Sentence examples similar to sequence of battles from inspiring English sources

Still, both the impressionistic sequence of battle scenes in the book and the internal reflections of Henry Fleming, the young man at the novel's centre, read as highly authentic: "The youth stared.

Moments of poetic delicacy – the youngest son cutting boughs of blossoms to make an arbour to shade his father as he dozes under a soundtrack of glorious birdsong – give way to sequences of battle so intense and violent that they beggar the imagination.

It took a sequence of judicial battles to make this happen.

William marched north and attacked Lincoln on 20 May; entering through a side gate, he took the city in a sequence of fierce street battles and sacked the buildings.

But it's absolutely worth the wait, as the finale is the finest large-scale action sequence since the battles of Minas Tirith and Pelennor Fields in Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King.

When he had the opportunity to fight a more resourceful, less wasteful kind of war, as in the sequence of hit-and-run battles that led up to Vicksburg, he did.

When I played the cannon-battle sequence of "Master and Commander" (DVD Chapter 4), I expected plaster to start raining down from my ceiling.

It isn't until the crucial showdown on polygravitational Yorktown that the director struts his stuff; there, his kinetic imagination, stoked by geometrical wizardry, creates a battle sequence of unpredictable lurches and launches, high-energy gyrations that are rendered all the more exciting by the vast open spaces separating the ribbons and whorls of Yorktown's architecture.

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The chronology and sequence of events regarding the battle and the fall of the Paulician state is unclear, since the Byzantine sources are contradictory: a number of scholars place the battle in 872, others in 878, in both cases either before or after the capture and razing of Tephrike itself by the Byzantines.

The game's upcoming DLC, Sequence 12: Battle of Forli and Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities, which go on sale in January and February, "complete" the game.