by Scholar - in - Residence Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, tells the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the land over the past two centuries — including early farming families, a Revolutionary war soldier, pioneering birdwatchers, the residents and staff of the Boston State Hospital, and, of course, the Clark Cooper Community Gardens and Mass Audubon.

It tells the story of «Operation Fifth Column», a Second World War MI5 operation so secret that its existence was only revealed by the National Archives for the first time in 2014.

Dahr Jamail's 2010 article, «Rape Rampant in US Military», discusses on the «extreme shame and trauma» experienced by US military personnel who have survived sexual violence, as their stories all too often go unheard or are blatantly disregarded by the military (see also the documentary exposé «The Invisible War», on the subject of US military inaction towards sexual violence within the armed forces).

It is during these campaigns that we find many of the worst and most controversial stories of war crimes and plunder engaged in by the Rwandan army and its allies.

While your traducers would rather taint your image by making references to the alleged misappropriation of funds during your tenure as NSA, they tirelessly worked to suppress the apparent success stories of the war - against - terrorism campaign during your tenure.

On Friday, their story will be told by some of the soldiers themselves, in a free showing of the film «Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I» at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr..

Business Secretary Sajid Javid showed off his stellar knowledge by quoting Star Wars, Star Trek and Toy Story's space - travelling hero.

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy.

The week of my experiment was dominated by a major arrest in the war on terror: The New York Times and CNN both gave top billing to news of the arrest, and sure enough, the Technorati Breaking News list featured several prominent links to the story as well.

For over 40 years now, fans have been entranced by the simple story framing the beginning of every Star Wars movie.

Jaime King at the premiere of «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» wearing a dress by Elsa Chiaparelli and Jimmy Choos.

Kingsway West, tells the story of a North American Old West ravaged by a long war between China and Mexico over a substance called Red Gold.