We discovered that the human bone daggers are mechanically superior to the cassowary bone daggers.
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While initially struck by the ornamentation on the daggers, Dominy was puzzled by the fact that the daggers were made from two completely different bones.
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To investigate the mechanical strength of the bone daggers, Dominy and his colleagues took CT scans of 11 daggers -- five made from human bone and six from cassowary bone -- from the late 19th and early 20th century, and simulated the effect of applying stress to the daggers.
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In the deleted scene, the survivors' glares are like daggers.
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There are "fewer daggers" being lobbed internally, one source said.
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Throw daggers at him all day and [make him] sad.
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Every round of Devil Daggers starts like the same nightmare.
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She just didn't know where the daggers were coming from.
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Now Mr Corbyn and Ms Swinson are at daggers drawn.
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Levinson always did pirouette well and know his way around daggers.
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" Of Michigan and Washington, in particular, Herman said, "They're both daggers.
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He is at daggers drawn with the West, like Soviet leaders.
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Read: Colossal statue of pharaoh brought to life in 3D images Human bone daggers often had elaborate designs and patterns incised on the daggers to project a feeling of "power and menace" and instill fear, added Roscoe.
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They escort him up the bank, shooting daggers at the townie cops.
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It was one of his daggers, an antique imbued with metaphysical power.
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They grip each other's hands, and draw their dragonglass daggers, and stand.
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And he probably just liked "House of Flying Daggers" as a movie.
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It's like three daggers in one and you have to twist it.
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So were the Malays of the past, with daggers, swords and spears.
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Strapped to their backs and belts and legs were daggers, revolvers, axes.
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A witch-hunt could instead turn it into a department of daggers.
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Bowen is a ballerina who develops the ability to create daggers of light.
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Sophisticated about media, he carefully goes off the record before unsheathing any daggers.
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Q: Double Daggers — Xayah throws two blades in a line, damaging all enemies hit.
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Dual-wielding daggers made me feel like a lawnmower cutting through blood and bone.
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Hefty daggers, staggering broadswords and even battle axes are unsheathed and duly deployed throughout.
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But instead of lobbing daggers back at her, he invited her out for coffee.
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On the other hand, if I end up with homing daggers sprouting from every killed enemy (Ceremonial Dagger), chances are I'll be playing to maximize final hits on enemies and thus maximize how many daggers I can have flying around at once.
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The conventional symbolism of bloody daggers, skulls, ploughs and hour glasses seems banal chez Picasso.
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"I saw him stare at her, daggers," Margulies recalled, and the assistant shrugged at him.
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While Dammik is throwing daggers, Burgle tries a little sweetness and gets through to Nikki.
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Paul Gay, as Saint-Bris, presided with chilling conviction over the Blessing of the Daggers.
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That number does not include daggers in which a frustrated defender crowds his landing zone.
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Here's the best Devil Daggers run I've seen by who seems like a superhuman player.
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Vergara, glaring daggers at Bomer, quickly joked, "That was mine!" before conceding he was correct.
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Until this early fall night in 2001, with its unseasonable cold, the Midwest wind like daggers.
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The end of the honeymoon does not mean that China and America are at daggers drawn.
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But with daggers seemingly being thrown from all sides, the Kenosha native keeps things in perspective.
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Up until this point, I'd been making do with short swords and daggers, the occasional spear.
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One side of his reception room is decorated with the spears, swords and daggers of tradition.
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If it had shown up, it likely would have been dodging daggers from the big automakers.
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It is especially tough if Tiger Woods, once again commanding and authoritative, is shooting you daggers.
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We just shot daggers at each other from across the dining room for an entire year.
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Striding out of a woods was a band of rugged-looking men with rifles and daggers.
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Maybe you're passionate about making spears, or cudgels, or daggers, to fend off our oversized invaders.
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" These critics, Loesch says, are trying to "drive their daggers through the heart of [America's] future.
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" He stared daggers at a fan with a camera and said: "Put your camera down. Participate!
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Prior to the new study, it was unknown if daggers made from human bones were stronger or weaker than those made from bird bones, but given the dual purpose of the daggers, it was also possible that the social prestige of human bone trumped its functional value.
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Read: Researchers solve mystery of 'alien' skeleton Dominy added that the reason human bone daggers were made stronger was that, while cassowary bone daggers are easy to replace, if a human bone dagger was to break, both its utilitarian use and symbolic value would be lost.
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Shields and weapons, which range from axes to swords, spears, daggers, bows and crossbows, are also handmade.
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And if the daggers were made from human bone, all the better due to their structural superiority.
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When three young women in corsets showed up wielding daggers, I figured I had the right Sims.
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In fact, swords, spears, daggers, sabers, bowie knives and machetes are all perfectly fine to tote around.
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Rhino horn, used as daggers and in traditional Asian medicine, is more expensive than gold or cocaine.
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Who hasn't stared into the mirror and thrown a few steel daggers at the reflection staring back?
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Swalwell told Buttigieg he should have fired the police chief; Buttigieg stared daggers in cold, silent response.
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He suggested "House of Flying Daggers," and she said that she was O.K. with watching something else.
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He's got crazy Nazi daggers everywhere, but he was more excited about the lighters than anything else.
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Say hello to the bobbit – a metre-long worm with jaws as sharp as daggers#BluePlanet2 pic.twitter.
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I downloaded it this morning and threw dragonglass daggers at a bunch of White Walkers in the office.
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From blood-dipped art to fingers that shoot daggers, these are Halloween nails you'll actually feel cool wearing.
