How To Use Gladiatorial In A Sentence
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In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally.
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Gladiatorial combats, wild beast hunts, and public executions were important spectacles presented not only in Rome but throughout the Roman Empire.
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This is one of the few amphitheatres that was used for both Roman political rallying and brutal gladiatorial sports – but tonight it is to host a dance competition.
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The baying arena crowd add to the gladiatorial frenzy.
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Rugby has become as important a feature to Bath as gladiatorial combat was to ancient Rome.
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What we need is a gladiatorial contest between the representative champions of each political party.
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A Euro title cruiserweight clash took on gladiatorial overtones as it was staged on Piazza del Colosseo where the fourth-century Arch of Constantine served as a backdrop.
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It's a great gladiatorial arena.
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No actual gladiatorial combat is allowed, of course, but that can only be a matter of time.
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The presumption of innocence and the equality of arms are either part of our gladiatorial adversarial criminal justice system or they are not.
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The couple has fallen on hard times financially and has bought Spartacus hoping his fighting prowess will help them regain their status in the brutal world of gladiatorial contests.
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The gladiatorial contest would prove disappointing.
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The baying arena crowd add to the gladiatorial frenzy.
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Today these interviews still seem fearless and incisive and free from the gladiatorial razzamatazz that characterises the genre today.
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The next phase of his life is being sold to a man who trains him as a gladiatorial pit fighter, where he learns the ways and glory of combat and gains his sense of self.
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But all war is ugly, a fulsome horror that, someday, as with gladiatorial contests, we will look back at in appalled disbelief: we did that?
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In a breath, or the half of a breath, Graham saw the whole breathless situation, realized that the white wonderful creature was a woman, and sensed the smallness and daintiness of her despite her gladiatorial struggles.
CHAPTER IX
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Nearby is a vast Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial conflicts, mock sea-battles, and the killing of wild animals captured in nearby Africa.
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On Monday, it was the turn of Ivan Vasiliev, who joined the Bolshoi from the Byelorussian ballet school just four years ago, to don the gladiatorial armour.
Spartacus; Laurencia
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As the players trudged off after 90 gladiatorial minutes, there was more drama.
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In Rome, Onorius put an end to Gladiatorial combats in 404 (possible afteramonk had thrown himself into the arena in protest and was killed by the angry crowd.
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These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
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Michael Vick, one of our great gladiatorial football competitors, recently admitted to sponsoring brutal dogfights.
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He took part in gladiatorial contests and also fought wild beasts in the amphitheater.
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The presumption of innocence and the equality of arms are either part of our gladiatorial adversarial criminal justice system or they are not.
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With a bit of imagination you can visualise the soldiers clashing in gladiatorial combat.
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As the players trudged off after 90 gladiatorial minutes, there was more drama.
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The aim is for the theatre to resemble the gladiatorial arenas of Rome as closely as possible.
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American football is also violent, but in an armour-plated, gladiatorial way, and the violence largely remains on the playing field, distanced and symbolic.
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gladiatorial combats
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One set piece in particular, a flashback scene showing Hauser in a violent, gladiatorial confrontation with his former boss an even hammier than usual Ben Kingsley takes place in a dilapidated theme park that looks to have been a replica of ancient Rome.
Hullabaloo
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But what about genuine gladiatorial events?
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The couple has fallen on hard times financially and has bought Spartacus hoping his fighting prowess will help them regain their status in the brutal world of gladiatorial contests.
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The aim is for the theatre to resemble the gladiatorial arenas of Rome as closely as possible.
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It was a glimpse of the gladiatorial combat that can lie behind a tabloid story.
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The Romans also had other events during the gladiatorial contests.
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The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
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The final kilometre of a race is fast, dangerous and gladiatorial.
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Without wanting to overdramatise it, it's probably the nearest thing we get these days to a gladiatorial contest.
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The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
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The knife and the cane, menacing each other, were like tripos and short sword in a gladiatorial combat.
Tender is the Night
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Ancient Romans pitted dogs against each other in gladiatorial contests.
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Nearby is a vast Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial conflicts, mock sea-battles, and the killing of wild animals captured in nearby Africa.
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But the research also challenges the view that gladiatorial combat was a martial art that seldom ended in death.
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It's a great gladiatorial arena.
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Each of these is further divided by levels that cover multiple sub-areas, spanning diverse locations such as gladiatorial coliseums and temple ruins.
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* Thus, instead of "The spirit of Christianity was humanizing, and therefore &c.," or "Christianity, since it was (or being) of a humanizing spirit, discouraged &c.," we can write more briefly and effectively, "Gladiatorial shows were first discouraged, and finally put down, by the _humanizing spirit of Christianity_.
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Some cricketers see the game as an esoteric test of skill, others as a raw personal battle, a gladiatorial contest between batsman and bowler.
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This time in the old gladiatorial city the thumbs were heading in only one direction.
The Sun
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At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty.
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* Thus, instead of "The spirit of Christianity was humanizing, and therefore &c.," or "Christianity, since it was (or being) of a humanizing spirit, discouraged &c.," we can write more briefly and effectively, "Gladiatorial shows were first discouraged, and finally put down, by the _humanizing spirit of Christianity_.
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Within a few months, the venue had attracted a sizeable regular audience and an intimidating gladiatorial atmosphere - lesser acts were foreshortened by the beating of a gong, some barely managing to introduce themselves.
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Now all you need is a razor-edged credit card and you are ready to enter the gladiatorial pit that is the Christmas sales.
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The baying arena crowd add to the gladiatorial frenzy.
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It is no surprise that the gladiatorial sport of boxing was the most accessible route.
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It is no surprise that the gladiatorial sport of boxing was the most accessible route.
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Every night, it's gladiatorial slugfests and verbal duels to the death.
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He took part in gladiatorial contests and also fought wild beasts in the amphitheater.
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As in gladiatorial chariot races, the pace is furious and the tricks dirty.
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Graphite rackets changed tennis from wristy art to gladiatorial combat.
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Paul was lean and muscular, but he held no illusion of winning in unarmed gladiatorial combat: Rheena resembled a purple tank, her sides flapping over her legs like jowly sheets of steel, and that spike loomed on her nose like some fearsome medieval polearm.
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