Having both a need and a market, German engineers began producing innovative and beautiful weapons.
As a small boy growing up in Shepherd's Bush, he noticed that the railings in the streets were not simply railings, but an array of regularly spaced spears with decorative spearheads, strange and beautiful, like weapons of fierce warriors.
When you turn from the arms back to the armor, the gaudy noise can be shocking, as can the realization that you have been viewing as beautiful pictorial objects weapons designed to maim and kill with utmost precision.
Following a story line common to the wuxia pian genre, the film takes as its hero an honorable martial-arts warrior who sets out to reclaim his stolen weapon, a beautiful jade sword, and to disclose his lifelong love for a female warrior who matches him in skill and courage.
She's an Amazon, a beautiful powerhouse whose sharpest weapon is her mind.
Entranced by the fake head that group leader Frank wears 24/7 ("Would it help if I said my facial expressions out loud?"), Jon becomes seduced both by the guru-like enigma of his mentor, and by the waving hands of theremin player Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who seems able to conjure beautiful sounds and savage weapons out of thin air with equal ease.
Sifting through his trash I noticed that his photos of action figure weapons were beautiful. .
Clearly, the sheer pleasure taken in gazing at beautiful stones is the secret weapon that allows the jewelry market to triumph at every level.
Within the fort's walls are fascinating weapon displays featuring beautiful old silver khanjars (curved daggers) with camel-bone decoration, and swords inscribed with calligraphy.
He spoke wistfully of the fights that had exploded before him in this very same space: of chairs thrown, of bottles broken and brandished as weapons, of the beautiful noise of conflict.
