Sentences with phrase «war stories with»

«I try to relate some of my war stories with their current situation like, «Hey man, I can help you.

I am not sure at what point it was that I realised just how good Divinity Original Sin II is, but somewhere between swapping war stories with rat (of the Rattus norvegicus persuasion) with delusions of grandeur, and my Elvin companion devouring the face of a recently decapitated head in order to acquire his memories I thought to myself, «This game might be something rather special.»

-- and our storm - seasoned guides comparing war stories with the mnemonic memory of baseball enthusiasts.

If you decide to make the trip, it may be more for the chance to cultivate a few new war stories with your friends, but make sure you do your research well in advance.

Who could share war stories with them, and help them learn all they need to know about the craft and the business of writing.

«I try to relate some of my war stories with their current situation like, «Hey man, I can help you.

Instead, he was huddled there on the bench, in his jacket, pretending to be some sort of expert, trading war stories with steve bould.

Stock war story with the advantage of having William Holden in the lead.

It's a prickly, bleak war story with no actual Hunger Games to speak of, its once gutsy heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) transformed into a passive pawn by political forces beyond her control.

It's also clear that this show is driving directly toward the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with the appearance of both Saw Gerrera and Mon Mothma (each voiced by the film's actors) as well as the first mention of the Empire's mysterious super weapon project.

A war story with a science fiction twist, Spectral does its best to deliver on that promise.

Emilia Clarke has revealed that she was really happy to re-shoot Solo: A Star Wars Story with Ron Howard as director.

This will allow you to play the Clone Wars story with Anakin or Ahsoka (or both at once if you're playing with a second player!)

Not exact matches

You can read our full story from 2015 with Bettany here and follow along with our «Avengers: Infinity War» coverage here.

Gary is the author of Playing With The Enemy, the story of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of his off and on minor league baseball career with the Brooklyn DodgWith The Enemy, the story of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of his off and on minor league baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgwith the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Another reason for the increased interest in para-athletes are the inspiring, well - publicized stories of American veterans, wounded in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and living with amputations and other physical impairments, who have pursued sports to rehabilitate their lives.

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.

This book teaches you how and why to take ownership of your team's failures and illustrates the concept with some thrilling war stories and mild business anecdotes.»

Middle Earth: Shadow of War is a shockingly sophisticated game with an outstanding story and beautiful graphics.

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.»

Reuters had a good story over the weekend that summed up what's going on, with a specific look at how Apple is fighting a particularly effective patent war against Google.

(For more on DuPont's bitter proxy battle, read Fortune's feature story How DuPont Went to War with Activist Investor Nelson Peltz)

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.

Even some Star Wars fans who were skeptical about J.J. Abrams as the new director have recognized that he is saying all the right things about feeling honored to be entrusted with the next phase of the story.

Plans were also afoot for the 2017 release of Disney Infinity 4.0, complete with a long - awaited story mode that would have intertwined the adventures of characters from the series» disparate Star Wars, Marvel and Disney universes.

Shooting Star Wars: A Solo Story hasn't been all roses, with Ron Howard stepping in to take over fo

This story fits in so well, what you said Stalin did, was exactly what Blockstream people did, they all kicked out the real people that supported and promoted the actual original idea and system (in this case Bitcoin system) and then using censorship, propaganda and army of USEFUL IDIOTS to fight their dirty wars, try to take out the original idea, and replace the system with some other shit that will benefit them.

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).

Lucasfilm is gearing up for its Memorial Day release, «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» but for fans at home, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» is out now on 4K, Blu - ray, DVD and Digital HD packed with bonus extras.

Surviving a Nuclear War: Here's how a government - commissioned, semi-fictional story became the inspiration for a popular movie with a remarkable impact.

Disney has one of its biggest movie slates for FY2018 with Ant Man and The Wasp, The Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Incredibles 2 and Mulan (live action film) around the corner.

In this role, among the stories he notably anchored are: the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 along with the subsequent manhunt and ultimate capture of the Tsarnaev brothers; the financial crisis of 2008; the War in Iraq (2003); the War in Afghanistan (2001), as well as the murderous terrorist attacks and devastating aftermath of 9/11.

Since then, stories about Trump's rapprochement with North Korea, trade wars on steel and aluminum, and the ongoing Russia investigation have pushed the Daniels story to the margins.

Andy, the Bible is filled with stories about murder, adultery, wars, etc..

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

Daswick: I've been begging these movies to assign their world - changing story with evidence that the world actually changes, but after Infinity War's slate of false losses, I'm ready to quit that fight.

Or take another recent story on Francis, which referred to «Rome during the Second World War, when the silence of Pope Pius XII was understood as a tacit admission of Vatican acquiescence with the policies of the Axis.»

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.

In fact, the ominous turning point in the story of Israel's experience with war came when its elders asked the prophet Samuel to provide a king like that of other nations.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

They want sinners who may backslide scandalously, but manage to return to the fold every time and with a new story they can tell like they've seen action in war.

Their story made me see that things aren't that simple, and that the «war» between Christianity and homosexuality represents a false dichotomy that is incredibly painful and destructive to Christians with same - sex attractions.

As the story proceeds, and as Tannhäuser is increasingly confronted with the warring sides of his character, Wagner writes the role so that the voice itself increasingly shows the deepening psychological strain that the knight suffers.

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

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.

Super-busy week for me, can't possibly keep up with rapidly changing Egypt developments, but signs suggest a civil war in the making: From a Guardian story, we learn that Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Alexandria and Mansoura were ransacked and in the case of latter, set on fire, prompting....

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.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

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.

The Leviticus rules read more like war propaganda — they're presented in the context of god telling the Israelites a story along the lines of «It's ok to go invade people's lands, and kill and enslave them, because they're all a bunch of qu - eers who sleep with their own sisters anyway.»