Sentence examples similar to shaft beats from inspiring English sources
In single-helical gearing, all forces externally generated have to be added to the thrust produced by the gear itself, and the total is used on each shaft to select the high-speed shaft thrust beating.
The scene in which Shaft pulls a pistol on a drug dealer and beats him on the streets is troubling, but at least he has already quit the police force.
He yelled and beat the fiberglass whip against the sulky shaft until it broke, but finished last by a country mile, cursing and muddy.
Dvorak had Fernandez beat, but Fernandez blocked Dvorak's backhander with the shaft of his stick.
First, the theme that "everyday Americans" are being shafted by economic elites -- and the implicit framework that the 1stWoman/2dClinton beats the 3d Bush - are pretty strong openers.
That is meant to be a bravura gesture, but it debases the worldliness and aplomb that Shaft is meant to represent; he's supposed to be smarter than the Dirty Harrys who would beat the sweat off a criminal.
"SHAFT," starring Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Toni Collette and Richard Roundtree.
