It felt cool, I'm guessing, to have this bloody-minded project.
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The decision to combine bloody-minded perversity with a torpid tempo is certainly daring.
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The CGT may be unrepresentative, misguided and bloody-minded, but it has a point.
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Such bloody-minded scenarios tend to wipe away the sensuous mysticism of Wagner's creation.
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What deer do to cultivated suburban yards can make otherwise peaceful people quite bloody minded.
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I needed to be pretty bloody minded and at times it did get pretty tense.
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Critic's pick Erica Schmidt's raucously exuberant adaptation finds common cause between rebellious teenagers and bloody-minded Shakespeare.
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But Bruce can be bloody minded and entrenched in his vision and he wasn't going to play ball.
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Yet where does that leave capitalism, red in tooth and claw, and its need for bloody-minded nonconformists?
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Hard-headed, tyrannical and bloody-minded, Kieft had angered the natives by trying to levy taxes against them.
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Historians began revising, some time ago, the earlier judgments of Grant as an unimaginative, bloody-minded general and bumbling president.
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And it does not change the character of the most brutally, bloody-minded, repressive, totalitarian state on the planet, which is what he runs.
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British curators can be a bloody-minded lot and the wily ways of civil servants in Whitehall are hard for a foreigner to fathom.
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Vollman and Roger Bevins perceive a Lincoln who now fully understands and embraces suffering, and feels a new bloody-minded determination to win the war.
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I wanted something just as bloody-minded, stronger in impact but lighter on the palate, something more unapologetically a cocktail, less a meal in a glass.
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And the quirks of British parliamentary procedure provide various ways in which a sufficiently bloody-minded prime minister might force a "no-deal" Brexit without a majority in Parliament.
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"Many of the surgeons I saw said I was lucky to even get up, really," he said, defining his return as a combination of stubborn and bloody-minded determination.
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Sure, the future may be coloured a carpet-fluff shade of grey for most of us, but the grand tradition of determined trolling and bloody minded pranking steamrolls on unimpeded.
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Unlike their bloody-minded American cousins, British authors of true crime seem more inspired by dirty old men with nasty little secrets, although Machiavellian young men are also good for a book.
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All throughout history you can find examples of people standing up to terrifying regimes and holding the line against them, and surviving against all odds just by force of sheer, bloody-minded obstinacy.
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Ms. Hennig's feminist revision of history — she makes Mary's chief political aides both women — is fascinating and bracing, with its bloody-minded parental ghost an especially pungent inversion of expectations (and of "Hamlet").
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Would it be fair, Lieutenant," Donovan said, turning on the courtroom manner, "and you'll pardon the technical jargon, but would it be fair to characterize you as a goddamn bloody-minded Philadelphia Jew-boy gangster?
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Whether Mr Jackman keeps his promise remains to be seen, but "Logan", which is directed and co-written by James Mangold, certainly has the bloody-minded, go-for-broke confidence of a film that doesn't care about earning a sequel or broadening its fan base.
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There's such a rancid, forceful sense of wasted energy in the room, that the whole thing can, if played ever-so slightly wrong, descend into a hellishness—each and every participant a player in a drama that becomes devilish through sheer bloody-minded mundanity.
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It isn't in the service of any of the themes the film has struggled to express, it's just a meat-headed, brutal throwdown, with Batman dragging out the combat in the name of bloody-minded sadism, and Superman making the same grating mistakes over and over.
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Deadwood, built on land stolen from the Lakota Sioux, had attracted exiles, fugitives, optimists, gamblers with nothing to lose, bloody-minded opportunists, cynics, and seekers who had come to try their luck, or to escape bad luck, in terrain that lay largely beyond the reach of the law.
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Proud, pesky and bloody-minded to his wartime allies, a visionary who failed in later years to read the shifting social mood of the 1960s, de Gaulle is remembered above all as a heroic figure: a leader who refused to admit defeat, and persuaded the French that their true spirit, uncrushed by submission to Nazi Germany, would ultimately prevail.
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Such, at least, is the contention of a coterie of perfectly reasonable, non-reaching, academically credible internet people who cite a 2012 paper by Dr. Charli Carpenter, which contends that, far from being mere bloody-minded entertainment, the television show is intended to "trigger public discussion about the dangers of global warming" (actually, the paper is perfectly smart, but you wouldn't know it from the videos and articles spread by venues hungry for the slightest amount of GOT content well after the end of the last season).
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Mr Nelson was employed by the BBC working in the Caribbean. In 1974, the BBC decided to reduce the services it provided in the Caribbean and offered Mr Nelson transfer to another role. Mr Nelson refused any transfer of his employment, apparently in a "bloody minded" way.
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When offered warm clothing by the search party, he refused—and even threw a warm blanket away. A combination of Kealy's bloody-minded stubbornness and the effects of hypothermia clouding his judgement seems to have been the tipping point. As a direct result of this and similar incidents, those attempting SAS selection are now allowed to carry only useful items in their bergens when marching.
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In the build-up to the weekend, Michael Schumacher said that the circuit "wasn't particularly special", resulting in some criticism from locals. There were also protests in the lead-up to the race, with protestors pouring diesel on to the track the week before the race. A strike also meant that there was no tram shuttle service running, with spectators forced to catch buses to the track. Jeff Kennett, the Premier of Victoria, labelling them "bloody minded" and that they will have to "incur the wrath of the community".