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"For someone struggling with an eating disorder, those words can get twisted and feel like daggers," Zerwas says.
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With the game still on the line, Byron and Pacioretty added empty net daggers to seal Edmonton's fate.
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Ty gets the ability to engulf people in darkness while Tandy shoots "light daggers" made of psychic energy.
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Meanwhile swords and daggers are replaced with brooms and buckets, which act as extensions of the dancers' bodies.
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The nationalist Fatah movement that rules the West Bank is at daggers drawn with Hamas, which holds Gaza.
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While bone daggers primarily functioned as weapons, they were also prized ceremonial ornaments conspicuously worn on the bicep.
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His defenders argue that for all of his verbal daggers, Mr. Johnson is at heart a liberal internationalist.
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Whether straightforward spears and daggers or elaborately decorated shields, axes and throwing knives, iron armaments possess physical strength.
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He legally owned approximately 13 guns, as well as tactical gear and about 21 knives, daggers and swords.
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Hela is absolutely glorious in her first time onscreen, a whirling menace that's all horns, daggers, and death.
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Dissecting a drawer full of daggers Biological anthropologist and lead author of the study, Nathaniel Dominy, first discovered a drawer full of bone daggers from New Guinea when "poking around in the underbelly" of the Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth College, USA, where he is a professor of anthropology.
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But some bone daggers were forged from the femurs of respected men, especially those sourced from battle-proven warriors.
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Weirdly, however, the results showed that the cassowary bone daggers were deliberately engineered by the Papuans to be weaker.
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"CORY WAS STARING DAGGERS AT BETO SPEAKING SPANISH BECAUSE HE WAS PLANNING HIS OWN SPANISH REVEAL," one user wrote.
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When Marni told Hannah to "envelope" her nipple, I think we all felt the daggers coming from Hannah's eyes.
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In one room, I paused before a glass cabinet of daggers glinting with bejeweled and mother-of-pearl hilts.
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I look around, and it seems that more than a few inmates are sending ocular daggers in Murdoc's direction.
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Participants were required to undergo airport-level security and a long list of items, from daggers to Frisbees, were banned.
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Cosentino was very online, and very sensitive to the digital daggers piercing her music, her personal life and her looks.
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In truth, this is a monster movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Zhang Yimou (House of the Flying Daggers).
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She can set a feather-filled trap with her basic attack and Double Daggers, then thwart her attackers with Bladecaller.
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Of course, this being RHONY, the daggers were never fully tucked away, with the ladies confessing some back-handed compliments.
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Wei Fang is captured and caged, and the two spend most of the movie glaring love-daggers at each other.
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It might just be the camera angle, but he probably really sticks some eye daggers into Rajon, that ol' jerk.
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But it was the Pacers' bench, specifically backup center Jordan Hill and Rodney Stuckey, who delivered daggers against the Bucks.
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The obvious inspiration here, aside from the author in the title's pun, and those older driving games, is Devil Daggers.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO On her new album, "Dreams and Daggers," Ms. Salvant continues her mission of turning up America's unseemly soil.
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Groups of youths began patrolling streets, armed with an array of weapons including machetes, bows and arrows, clubs, and daggers.
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He went scoreless for nearly the first eight minutes of the second half, and Allen prevented him from delivering late daggers.
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Many of these daggers were forged from the femurs of large birds, but some were made from the bones of humans.
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The daggers made from human bone thus carried tremendous social prestige, featuring elaborate designs and worn as a conspicuous personal accessory.
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Humans have been constructing implements of destruction for thousands of years, including sharpened stones, spears, daggers, bows and arrows, and clubs.
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But Zhang enjoyed his greatest commercial success in the '00s, via martial-arts spectacles like Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
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Shooters like Devil Daggers, Dusk, and Strafe have recaptured, in different ways, the joy of playing Quake on your parents' Dell.
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Whereas, with the cassowary daggers, they removed a lot of the sides of the bone, resulting in a flatter, weaker design.
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Along with the vessel, the team also found arrowheads, daggers, an ax head and animal bones from sheep and possibly donkeys.
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Shops in the cobblestone alleyways of Old Sana'a glistened with bejeweled jumbiyas, the curved ceremonial daggers that hang from male waists.
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He lasts about eight minutes: As you can see, Devil Daggers also nails that Doom look: dark, drab, pixelated, and menacing.
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It evaporates in the sun, leaving behind gypsum crystals as big as your feet that protrude from the ground like daggers.
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He leaps from rooftop to rooftop, and either employs or avoids all manner of weapons, including axes, crossbows, arrows, torches, and daggers.
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Bone daggers may have been objects of artistic expression and indicators of social status, but they were important close-combat weapons, too.
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Instead, their goal seems to be the preservation of social prestige; suitable human bone daggers were rare, and preferably from the father.
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"Men engineered bone daggers differently despite a single common purpose, which was to kill men during hand-to-hand fighting," said Dominy.
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Only a dozen or so known swords, daggers, and axes are scattered among the great houses (plus Brienne, because Jaime hearts Brienne).
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In fact, by the end of last month, Trump was at daggers drawn with the group -- taking to Twitter to attack them.
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Manafort on Tuesday was seen with his arms folded, staring daggers as his former deputy testified as part of a plea deal.
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The Blessing of the Daggers, with its cold brass choirs, its shrieking winds, and its bloodthirsty choral chants, has a demonic glamour.
