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Now,huddled up against the cold and fearful of being mugged by a Hoodie,they scuttle home as fast as their arthritic knees can carry them from the Video Shop,relatively happy in the certain knowledge that within the triple - locked comparative safety of their fourth - floor tower block flat they can regain just a small fragment of their lost youth and perhaps reflect that love truly is eternal.
The main character spending a hundred day's on his knees outside the shaolin temple show how desperate he is to learn kung fu to fight the manchu dogs who have taken over china.
Mark Sandrich's previous film, 'Top Hat (1935),' completely ignored the Great Depression that was then bringing America to its knees, and presented audiences with a glittering world of the rich and famous; it was the film's optimistic outlook on life that perhaps contributed to its success.
Will the aide of their new friend The Camel With Wrinkled Knees help them or just slow them down with his hallucinations of his friends leaving him?
Most interesting is the priest flashbacks, the film seems to hint that he was molested by a priest especially of the quick shots of the boy on his knees possibly in a confessional booth.
This film practically gets on its knees and begs for laughs like none other I've seen, and this is compared to such classics like the police academy movies and any Adam Sandler movie.
That is why, for the Romanians, he's still, up to this day, considered a national hero of special importance, unlike any other, because his name is called upon in times of great oppression, when corruption and plundering of the national economy by the oligarchic political class bring the common, ordinary citizens on their knees.
The series is based around Tomie Kawakami, for whatever reason she is unable to die and is able to make men drop to their knees at will.
Candy is an important movie because it doesn't pretend anything else is important besides falling between the knees of a beautiful, nubile, not particularly bright young woman.
His own mother had to cut him off at the knees when he did that once).
I cannot believe that when I was a kid I thought him the bees knees!! Petula gives both me and my wife the heebeegeebees!
He can do some Tony Jaa-like kicks and flying knees but they don't have quite the same ring to them as Jaa's.
In the original, the hero is a much older man and we can sympathise with his bad back, his dodgy knees, his blistered palms and the derision of his road-crew workmates as he searches for revenge for his murdered wife.
It was his puerile script that brought the actors to their knees, and his lack of direction that made them stay there.
It's the bees knees, I tell you!
I think the script writes should get on their knees and apologies to us all for this trash.
Her beautiful sparkle and comedic charm actually made me weak in the knees.
It was beyond irritating, it was like using a cheese grater on your knees.
The IMF’s False ConfessionPRINCETON – “Do I have to go on my knees?” the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, asked the BBC’s Andrew Marr.
Indeed, while wars from the time of Hannibal’s defeat of the Romans in 216 B.C. to the Gulf War of 1991 had this center of gravity, with a massive concentration of force capable of bringing an enemy to its knees, such industrial inter-state wars have now become an historical anachronism.
The World Health Organization defines konzo as a visible spastic abnormality of gait while walking or running; a history of onset within one week in a formerly healthy person, followed by a non-progressive course; and exaggerated jerking of the knees or ankles without signs of spinal disease.
Minutes after the announcement of the agreement, many critics condemned it, arguing that if sanctions had worked to bring the Iranians to the table, surely sanctions would have soon brought them to their knees.
On a visit to a memorial where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Brandt – who had actually fought the Nazis – dropped to his knees, his head bowed, in a silent but profound apology on Germany’s behalf.
But the Americans concluded that international sanctions had brought North Korea to its knees, leaving Kim desperate to conclude a deal on US terms.
Either way, the Polish government will tout Trump’s visit as a great success, and a sign that Poland is “rising from its knees.”
Western taxpayers are incensed that good money has been thrown after bad to bail out large banks and save the eurozone, which irresponsible countries have brought to its knees.
Some Europeans suggest that Asian central banks should hold a greater part of their reserves in euros, an echo of the General's unsuccessful attempt to force America to its knees by selling dollars for gold.
A voice replied “I’m here;” we looked up, and there he was, on top of the nearest coconut tree, with his lungi tied up at his knees, a hatchet in one hand and a cellphone in the other.
Every schoolchild learns how Galileo was forced to his knees to recant his belief that the earth revolves around the sun, or how the Church was up in arms again in 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species , arguing that all living organisms, including humans, result from a long, slow process of evolution.
The global economy, barely rising from its knees, could not withstand the contractionary shock if similar speculative forces were to drive oil rapidly towards $100 a barrel.
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