Examples of swashbuckler in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Douglas Fairbanks stars in this thrilling 1926 silent-era swashbuckler presented with live organ accompaniment. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021 And this week, the streamer kept that trend going with the release of this swashbuckler of a movie. — Andy Meek, BGR, 13 Mar. 2022 Korean-language library is a 2-hour swashbuckler, of a sort that feels a bit unusual for the streamer. — Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022 Once the movie star got replaced by the IP and the the marquee character, well, that’s why even Pixar is centering their outer-space swashbuckler around Buzz Lightyear. — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021 This double bill of films co-starring the late Norman Lloyd pairs Alfred Hitchcock’s black-and-white 1942 espionage thriller, featuring Robert Cummings, with Jacques Tourneur’s Technicolor 1950 swashbuckler starring Burt Lancaster. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021 There’s a less-cynical (but no less depressing) case to be made that Pixar just wanted to make a mega-budget outer-space swashbuckler and went with a marquee character for understandable commercial reasons. — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 In the 1938 classic The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood is a happy iconoclast, meting out his form of social and political justice with the cheerful irreverence and deft strokes of Errol Flynn, cinema’s premier swashbuckler. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021 Retroformat Silent Films presents an online screening of this silent 1920 swashbuckler starring Douglas Fairbanks. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021 See More

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