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Eventually, the woman felt comfortable enough to ask the man why he had picked "House of Flying Daggers" for their first date.
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You can buy a ticket to hell and a very effective lesson in humility by buying Devil Daggers from Steam for $5.
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They would try to find a middle ground or realize how deeply their differences divided them or spit daggers at each other.
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Blunt clubs, pointed daggers, and spiked bats alongside a frightening set of ritualistic masks fill the gallery as Shapiro's works titled Urban Obsessions.
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He explodes into "a one-man Judean Air Force: a single pirouette, two Finnish daggers, two throats slit," dispatching Stalin's emissaries ninja style.
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He wears a traditional head-kerchief and a black T-shirt displaying two daggers above the slogan, "We are proud to be Malay".
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DIAMOND: Throwing daggers at a sitting president and calling a sitting president nasty names is not going to get people to the polls.
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How much harder to make the case in the Balkans: Kosovo and Serbia are at daggers drawn, and Bosnia is an ungovernable mess.
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Which, for "Game of Thrones" fans, means only one thing -- a new season of HBO's hit dragons-and-daggers fantasy series is coming.
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The 30 designs in this book are inspired by classic tattoo flash and feature all the skulls, daggers, and flower blossoms you'd expect.
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That was the first of Ole Miss' three big daggers in the initial 30 minutes — all touchdowns, including Jaylon Jones' 94-yard kickoff return.
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Their effect with music is to turn the usually desirable sparkly high details into sharp little treble daggers that stab at my ears unexpectedly.
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So she was well-prepared for the daggers that Trump threw her way, a sustained, personal, bitter attack unprecedented at a televised presidential debate.
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MANAFORT STARES DAGGERS AT RICK GATES, AS PARTNER-TURNED-WITNESS DETAILS BOOK-COOKING Gates acknowledged during testimony on Monday to embezzling money from Manafort.
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But what if the acre of dry land we thought we'd found was just the back of an angry turtle with daggers for teeth?
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But he reverses himself after the Corleones ferry his brother from Italy to sit prominently in the Senate hearing room, staring daggers at him.
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In the fourth quarter, they were daggers to the heart of a team more than holding its own from inside the 3-point line.
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"They're shaped like little tiny daggers," said Dr. Philip Landrigan, an occupational physician who has studied the health effects of asbestos for many years.
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But even before that, Mr. Mugabe had dismissed another former vice president, Joice Mujuru, who seemed to be at daggers drawn with Mrs. Mugabe.
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He has tarnished his reputation by going after imagined enemies, fair critics and those who don't wish him well with the same tweet daggers.
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Beyond the show's spooky cloaks and daggers, he hopes new episodes will allow viewers to continue probing the sexually fluid sorcerer he plays onscreen.
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They must be exposed for what they are: sharp daggers pointed only at Israel, sheathed in the soft cover of concern for human rights.
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The puzzle for anthropologists was in understanding why some bone daggers were made from cassowary shin bones while others were made from human thigh bones.
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It almost looked like a wry smile was about to flash across his face, but he was staring daggers Drake's way for a minute there.
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As the skin's temperature drops from 33.8°C to 1 °C, horribly intense tingling starts—not so much pins and needles as swords and daggers.
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Now he is trying to dodge the daggers aimed at him and at Uber, a ride-hailing firm that is the world's most valuable startup.
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As for the Hunter, there's a new Arc subclass called Arcstrider similar to the original game's Bladedancer that replaces daggers with a lightning-imbued staff.
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The company has demonstrated a godlike skill for maintaining an undying thirst among Dota players for more hats and fancier lances, daggers, and sniper rifles.
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Manafort on Tuesday was seen with his arms folded, staring daggers as his former deputy testified, on the stand as part of a plea deal.
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Our team labored to produce a series of policy papers and memos, but when I proudly presented them to him, she looked daggers at me.
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Yet the final straw was the 59 missiles Trump fired at a Syrian airbase, which struck the alt-right as 59 daggers in their backs.
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In an activity known as cosplay, or costume play, they chase one another here and there and engage in mock fights with swords and daggers.
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In the early afternoon, the hall began to fill with men wearing white head scarves and the traditional curved daggers, called janbiyas , in their belts.
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Last week, Christie's auctioned Indian and Mughal-era jewels, daggers and royal portraits from a collection owned by a member of the Qatari royal family.
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She had never used chopsticks before coming to Tokyo, and for the first few days she employed them separately, one in each hand, like daggers.
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The Celtic word "dagge" — pointed skewers or daggers sometimes used to pierce meat for cooking — became the source of the name "dagwood," and later dogwood.
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Scorn Between Doom, Dark Souls III, Devil Daggers, and Thumper, it seems like some of 2016's greatest offerings were about relentless trips to Hell.
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Kay Sage's "The Fourteen Daggers" (943) is a delightful and enigmatic painting that seems to meld elements of de Chirico, René Magritte, and Edward Hopper.
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Arya's got daggers, Sansa's got //looks// to slay In every new morsel of Game of Thrones Season 8 content, we've seen Sansa serving some fire looks.
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The deadly ice daggers have forced the closure of those spaces, as pointed out by local blogger Matt Maldre and reblogged by Daring Fireball's John Gruber.
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And yet, every year, the halls are decked with red and white spiraled sugar sticks intended to be sucked on until they become pointy, minty daggers.
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Even before the law passed, the Quebec government had banned several Sikhs from entering the Quebec legislature with small ceremonial daggers, or kirpans, under their clothing.
