Altar
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A wave of bride deaths at the
altar
and their body disappearing confounds the police.
He gets the brides after doing a pretty clever trick with some orchids that makes the brides collapse at the
altar.
With various Bogdanoviches and Gazzaras scattered throughout cast and crew "They all laughed" is very much a family affair.If you add the fact that B.Gazzara and Miss A.Hepburn had a brief but passionate affair in an earlier picture it has the air of almost a private movie made for the enjoyment of the participants and that the entertainment of a wider audience merely an ancillary consideration.If this all smacks of smug "in - joke" self gratification you will be pleased to hear that Mr Bogdanovich sails well clear of that particular hazard and delivers a sweet and rather innocent "I love N.Y." paean that is also an
altar
at which we can worship the ethereal beauty of the late Miss Hepburn.
The film opens with a very confusing sequence in which the protagonist is standing at an
altar
while being approached by an elderly man.
Another trip to the
altar
for Bulldog Drummond is averted when at a pre-wedding gathering in Switzerland a Swiss detective is murdered and an artificial diamond, courtesy of its inventor Halliwell Hobbes to bride and groom John Howard and Louise Campbell.
Some cinephiles give praise at the
altar
of Hitchock; others worship Kubrick or Scorsese.
- "It Had to be You" opens with Victoria Stafford (Rogers) ditching numerous grooms at the
altar.
Take it as it is and please have at least a little more respect for someone who sacrificed his life on cinematography's
altar.
Jason Schnuit plays her old boyfriend whom she left at the
altar.
You will mourn the two hours of your life you sacrificed on the
altar
of this inert flick.
Ex-military, black belt professional bodyguard/soldier of fortune Ken Conway (Matt McColm) is recruited by his ex-fiancée Marisa (Annabel Schofield), who left him at the altar, to find her missing coworker.
Two sons of Satan meeting in the Antartics and playing around some pentagram
altar
is a bit below my taste of a good screenplay.
Ginger Rogers stars as a pending bride who's noted for leaving her suitor(s) at the
altar.
Simon Pegg jilts his pregnant fiancée at the altar, but comes to regret it five years later when he meets the new man in his ex-girlfriend's life, a successful American hedge fund manager.
Witless romp featuring Gregory Peck as a sports-writer who has a whirlwind courtship with fashion guru Lauren Bacall, leading to a quick trip to the
altar.
How the hell did Darren Day get any acting part - when I realised he was in it I was totally put off (if you are English you will know all that he has ever done or is famous for is poor seaside style singing and dumping girlfriends at the altar), but I still gave it a chance...
I consider fact-checkers to be the
altar
boys of journalism.
When I told the group that I had begun my career as a magazine fact-checker, several of them grew misty-eyed, as if someone had told a group of priests about his childhood as an
altar
boy.
Compared to the crooks and demagogues who preceded him in office (not long ago, one was filmed stashing millions in cash behind the
altar
of a local monastery), President Mauricio Macri and his team of well-trained technocrats are a massive improvement.
The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious
altar
(so that they would fear pre-marital sex).
Yet the old systems no longer offer useful answers, as Russia has demonstrated by brushing aside the United Nations Security Council – the high
altar
of the state-based international system – over Ukraine and stalemating it over Syria.
Too much has already been sacrificed on the
altar
of GDP fetishism.
There is justice in this, particularly given the hypocrisy of those countries who proclaim their faith in free trade while every day praying at the
altar
of protectionism.
Already, Kurds have criticized the Trump administration for sacrificing them at the
altar
of America’s strategic relations with Turkey.
“I still find it quite unethical,” Daoud responded, “that I was pushed into the role of sacrificial lamb to be brought on the
altar
of local hate, condemned for Islamophobia by today’s Inquisition.”
Germany’s leaders might rightly fear that their country will be left holding the bill for European bailouts, but the result has been to sacrifice Greece on the
altar
of an abstract and unworkable idea: “no bailouts.”
Only the Federal Reserve can do that - and the Federal Reserve is very unlikely to sacrifice the jobs of American workers on the
altar
of the strong dollar.
Those who worship at the
altar
of free trade – including me – must come to grips with this glaring disconnect.
Greece remains the litmus test of the European establishment’s capacity to rationalize the eurozone, and its people have been sacrificed on the
altar
of an impasse whose repercussions have long since spilled over to the fragmenting political scenery of Central Europe.
Love and Marriage in North KoreaNEW YORK – Imagine North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a tuxedo, waiting nervously at the
altar
(or shrine) of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and his father, Kim Jong-il.
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