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It's our stalwart hero Pickett Smith who speculates that maybe Nature is getting back at us for what we've done to the Earth.
"B" movie stalwart James Remar plays an FBI agent who hooks up with Eleniak, although he is given little to do.
Fatt is his usual stalwart self, while Anthony Wong and Philip Kwok (who steals the show as Mad Dog) are sublime.
Walter Pidgeon gives a classic performance, both strong and vulnerable, for which he will become better known in later films, and Ruth Hussey, usually in a secondary role, puts in a sensitive and generous performance as the "skipper's" stalwart wife in a part that could have been given to Myrna Loy.
Moreover, the sturdy cast all deliver solid and spirited performances: Bruce Boxleitner as the huffy, enigmatic Lt. Challenger, Rhett Giles as the stalwart, resourceful John Roxton, Jeff Denton as the likable, sensible Ed Malone, Sarah Lieving as plucky photographer Rita Summerlee, Christina Rosenberg as fidgety, foxy California babe Dana, Chriss Anglin as nasty native tribe leader Olo, Amanda Ward as pretty stewardess Natalie, Boni Yamagisawa as feisty native girl Tianka, and Thomas Downey as the jerky Reggie.
The cussing becomes ho-hum, as intended?, but it's the facile morphings of Swearingen and Bullock from scary villain to almost-lovable reprobate and stalwart no-nonsense hero to acquiescent second-banana.
Stan and Ollie's old stalwart James Finlayson appears in just one sketch in which he plays an idiosyncratic teacher in front of a class of prisoners.
Even more ominously, the most stalwart supporters of further economic integration, Germany and France, are also exhibiting the most strains from today's economic asphyxiation.
In this changed political environment, Sarkozy is not likely to go after someone like Noyer who, as Bank of France Governor and a member of the ECB’s Governing Council, is widely viewed as a stalwart against inflation and a defender of French purchasing power.
In truth, his visit to Africa is a reward to his stalwart African-American supporters, who voted overwhelmingly for him in the November election and who remain one pillar of his base.
Even stalwart supporters of EU membership may feel that their countries are not being treated as equals if they are bullied for holding a different opinion than bigger members.
Most disturbing is the extent to which companies, so often stalwart defenders of the rule of law when it comes to their own rights, deliberately flout the law – heedless of the consequences – when it comes to maximizing profits.
Earlier this year, Rajasthan’s education minister, Vasudev Devnani, another BJP stalwart, claimed that the cow is the only animal that inhales and exhales oxygen.
While some Gilani loyalists continue to defend him, Zardari has already moved to name an old PPP stalwart, Makhdoom Shahabuddin, as the new prime minister.
But even the most stalwart European leaders have lost their followers’ trust by baldly saying one thing today and the opposite tomorrow.
Today, nations that were members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact, as well as some of the former Soviet Republics – countries that we used to call “captive nations” – are valued members of NATO and represent some of our most stalwart allies in the War on Terror.
Contemporary Japan, a stalwart supporter of the US-led postwar system, was also transformed by it.
Questions, justified or not, about America's ability to retain its dominant position in Asia's security architecture in the medium to long term – together with the rise of isolationist sentiment within the US – have spurred its regional allies and partners, including stalwart friends like Australia, to hedge their strategic bets.
Moreover, the US is surely pleased that the Honduran president is close to President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, and a stalwart supporter of Kelly’s drug war in Central America.
I recently talked with an establishment stalwart who told me how much more difficult these leaks will make it for the US diplomatic corps to accomplish its putatively worthy goals.
Indeed, Pakistan, once sympathetic to al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime, has under President Pervez Musharraf cast its lot with the civilized world and is a stalwart ally against terrorism.
Predators and ProfessorsWASHINGTON, DC – Are America’s great universities still the stalwart custodians of knowledge, leading forces for technological progress, and providers of opportunity that they once were?
Liberty today needs the same type of stalwart defense.
And he reappointed the conservative stalwart Alan Greenspan to chair the US Federal Reserve.
Georgia’s partisan husband found himself fighting the national army that the British supported and of which her father, having given his loyalty to the Brits, was now a local stalwart.
Japan has to be a stalwart American ally.
Among bony fish, Conseil noticed some blackish marlin three meters long with a sharp sword jutting from the upper jaw, bright-colored weevers known in Aristotle's day as sea dragons and whose dorsal stingers make them quite dangerous to pick up, then dolphinfish with brown backs striped in blue and edged in gold, handsome dorados, moonlike opahs that look like azure disks but which the sun's rays turn into spots of silver, finally eight-meter swordfish from the genus Xiphias, swimming in schools, sporting yellowish sickle-shaped fins and six-foot broadswords, stalwart animals, plant eaters rather than fish eaters, obeying the tiniest signals from their females like henpecked husbands.
And now, lo! down upon the road that winds along the river's bank from Staines there come towards us, laughing and talking together in deep guttural bass, a half-a-score of stalwart halbert-men - Barons' men, these - and halt at a hundred yards or so above us, on the other bank, and lean upon their arms, and wait.
He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows.
Those who had served and fought in their stalwart prime grew stiff and bent, and yet the ships and the armies were struggling.
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