Rather than being straightforward and unproblematic, it is "constructed," battled over and in many ways political.
While constructing their battle dress, Ms. Dickson said, "We didn't cheat on anything".
However his actions are perceived, Ndu-kwana constructed a battle between good and evil for the soul of the revolution.
But he's playing less now; he's waiting for September's release of Halo: Reach, which will let players construct intricately ramped battle structures that hang out over rocky coastlines.
By constructing the battles with this kind of tension, though, the director gives each clash a climax, which is ultimately as exciting as it is exhausting.
As an avid reader of military history, I thought often of the similarities between our mission in El Salvador and how horrific it must have been to construct the Panama Canal while battling yellow fever.
Mr. Redford couldn't have picked a better time to star in a flag-waving paean to patriotism, in a movie whose last act is constructed around a battle sequence actually involving Old Glory.
He couldn't have picked a better time to star in a flag-waving paean to patriotism, in a movie whose last act is constructed around a battle sequence actually involving Old Glory.
(HBO, six discs, $79.98) V: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON This remake of the cheesy mid-'80s alien-invasion series — constructed as a battle between fiercely protective mothers, human (Elizabeth Mitchell) and alien (Morena Baccarin) — started out slowly but got better as it went along.
In this construct, sin is something you fight like a recurring cancer — part of a daily battle against evil.
But because it is made in a factory, workers are not battling the elements and can construct it more soundly and with less waste, proponents say.
