Sentence examples for prisoner in which from inspiring English sources

But as a film director Mamet has progressed from that static, unsure first effort, which one critic accurately observed was shot "like an Army training film," to the fluid, well-paced achievement of "The Spanish Prisoner," in which a con trick played on a credulous company man becomes a moral lesson about how the getting of wisdom equals the getting of skepticism.

One of the rediscovered serials, The Enemy of the World, is a very 1960s political thriller in the vein of The Prisoner, in which the Doctor discovers he is the exact double of the most powerful and hated man on Earth, the dictator Salamander.

As these have not been shown elsewhere, it does not seem likely that they are a common means of transportation in the alternate universe, but rather that this is a reference to The Prisoner, in which similar mind-games were used against an agent being held prisoner.

Its aims included initiating legal proceedings against prison staff for mistreatment of prisoners, and picketing outside prisons in which prisoners were mistreated.

One of the fragments shows a procession of naked war prisoners, in which the anatomic details are well observed but skillfully subordinated to the rhythmical pattern required by the subject.

Poor, a visual artist who had taught a photography class at San Quentin, wanted to collaborate on an audio project with prisoners in which they would all learn together.

His latest film, the crime thriller Prisoners, in which he stars alongside Hugh Jackman, is currently top of the US box office and gets its UK release on 27 September.

The standout, Josephine Decker's First Day Out, is built around a series of audio interviews with former prisoners, in which they describe their first impressions of the world they found upon release.

The event spurred Benenson to submit a full-page article in The Observer newspaper entitled "The Forgotten Prisoners," in which he promoted an "Appeal for Amnesty," a yearlong letter-writing campaign to repressive governments on behalf of what he termed "prisoners of conscience".

In the same year a series of dramatic hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in which 10 men died (7 of whom were IRA members) generated sympathy for the Republican cause and helped to increase Sinn Féin's popularity among Catholics in Northern Ireland.

A Sleep Of Prisoners, in which Bible stories sprang naturally from the experience of four soldiers spending a night in a church, was a great success in 1951: "Each of the dreams," wrote TC Worsley, "is dramatically conceived and touched off with that sharp sense of the comic incongruity of things which is Mr Fry's personal approach to life and words".