With Roe v. Wade in jeopardy, the alacrity with which President Obama seems willing to bargain away women's reproductive freedom is cause for grave concern.
No one player can answer for the way baseball hid in its shell, demonstrating the alacrity of a geriatric turtle on an issue being responded to elsewhere in sports with alarm.
Not burning-building woodsmokiness, which in these parts, thanks to the alacrity of the fire department, typically comes in the dismal, water-soaked variety, but real, woodsy woodsmokiness.
The transition to the alacrity that exploded in Monet's landscapes in 1874, the year of the first "Impressionist Exhibition," was astonishingly short.
The bewildering collapse of the great French Army, which folded within six weeks of the German advance in the spring of 1940; the alacrity with which many countries adapted to occupation; and the willingness to ignore, and sometimes to assist in, the deportations all made distasteful memories.
A striking finding was the alacrity of JE154 in altering its gene expression patterns in response to ozone, in stark contrast to delayed transcriptional response of Jemalong.
Why and even how Greek society veered from the gravity of the Classical age to the alacrity frequently seen in Hellenistic sculpture of the third and second century B.C. remains an enigma.
It is also difficult to ignore the fact that unless Mr Hazare and his spirited bunch of aides had not kicked up a storm over a strong anti-corruption bill, India's politicians would never have moved on it with the alacrity they have demonstrated in the past few months.
Philip Zimbardo's 1971 study is infamous for its disturbing demonstration of the alacrity and vigor with which biases in person perception are activated.
The ball would pass in front of them, and my boys sometimes reacted with the alacrity of earthworms.
