Deliverance
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This cool 80's gem has perhaps stolen its storyline and most essential moments from classic blockbusters like
"Deliverance"
and "the Deer Hunter", but the raw violence and effective shocks are director Hughes' very own merit.
She also didn't seem to have many facial expressions and her
deliverance
was wooden at best.
There were some scenes of them going down the river in a boat just like in "Deliverance."
The most touching scene in the film takes place when the split-personality plagued main character (for the life of me I can't think of his name at the moment) shares a meal with his
'Deliverance'
foster family in their trailer that could either be a chicken coop or a bomb shelter.
Bosnia's Muslims thank America, not the EU, for their
deliverance
from slaughter.
Others, especially in Eastern Europe, continued to pray for a messianic
deliverance
from their troubles in God’s own time.
In the days that followed, tens of thousands gathered in downtown Tunis to celebrate their
deliverance
from years of stagnation and uncertainty, caused by Bourguiba’s worsening senility.
Some see this change as usurpation; others view it as Thailand’s
deliverance
into the twenty-first century.
Deliverance
would come from the country priests, who would all rise to re-establish the kingdom of Christ, with the help of the poor; and already he seemed to be at their head; he raised his bony form like the chief of a band, a revolutionary of the gospel, his eyes so filled with light that they illuminated the gloomy room.
She had regarded her mother's death as a deliverance, for the old woman's violence threatened to get them hanged; nor did she weep over Pierron's little girl, that street-walker Lydie--a good riddance.
For nine days the work of their
deliverance
had been going on, and they were for the first time taking a few steps in the gallery when a fearful commotion threw them to the ground.
His horse was of the best blood of Virginia, and carried him with the swiftness of the wind along the Valley; and the heart of the youth was already beating tumultuously with pleasure at his deliverance, when a well-known voice reached his startled ear, crying aloud,-"Bravely done, captain!
"Why, dearest aunt," said Frances, playfully, in reply to one of her frequent reprimands, "would you have me repress the pleasure that I feel at Henry's deliverance, when you yourself have so often declared it to be impossible that such men as ruled in our country could sacrifice an innocent man?""Nay, I did believe it impossible, my child, and yet think so; but still there is a discretion to be shown in joy as well as in sorrow."
"But I leave thee, and that behind me that will prove thy condemnation, and take from thee a hearty and joyful deliverance."
I gave him joy of his deliverance, but raised some scruples at the lawfulness of his marrying again, and told him I supposed he would consider very seriously upon that point before he resolved on it, the consequence being too great for a man of his judgment to venture rashly upon a thing of that nature; so concluded, wishing him very well in whatever he resolved, without letting him into anything of my own mind, or giving any answer to his proposal of my coming to London to him, but mentioned at a distance my intention to return the latter end of the year, this being dated in April.
Now I seemed landed in a safe harbour, after the stormy voyage of life past was at an end, and I began to be thankful for my
deliverance.
It was then particularly heavy upon my mind, that I had been reformed, and had, as I hoped, repented of all my past wickedness; that I had lived a sober, grave, retired life for several years, but now I should be driven by the dreadful necessity of my circumstances to the gates of destruction, soul and body; and two or three times I fell upon my knees, praying to God, as well as I could, for deliverance; but I cannot but say, my prayers had no hope in them.
This hardship broke all my measures, for the steps I took afterwards for my own
deliverance
were hereby rendered wholly ineffectual, unless I would abandon him, and leave him to go to America by himself; than which he protested he would much rather venture, although he were certain to go directly to the gallows.
sir,' said I, 'but then that must be such a
deliverance
as, if I should be taken again, would cost me my life.''Nay,' said he, 'if you were once out of the ship, you must look to yourself afterwards; that I can say nothing to.'
"I, a poor young creature alone, ill versed among my people in cases such as this, began, I know not how, to think all these lying protestations true, though without being moved by his sighs and tears to anything more than pure compassion; and so, as the first feeling of bewilderment passed away, and I began in some degree to recover myself, I said to him with more courage than I thought I could have possessed, 'If, as I am now in your arms, senor, I were in the claws of a fierce lion, and my
deliverance
could be procured by doing or saying anything to the prejudice of my honour, it would no more be in my power to do it or say it, than it would be possible that what was should not have been; so then, if you hold my body clasped in your arms, I hold my soul secured by virtuous intentions, very different from yours, as you will see if you attempt to carry them into effect by force.
On this the barber cheerfully restored the tail to the landlady, and at the same time they returned all the accessories they had borrowed to effect Don Quixote's
deliverance.
As soon as this occurred to him he ran with all speed to Rocinante who was grazing at large, and taking the bridle and the buckler from the saddle-bow, he had him bridled in an instant, and calling to Sancho for his sword he mounted Rocinante, braced his buckler on his arm, and in a loud voice exclaimed to those who stood by, "Now, noble company, ye shall see how important it is that there should be knights in the world professing the of knight-errantry; now, I say, ye shall see, by the
deliverance
of that worthy lady who is borne captive there, whether knights-errant deserve to be held in estimation," and so saying he brought his legs to bear on Rocinante—for he had no spurs—and at a full canter (for in all this veracious history we never read of Rocinante fairly galloping) set off to encounter the penitents, though the curate, the canon, and the barber ran to prevent him.
She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a
deliverance
the most real, a blessing the most important.
Not the smallest suspicion, therefore, had ever occurred to prepare him for what followed;--and when at last it burst on him in a letter from Lucy herself, he had been for some time, he believed, half stupified between the wonder, the horror, and the joy of such a
deliverance.
The selfish sagacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his
deliverance
from it; for her respectful humility, assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the smallest opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour.
"Oh, my God, my God!" cried Milady; "when I supplicate thee to pour upon this man the chastisement which is his due, thou knowest it is not my own vengeance I pursue, but the
deliverance
of a whole nation that I implore!""Do you know him, then?" asked Felton.
"Axel," replied the Professor with perfect coolness, "our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering.
His forces, united to those of Butler, had as yet been unsuccessful before Richmond, and nothing gave the prisoners any hope of a speedy
deliverance.
"Because that, in the event of his being sure of being delivered at a certain time, he would have waited the hour of his
deliverance
and would not have thrown this document into the sea.
This again either does not happen, or, if it does, it will not be for your security, because that
deliverance
is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend on yourself and your valour.
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