Word: noblemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle sequence in Ireland.- Making no attempt to over-research the actual fight, he reduced it to its salients-the proud cumbrousness of the armored French chevaliers, and Henry's outnumbered archers, cloth-clad in the humble colors of rural England. A wonderful epitomizing shot-three French noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised...
...night before their expected triumph, were shallow, frivolous and arrogant. By editing out a good deal of their foolishness, by flawless casting, directing and playing, and by a wonderfully paced appreciation of the dead hours of rural night, Olivier transforms the French into sleepy, overconfident, highly intelligent, highly sophisticated noblemen, subtly disunified, casually contemptuous of their Dauphin -an all but definitive embodiment of a civilization a little too ripe to survive...
...April 26, 1698, Peter I called the leading Russians to his country place, Preobrazhenskoye, and told them they had to conform to Western custom by shaving off their beards. With his own hand Peter gave his noblemen's whiskers a rough...
...stories in The Knights of the Cape picture heroes, generals, saints, friars, noblemen and noblewomen, devils and goblins. Only the devils and goblins really work at their trades. The heroes are always engaged in rascality, the generals swindle the tradesmen, the friars gorge themselves, the saints drive hard bargains in horseflesh, the nobility tomcats around Lima's midnight streets...
...village of Yalta nestles at the foot of an amphitheatre which slopes backwards and upwards to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation. This depression is covered with the great parks and gardens of noblemen, and . . . the bright colors of their palaces bud out here & there like flowers. It is a beautiful spot...