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Boss encounters and battles against larger enemies, such as rancors and AT-STs, initiate God of War-style quick-time events, and while the initial button prompts can sometimes take you by surprise, most of these sequences are larger than life, featuring all of the acrobatics and pain-inducing attacks you'd expect from a Dark Jedi.

unknown title 2008

Though the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980 ended unsatisfactorily from the point of view of U.S. honor, a great power needs to get beyond residual rancors.

Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Not Another War, Please! Dr. Charles G. Cogan 2012

After all the rancors, bitterness, and divisions created by those senators like Dodd, Kerry, Daschle and others there will never be a united democrats, Hillary supporters will never vote for Obama, that include myself, and the rest of my friends an family.

Dodd: Obama, Clinton ticket not likely 2008

This very predictably started out as a mash-up of all of the creatures ever witnessed in a Star Wars film rancors,rontos,banthas,etc. and even more predictably turned into a fairly boring action sequence when the creatures get loose.

YetiReview: Omen (Fate of the Jedi, Book 2) Patrick 2009

“Vegetable pinguitude gives it harbor from Triangular rancors.” lacustrine.

Continuing to Improve My Vocabulary « So Many Books 2005

As for the 1960s protesters, they have had to cool their rancors to remain on the national scene, and sidle toward "centrism" -- a centrism shaped more by my libertarian and conservative mentors than by their Saul Alinskys and Herbert Marcuses.

Four Decades of Conservative Journalism 2007

But woe be to you, if you allow private rancors or animosities to influence you in the discharge of your public duty.

Roundabout Papers 2006

We hear verdict after verdict condemning, in the words of one academic, 'the wretched pedantry, the meanness of motive, the petty rancors of rivalry, the stultifying provincialism.'

Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange Vidal, Gore 1988

This monumental effort, at times perspicacious, too often sophisticated and purely speculative, an expression of the rancors and the terrors of a society haunted by the revolutionary spectre, searched desperately in the memory of a glorious past for a way to authorize the survival of its customs and privileges.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JACQUES DROZ 1968

The Parson smiled gravely and shook his head at poor Mrs. Fairfield's hasty confutation of her own self-acquittal from the charge of pride; but he saw that it was not the time or moment for effectual peace-making in the most irritable of all rancors, viz., that nourished against one's nearest relations.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various