(n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(2) Thor: The Dark World sees Chris Hemsworth's Asgardian prince forced to team up with Tom Hiddleston's crafty Loki to take down an even greater threat, Christopher Eccleston's nefarious Malekith.
(3) There's also Kid Loki from my last book, Miss America and a female Hawkeye.
(4) No details have yet been released on the nature of his role, but Hiddleston, who shot to international fame playing Loki in the two Thor movies so far produced by Marvel as well as the same studio’s two Avengers films, now counts as a major draw for the science-fiction and fantasy fanbase.
(5) In so doing, the studio made good on the promise delivered at Comic-Con 2013, when Tom Hiddleston appeared in character as Loki and had the massed ranks of Hall H eating out of his hand.
(6) The author Joanne Harris, whose new novel The Gospel of Loki is set in the world of Norse mythology, also called Nordby's discovery "very, very interesting".
(7) In Thor , the bodacious nordic deity spends most of the movie worrying about a race of tall, antisocial creatures called The Frost Giants of Jotunheim, and does quite a bit of jousting with the testy emissaries of the US government, when the person he should really be worrying about is his brother, Loki.
(8) Now the coincidence of this meeting jolts him into an éclaircissement : "Loki," he said.
(9) Much will depend on whether James Spader’s CGI Ultron can equal Tom Hiddleston’s opulently evil Loki last time out.
(10) Next, came a third onslaught of what might have sounded like the posher, officer class; the old Etonians: Hugh Laurie, in House , Dominic West, in The Wire , Damian Lewis, in Homeland, and Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Marvel comic book films – except, of course, these well-heeled English actors’ tough American accents and stateside machismo were faultless when required.
(11) "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end."
Thor
Definition:
(n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(2) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(3) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(4) The awards were announced by Rush and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) Thor Marvel has already made the change in the comic books, revealing earlier this year that Thor’s long-term love interest Jane Foster has become the new female Thor after picking up the hammer Mjolnir and finding herself more worthy of it than the son of Odin himself.
(7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(8) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(9) He still undid the holster on his thigh, took out Mjølnir – he had named his Glock after Thor’s hammer – and crossed the road.
(10) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(11) Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition was a product of the European enlightenment’s belief in progressive learning.
(12) Cellular sensitization to human myelin A1 protein, peptide L (residues 1-116), peptide T (residues 117-170), and petide Y (residues 154-170) was studied using the Thor-Rocklin MIF assay system.
(13) Bettany, who until now has voiced Tony Stark’s computerised assistant Jarvis, said: “I used to turn up in a dark room for 45 minutes and get a bag of cash and now I have to work for my money.” When Hemsworth was asked what he would still like to do as Thor, he said: “Turning into a woman” – a reference to the pre-Con decision by Marvel Comics to trumpet its upcoming next iteration of the god of thunder as a woman.
(14) Back to article (2) Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
(15) Chris Hemsworth, AKA Thor, God of Thunder, crown prince of Asgard, calls me from the M25.
(16) Robin van Persie eventually tuned into him and took Robben’s fine through-ball in his stride but was denied by Hannes Thor Halldorsson, before Robben himself passed up a chance, nodding wide when it looked easier to convert Daley Blind’s cross.
(17) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
(18) And I realised, I ain't Thor without the costume and the hammer."
(19) This thing is starting to get old … Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America in The Avengers In fact, the rise of superhero movies signals the triumph of the neurotic over the maverick.
(20) The comic, launching in October, is billed by Marvel as "one of the most shocking and exciting changes ever to shake one of the 'big three' of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor".