As to D'Artagnan, afraid of some
feint, he still stood on the defensive.
I perceived my answer pleased him; he had doubtless expected to see a chilling effect produced by his steady announcement that he would give me neither wine nor spirits; he just shot one searching glance at my face to ascertain whether my cordiality was genuine or a mere
feint of politeness.
He makes a
feint of offering a protest, but she sweeps it away with her disdainful hand.
Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a
feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defence, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home.
I made another
feint at him, expecting that it would bring him at my throat; but in-stead he winced and crouched down.
Three times the panthan's blade changed its position--once to fend a savage cut; once to
feint; and once to thrust.
Then he followed up a
feint, right and left, was fiercely countered, and felt his cheek laid open to the bone.
"You feel constantly threatened with his
feints and his feet.
Parries,
feints and counterattacks give each skirmish serious strategic depth, whether you're fighting in team-based warzones, Battle Royale free-for-alls or survival matches against waves of AI brutes.
You have to use a lot of angles and
feints in order to force him to keep his hands up - and a big body assault would be the way to beat him.
Still scintillating in his lightning-fast reading of pressure situations, outrageous in the little
feints and dinked passes he uses to release teammates with precisely the right ball.
A Cologne-scene contemporary of Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger, Gunther Forg could easily be mistaken for a cynic, an artist whose blunt allusions to Barnett Newman, Piet Mondrian, and the Bauhaus were calculated simulacral
feints in painting's dismal 1980s endgame.