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DuVernay finds a way to fashion public revelations into daggers that cut at the soul of main characters, pushing them toward growth, discovery, and, occasionally, further destruction.
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The picture of Milano staring daggers at the back of Brett Kavanaugh's head while cocking her glasses in a particularly witchy way went viral on Twitter Thursday.
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Other vessels and metal items were found such as daggers, arrowheads, an axe head, sheep bones and what are believed to be the bones of a donkey.
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Among the 75 items in this personal museum are framed handguns with the Nazi insignia, daggers, war medals, trophies and a large embossed bust of Adolf Hitler.
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Kern's Social Democrats (SPO) and Sebastian Kurz's conservative People's Party (OVP) are coalition partners and have dominated Austrian politics for decades, but are now at daggers drawn.
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Some commentators initially argued the split was fake, a means to fool the West into dropping its guard as the two communist giants appeared at daggers drawn.
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In one scene, a dancer — Susie (Dakota Johnson) — performs in a studio, expelling sharp, sudden breaths as she rises and falls, her arms shooting out like daggers.
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Their catch-up conversation is littered with casual daggers to the heart, like her surprise that he's a father when she didn't think he was the type.
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What makes matters worse is that neither man has any experience working in the high-charged political Washington environment, where verbal daggers are always at the ready.
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On Luck's first and last third-down attempts, his pocket looked like the Oval Office, giving him time to find T.Y. Hilton for 12- and 26-yard daggers.
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There was no press release, no onstage meltdown, no seismic argument over stolen ritual daggers—just silence from a band that once dominated the UK's extreme music scene.
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When I tried to get out of bed I screamed as daggers of pain stabbed into my hips and pelvis, even though I took 600 milligrams of Ibuprofen.
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It measured about a foot long, nearly twice the size of any living sperm whale's tooth, and was larger than the daggers that lined a Tyrannosaurus rex's jaws.
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The attack would start at a distance with spears and arrows, and bone daggers would be used to stab opponents in the neck in hand-to-hand fighting.
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Shapiro works repetitively, painstakingly crafting his "protection pieces," stud and crystal encrusted baseball bats and daggers, from found and collected objects in what amounts to an obsessive ritual.
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It was very apparent that the candidates were not being treated equally: Secretary Clinton took daggers for ten minutes about her emails, and Mr. Trump only got softballs.
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Blessing's van pulled into a walled-off lot containing a building known as a "connection house," where dozens of migrants were guarded by men holding daggers and swords.
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Dreams and Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant Best Improvised Jazz Solo "Can't Remember Why" — Sara Caswell, soloist; track from Whispers On The Wind by Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge
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At one point the video, which was backed by the Chinese Communist Party Youth League, shows two young women in camouflage clothing repeat the lyrics while showing off daggers.
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We can definitely question whether he will really be at daggers drawn with China, will the Mexican Wall really be built, is NATO really so unimportant in his eyes?
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Her quest soon leads her arrested, but she's released under the watchful eye of a handsome soldier, who plans to follow her and infiltrate the House of Flying Daggers.
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They got on either side of a sand tiger named Otis: gray-brown and sleek, 8 feet 5 inches long, 200 pounds, with a mouth full of curved daggers.
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Though the movie was directed by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou ("House of Flying Daggers"), its plot and action are predictable and extremely watered down, according to the scribes.
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Directed by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero), The Great Wall represents a huge gamble for Legendary Pictures, which helped finance this English-language 3D extravaganza.
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The trails are just as slippery as yesterday, with the added complication that there are ice pellets falling from the sky that feel like itty bitty daggers stabbing your eyeballs.
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Teleportation and light daggers are certainly showier than emotional conversations, but Tyrone and Tandy's greatest powers so far have been their abilities to see the other people's fears and hopes.
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The list doesn't include Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, easily the best entry in the franchise in years, or small and enjoyable one-offs, like the retro-gritty Devil Daggers.
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But as I reported the story, I found that hidden hands pulling the strings from every direction belonged to culture warriors with daggers drawn over the future of abortion rights.
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Jolie also said that she and then-partner Brad Pitt had "already bought Maddox some things," though she did make sure to note all the daggers Maddox had were dulled.
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There's a potential new distraction at every turn—video games, a bar, a basket of toy daggers—and grown men and women are grabbing at him to pose for selfies.
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" "I am so honored and proud of you Mr. President, the integrity and honor you have shown us … pulling the daggers out of your back every day hasn't been fair.
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young social media star, looked down or away when Trump delivered comments she viewed as egregious and stared daggers at colleagues who stood and clapped.
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But details as lethal as these — they sink into Mr. Jobs's legend like daggers to the hilt — are more proof than any DNA test that she is her father's daughter.
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It's a young-adult story featuring two damaged teenagers who discover they have superpowers: Tandy (Olivia Holt) produces light daggers, while Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph) teleports using a dark, shadowy cloak.
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The self-described Witches of West Hollywood were a tight clique, having nabbed jobs at SUR around the same time, but that didn't prevent Schroeder from shooting daggers their way.
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That prospect is worrying for a region where conflicts or political crises from Lebanon and Syria to Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain involve proxies of both powers who are at daggers drawn.
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Zhang Yimou, of Hero and House of Flying Daggers, directs this film about China's Great Wall, which takes a surprise turn away from reality and into something a bit more epic.
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Zhang Yimou, the legendary director of House of Flying Daggers and Raise the Red Lantern, has responded to the backlash against the trailer for his upcoming monster movie The Great Wall.
