Sentence examples for flashing swords from inspiring English sources

Flashing swords are nothing against machine guns, and graceful Joey turns out to be of more use as a cart horse than an officer's mount.

She represents the tiresome emotional interlude before we get back to the main action: dudes flashing swords, wrecking some shit, and spilling a little blood to a deafening soundtrack.

McAnuff treats Jesus, for the most part, as a prop on par with the various crosses or with the dreadful dreadlocked wigs that some of the grim priests wear, while Mary Magdalene represents the tiresome emotional interlude before we get back to the main action: dudes flashing swords, wrecking some shit, and spilling a little blood to a deafening soundtrack.

Although his reign as one of England's most feared pirates was brief, the memory of his black, braided beard, flashing sword and wild eyes has lived on, coloring the modern image of pirates.

The martial artists flash their swords, fly through the air with the greatest of ease and when grounded speak in Zen-like paradoxes.

The performers reenacted huge battles, their metal swords flashing against the colorful lights of the pageant.

Torsos bared, swords flashing, another 300 rock the leather skirts and loincloths with pounding, passionate music perfectly underscoring this latest round of the "beautiful death" the ancient Greeks were so poetic about.

Towards the end of his career it was alleged that he was hesitant against the short stuff but here, in front of a sparse crowd of only 6,000, he put away bouncers from Ward and Peter Lever with what John Arlott described as "hooks which flashed like sword strokes".

Think of the thrusting, flashing limbs — a sword swinging, an arm lopped, a spurt of blood — in the award-winning "Gladiator".

One small addition has been a scene in which Ben Sergeant uses his drumsticks to seduce Tamara, a low-key reference to the scene in Hardy in which Sergeant Troy impresses Bathsheba by flashing his phallic sword, one of the most memorable moments as performed by Terence Stamp to impress Julie Christie in John Schlesinger's 1967 film of Far From the Madding Crowd.

My father told me the magic place of metal in the story means it might come from a time when Stone Age people first met Iron Age tribes, with their iron swords and flashing jewellery.