At the start of Act II we watch the ghost of Agamemnon, center stage, pathetically pronged by two spears, jabbing feebly at the air in protest while his family sleeps.
The 24-year-old, European champion in 2008, started finding his range in the second, landing with spearing jabs and flashing right hooks.
In front of a vociferous crowd at ExCeL - the majority of the 10,000 crowd were there primarily to see Irish lightweight Katie Taylor - Adams looked composed from the start, landing with spearing jabs and a handful of clubbing rights as she opened up a two-point lead after the first.
The bulls leave the ring alive, although in traditional Portuguese fights, the cavaleiro wields several small spears and jabs the bull repeatedly in the back.
This story is extreme, but as I learned on my long journey from Mexico to Vietnam, it is only the sharpest tip of the spear that is jabbed at addicts every day, across most of the world.
The attempt to "jab a spear" through Social Security complements the strategy of "starve the beast," long advocated by right-wing intellectuals: cut taxes, then use the resulting deficits as an excuse for cuts in social spending.
"If you can jab your spear through that, you can undermine the whole welfare state". By the welfare state, Mr. Moore means Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- social insurance programs whose purpose, above all, is to protect Americans against the extreme economic insecurity that prevailed before the New Deal.
"A Somali warrior jabbed a spear through his cheek.
The rangy cruiser from Corby has still got some amateur stiffness but also the pedigree of two ABA titles, and he speared long, stiff jabs into the reddened face of Igor Borucha convincingly enough over four rounds to hand the 33-year-old Lithuanian his 24th loss in 32 fights.
Tribal warriors in traditional feathered headdresses jab the air with spears as the funeral cortege passes, symbolically repelling death from the village.
When a shark comes to close, continually jab it away with your spear.
