For this reason, the term is often applied to films and plays of a stylised nature with heightened acting, melodrama and theatrical effects such as Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Quills, and the Hammer Horror films that went before them.

Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen.

Quills are denominated from the order in which they are fixed in the wing ; the first, called the pinion, is that favoured by the expert calligrapher, the second and third quills being very satisfactory also.

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

Rabbi Isaac Krieshaber of Páks wrote a refutation, Maḳḳel No ' am ( מקל נועם Staff of Pleasantness ), which called forth a second pamphlet by Chorin, Shiryon Ḳasḳassim ( שריון קשקשים Armour of Quills ), ( Prague, 1799 ).

Prior to the influx of people from Eastern Canada, the area around Brandon was primarily used by the Sioux people, the Bungays, the Yellow Quills, and the Bird Tails.

The house has appeared in many films, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ), Slipstream ( 1989 ), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ), Philip Kaufman's Marquis de Sade biopic Quills ( 2000 ), The Mummy Returns ( 2001 ), Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 ), Johnny English ( 2003 ), and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ), where it was used as the gothic Wayne Manor.

His niece Sandra Schulberg was an executive producer of the Academy Award nominated film Quills, among other movies.

Their son, Peter Kaufman, was the producer of Henry and June, Rising Sun and Quills, Twisted and Hemingway & Gellhorn.

Justine was also featured in the 2000 film Quills based on the life of the Marquis de Sade.

* Quills was an English-language film covering similar subject matter, released the same year.

Their protests were successful and Blue Quills became the first Native-administered school in the country.

Quills are released by contact with them, or they may drop out when the porcupine shakes its body, but cannot be projected at attackers.

* with Anita Krumins, Quillby, The Porcupine Who Lost His Quills ( Toronto: Three Trees Press, 1980 ) ISBN 0-88823-019-2 Illustrated by Martin Lewis

* Quills ( 2000 ), directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine

Winners were determined by the reading public, who could vote at kiosks in Borders stores or online at the Quills site.

A Beach Loper being attacked by a swarm of Beach Quills

< u > Reflections by the Quills </ u > by Quill Historical Society of Wynyard, Saskatchewan.

Quills were the principal writing instrument in the Western World from the 6th to the 19th century.

* A brief history of writing instruments " Quills were only used for a week " Completely wrong.

Quills were used until they were worn away too.

Quills come in varying lengths and colors, depending on the animal's age and species. Porcupines ' quills, or spines, take on various forms, depending on the species, but all are modified hairs coated with thick plates of keratin, and they are embedded in the skin musculature.

** Cold Lake First Nations ( Reserves: Blue Quills First Nation, Cold Lake # 149, 149A, 149B, 149C, ca.

Quills are fragile, easily broken, and will spatter unless used properly.

* New Quill: Founded on hatred for all non-human races, the New Quill Party may be a splinter group of the Three Quills Party.

* Three Quills: It is implied in Perdido Street Station and Iron Council that the Three Quills is a party formed on a racist platform.

In 2000, Kaufman directed Quills, a satirical thriller film about the increasingly desperate efforts of the Marquis de Sade's jailers to censor his licentious works, starring Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet and Michael Caine.

In Northern Alberta, parents protested the DIA decision to close the Blue Quills Indian School.

It continues to operate today as the Blue Quills First Nations College, a tribal college.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

She locked the ignition, removed the keys, stepped out of the car and went into the house.

No sooner did they hear of Dan's injury than both Gran and Matilda went into immediate action.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

went into the forward stateroom and locked the door behind him.

He went into a whirling dance, a sort of blind chasing of the tail.

He called the store owner and together they went into the stockroom.

The fist went down into the pile of flesh, and Ernie heard the bigger man's deeper voice go, `` Aaawww ''!!

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.

Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting.

Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.

When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

He went into the Jewish quarter, wanting to draw Hebraic faces so that he could reach a visual understanding of how Christ might have looked.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.