Italians find one-day cricket a bit long. They like it to be short, sharp and swashbuckling, as with the gladiator's 2 for 35 against the Pizza Express team in Brentwood.
A wave of horror swept over the community because of the crimes, even though drug smuggling and violence are well-known in this swashbuckling border area and smugglers' exploits are the subjects of popular ballads.
Hampson might stress the swashbuckling a bit more; he seemed more at ease when Don Giovanni was trying to woo subtly than when he was being his most rakish.
He calls it 'swashbuckling'.
'We have to learn that swashbuckling is not the answer to business; business is the answer to business.' He argues that executives in fast-growing companies become expert at fire fighting but do not spent enough time on fire prevention.
The newest versions are faithful to Edmond Rostand's play set in 17th-century France against a background of war between kings, a war fought by such swashbuckling Gascons as D'Artagnan of the Three Musketeers.
Young, a swashbuckling whippersnapper in the mid-'50s, feels no jealousy toward younger country stars such as Randy Travis and George Strait who reign over the music charts like he did 30 years ago.
When the Securities and Exchange Commission was formed in the wake of the crash of 1929, President Roosevelt picked a savvy speculator and political operator, Joseph Kennedy, to rein in the swashbuckling markets that he knew so well.
Belmondo portrays Cyrano in an athletic, swashbuckling way. There tends to be a bit more shouting by Belmondo in the play. Depardieu, on the other hand, literally whispers into the camera.
Boyish-looking and lawyerly, the 37-year-old Mr. Jarchow doesn't come across as a typical swashbuckling real estate entrepreneur.