| It has an oddly functional feel for a play that glories in rhetoric, rodomontade, swagger and swordplay. |
| Even boys without bookish hopes aped their careless style of dress and the ritual swordplay of their speech. |
| The camera swings slowly round the hospital room as these veterans of intellectual swordplay recall the ideologies they had once lived by. |
| I was no ladylike girl, but a tomboy, preferring riding, archery and swordplay to the more ladylike pursuits of dancing, embroidery and crochet. |
| He also gives demonstrations of classical fencing and historical swordplay. |
| It may be that the pendulum has swung as far as possible away from real swordplay and is starting to swing back toward it. |
