Relationships between characters have to be established in the moments when they are not fleeing for their lives or shooting, clawing or head-butting one another.
As we picked our way upstream, we pushed away mangrove shoots that clawed at the boat.
"Whereas their father shot and clawed his way to the top, they knew nothing except the vicious dictatorship he had created, which meant they were even more ruthless than their father".
And Mr. Jackman scores as the two-fisted, confrontational Wolverine, a mutant with superstrength, an ability to heal all wounds and metal-alloy claws that shoot out from his knuckles.
His skeleton may be coated with an indestructible substance and claws may shoot from his hands, but Wolverine, most famous of Marvel's X-Men, is preparing to meet his maker.
Because faster-traveling fluids exert less pressure than slower ones, microscopic air bubbles in the water expand from a few millionths of an inch across to an eighth of an inch in size as the jet shoots out of the claw.
And then: But why? Pistol shrimp make their pops by shooting the "thumb" of one claw into a socket on the larger, opposing part of the same claw.
Carroll claws Mendes' shot away, but only after the ball has dropped well over the line.
But action-movie derring-do is not always an exclusively male preserve, and in the last year some women and girls — Evelyn Salt, Lisbeth Salander and the lingerie-clad avengers of "Sucker Punch," among others — have been shooting and not just clawing their way into macho territory.
Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced, stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.
