A pendant figure, the executioner, kneels to sharpen the blade that will peel the satyr's skin from his body. |
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Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner. |
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He was a professional debt collector, brutal enforcer and sometimes executioner. |
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The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society. |
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Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee. |
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But, leaving aside the morality of playing judge, jury and executioner in my own private war crimes proceedings, what good would it have done? |
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But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order. |
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You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator. |
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Most of the city's residents turned out to watch the executioner gibbet, hang, or burn the convicted. |
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His arms were crossed mutinously over his chest and he reminded her of an executioner, preparing to send her to the gallows. |
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And all this time Adam looked at his brother as the condemned look hopelessly and puzzled at the executioner. |
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In the antiseptic environment of an obstetric theatre, I witnessed this spectacle with the detachment of a duty-conscious executioner. |
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The executioner was beheaded outside the pub by Royalists and had his head placed on a pike outside as a warning to other rebels. |
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The main character is a professional executioner, but he prefers to get drunk rather than perform his civic duties. |
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The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges. |
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The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit. |
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He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself. |
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The Executive Branch arrogates the authority to become the investigator, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and then the executioner. |
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He's a very engaging, open-faced, unlikely looking executioner, who connects with the barrio, like Art Aragon used to. |
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An executioner in the foreground quickens the fire with a pair of bellows, whilst another pours the boiling liquid over the Saint. |
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It would neither distress the condemned person, nor the executioner on the other side as he pulled the trigger. |
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Led to the scaffold from a death row cell, he was prepped for the noose by a masked executioner. |
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I hate to admit it but I feel almost afraid, as if I'm waiting in a condemned cell for the arrival of an executioner. |
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Rushing forward and placing herself between Smith and his would-be executioner, young Pocahontas pleaded for the captain's life. |
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Bucking the trend, Belarus remained steadfast in its role as Europe's last actual executioner. |
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I will give life and his whole fortune to whichever of his sons will perform the office of executioner on the rest. |
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They can in fact no longer be both judge and executioner or challenge real democratically established Governments. |
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It had been difficult to find an executioner to carry out the sentence. |
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The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder. |
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The executioner hugs her with one arm, like a dancing-master, to keep her upright, and adjusts the knot while an official reads the death warrant. |
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When riddance by bullet emerges as the most expeditious way to dispose of her husband's victims, she is eventually even prodded into becoming Clint's executioner. |
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Put under questioning, a wrongly accused young woman is sent into a torture chamber where the executioner must set her on fire. |
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Instead, he bears the name of Theodore Twombly, who sounds like the kind of nebbish that Preston Sturges… Pity the modern executioner. |
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The neurasthenic despises patience and as an employer he becomes the executioner of his employees. |
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More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer. |
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Set in the 16th century, it shows us the romantic life of a headsman, that is, the executioner who must chop people's heads off when they misbehave. |
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In the blur of combat, he goes from heroic marksman to summary executioner, at one point preparing to finish off a disarmed youth with a point-blank shot. |
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His popular image was of a surly but big-hearted bloke, a sort of reluctant executioner. |
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As the executioner struggles to find it in himself to carry out the execution, the prisoner, John, seated on the electric chair, turns to comfort him. |
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No, nor even as lawmaker, policeman, jury, judge and executioner to planet Earth. |
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China has a deeply flawed criminal justice system, uses punitive forms of administrative detention to silence critics and is the world's top executioner. |
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York had no permanent hangman, and it was the custom to pardon a prisoner on condition that he acted as executioner. |
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Topics: a tragicomic journey through the incongruities of colleagues, to find out how easy it is to become victim, executioner or accomplice in one of the most studied, yet most elusive phenomena: mobbing. |
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But not only have the victims not been protected but the executioner has grown tougher: the announced aim of the intervention and the result achieved by it are poles apart. |
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She fully exercised the writer's near-criminal licence to eavesdrop, read minds, to be a voyeur, to have the power of the judge, the police and the executioner. |
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Do not be afraid of this executioner, but be worthy of your brothers and accept death, so that in the time of mercy I may receive you again with them. |
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After this military execution, the general ordered as many gibbets planted on the terrace as there were members of the family of Leganes, and he sent for the executioner of the town. |
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The executioner was André Obrecht, the second chief executioner in France, who made a separate living as a bookmaker and with a business selling ice cream on the Paris cinema circuit. |
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Whether it be a chat show, reality TV or a sitcom, critics in the States act as judge, jury and executioner. |
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It was fitting too that the most decisive blow should be struck by Burruchaga, who on the day was best cast for the role of West Germany's executioner. |
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Emwazi is known to many of his fellow fighters as Abu Abdullah al-Britani, and has a reputation within the group as a ruthless executioner who will kill on command. |
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The notion of environment, instead of being marginal, must become central and essential in a world in which the human being will cease to be the blind predator, the unscrupulous executioner. |
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To decide to give any nation or any coalition of countries, no matter how broad, the right to act as judge, jury and executioner when dealing with horrendous crimes is simply not acceptable. |
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The Electrian is a story about an electric chair executioner, Marvin, who becomes unemployed when the government decides to prohibit the executions. |
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Did Stalin's executioner, Lavrentiy Beria, deserve to die? |
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We see that the role of executioner and victim are interchangeable. |
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Whether they be a player, a guinea pig, a security guard, a walker or an executioner, the role that is assigned to viewers serves the purposes of the artist. |
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I should be spared the odious touch of an executioner. |
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The executioner was masked and disguised, and there is debate over his identity. |
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The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut through using the axe. |
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The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off. |
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Efforts to prevent completion of the programmed cell death process by blocking executioner caspases have also been reported. |
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The executioner beheaded Balboa and his four friends with an axe. |
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The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him. |
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Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords. |
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He climbed a ladder to the gallows and spoke to his executioner. |
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Folly has now been followed up with the release of a second, stronger offering, Executioner, a 4.5 per cent dark beer, with a rich mahogany, almost reddish colour. |
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They had fashioned it from the stuff of which the Executioner was made and fanned it to life with the spreading flames of rampant thugdom. |
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Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie. |
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A Wandering Minstrel I, Behold The Lord High Executioner, On A Tree By A River, and A Little Tom-tit Sang, Willow, Tit-willow are just some of the well-known numbers. |
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