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And Enceladus is very white, it's very bright, and its surface is obviously wrecked with fractures.
Langston Hughes is making a metaphor that compares a hard life to a wrecked house you still have to live in.
"Disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak.
And I was really upset about all the books being wrecked, because it was knowledge being destroyed.
Before long the snakes are leaving her pain wrecked body and rapidly growing in size.
To me, this was a basically terrible movie, wrecked by a camera man with ADHD, and lack of a meaningful meaningful plot.
An Air Force weather station is found wrecked, its occupants missing.
It's almost as wrecked and puffy as Nolte's face.
The Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame-ification of "Return of the Native" totally wrecked it.
The film Soultaker is essentially an older form Final Destination in which several car wrecked teens have their souls separated from their bodies and must cheat death who is chasing them...
I went into this movie with semi-high expectations after loving the cartoon series in my childhood, and this nearly wrecked that love for me.
It has a very good and funny plot as well as using only a few characters at any one time helps because it doesn't make it too confusing which would have wrecked the film.
It's hard not to care, though, when a family's homeland is wrecked.
When Marty hit the rear end of the masher, the masher wrecked his car!
No wonder the thing got wrecked.
Dialog is dumbfoundingly stupid, chase scenes are uniformly boring, and most of the on-screen money seems to have been saved for a series of crashes and explosions in a parking lot during the film's last five minutes (a briefly glimpsed port-a-potty early in that scene is certain to wrecked and spew crap on the film's chief villain--no prop is here without a purpose).
But this is totally upstaged and wrecked by the neverending immoral relationships of the show's characters.
But the casting decisions completely wrecked the movie.
Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners, perhaps the wittiest play ever written, is all but wrecked at the hands of a second-rate cast.
Their city Everytown--obviously London-- becomes wrecked by a war featuring tanks, a magnificent war march by Bliss, and the end of civilization.
My side's were thoroughly wrecked by the first episode.
But in THE RAGING MOON he was a strong, athletic young man whose future is wrecked by a physical accident that cripples him.
This very powerful film, which is as fantastic as it is vividly concrete and sad (imagine Kafka with a Sicilian accent), tells the story of two Italians, Fiore (Michele Placido, director of the recent Romanzo criminale) and his assistant Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) who come to the impoverished, wrecked post-communist Albania with the scam of setting up a shell shoe factory as what they -- or Fiore, at least, because he alone is the mastermind and evil genius of the scam -- thinks will be a profitable tax shelter.
The wrecked train in the film is still visible today in the river where it sank in the film, somewhere in Tennesseee, I believe.
His skills, abilities and deftness, real and admirable, are often spoiled, miserably wrecked by his hideous personality (and persona).
Additionally, young Carson's family members, equally moronic fellow students, and school staff are seldom well-drawn, the only characters of abiding interest being Sharon (Tracey Mann), a new teacher at the high school and, in particular, "Redback" (Steve Bisley), owner of a junkyard for motorcycles, who gives Steve an opportunity to learn a trade (welding) and also to restore a wrecked motorcycle, thereby opening a way for the boy to flee from an uncivil environment.
She is a determined woman, one who turned a wrecked life and an enormous family debt into a reason to teach generations of New England young people the virtues of going-through-the-pain to get the gain.
Along with rough seas, sailing ships, beautiful southern ladies, sea wrecks [he always has to have that disasterous wreck] a giant squid in a spectacular underwater scene in the hull of a wrecked ship, villains and heroes, DeMille rounds up a stellar cast in the likes of Paulette Goddard, fresh from her almost getting the role of Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND, as Loxi Claiborne, who is in love with handsome Captain Jack, [John Wayne] who was just beginning to gain world wide fame and Steve Toliver, played by suave and sharp tongued Ray Milland, one of his best acting roles, along with a young Robert Preston and Susan Hayward as young lovers who become victims of the war over salvage rights of wrecked ships.
Looking over the posted comments here regarding this one, I can't help but feel that Television has wrecked havoc with the taste buds of most viewers- because MIGHTY PEKING MAN, more than anything else, reminds me of an episode of a really bad television show (take your pick, from day first to this- and they're still being cranked out with mind-numbing regularity); nothing more, nothing less.
In Key West shore, two ship savage companies dispute the wrecked vessels.
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