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This seemingly unstoppable growth accentuates the problem and shortcomings of current solutions, and warrants the need for new defensive technologies to detect and stop the digital daggers aimed at our backs.
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Andrew M. Cuomo ended that practice, signing a bill to remove such knives from the category of "deadly weapons," a designation reserved for guns, daggers and switchblades, and allow their possession.
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A crew member had kept showing up to my apartment after work unannounced, going into my trailer while I wasn't in it, and staring daggers at me from across the set.
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The same energy gave Tyrone and Tandy their abilities to teleport and manifest energy daggers, and somehow, holding hands let the two of them undo the damage it did to everyone else.
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So let's just imagine Lil Wayne when he chirps "pop some pills that make me sleepy!" is using nunchucks to take down a bad guy where Young Thug might use his daggers.
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They fell into fires, they were bitten to death, they were stabbed with swords and daggers, they had arrows shot through their chests, or they faced the fiery wrath of angry dragons.
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In the left panel of "Children of the World Dream of Peace," children from many cultures come together to destroy swords and daggers that are sheathed in the flags of many nations.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about winning, but it is one of his failed ventures that brought out daggers from his opponents in Thursday night's Republican presidential debate.
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For many years Mr. Chalidze operated out of a strikingly decorated communal apartment, where sabers and daggers hung from a wall and collections of stones and dried scorpions were kept under glass.
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Objects he had admired as a youngster — ancient limestone carvings, gilded Torah scrolls, bejeweled Islamic daggers, a spindly 2,500-year-old mummy — were missing amid the charred debris and shattered display cases.
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Back in season two, Samwell Tarly and his friends discovered a mysterious package buried north of the Wall — a stash of dragonglass daggers and a horn, wrapped in a Night's Watch cloak.
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And it does appear in the puzzle now and then — sometimes clued as division symbols, other times as printer's daggers, which are seen in footnotes and are vertical symbols of varying complexity.
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A decorated human bone dagger (top) and a decorated cassowary bone dagger (bottom)Image: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth CollegeBone daggers were used mainly during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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The state-run Shanghai Daily, the city's official English-language newspaper, said on Tuesday police banned a wide range of objects from the expo venue, including guns, explosives, daggers, fireworks, gasoline and alcohol.
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After championing the rights of women and indigenous peoples, he now finds himself at daggers drawn with Ms Wilson-Raybould, who is both female and a member of the We Wai Kai nation.
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The US and North Korea remain at daggers drawn and without having ever signed a peace treaty the peninsula is still technically at war, with a heavily fortified border dividing the two countries.
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House of Flying Daggers (China) This film feels as if it were shot through Instagram's Lo-Fi filter, and the wonderfully saturated colors are only part of this Chinese movie's lush, beautiful magic.
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In the Sepik region of New Guinea, up until as recently as the 1970s, men would arm themselves with bone daggers in large raids or small-scale ambushes of neighboring groups, he explained.
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Longstanding traditions among the Muslims here — like visits to famous burial sites and a ceremony involving the striking of swords and daggers — are frowned upon by those who have studied in Saudi Arabia.
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Two different Americas, one blue, one red, with different visions of what the country should be, glare at one another, daggers drawn, regarding the other side not just as wrong, but as evil.
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Colin Catlin had hoped to find telling information on her phone, but instead he found the wallpaper she selected for it haunting: an album cover featuring a body with daggers in its back.
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And if you are wondering why we are seeing a story like this come out of Iran, it&aposs because it&aposs a sign that the daggers are out for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
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The demo that I listened to during CES was a scene from the movie House of Flying Daggers, where a bean is thrown across a large room and rebounds off a series of drums.
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The head-on impact destroyed the satellite instantly, shattering it into a cloud of debris that sent over 35,000 shards into orbit, where they still circle like a ring of daggers around the planet.
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Seoul's National Museum of Korea has a display of bronze daggers, ceramics, and other relics said to be from the period and credited as "the first state ever to emerge on the Korean Peninsula".
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Before you start to rattle off a list of potential influences that have informed the Mink Daggers ballsy punk pedigree, you should probably know that those influences probably involve bands they've already been in.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In movies like Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou has proven to be one of the most visually dexterous directors of action working today.
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Inside there was very little trace of the men who had lived there, except for some daggers, a large black baton and an ISIS flag hanging above a double bed in the master bedroom.
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That spear idea is an interesting one, and it was echoed in Vanity Fair's theory that the weapon may be two in one — a sort of double-ended spear that separates into two shorter daggers.
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Olivier Rousteing did that opening segment with his Balmain designs so that was fun to design before because it's all kind of punk rock, heavy metal, silver daggers embroidered into the shoes, studs and palettes.
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In a 2014 episode of his podcast, "Person, Place, Thing," the author Jean Hanff Korelitz spoke about owning daggers and a whip that a relative brought back from the war and gave to her father.
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As I emerged from the Winter's War screening vowing to invest in fingernail daggers and ride a polar bear to the office, new aspirations oozed out of me like a potentially destructive puddle of gold.
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Among the items were miniature cameras, concealed daggers and guns, gas masks, Berlin Wall barbed wire, miniature listening devices and all kinds of concealment devices - all the cool spy gear that made spy thrillers exciting.
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You kick a ragged football across the empty landscape, occasionally clashing with other football clubs who you either have to defeat on a makeshift football pitch, or attack with daggers made from human shin bones.
