Sentence examples for flees from inspiring English sources

They came together in response to the advance of nationalism, initially through letters and journals and then literally, as everyone flees Europe and ends up in Hampstead for a while".

The following year he was in heady if duller company in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, playing Antoninus, the handsome slave who flees from the overtures of his master, Laurence Olivier.

The alien flees the scene of its birth and is glimpsed at subsequent stages of its accelerated development as it picks off the crew one by one.

The effects on Greece would be deep and immediate, as money flees banks and Greek firms' euro-denominated debts skyrocket as a new drachma plummets in value.

The propaganda pumped out by Kremlin-run television has maintained Russians' support both for the war and for him; but as the rouble falls, capital flees Moscow and the body bags of Russian soldiers covertly return, his political problems will mount.

In 1951 after 12 years as a political prisoner, the 49-year-old poet flees to Moscow.

LARA CROFT, adventurer and archaeologist, flees through an underground cavern from a pack of pursuing dogs, only to find her way blocked by a chasm.

In "Dreams of Water", Aneesa, a young Lebanese woman, flees Beirut for London after her brother Bassem is kidnapped and is never seen again.

Once each has (or has not), she flees the stage.As the piece shows, Bausch's idea of dance was far from conventional.

When she compounds her crime by stealing Rose's first man in years, she flees her sister's wrath and takes refuge with the grandmother neither knew she had, which introduces a third powerhouse actress: Shirley MacLaine.After making scarcely a wrong move for the first hour, Curtis Hanson, the director, rarely makes a right one.

It's too bad this visual key is later forgotten when Mr Grey flees commitment, one improbability follows another and the film seems to be going to pieces.Mr Spader nevertheless puts in a deft turn as Lee's reluctant Gilles de Rais, and "Secretary" is also blessed with an authentic screwball in Ms Gyllenhaal.