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Recent Examples of swashbuckling
Hernandez played with swashbuckling aggression, ranging far from his positional crouch, expanding the realm.
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
When working, they are not incarcerated men, but swashbuckling pirates, Old West cowboys and Shakespearean antiheroes.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
As action cinema evolved beyond the silent era, swashbuckling epics and westerns introduced a heightened reality through clanging swords and gunfire.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
The comics follow the title character, a swashbuckling sea captain whose adventures take him around the world.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
When working, they are not incarcerated men, but swashbuckling pirates, Old West cowboys and Shakespearean antiheroes.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
As action cinema evolved beyond the silent era, swashbuckling epics and westerns introduced a heightened reality through clanging swords and gunfire.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
The comics follow the title character, a swashbuckling sea captain whose adventures take him around the world.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Mike Ditka’s players were well aware of, and respected, those qualities - as best demonstrated by his heroic 63 yard catch-and-run in 1963 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Instead, she’s celebrated as more of a mythic figure, the specifics of her arduous journeys on the Underground Railroad overlooked in favor of sweeping heroic narratives.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
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Pablo Carrillo is neither the valiant hero of Josie’s memories who saved the baby from the runaway horse nor a diabolical mustache-twirling, child-trafficking villain Cruz could easily paint him out to be.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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In Browning’s telling, the messenger’s valiant run and dying words take on a poignancy that inspired readers, among them the inventors of the modern Olympic Games.Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
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Their mission is to provide fearless representation and unrivaled results, especially in personal injury cases where victims face opponents that many are hesitant to confront.Chris Gallagher, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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At her Kiln leaving party, her colleagues projected a word cloud: inspirational, brave, fearless, enthusiastic, caring, champion, and kind all appeared in big letters.Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
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Two intrepid scientists and a political veteran race the clock to save their home from an unprecedented environmental catastrophe.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Aping the fastidious wartime geolocation of videos shot by Islamic State forces, Russian military units, and other murderous pariahs, the intrepid Bellingcat detective further pin-points Ammon’s hidey-hole with the aid of mountaineering-app PeakVisor, Google Earth, and Google Street View.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Your next breakthrough starts with one brave move today.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The game's protagonist is as brave and strong as the original, yes, but much more chipper, with a quip, joke or pun for almost every interaction.Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Campbell famously established a courageous tone in his introductory press conference and then backed it up on the field, going for it on 118 fourth downs between 2021 and 2023, 14 more attempts than any other team during that span.Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Lemon Bay, a Cinderella team that was below .500 in its regular season, was courageous but unable to match Bishop Moore’s big hitters, seniors Anika Groom (Georgia Tech commit) and Leah McDonald (UNF).Buddy Collings, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
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Albert Suárez stepped in to pitch a gallant five innings but understandably could not go more on short notice.Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
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Follow the generally gallant writer of this newsletter on Threads @jimreineking 🧵.Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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Gladiator was a big, sentimental, sincere movie about the genuine and valorous camaraderie between men who risk their lives for each other.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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The season’s first episode and its later depiction of the Fall of Reach — a major moment in the game series — really captured the harrowing yet valorous essence of the Halo games despite not strictly following the game’s canon.Jay Peters, The Verge, 19 July 2024
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“Swashbuckling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swashbuckling. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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