Using a heavy chef's knife, kill lobster with a swift stroke through the middle of the head, then continue the cut, cleaving lobster in two lengthwise.
In a swift stroke, he managed to expose the complete hollowness of their crusade, which is ostensibly about dismantling health care reform but is really about humiliating President Obama and the Democrats, about winning something — anything — just to show a group of angry constituents that they are waging a fight against a hated political nemesis.
In a single, swift stroke, the trustees will thus complete the revival of one president, honor the spirit of another and send a message that should be heard by leaders everywhere.
A technician helping perfect the water purification technology is conjured in a few swift strokes: "He is a bicycle mechanic by background, untrained in the nuances of business, which is why he works for you, and also because, as the father of a trio of little girls and the youngest son of a freelance bricklayer who died of exposure sleeping rough at too advanced an age, he values a steady income".
Outside, portraitists were lined up all along the curb for a chance to immortalize the youthful and beautiful with a few swift strokes of their pencils.
With a few swift strokes, Krouse interlaces Stephanie's and Mona's wildly divergent situations, showing how the laws of biology, economics and chance shape women's lives, turning babies into abstract objects of desire or dread.
3. Sift together the flour and baking powder and stir into the cornmeal mixture with a few swift strokes.
In one swift stroke, lopping off a head like a Thanksgiving bird's, he knew full well that this trusted friend's family would now be having a much less blessed November holiday and a much less merry December one.
Their end is not televised, and comes with a swift sword stroke from a skilled executioner rather than from hacking with a kitchen knife by an untutored brute.
An ungainly but surprisingly swift stroke carried him past several bridges, past a dozen camera-wielding construction workers building luxury condominiums along the canal, and toward Whole Foods on Third Street, where he made landfall and promptly gargled two mouthfuls of hydrogen peroxide.
But the kosher butcher is enjoined to kill the animal with one swift stroke of the knife.
