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Now he's going to put that down, pick up a piece of paper, rotate all the degrees of freedom in his hand and wrist, and read it.
I found this film to be extremely homophobic... the main character doesn't know he's gay until he realizes that he likes Barbra Streisand and has a limp wrist!!!
UGH..I'm going to go slit my wrist now.
Shinya Ito, the director of the first installment, returns for this surreal fable which begins with Scorpion (Meiko Kaji) cutting the arm off a cop she is handcuffed to and fleeing into the Tokyo subway with said arm still swinging from her wrist.
As her friends revive her, a black arm grabs her by the wrist, and she has to struggle to get loose.
He has developed a machine that he can use to make an object like a wrist watch or rodent disappear, only to have that object re-materialize in a different location.
And how many people do you know that can slice open their wrist and then run around for hours as if nothing ever happened!
this is a movie that expresses its free will in this country (oh yea i played that card)even though the director is German and deserves a slap on the wrist every time he reaches for a camera, but the world is full of controversy, and its the same thing you've heard before, like the GTA controversy.
(The disinterested, "just doing my job" look on the face of the man who drives the first nail in Christ's wrist is as chilling as any moment in film.)
There was always a wound on his wrist in the cause of this "gift" - the wound of the deadliest weapon inside of his body.
There's only one problem: She's engaged to a sketchy character (Riccardo De Torrebruna) who may or may not have committed a heinous crime, and if he repents, will probably be let off with a slap on the wrist.
And why was there no blood gushing from the Skull's wrist?)
Little ground digging (like miniature versions of those things in "Tremors") robots are used for war, and guys on the same side as them wear wrist bands that let the screamers know they are of the same side.
A slap on the wrist is just not enough.
I don't see how laughing over being unable to see the time on a wrist watch without your glasses constitutes finding one's soul mate.
A female cop gets raped by a gang of punks who's lawyer gets them off with a slap on the wrist.
The worst thing of all is that even a layman wouldn't believe that a guy who wants to be a pool hustler would get a tattoo of an 8 ball on his wrist, for whatever reason.
Karloff is VERY creepy as the devil-worshipping madman whose cold, concrete Bauhaus sits atop the site of a bloody battle (it even overlooks a field of crude grave markers); his almost effeminate makeup and mannerisms further his creepiness (his black gown hangs like a dress on him and he often gestures with wrist limp).
For example, in March, Li said that implementing the needed market reforms “will be very painful, and even feel like cutting one’s wrist.”
By contrast, the trouble with using military force to punish is that necessity and proportionality cannot easily be applied to the calculus: a slap on the wrist would trivialize the gravity of the offense, while large-scale intervention would wreak death and destruction on many who are innocent.
Where the IMF’s next managing director will come down on this issue – and on whether fiscal salvation is to be achieved through austerity, with costs borne by ordinary citizens, even as bankers get only a mild slap on the wrist – is critically important, but hard to predict.
For years, we in the West – shame on us – talked up democracy around the world, but, despite the occasional gentle slap on the wrist of Arab despots, we accepted that there was an Arab exception to the desire for freedom and accountability.
The few that are noticed typically end with a slap on the wrist, with the company – meaning its shareholders – picking up a modest fine.
As the Volkswagen crisis so vividly illustrates, we need more than corporate apology and regulatory wrist slapping.
As a result, according to Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Capital Markets, “it’s no longer acceptable to have a big chunky watch on your wrist.”
'Yes, yes!Hush!...' was all Kitty answered as she sat softly rocking herself and tenderly pressing the little plump arm, which looked as if a thread had been tied round the wrist, and was still feebly waving while Mitya kept shutting and opening his eyes.
At last he caught Catherine's wrist, shaking her and dragging her out.
He had already seized Chaval's wrist, and a terrible struggle began; for he felt that he would be lost if he let go, while the other shook his arm in the effort to free it and strike.
It was not that he was afraid of surgery; he bled people copiously like horses, and for the taking out of teeth he had the "devil's own wrist."
He seized her by the wrist.
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