Sentences with phrase «writhing snake pit»

That's as much as can be disclosed from the nasty, well - knotted script by James Greer and Jonathan Bernstein (upping their game slightly from the Jackie Chan vehicle «The Spy Next Door»), before proceedings tumble into a writhing snake pit of melodramatic reversals and vintage B - movie jolts — some chilly, some silly, but all held together with defiant, dug - in credibility by Foy.

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«And then the knight was held over the pit of writhing snakes, which hissed and spat as their twining lengths ensnared the whitening bones of their previous victims...» «And then the black - hearted villain, with a hideous oath, drew a secret dagger from his boot and advanced towards the defenceless...» «And then the maiden took a pin from her hair and the golden tresses fell from the window, down, down, caressing the castle walls until they almost reached the verdant grass on which he stood...» Arthur was an energetic, headstrong boy who did not easily sit still; but once the Mam raised her porridge stick he was held in a state of silent enchantment — as if a villain from one of her stories had slipped a secret herb into his food.

«Looking at his exhibition of a dozen paintings of bouquets, a hard maple tree and a life - size, nude self - portrait, «Poseidon» (all 2009), is to be immersed in a colorful garden, as well as a pit of writhing snakes.