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Watching an extra, in a fake-looking ape suit, pretending to wrestle with a dead baby shark pretty much sums up the production values in this film.
"Never Again" tells of a single middle aged man (Tambor) and woman (Clayburgh) who find each other, have good sex, and then begin to wrestle with issues as they search warily for deeper meaning.
The 50's style denim hot-pants are "prison issue" and with the tied-shirt halter tops they're all ready to wrestle.
In the buildup to this year's Rumble, new WWE World Champion, Kurt Angle, had been feuding with "World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry (a huge bloke who cannot wrestle), Rey Mysterio had been promising to Honor the memory of the late Eddie Guerrero, while John Xena was on the heels of Edge who had cashed in his "money in the bank" at New Year's Revolution to snatch the Heavyweight title from a battered Cena.
Oh look the devil is rising tonight, oh wait no he's not, oh well let's have a bit of a wrestle instead.
If this movie doesn't wrestle a few tears from your heart no movie will.
For the most part however it is a case of watching good actors wrestle with a dire script and an implausible plot.
As the world watches the US presidential candidates wrestle with issues of protectionism, immigration, global public health, climate change, and international cooperation, we should ask what aspect of American identities they are appealing to and whether they are educating followers about broader meanings.
Science and religion still wrestle over the legacy of Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection.
Today, that consensus is unraveling as America’s politicians wrestle with a federal budget that is itself turning into a long war – one with its own casualties.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
All of this makes fire universal, difficult to grasp, and tricky to wrestle into manageable shape.
The need to wrestle with macroeconomic-policy issues could easily cause talks to bog down – and give protectionist lobbies the political ammunition they need.
Mitterrand had to wrestle with a fractious range of coalition partners.
The two sides agreed to build up a “Special Strategic and Global Partnership,” leaving Chinese strategists to wrestle with the implications of deeper India-Japan ties.
A new resource can help countries as they wrestle with this challenge.
Widespread testing, together with exhaustive contact tracing and selective quarantines, can still help us wrestle the outbreak back under control.
The next few weeks will show whether they can wrestle enough control from the generals to start building a more hopeful future.
He would then drag Therese along with him, provoking her to wrestle, to roll in the grass.
Corchuelo sat down wearied, and Sancho approaching him said, "By my faith, senor bachelor, if your worship takes my advice, you will never challenge anyone to fence again, only to wrestle and throw the bar, for you have the youth and strength for that; but as for these fencers as they call them, I have heard say they can put the point of a sword through the eye of a needle."
I taught him his exercises, for he never loved the sight of a book, and he in turn made me box and wrestle, tickle trout on the Adur, and snare rabbits on Ditching Down, for his hands were as active as his brain was slow.
"Speak," she said, "if thou art a man--if thou art a Christian, speak!--I conjure thee, by the habit which thou dost wear, by the name thou dost inherit--by the knighthood thou dost vaunt--by the honour of thy mother--by the tomb and the bones of thy father--I conjure thee to say, are these things true?""Answer her, brother," said the Grand Master, "if the Enemy with whom thou dost wrestle will give thee power."
Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on--"During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging a point with my destiny.
He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle.
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