Word: point-blank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They are, however, also aware of the formal conventions of 18th century warfare, which were peculiarly sanguinary: two armies lined up neatly, marched toward one another until they were at virtually point-blank range, then fired. It is the sort of battle in which war's deadly essence is thrown into the highest possible relief...
Jeffrey Wright makes quite an entrance in Shaft. He arrives with a phalanx of lackeys and junkyard dogs, an ice pick in his pocket and a trash-talking mouth aimed point-blank at Samuel L. Jackson. It's the kind of grand, self-important entrance you haven't seen since Liberace stopped making TV specials. And for the rest of the movie, Wright lives up to that moment with his broadly drawn, carefully shaded performance as Peoples Hernandez, a drug kingpin and the first great movie villain of this millennium...
Cornell junior midfielder David Key beat his man one-on-one outside and no one slid to cover him as he drove to the net--this while the Big Red was a man down. Key converted an easy score from point-blank range with 13:24 to go in the quarter...
Most of the Cornell goals came from point-blank range and despite the barrage of close shots that the tired Harvard defenders allowed, Cynar was able to save quite a few of them, tallying a total of 25 saves...
Cynar had 14 saves for Harvard. He stopped two Fairfield shots from point-blank range in the closing seconds, one as time expired...