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72 examples of Roman in a sentence

I'm Roman Mars.
However, we can't have a history of just Roman men, so here it goes.
We know that because it's written on the gravestones of so many Roman women.
At the threshold, the priestess pauses, claims her innocence one last time, then enters the chamber never to be seen again by the Roman people.
My friends, if you ever have a chance to go to a superauthentic Italian restaurant that only serves ancient Roman recipes, my advice for you is: don't go.
Maybe you're a Roman foot soldier or a medieval archer or maybe you're a Zulu warrior.
To honor him, Spartacus held funeral games, forcing his Roman prisoners to play the role his fellow rebels had once endured.
Dante was a member of the Guelfi Bianchi, or White Guelphs– who believed Florence needed more freedom from Roman influence.
And she says that Roman humor mirrors the construction of Roman society.
They were built as shells— thin-walled but strong, and much lighter than the Roman ships.
This was built as a retirement community for old Roman soldiers, and it amazed me to think that North Africa was once the breadbasket for the Roman Empire.
From the meaningless gimmicks of the roman soldiers, to simply some real bad wrestling (doink vs Crush being the worst match) to simply bad match making (Scott "Razor Ramon vs Bob Backlund, how can you have one of the greatest mat wrestlers, making a comeback, and working his first wrestlemania, face a power wrestler who was undefeated at the time), this is a PPV that even the WWE has since admitted, was way below what the expected.
I liked the whole set up with Ceasar's Palace, the Roman guards, and announcers in togas.
I'm not very far into it yet, maybe two hundred plus pages, but it is amazing just how many of these Roman emperors were killed.
If you are fond of ancient roman history you can find yourselves other examples.
The Bishop was wearing Roman vestments (and for the record not even Orthodox bishops wear their vestments unless they're saying the liturgy, especially if they live in a monastery).
Well, I have a layman's knowledge of Roman history and even I found the inaccuracies flagrant.
This film is the smartest comedy I have ever seen, a lot of jokes are either a parody of another film, (from star wars to dragon ball to power rangers to kung fu etc..) or somehow related to history of whatever, (Otis creates the elevator), a lot of jokes are also related to the modern world and made fun of because it was B.C. (Like the wheels of the horse wagon spinning) Other jokes are just plain total non-sense but also hilarious (like the famous scene, with the dog running after the roman guy with the little music) In fact in this movies they mix pretty much every kind of humor.
On the other hand I've studied the fall of the Roman republic for years so I know the story.
Case in point: casually walking into a room and saying "Hello" was scored with chase music from a roman epic.
Take a pinch of GOODFELLAS, mix it with THE GODFATHER, add some Roman mythology and plenty of lowbrow comedy, and you have THE SOPRANOS, about a mob clan operating out of northern New Jersey.
In Paris, the shy and insecure bureaucrat Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule (Dominique Poulange), committed suicide.
Of the three time periods, I think I liked the Roman one best even though I admit it might have also been the cheesiest.
"The Tenant" is Roman Polanski's greatest film IMO.
The film is a bit slow and dawdling for a while, but if you have ever seen a Roman Polanski movie, you should know it's going to end with a bang and this flick doesn't disappoint.
In the first few centuries of our age, the roman world was in decay.
The ending is remarkably incoherent, alternating between scenes of the monster holding the final meteorite fragment aloft and quick views of a descending roman candle ball which makes funny sounds.
The week after seeing "Wordplay", I solved the Sunday NPR puzzle, (name a famous American in eight letters, six are consonants, all of which are Roman numerals); I didn't submit my answer because I figured if I could solve it as quickly as I did, it had to be pretty easy...there were more than 1200 correct answers sent in.
The obvious uses are the digitally filmed closeup shots in low-light of skin in Roman church art masterpieces leading up to the parallel shots of skin when the actors touch ... but note in particular the clenched hand on the sheet at the end of that scene, to be followed later by a montage of clenched hands on ancient statuary (interspersed with an angel) and the almost penultimate shot of a hand at the denouement .... Cinematic style, very specific choices of music, and such foreshadowing all enhance an intriguing character study of an individual descending into emotional turmoil with superbly subtle directorial style.
A few extra nights on google searching for ancient accounts of roman warfare???
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