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His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw.
Carlitos is a felon, upon getting out of jail around Christmas time, a junkie no good "friend" , Mike, shows him a claw he stole from someone.
It seems some demonic forces want said claw back and decide to torment Carlito for it instead of his friend who is busy shagging Carlito's wife.
He is given the sword of omens and a cat claw and they start a new life on a planet filled with many perils including mutant men, pirates, and the evil creature Mummra.
The best Sherlock Holmes films tend to be the ones with a horror element (such as The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Scarlet Claw), but even though this one offers nothing in the way of horror; it still manages to present an excellent mystery for Holmes to unravel.
It is not funny like "plan 9" or "the claw" it is sad.
We get Freddy's gory face throughout the flick, Freddy's revealed brain, gory dead bird, back ripped open with claws, Freddy comes out of Jesse's body (very neat, and very gory), gory slashings, gory claw stabbing, gory wound, melting face, and quite a bit of blood!
I literally wanted to bury a claw hammer into this guy's skull, and I'm not a violent person!
Particularly in the United States and Britain since the 1980’s, we have witnessed a return to the capitalism “red in tooth and claw” depicted by Karl Marx.
The parliament has been able to claw greater power for itself because it is the only mechanism Europe has for questioning and challenging EU policy proposals, and ironing out the sometimes clumsy and high-handed diktats of Brussels’ officialdom.
But, assuming the economy must claw its way out of recession for at least another year or two, it is difficult to see how the government can fulfill its Pittsburgh pledge.
Solvent countries currently can borrow at near-zero interest rates, so the time is right to invest in long-term productive assets in the peripheral countries, thus helping to facilitate the structural reforms that Europe needs to claw its way out of crisis and into a sustainable, prosperous future.
In a fairer world, these vulnerable citizens would be entitled to claw back the salaries, official privileges, and bonuses that the four parties to blame enjoyed for too long.
Moreover, their NPLs are essentially sunk costs; debt-equity swaps are pretty much the only way to claw back anything at all.
The eurozone’s southern European members must reduce their wage costs to claw back the competitiveness that they have lost since adopting the common currency.
Rival European centers have spotted an opportunity to claw some of this business back to the continent (or to Ireland).
This fit the ideology of a brand of capitalism that was “red in tooth and claw.”
The enormous demands on the public purse arising in locked-down economies have prompted renewed calls for wealth taxes, crackdowns on tax avoidance, and other measures to claw back some of the massive private surplus accumulated in recent years.
Israeli politics are notoriously red in tooth and claw.
Imagine that: whereas previously there had been no financial restriction whatsoever on government spending, now suddenly there are such restrictions – and taxes must be raised to claw back the excess money that had been put into circulation!
After all, even as the Democrats move to the left, the true conservatives might claw back the Republican Party from destructive zealots.
Governments are finally trying to claw back this lost revenue.
What if, as one suspects, it takes years for the US and global economy to claw back to 2019 levels?
Now and again, while he shot out a long squirt of brown saliva against the milestone, with his knee raised his instrument, whose hard straps tired his shoulder; and now, doleful and drawling, or gay and hurried, the music escaped from the box, droning through a curtain of pink taffeta under a brass claw in arabesque.
"What a freak of nature," said K., and when he had taken a look at the whole hand he added, "What a pretty claw!"Leni looked on with a kind of pride as K. repeatedly opened and closed her two fingers in amazement, until, finally, he briefly kissed them and let go.
There was an open square for the market-place; and in the centre of it, a large inn with a sign-post in front, displaying an object very common in art, but rarely met with in nature--to wit, a blue lion, with three bow legs in the air, balancing himself on the extreme point of the centre claw of his fourth foot.
The mountain was composed of two cones; the first, truncated at a height of about two thousand five hundred feet, was sustained by buttresses, which appeared to branch out like the talons of an immense claw set on the ground.
In truth, Neb had found an excellent name, for this cape was very like the powerful claw of the fantastic animal which this singularly-shaped island represented.
Towards the northwest stood out the rugged and well-defined outlines of the sides of the volcano, like a gigantic claw hovering over the island.
His breast was in fact, mangled as by the claw of a tiger, and on his side he had a large and badly healed wound.
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