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And Ms. Love, a New York-based designer, has no doubts about why her retailers and social media followers have renewed interest in the fierce-looking, but harmless, miniature daggers dangling from earrings and necklaces.
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Many people taking part in the rally painted their faces in the colors of the Yemeni flag and others danced holding assault rifles and traditional daggers as Houthi leaders cheered the crowd from the main podium.
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Papuan bone daggers had both utilitarian and symbolic purposes; they were at once a formidable close-contact, hand-to-hand weapon, as well as a powerful indicator of male social status, featuring beautiful and ornate markings.
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Paul's consecutive 3-pointers in the final minutes were daggers to a Miami comeback, and his game-high 63 points helped the visiting Los Angeles Clippers hang on to beat the Heat, 100-93, on Sunday.
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Yimou is known to general American audiences for Hero and The House of Flying Daggers, but before throwing himself on the wuxia money train he was the major indie darling director of Raise the Red Lantern.
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They let 91 players choose their own roles (by picking up a battleaxe, a staff, or a pair of daggers respectively), while 78 were assigned their roles and 41 were given no specific role at all.
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In 2008, Jolie told W Magazine that her mom took her to buy her first daggers when she was 11 or 12 years old, and she even passed down her love of knives to her kids.
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For a couple of decades, party congresses like the coming one were showcases for this, with one dull leader following the other, sometimes with daggers in their backs, but still in some sort of predictable pattern.
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Tyene — the Sand Snake who liked to slick her daggers with the Long Farewell, the poison used on both Bronn and Myrcella — got a taste of her own medicine when she was given Cersei's goodbye kiss.
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Whether it comes out through absurd sight gags or the verbal daggers the four Roy sibs throw at each other with abandon, the humor is there — often subtle, occasionally in your face, and almost always dark.
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Nothing against Phelps' daggers, but the standard for inter-Olympian conflict was set (and is still held) by figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, way back in 1994 at the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.
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A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science gives an insight into the reverence with which they held the daggers made from human bones -- showing how they engineered them to better protect these weapons in combat.
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With Apple rivals set to showcase their flashy gadgets and emerging technology this week in Sin City (Apple does not participate), it sure appears that the company is throwing daggers in the general direction of its competitors.
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His career has since traveled down several unlikely, sometimes unsuccessful roads, from classy martial-arts fare (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) to misbegotten Coen brothers remakes (his Blood Simple homage A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop).
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Unfortunately, the virus of minimalism, which did a lot of good in other parts of the tech field, ultimately put its daggers into the desktop keyboard, leading to designs that were the very definition of form over function.
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Ichijo was also kind enough to point me towards games such as " RE.CO.N" , Devil Daggers, Strafe, Dusk, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, and Vaccine as examples of other works playing in the a similar PS1-era 23D style.
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The beauty is not just in the illustrations themselves, but in the way the archive is organized: A word cloud lets you search the illustrations by motif, from the magical (witches, fairies, ghosts) to the grim (death, daggers, beheadings).
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Still, this year's celebration with the Nationals went over better with Trump than when the Houston Astros came to visit after their 2017 World Series win, during which the second baseman stared daggers at Trump as the president spoke.
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Conversely, it's hard to showcase gleaming accouterments like SS belt buckles, Hitler Youth bugles and ebony daggers without glamorizing the Nazi penchant for using bold iconography on flags and uniforms to convey an aura of romance, power and invincibility.
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The guests settled onto their pillows, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, whose "Dreams and Daggers" won the 2018 Grammy for best vocal jazz album, soon brought chatter to a halt with her rendition of "Go Down Moses," sung a cappella.
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New research published today in Royal Society Open Science shows that Papuan men were more interested in preserving the prestige aspect of the bone daggers than ensuring their functional aspects, a surprising result given the life-and-death stakes involved.
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Closed-back cans also typically struggle to find the right tonal balance, with either the bass submerging everything into a swamp of thump, such as with the Campfire Cascade, or the treble shooting a thousand sharp daggers at your eardrums.
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The service will feature movies like The Descent, The Silence of the Lambs, and the original Omen films — although those will be vanishing on October 31st, so subscribers will have to strike while the sacred, Antichrist-killing daggers are hot.
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Leathers – who also found a mentor in acclaimed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis — earned his two Grammy awards playing for Salvant, on 2015's For One to Love and 2017's Dreams and Daggers, which both won for best jazz vocal album.
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Not long after the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BCE, one of the assassins, Brutus, minted coins with a freedom cap between two daggers as a sign of freedom from the tyranny of the dictator.
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The Oscar-nominated director of "Raise the Red Lantern", "Hero", "The House of Flying Daggers" and "The Great Wall", picked up a Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival where he also premiered his latest, "Ying" ("Shadow").
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At the table read for Charlotte (featuring your pal and mine, Victor Buono!), Bette and Joan do their best to start fresh — Oscars schmoscars — and present a united front, but it's not long before the passive-aggressive verbal daggers start flying.
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Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph), the Cloak in the equation, can phase from place to place in darkness, while Dagger, Tandy (Olivia Holt), can conjure light daggers, a handy ability that -- like practically everything else here -- initially isn't put to effective use.
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Leathers — who also found a mentor in acclaimed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis — earned his two Grammy awards playing for Salvant, on 2015's For One to Love and 2017's Dreams and Daggers, which both won for best jazz vocal album.
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VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Zhang Yimou, the Chinese director of "The Great Wall", "The House of Flying Daggers" and "Raise the Red Lantern", brought a Shakespearean martial arts epic to Venice on Thursday where he was awarded for his contributions to filmmaking.
