Sentences with phrase «where old wars»

With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts.

Not exact matches

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

Consider it old school recycling, there wasn't any war or crime behind where all the bones came from.

It is possible that in a fallen world (and yes, this is the theological premise without which one can not really make sense of this stuff) where struggle for land involves war, and the only kind of war at the time was the kind described in the Old Testament texts, that this was the way it had to be if the land - gift promise was to be fulfilled in due course.

There are still places where survivors of that struggle gather, like old soldiers at a retreat for veterans, to nurse their wounds and tell war stories.

And by old school, we mean the kinds of places where the chef's tattoos are from 20th - century wars, there's likely a «chops and steaks» section on the menu, and waiters wear red tuxedos without irony.

That problem is ever so evident here in the good old US where we waste valuable time in our legislature debating sexual issues because the extremist fringe has taken over the Repugnican party and forces us to deal with non-issues that distract us from real problems like poverty, health and war.

IMO David Cameron's big mistake - and where I fall out with him - was in supporting the Iraq war, unlike the older and wiser heads such as Dougals Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, Ken Clarke, Douglas Hogg etc..

«This decision seems to have been made based on the same sort of fake theatrics that marked the period before the War in Iraq, where politicians looked for fake evidence, faulty intelligence, hearsay, innuendo or old archives of things we already knew,» Wilson said in a statement.

We send 18 year olds off to war where they may e killed or become handicapped.

Strolling through a nature preserve near the Old North Bridge in Concord, Mass., where «the shot heard» round the world» began the American Revolutionary War, Ed Damiano is talking about another revolution, this one in the care of his son's Type 1 diabetes.

Before the war, I accompanied him, along with some foreign archaeologists, to a site deep in the flat desert of southern Mesopotamia, where he was directing a dig at a buried 5,000 - year - old Sumerian city.

The distaff side won another battle in the age - old war against male fuzz this month when is a free online dating site where guys with beards can find suitable dating partners who are into the scruff.

The trouble begins when the Jacksons» oldest son, Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), comes home from World War II, where he was a tank commander, and befriends Henry's dashing younger brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), a fighter pilot also just back from the front.

Cheadle's a good serious actor and the part where he claims the War Machine chassis was believable, but he just didn't do as good a job as Howard did conveying «old buddy» friendship with Downey's Stark.

I was stuck in the Virginia «burbs where we had moved to from NYC (where all my family and friends were), and now my husband has left for almost 2 years to be in a war zone and I was left alone with a 2.5 yr old and an infant.

SYNOPSIS: In the Old West, former Civil War - veteran John Henry returns to his frontier hometown where he must repair a fractious relationship with his Reverend father, and face the demons of his past when a -LSB-...]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 opens with one of those scenes where an older actor is recreated as their youthful self through the wonders of CGI — think Carrie Fisher in Rogue One: A Star War's Story.

This is one of those games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic [$ 9.99], where it feels absolutely amazing to be playing this on my mobile device.

Shuri and Wakanda will be featured in this year's upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, where she will encounter Marvel's old guard of heroes.

During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, the undeniably charming James Badge Dale (who plays the Lone Ranger's older brother, Texas Ranger Dan Reid) talked about how cool it is to be in three of the biggest blockbusters of the summer (Iron Man 3, World War Z and The Lone Ranger), how The Lone Ranger was the most physically demanding, finding a treehouse out in Canyon de Chelly where he could grab a nap between takes, the process of finding the perfect cowboy hat for his character, working with a horse that was scared of gunfire, and the experience of cowboy boot camp.

The film is set in a small California town, where Pepper Flynt Busbee (Jakob Salvati) is a lonely 8 - year - old boy while his father (Michael Rapaport) is off fighting in World War II.

The official trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald drops us off in the middle of Paris, where Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) is preparing for war against his old friend and current foe Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the most dangerous Dark wizard in the world.

The other reason — which was never truly realized in the film — was that we were thinking of a hotel where the lodgers were old people, the insane, the physically handicapped, because all the others had left for the war.

That self - doubt is never apparent on the screen in Lady Bird, where she takes on the well - worn role of the judgmental, puckered - lip mother constantly at war with her independent - minded 17 - year - old daughter.

Of course, there are movies where the antagonist is more memorable and charismatic than the protagonist — No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, even (arguably) Star Wars.

It's a sobering thought that old, ailing, often incapacitated men, fighting for power, led that war and won it, but it would have been nice to know what drew either side to where they stood.

