All 13 Uses of
adversary
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- It's frequently used to obscure duplicity, as well as to disarm an adversary.†
Chpt 14 *adversary = opponent
- The quickness of his gestures as he paid the seedy old man and began walking rapidly across the street was a warning to any adversary.†
Chpt 15
- Jason and his former adversary from the alley in Macao walked along the dirt road.†
Chpt 16
- Suddenly, to the astonishment of everyone, the Australian picked up one of his fallen adversaries and let out a roar as loud as the immense major's.†
Chpt 18adversaries = opponents
- Now, that may be legend and Menelaus' wife may have been a figment of a campfire storyteller's imagination, but the concept is valid — it's become a symbol of an enemy destroying his adversary from within.'†
Chpt 20adversary = opponent
- The marine sprang to his feet and, as his Oriental adversary ran up to him, he pounded a low left hook into the young man's kidney, and followed it with a well-aimed right fist into the Oriental face, pummelling his assailant back into the store-front while screaming in agony at the pain both blows caused his scalded hands.†
Chpt 22
- The jungle was not an adversary; instead it was his ally for it had protected him before, saved him before in those distant, disordered memories.†
Chpt 27
- He was waiting, watching, anticipating the moment when his adversary's eyelids might close for that brief instant or when the weapon might suddenly drop to the floor, or his enemy's head might recline for a second into the comfort of the back seat.†
Chpt 29
- I should like to bring it up now — in my position as an analyst, as someone who's supposed to calculate the reactions of adversaries and potential adversaries—' 'Make it short,' interrupted Webb.†
Chpt 33adversaries = opponents
- I should like to bring it up now — in my position as an analyst, as someone who's supposed to calculate the reactions of adversaries and potential adversaries—' 'Make it short,' interrupted Webb.†
Chpt 33
- I agree with you completely, Edward, but what has it got to do with mel We were compromisers together — adversaries, to be sure, as in a courtroom — but certainly not enemies in the arena of violence.†
Chpt 36
- I must protest, my adversarial friend.†
Chpt 36adversarial = involving people who oppose each other (actively disagree or compete)
- Believe, my old adversary.†
Chpt 37adversary = opponent
Definition:
an opponent