Sentence examples for in his shield from inspiring English sources

The New York Police Department's best-known writer in residence, Detective Edward Conlon, has turned in his shield.

Eventually, Rinaldo is discovered on the island by his comrades, who confront him with his amorous folly by showing him his own degraded reflection in his shield.

She relates the myths of Narcissus and Perseus (who made Medusa see herself in his shield) and how the invention of the mirror was attributed to Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and metal.

The first quality they treat is lightness, which Calvino traces through Ovid's account of how Perseus slew Medusa by looking at her reflection in his shield: "Perseus' strength always lies in a refusal to look directly, but not in a refusal of the reality in which he is fated to live; he carries the reality with him and accepts it as his particular burden".

But doubt on the subject of the shield, and the Captain generally, is pretty much allayed by Joe Johnston's cheerfully strident new film version starring Chris Evans, in which his shield is seen to morph from a prototype in the prefect's-badge shape into the familiar sleek metal disc, like a flattened missile nosecone, which can be slung over the back or the forearm.

By November or December, he must decide whether to enrage United States allies and abandon the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- or accept delays in his missile shield program.

Of the arrests, at least two stemmed from assaults on officers, said police chief Greg Suhr, who added that one officer was hit in his face shield with a metal chair.

Additionally, in book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: "If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god".

In the 1880s Greathead successfully used compressed air behind his shield in a London subway tunnel to prevent flooding while the lining was being installed.

As "Infinity War" directors, the Russo brothers, previously told HuffPost, when Captain America dropped his shield in "Captain America: Civil War," the gesture did in fact signal that the hero is seemingly letting go of his old identity.

"This is not Hollywood," said Robert Mooney, a veteran homicide detective who keeps his shield in his back pocket unless he is at a crime scene.