The America Jack personifies is in somewhat of the same position with Old Europe: America was the brave new world where inequality, religious wars, wars of domination, and destructive traditions of inequality and oppression would be overcome and replaced with enviable ideals, with an American Dream every individual could fulfill.

Now here comes the movie, a fantasy epic set in the land of Azeroth, where an ages - old war between humans and orcs is about to spiral out of control.

Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) first appeared in 2016's Captain America: Civil War before reprising her role in 2017's Spider - Man: Homecoming, where she learned her 15 - year - old nephew was a wall - crawling superhero.

Sukiyaki Western Django - which has been filmed entirely in English, though most of the actors clearly aren't native speakers of the language - follows a mysterious stranger (Hideaki Ito) as he rolls into a prototypically violent Old West Town, where he quickly finds himself caught smack - dab in the middle of a feud between two warring clans.

Before that can happen, Frank is taken into custody and brought into a top - secret facility where they ask him about an old mission from the Cold War in which he participated involving a top - secret bomb (Lots of things are «top secret» here) under the Kremlin.

Rogue One, a new standalone Star Wars film that ends around the point where the original movie began, doesn't exactly subvert the light - and - dark mythos of that nearly 40 - year - old multimedia franchise, but it does find the fatalism buried in its space - opera heroics.

Where Bayonetta and Devil May Cry (and old GoW) happily deliver zoomed - out, tactical views and swift, rangey weapons, God of War's more claustrophobic immediacy — coupled with the distinctly intimate nature of axe combat - feels far closer to the spirit of frantic, improvisational FPS flow that Doom absolutely thrives on.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

Here, the souls in question are brought together in war - torn Chechnya, where 8 - year - old Havaa has just seen her father kidnapped by Russian forces.

There was the requisite monument to the wars, and the requisite square where pigeons pecked gravel around a fountain, and old people sat on benches, looking lonely.

The profoundly determined 15 - year - old sets off with millions of smuggled diamonds on a journey to South Africa's National Library, where she encounters Israeli Mossad agents, a lovable Chinese official, an American Vietnam War deserter and Swedish twins with grand plans to bring down their country's monarch.

In the near future where ancient enemies sit on the brink of war, seventeen - year - old Michael Saxon carries a powerful secret inside his DNA that both sides will do anything to acquire... Larry Pellitteri's sci - fi FROSTED BLOOD

I've just finished my first historical fiction, 1860 Old West, Pony Express, girl rider, etc... and am nearly 70K into its sequel, where the heroine and hero head for 1863 New Zealand, at the start of the Waikato Wars... Your information has helped me make a few decisions.

You may visit the battlefields of Flanders, where so much of the heavy and destructive fighting took place, and the battlefields of the Somme including the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, housed within the town's old fortress.

Work was interrupted on the bridge just as it was pieced together - with what must have been thousands of rivets - by the 9th Frontier War, when Newey and his team were forced to retreat to the Royal Hotel in Komga as Gcaleka warriors began crossing the Kei for battle - the hill close to the old bridge is still known as Moordenaarskop (Murderers» Hill) where a few British soldiers were killed by Xhosa warriors.

For an indigenous cultural experience you can visit either Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park where you can learn how to throw a boomerang or a woomera (an Aboriginal spear used to kill animals for food), play a didgeridoo and enjoy Aboriginal dancing or you can visit Rainforestation Nature Park where you can cuddle a koala or a crocodile, ride around in an old world war two amphibious vehicle and also enjoy learning about Aboriginal culture, hunting and dancing.

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The fact that you received so many disagrees, means that the average gamer on this site is probably no older than 15 years old, which means that the really didn't live through last gen, and / or they have developed some sort of a psychosis, where nothing else matters but the console war.

Oh no sir, we've added some really cool new features like The Flashback, where we play and talk about an old - school Sega game voted on by our readers, and The Nerd Wars, where we debate a controversial topic surrounding Sega or the video game industry in general.

Where the old titles were ferocious arcade - style brawlers, this God of War is more methodical, more deliberate in its carnage.

It's like in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, where even though Star Wars was an established universe, in our game we still had a patch of real estate inside that property that required a certain amount of explanation.

The studio is led by studio director Daniel Erickson, the former creative director of Star Wars: The Old Republic; he moved around in the last few years after departing BioWare and SWTOR, most recently doing a stint for Kabam, where he was the director on mobile titles Spirit Lords and Star Wars: Uprising.

He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault, as well as serving as the music supervisor and lead arranger for Monkey Island 2: Special Edition.