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Even if high-echelon back-stabbing in London doesn't involve real daggers anymore (at least not to my knowledge), it still racks up devastating collateral damage — including the faith of a reeling electorate in those who would control its future.
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Durant will travel with the team to Oklahoma City on Monday, and should be present on the sideline to glance in the general direction of his former teammate Russell Westbrook while the Thunder guard shoots daggers at him in return.
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Mulan will be executive produced by Bill Kong (best known Stateside for House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and rely on input from Chinese cultural consultants and the large co-production team that Disney maintains with Shanghai Media Group.
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For a start, there are the retail workers who are unrelentingly subjected to these songs—their minds slowly eroded to the tune of "The Most Wonderful Time Of Year," the rum-pump-a-pumping of "Stop The Cavalry" like daggers to the heart.
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During Sunday's concluding round, the final twosome of Sergio Garcia of Spain and Justin Rose of England lived up to its marquee billing, with the pair wielding their putters like daggers until Garcia delivered the fatal blow on the first playoff hole.
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But now, 39 games into his ninth campaign, with more efficient numbers on arguably the most dangerous Raptors team in franchise history, DeRozan's finally adopted a more balanced game, one that allows his impact to stretch beyond contested daggers from the right elbow.
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If the "planned fire of power demonstration" is carried out because of U.S. recklessness, Kim said it will be "the most delightful historic moment when the Hwasong artillerymen will wring the windpipes of the Yankees and point daggers at their necks," the news agency reported.
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"If the planned fire of power demonstration is carried out as the US is going more reckless, it will be the most delightful historic moment when the Hwasong artillerymen will wring the windpipes of the Yankees and point daggers at their necks," the report said.
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How can the United States help defend South Korea when Seoul and Tokyo are at daggers drawn over military incidents such as the December dust-up involving a Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy combatant locking its fire-control radar onto a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft?
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Otherwise they sold items that I found funny ("Warning: You are Entering a Red Neck Area," read one sign) or faintly disturbing (Confederate flags hung from a stall where a tattoo-wearing trader displayed his array of large daggers to a spellbound young boy).
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Devil Daggers, a new first person shooter that was released this week, takes that formula, cooks it on a slow flame for many hours, and reduces it to its most basic, potent form, so you can get a full demon-shooting experience in about minute.
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A small fortune is on display on the floor and walls of his compound — Persian rugs, Blackfeet Indian daggers and an assortment of rare books, including the proof sheets for Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," with 26 of the author's markings.
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You may even be that person at the office staring daggers at Coworker A (who bought too much) and Coworker B (stuck with the kids' surplus) because they both decided to solve their candy problems by dumping a pile of sweets in front of you.
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Directed by Zhang Yimou, known for films like "House of Flying Daggers" and for orchestrating the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, "The Great Wall" finds Mr. Damon in ancient China as William Garin, a bedraggled European mercenary.
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At Uber, former CEO Travis Kalanick has completely cashed out while the daggers have come out for CEO Dara Khorosowhahi as he struggles to turn around a fundamentally unprofitable, unsafe company whose only hope lies in privatizing all of transportation at everyone else's expense.
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The action had been taken to give the Zhang Yimou-directed "House of Flying Daggers" a boost at the local box office and was a new form of regulation compared to the foreign film quota, which had been in existence for much longer, said Cavender.
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Renowned director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero) has placed Westerners at the center of a fundamentally Chinese narrative before, notably with Christian Bale in 2011's The Flowers of War, and he is clearly no stranger to the scope of scale of historical epics.
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So when one of the four candidates in the 1860 race, the Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, announced he was going to travel from Chicago to New Hampshire, by way of New Orleans, to visit his sick mother, political opponents and the partisan press drew their daggers.
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Apparently, The Mountain is impervious to literally everything, up to and including daggers through the brain, so The Hound does the only thing left he can do: Trucks him through a crumbling wall and off the side of the Red Keep to a fiery, mutual death.
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After her death, this was confirmed by the newspapers, which also printed a picture of the Brave Girl—her nickname during the war—when she was a teen-ager, her hair chopped short, a carbine on her shoulder, and two unsheathed daggers haphazardly tucked into her belt.
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George R. R. Martin's website bristles with official "Game of Thrones" merchandise, including scabbards, blades, daggers and a large number of dangerous-looking swords (including one called the "Oathkeeper Damascus," which goes for a cool $700 and comes with a firm warning: "This is not a toy").
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MONTREAL — Canadians were still recovering from the verbal daggers President Trump lobbed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at last weekend's Group of 7 summit meeting in Quebec when the news came that the newly minted frenemies would join Mexico to jointly host the 2026 World Cup.
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The problem is that the film, directed by Zhang Yimou ("House of Flying Daggers"), was held up as not just escapist entertainment but also as proof that China can serve up international blockbusters — that event films can rise in the East and play in the West.
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With origins dating back to ancient Greece, handshaking is believed to have originated to prove participants were not holding weapons (the shaking may have been a way to loosen daggers hidden inside clothing.) A funeral stone in Berlin's Pergamom museum from 5th century B.C. shows two soldiers clasping hands.
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" He describes Honor — which uses a fascist-style logo of three upraised daggers, and whose name many members have tattooed on their bodies — as a "new youth civic movement that focuses on the problems of the capital" and whose guiding ideology is the "struggle for justice and Ukrainian independence.
