| He has had numerous articles published over the years on the sport of fencing, history of swordsmanship, and swordplay in the movies. |
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| Kaede's athleticism and strength showed even if I had no knowledge of the skills necessary for his swordplay. |
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| It may be that the pendulum has swung as far as possible away from real swordplay and is starting to swing back toward it. |
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| I was no ladylike girl, but a tomboy, preferring riding, archery and swordplay to the more ladylike pursuits of dancing, embroidery and crochet. |
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| Early in the morning he rose and began his daily exercises, acrobatics, and swordplay. |
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| Unless you're doing a documentary on swordplay, the swords are only a vehicle to express character and conflict. |
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| He plays the splendidly repressed and self-righteous Octavius Caesar, miserably uncomfortable when forced to drink and engage in swordplay. |
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| There is, in fact, a tradition in Naples that the Neapolitan system of swordplay contains some Spanish elements. |
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| He also gives demonstrations of classical fencing and historical swordplay. |
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| There is enough echt samurai swordplay to satisfy the most exacting martial arts fan, and yet somehow I can't see Tarantino lifting any of this. |
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| Early American motion pictures have frequently misrepresented virtually every aspect of authentic swordplay. |
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| The Italians were the first scientists of rapier swordplay all through the 16th Century. |
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| Ultimately, it is the fencing, the swordplay in the swashbuckler movie, that catches our attention. |
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| It has an oddly functional feel for a play that glories in rhetoric, rodomontade, swagger and swordplay. |
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| Here is a fantasy of necromancy and astromancy, gunpowder and swordplay, politics and crime. |
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| The classic love story of Cyrano's wooing of Roxanne is filled with comedy and intellectual swordplay. |
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| The camera swings slowly round the hospital room as these veterans of intellectual swordplay recall the ideologies they had once lived by. |
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| Even boys without bookish hopes aped their careless style of dress and the ritual swordplay of their speech. |
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| Conrad was a man, his skills of swordplay and defensive combat trained to their peak. |
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| While aesthetic considerations are admittedly subjective, of course, I can find little in the Olympic style that even distantly resembles actual swordplay. |
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| They rid the land of the demons and fiends with swordplay and magic. |
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| Every night Wendy mesmerizes her younger brothers with tales of swordplay. But her father has decreed that it's time for her to grow up. |
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| The earliest depiction of swordplay is a relief in the temple of Medīnat Habu, near Luxor in Egypt, built by Ramses III about 1190 bce. |
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| Fairbanks was the first to ask a fencing master to advise on a production, creating the first movie swordplay that actually resembled fencing. |
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| You will be able to see fights between gladiators, contests in historical swordplay, magic shows, jousting and performances with horses. |
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| The perfect swordplay and armour of the Knights of the Temple are a sight to fear for any opponent. |
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| This swordplay had been going on ever since the beginning of the fight, the two expert swordsmen always striking and blocking with their swords in a creatively beautiful art. |
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| Set in Edwardian London, the movie starts off with Wendy who narrates harrowing tales of swordplay and Captain Hook, who fears nothing but a ticking clock. |
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| Swetnam was teaching fencing and general swordplay at a time when the rapier was making a distinct change from a cut and thrust weapon to that of a primarily thrusting weapon. |
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| The Prince was designed so that his skills in combat, from swordplay to martial arts, are unmatched, since the best instructors of Persia have trained him all his life. |
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| The two of them frequented the salles d' armes of Paris for a while, and some say that while he at first was her tutor in swordplay, she soon surpassed him. |
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| Yes, there's better dialogue in swordplay than in gunfights. |
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| Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay. |
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| Unilateral disarmament Their tea-cup runneth over The Weiner war Mitt, take two ReprintsEven before the scandal, Mr Weiner's name encouraged puns, but the swordplay has been taken to new lows. |
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| From this time on, fencing took on the nature of a sport, and in form the swordplay of this time differed little from the modern sport of fencing. |
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| Conventions and rules were adopted to teach this form of swordplay. |
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| Akō is well known in Japan for its Kabuki theatre productions featuring swordplay and samurai, and the city attracts tourists to its annual Akō samurai festival in December. |
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| His expertise at swordplay made his acting in the part of Hamlet very believable. |
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| Yes, under director Sidonie Garrett, this show is crisp in its action, plush in its pageantry, and all aclang with speeches and swordplay. |
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| But this orthodox, controlled swordplay was of little account on a cold gray morning on greensward or gravel path when one faced a determined opponent with a sharp and heavier weapon who disregarded all conventions. |
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| The Germanic forces responded by charging with such speed that the Romans were unable to cast pila and the fight entered the swordplay stage immediately. |
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