I'm not even moaning about the complete stupidity of reducing complex opinions to "60 flaming broadswords out of 100", I'm saying that the human element in interpreting score-less reviews as numerical scores renders the entire enterprise highly questionable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
History and folklore sit cheek by jowl and, in the untamed landscape, it's easy to picture the arrival of Vikings in longboats, clansmen clashing broadswords or even mermaids seducing foolish suitors to a watery death. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Horned helmets, broadswords, buxom blonde braids … ❋ Unknown (2010)
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; ❋ Unknown (2008)
In their case, protection from broadswords wasn't as much of a concern as the effects of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Back in the early 80s, it was enough to have somebody singing anything about broadswords. ❋ Zornhau (2008)
The Yorks had not dropped back for a breath and a rest, as so often happened in battle, but had broken from the fight to run as fast as they could to their own horse lines to get their horses, and the men who had been on foot, savagely pressing the Lancaster men-at-arms, were now mounted and riding down on them, maces swinging, broadswords out, lances pointed down at throat height. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)
It's a bit of a surprise, given the popularity of babes with broadswords, that no one has picked up on Aethelflaed. ❋ Carla (2009)
The subsequently bowdlerized and nobler EC comics, such as Aces High (World War I dogfights) and Valor (broadswords and armor), tanked, and the company gambled everything on its new humor comic book, called Mad. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the path leading up the hill, the bronze statue of a warrior frowned down from the saddle of his gigantic warhorse, twin broadswords crossed above his crown, turning his head to follow us as we made our way up the inclined path. ❋ Brian DeLeeuw (2009)
He had not seen his true home since he was very small, when his village had been destroyed by a horde of barbarian gnomes seven or eight inches high, armed with teeny tiny little spears and itsy-bitsy broadswords. ❋ M. T. Andreson (2009)
In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem. ❋ Unknown (2009)
See broadswords in action through performances created and performed by students of the “Sword Fighting 101” stage-fighting intensive. ❋ The Society For The Study Of Popular Culture (2009)
He's gorgeous, huge, fights with daggers and broadswords and wears a kilt. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Re the apocryphal 15 y-o male: yes, they (frequently) fantisize about about having sex with nearly anything remotely female, but, then again, they may also fantisize about driving 150+ mph, cutting bad guys in half with their broadswords, gunning down mobsters (or cops, as the local mores dictate)... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Tarantino is no doubt disappointed that the victims of the notorious Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas numbered only five, but cheered that they were hacked to death with broadswords. ❋ Unknown (2009)
