Sentence examples for mortal conflicts from inspiring English sources

Dwan — whose directing career began in 1911 — brings a graphic intensity to the images that throws the story's stark passions and mortal conflicts into high relief.

Integrating the settlers' passionate mortal conflicts into the landscape, Walsh turns the theatrical limitations of early sound technique to an advantage, composing vast, static tableaux with the mighty breadth and noble pace of epic stanzas.

With every dynamic scene, including a wild mustang roundup that thunders right off the page, the reader, like Ana, is reminded of the lost ideals and divided loyalties that make these mortal conflicts so bloody — and so sad.

The whole film is frankly intended to show the violent and dramatic ebb and flow of life in a waste of sand and cacti, and that it decidedly does.Indeed, if there is a sense of surfeit to be felt as the picture goes along, it is because of the sameness of the mortal conflicts that occur in the varying scenes.

It wasn't until 1993, with "Jurassic Park," that practical effects and C.G.I. came into mortal conflict.

In a parody of stories about political uprisings, cable is presented as a force pitted in mortal conflict with network broadcasting.

This year, even the Blackfeet of Montana, the only nation to lose people in mortal conflict with Lewis and Clark, and the aggressive Teton Sioux of the Plains, have the bicentennial.

The play moves us on any number of levels, perhaps most fundamentally as a mid-century American version of that classic dramatic archetype dating back to the Greeks: the family in mortal conflict with itself.

The seriousness of abandoning one's country when it is in the grip of mortal conflict precludes denial [p126] to Congress of the power to terminate citizenship here, unless that power is to be denied to Congress under any circumstance.

But just when Baby thought he was out, Doc pulls him back in, and when the final job doesn't go as smoothly as the others did he comes into mortal conflict with several of his partners in crime, including Bats (Jamie Foxx and Buddy Jon Hammmm).

ABSTRACT: The history of religion and science has often been caricatured as strewn with mortal conflict.