Sentence examples for a celerity from inspiring English sources

Discarding all armour except for the helmet and cuirass, the Swiss were able to march 30 miles a day and attack with a celerity and discipline that were disconcerting to their adversaries.

With a celerity that today seems almost indecent, the consoling words delivered in 1910 by Canon Henry Scott Holland at the funeral of Edward VII were adapted to fit the mood of a country that couldn't come to terms with the enormity of its loss.

When Churchill and Roosevelt were considering their declaration of the Atlantic Charter, it was Attlee, acting with a celerity and a clarity of purpose that belied his reputation for caution, who insisted on including "freedom from want" as one of its aims, making economic rights and, with them, a decent life for all, one of the official aims of the war.

We also apply a knickpoint celerity model in order to provide a chronological framework to the evolution of the river network.

She takes in all that Touchstone feels and knows and, with a lightning celerity -- Rosalind is one of Shakespeare's quickest-thinking characters -- begins compounding a version of erotic love that includes sexual desires but isn't bounded and defined by them.

(March 9 at 8). |  "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" is one of James Levine's specialties — he imbues it with a Mozartean lightness that can make the performance's five-hour span pass by with an agreeable celerity.

For the case of an exponentially non-standard Nambu Goto action, the wave equation is characterized by an effective celerity of light which depends on the sign of the parameter ( zeta ).

In that way, the equation of motion yields the harmonic wave equation characterized as in the exponentially non-standard Nambu Goto action by an effective celerity of light, which depends on the sign of the parameter ( zeta ).

These differences include a shorter wavelength component moving with a lower wave celerity, nonlinear spatial focusing, and a mean water level that varies in space.

Before dawn one spring morning at the Fulton Fish Market, as we were admiring a machete-wielding Ecuadorean who, with the celerity of a Jedi, was quartering and trimming a mattress-sized yellowfin tuna, Pasternack noticed a neatly pressed silver-haired gent standing nearby.

Gordian Weber of Cologne, who showed a rare group of the Egyptian god Thoth, represented as an Ibis worshipped by a kneeling Pharaoh, concluded a deal with equal celerity.