The classic love story of Cyrano's wooing of Roxanne is filled with comedy and intellectual swordplay. |
Even boys without bookish hopes aped their careless style of dress and the ritual swordplay of their speech. |
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. |
The camera swings slowly round the hospital room as these veterans of intellectual swordplay recall the ideologies they had once lived by. |
Here is a fantasy of necromancy and astromancy, gunpowder and swordplay, politics and crime. |
It has an oddly functional feel for a play that glories in rhetoric, rodomontade, swagger and swordplay. |