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Example sentences for: kung
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(Between the Leicesters and Bill Gates, the notebook was owned for a dozen or so years by Armand Hammer--who, with his unerring flair for the ludicrous, insisted it be called the Codex Hammer and claimed that he had retained a squad of elite commandos trained in kung fu and armed with Uzis to guard it round the clock.)
Da Mo, who was probably a legendary rather than actual figure, is also heralded as the founder of kung fu (wushu), a system of hand-to-hand combat that was later modified to produce the immensely popular form of exercise that millions practice every morning throughout China — taiqi (tai chi), sometimes called “shadow boxing” in the West.
Opening with a slapstick sequence of agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) doing kung fu, the film shifts to a scene in which he meets Mrs. Peel (Uma Thurman) while sitting naked in a sauna with only a newspaper to cover his private parts.
The fighting monks in a thousand kung fu films can trace their origin to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan Province.
You don’t have to be a kung fu practitioner to enjoy Shaolin.