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The elephants are determined to reclaim their traditional path to water that was blocked when the mansion was built across their right-of-way.
Or possibly blocked them out.
To speed things up he decides to move from the local inn and take up residence in her home, a house that is usually fogbound and approached only by a causeway that is blocked off by the sea most of the day.
Guerrero and Benoit propped another table in the corner and tried to Irish Whip Spike through it, but Bubba dashed in and blocked his brother.
Haim Bouzaglo, the director of the film, plays the role of Haim Bouzaglo, artistically blocked and sexually impotent playwright, who finds inspiration in his suspicions about the subject of his girl friend's documentary.
Jack M. Sell directs seemingly endless, artlessly blocked scenes that draw the audience into a twilight mood of almost painful ennui.
Granted that many anime films seem to find a way to show quite a bit of naked people and violence, at least they do so with an engaging and intersting plot that contains the viewers interest rather than being something that looks like it was written by some blocked eighth grader looking to show naked women and lots of blood.
The graphic sex scene between Selma Blair and Robert Wisdom is blocked out in the R-rated version; Solondz has a big red rectangle over the characters in a successful attempt to show how the MPAA censors can ruin a movie with their silly rules.
I am amazed that this film was not blocked by the McCarthy witch hunting.
However, their plan is road blocked when, Meridith, the creepy, stalker, spoiled queen of the school splits them up into different cliques.
We have a hugely unerotic striptease and many other sequences so tedious my mind has blocked them out as a suppressed memory.
They blocked off the street and shot all day and through the evening.
Here, she's a kooky, mystery-neurotic who seems to bring good luck to a blocked Hollywood screenwriter.
while i've read the two books in the series and had been looking forward to this film, i forgot i'd seen it later that same day, perhaps i'd blocked it out.
Prior to these events, Eddie endeavors to go straight and set up a homestead, but his attempts to reform are blocked at every turn by exploiters and busybodies who forbid his dream of a quiet, quotidian existence.
First a Grizzly as large as the one in this film would need a large hunting ground but yet seemed to be in a fairly small one around a blocked of toxic waste dump and has never been noticed by anyone .
He has blocked out the memory all of his life, but when a series of events triggers him to remember his dark past, he must get vengeance for his family.
I have heard that NOW has blocked the release of the movie, but I couldn't begin to guess why.
I must've blocked out everything inbetween because I didn't understand it at that age... Watching "Sixteen Candles" again as an adult, I was stunned by how racist, sexist and crass most of the movie is.
In all that it's downplayed, the realistic speaking type of performance, we were allowed to see the wretched grief, and anger, and blocked memories that do come out with horror and a bang.
A cellphone signal blocked by one sheet of metal suspended from a crane, ummmhh, who was their technical consultant?
For some reason, I must have blocked out any evidence of this movie's existence from my mind as soon as I heard of it four years ago.
For those of us that have blocked out the traumatic parts of growing up, then it is understandable why you don't understand this movie.
They also struggled to pursue a united approach to Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and continued to seek a coherent approach to Turkey as accession negotiations remained blocked.
A Norwegian-style “soft Brexit” that would keep Britain in the EU’s trading structures would be blocked by the Euroskeptics in May’s Conservative Party.
The population is declining, but immigration is blocked for ideological reasons.
For their part, Russia and China have blocked three resolutions condemning the Syrian regime, and Russia has worked hard – with evident success – to derail any military intervention in Syria.
But, as the attack on the heroic Pakistani schoolgirl and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai demonstrated, girls and women are still blocked from education in many places, sometimes through violence.
Dissent was stifled, facts were suppressed, scrutiny was blocked, and the free flow of information was choked off.
Traditionally, the US had vetoed such resolutions, though for some time now, administrations had taken the position that such settlements blocked progress on a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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