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I've actually considered asking if I can continue browsing the store while my card sits in the machine for what feels like an eternity — especially when I'm scrambling to get to my next destination, and the people in line behind me are shooting daggers into the back of my skull.
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Those "suspicious looks" were obviously eye-daggers of jealous hate directed at Booth, who was in the viewing room standing annoyingly close to Quinn, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BELONG TO RACHEL, DAMN IT. All of season 2 has been about Rachel and Quinn trying to define this strange thing between them.
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The two schools of thought, known as "prescriptivism" (which sets down how the language should be) and "descriptivism" (which tells how it is), have often been at daggers drawn: English teachers and some usage-book writers on one side, and academic linguists, lexicographers and other usage-book writers on the other.
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The service wasn't particularly popular in China for most of its existence, but picked up significant steam in the last couple of years; the company then decided to enter the smartphone business, striking deals with directors like Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) to create content for its devices.
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And people are still talking about his Quicksilver scene in Days of Future Past, though I'd argue his true success in that film was translating a character like Blink — who can teleport by using pink daggers made of energy — into a live-action movie and making her more visually impressive.
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His third LP, Doris and The Daggers, is set to be released under his original Spiral Stairs moniker March 24 via Nile Mile Records and Domino in the UK. It's a comeback album with a wealthy cast of guest musicians from bands like Broken Social Scene, The National, and Shudder To Think.
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These nuances add a layer to the fight scenes: Aang is evasive and light on foot, never attacking and always dodging; Katara keeps a pouch of water like a fanny pack, which she uses as a whip, ice daggers, or even for healing; and Zuko, especially early on, bends fire with evident rage.
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That he never really fit in -- and that he was at daggers drawn with Trump almost since the jump -- shows that Trump was never really committed to the idea that Tillerson seemed to embody: That the President would lean on and listen to highly successful and skilled people he brought into his Cabinet.
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He had mastered the air—racking up five NBA championships in an awe-inspiring twister of last-second daggers, pull-up jumpers, pump-fakes, chandelier-shattering tomahawks, and corkscrew fade-aways that tested the assumptions of what was humanly possible—and thus, the reasoning went, he could never be brought to earth.
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Mr. Leathers spent most of the past decade playing in the backing trio for Cecile McLorin Salvant, arguably jazz's premier young vocalist, and he is featured on two of her recordings, "For One to Love" (2015) and "Dreams and Daggers" (2017), both of which won Grammy Awards for best jazz vocal album.
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Another friend I knew from college in Virginia decided that we needed matching sets of daggers on our outer ribs, both because they would look good peeking out from a tank top that summer and because they would serve as protective amulets against the unrelenting crush of the city we'd moved to after graduation.
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And when they came back after two weeks in the woods with the smell and bloody knuckles and dirt and a uniform that's been out in the field for a year and the hats, and the daggers on their shoulders, I remember looking at those guys like they were the coolest human beings on the planet.
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For example, Poland has particularly gripping graphics, like a crumbling pile of weathered stones by Weislaw Walkuski for a 1994 production of Julius Caesar and a 2008 poster for Romeo and Juliet by Leszek Zebrowski that gets beyond the usual daggers and roses with a simple image of an open bear trap in the shape of a heart.
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But while those two are shooting daggers and B-words at each other, it's the combustible on-again, off-again relationship between Princess Eleanor (Alexandra Park) and her former security guard Jasper (Tom Austen) that really raises the temperature in the room – especially when the naughty royal sexually taunts the secretive Jasper over CCTV before joining him in some hanky panky – gasp!
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We see how the ideal of a perfect woman destroys the small town's female population in various ways: at Camille's disastrous lady brunch where supposed friends turn their own unhappiness into daggers against her, or the women who died over labels like lesbian and slut, or the Calhoun Day legend celebrating a woman for staying silent as she was raped and murdered.
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While Fire Emblem: Three Houses has some undeniable villains, I think the most powerful observation it makes is that heroic characters can look at the same set of circumstances, the same set of problems, and find themselves at daggers-drawn because of the things that inform their perspective, and the things that it never even occurs to them that other people might feel.
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I read in an interview with Zhang that he's trying to use this film to bring Chinese culture to America through this blockbuster, but [we saw that] done years ago with his House of Flying Daggers and with Crouching Dragon, Hidden Dragon—both of which were cast with all Chinese actors and written with all Chinese characters, and did well at the box office.
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Black male figures tower above or thrust daggers or swords into the cowering or pleading bodies of white ones: White females tied with rope are hung up as if lynched, or run-through with phallic swords in the hands of their black attackers: "Black people running for their lives," Jafa had said more than once in describing black life in America, but here on the second floor, it's whites who are begging for theirs.
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His affinity for the simple minimalism of Alvar Aalto and Josef Hoffmann would inspire his own understated designs for tableware, such as his English pattern, with Georgian-inspired handles shaped like exaggerated teardrops (which was originally designed for ceremonial dinners at the prime minister's residence), his 1953 Pride, with resin handles that resemble the hilts of 18th-century daggers and his Minimal line, in which the knife is rendered as a single, gently swooping curve, ending in a delicate rounded tip.
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As long as we focus on the latest outrage he publishes on Twitter attacking one person or another, the less time we have to focus on the fact that his presidency thus far is a colossal legislative failure, his cabinet is an unending game of cloak and daggers meets musical chairs, his Justice Department is systematically and unrelentingly expressing its hostilities to equal rights, and Trump's reckless, emotionally triggered language and actions are making us less safe by denigrating diplomacy and advocating military aggression.
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