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He also examined methods of creating effective fortifications. Williams was a strong advocate of new weaponry, emphasising that the English army had to adapt to the new technology, as the traditional English longbow would soon be made obsolete by improved firearms. He argued that a combination of fireams and close-quarter deployment of pikes represented the future of warfare. Williams has been called a "fiery Welshman", who was "rough around the edges, bloody minded, often lacking in self-control and, at times, slightly mad", but he was widely regarded as "a soldier of the highest integrity".
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69 Love Songs received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, indicating "universal acclaim". Betty Clarke of The Guardian hailed it as "an album of such tenderness, humour and bloody-minded diversity, it'll have you throwing away your preconceptions and wondering how you ever survived a broken heart without it." Douglas Wolk of Spin called the album Stephin Merritt's "masterwork" and stated that "pop hasn't seen a lyricist of Merritt's kind and caliber since Cole Porter", praising his unique takes on standard love song clichés.
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Guardian critic Adam Sweeting wrote that "even listeners raised on krautrock or Ornette Coleman will find Kid A a mystifying experience", and that it pandered to "the worst cliches" about Radiohead's "relentless miserabilism". Alexis Petridis, also of the Guardian, described it as "self-consciously awkward and bloody- minded, the noise made by a band trying so hard to make a 'difficult' album that they felt it beneath them to write any songs". The Irish Times panned Kid A as a "confused, aimless mess ... The only thing challenging about Kid A is the very real challenge to your attention span." Some critics felt the electronic elements were unoriginal.
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Paul Foot, a lifelong socialist, described the strikes as "bloody- minded expressions of revenge and self-interest". John Kelly, another left- leaning academic, wrote that they were "an example of an almost purely economistic and defensive militancy." Recognising the era's endurance as an albatross around Labour's neck, some leftists have attempted to rehabilitate the Winter of Discontent as the inevitable result of the Callaghan government's incomes policy. "[It] hardly fell out of a clear blue sky; rather, it was the culmination of a long series of strikes and struggles against drastic attacks on workers' standards of living" Sheila Cohen wrote for The Commune in 2010.
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Translation: 'Hear all, see all, say nothing; Eat all, drink all, pay nothing; And if ever you do anything for nothing – always do it for yourself.'' Yorkshire people are often stereotyped as friendly but "bloody- minded", stubborn (also known as "Yorkshire-stubborn") and argumentative. Indeed, throughout the history of the area, dating from the tribal Brigantes, through the Norman period and the Wars of the Roses, the region has seen a number of rebellions against non-Yorkshire or non-Northern rulers. It is this stereotype which is referred to in the saying 'You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much'.
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Chris Bonington devoted a chapter to this feat in his book Quest for Adventure: Remarkable Feats of Exploration and Adventure 1950-2000. Bonnington described Milton's flight around the world as "an amazing achievement, of dogged bloody-minded tenacity and the taking of some huge risks.." In 2001 Milton attempted to cross the Atlantic non-stop in a Mainair Blade (912) weight shift microlight fitted with a massive 438 litre fuel tank - an adventure that didn't quite go as planned. In 23 May 2009 issue of the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Milton was named as one of the "Top 20 great British adventurers" still living.
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It is the work of bloodthirsty fools.... Night after night those > Europeans who risk their liberty to listen can hear the emetic threatenings > and boastings of bloody-minded and reactionary civilians. They contrast the > alacrity and satisfaction which attend each contemptible operation with the > subterfuge and sloth which we have displayed in such tasks of constructive > policy as the admission to sanctuary of the Jewish refugees. In a letter to Horizon, Comfort claimed that a Nazi victory over the United Kingdom would lead to a literary renaissance, for which he was fiercely criticized by George Orwell in the Partisan Review. Comfort was an active member of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a conscientious objector in World War II. In 1951 Comfort was a signatory of the Authors' World Peace Appeal, but later resigned from its committee, claiming the AWPA had become dominated by Soviet sympathisers.
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On 30 April 2018, Javid was appointed as Home Secretary following Amber Rudd's resignation for misleading MPs about "targets for removing illegal immigrants", a consequence of the ongoing Windrush scandal,Amber Rudd's resignation letter and Theresa May's response Published by the BBC on 30 April 2018 Javid started his role saying he's determined to fix the injustices of Windrush scandal and launched a consultation. In becoming Home Secretary, he became the first person from an Asian background to hold one of the Great Offices of State in the UK. In his first months in charge, he put clear water between his tenure and Theresa May’s lengthy stint at the Home Office. He offered an olive branch to the Police Federation, secured a review on medicinal cannabis oil, and won an increase in tier 2 visas for skilled workers. Javid won plaudits from Lord Tebbit, who suggested "Sajid Javid has seized control of his notoriously bloody minded department".
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Written by Robert Towne, it is set in 1930s Los Angeles, an accustomed noir locale nudged back some few years in a way that makes the pivotal loss of innocence in the story even crueler. Where Polanski and Towne raised noir to a black apogee by turning rearward, director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader brought the noir attitude crashing into the present day with Taxi Driver (1976), a crackling, bloody- minded gloss on bicentennial America.Kolker (2000), pp. 207–44; Silver and Ward (1992), pp. 282–83; Naremore (1998), pp. 34–37, 192. In 1978, Walter Hill wrote and directed The Driver, a chase film as might have been imagined by Jean-Pierre Melville in an especially abstract mood.Silver and Ward (1992), pp. 398–99. Hill was already a central figure in 1970s noir of a more straightforward manner, having written the script for director Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972), adapting a novel by pulp master Jim Thompson, as well as for two tough private eye films: an original screenplay for Hickey & Boggs (1972) and an adaptation of a novel by Ross Macdonald, the leading literary descendant of Hammett and Chandler, for The Drowning Pool (1975).
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