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But, let's face it, their victory most likely had very little to do with their great musical talents.
Never feeling a convincing victory over Esther's pain, we never feel a victory in Phoenix's talent.
Dean Jagger portrays Armand Louque, an officer in the French Army of World War I, who has stumbled upon an ancient tale of soldiers turned into automatons, or "zombies", who are impervious in battle and may hold the key to victory in the war, though on whose side is not certain.
This movie is a victory for all women who think they should be in charge of all men and in control of their relationships with them.
No one country is given undue credit for the Allied victory.
My former Cambridge contemporary Simon Heffer, today a writer and journalist, has put forward the theory that, just as British film-makers in the eighties were often critical of what they called "Thatcher's Britain", the Ealing comedies were intended as satires on "Attlee's Britain", the Britain which had come into being after the Labour victory in the 1945 general election.
The old teacher returns causing harm, trying to give victory to an old rival of Alexander.
In a serious chess game where World Chess Champion victory is one way to immortality, the chess clock ticks, match time ends to conclude the next day.
Also, the disco was taken out of Jabba's palace, and the lame ending of the original was replaced by a huge victory celebration spanning the entire galaxy, instead of just a small Ewok village, which was the case of the original and that didn't really end a story this big the way it deserved.
Judgment is victory for Robot Jox.
I also appreciated the victory celebration where it fulfills Vader's redemption and returns hi into Anakin Skywalker spirit along with Yoda and Obi-Wan.
At the very beginning of the 20th century he defended the idea that the world was doomed because the evolution of species, natural biology, on one side, and Marxism, market economy on the other side, were necessarily leading to the victory of the weaker over the stronger due to the simple criterion of number.
But the struggle to achieve that victory is played in a celestial arena of sweeping vision and gripping grandeur.
The internecine weaving of the chess games and the families' struggles for control, power, and victory is stunning.
While visiting Romania with his CIA dad, Tony(Adam Arkin), quite a talented high school quarterback seen as the savior to lead his team finally to a victory over rival Simpson, is told by a would-be palm-reader(..in Romania, the people are not allowed many books, so she took up palm reading)that he would be bitten by a werewolf("When the moon is full, don't make any appointments..you will be busy.").
Tale in Kafka style about impossibility of victory or surviving in a perpetual strange world.
There is never a complete victory to War and lets not forget all the Brave Wounded Military personnel in Veterans Hospitals from All the Wars and our present Iraq Vets!
A middle-aged, desireless and desperate director (Brian Sergent) and his good-natured cameraman - who is also Chrissy's one-night stand from the night previous - Paul (Karl Urban) film the Dunn family's proudest moment; watching Carol swim to victory.
Del Toro is impressive, hanging in reliably through thick and thin, from days of glorious victory in part one to months of humiliating defeat in part two, appealing and simpatico in all his varied manifestations, even disguised as a bald graying man to sneak into Bolivia.
Will you rape her and show it as your victory over a "problem" girl?
The first one meant victory.
Usually, when playing single player in a RTS game, you have to lead the army you've chosen to victory... the campaigns contradict each other, or simply don't relate to one another.
We forget that victory is gained on many fronts and not all of them involve the military.
As I mentioned (ad nauseum) in my comments for "Greenfingers", the British can take a plot that, in lesser hands, would be over-sentimentalized and make it a pleasant comedy about people who are not exactly mainstream but make you care about them and wish them a victory or two in life.
Midway probably saved several years of hard Pacific fighting and thousands of lives as a result of the American victory.
melodic film is led to victory by the late,great Stubby Kaye as Marryin Sam.
Perhaps Stalin's greatest victory was to leave to posterity so few living enemies that even today he is the subject of worship by so many Russians.
Celeste Holm comes off best, as usual, but under these circumstances, consider that feat a very minor victory.
The flag that stands on Japan's Iwo Jima remains as one of the nation's most prevalent symbols of freedom, justice, victory, and, most of all, freedom.
her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (stefano accorsi) is inspired by his family's opposition to Franco (you later learn he is from a rich catholic royalist family and that his uncle is fighting in Spain) and allende's victory in Chile, to quit his job and become a liaison in France for Chilean activists.
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