Dylan Hartley as captain – all bristle and edge – would be just the start, the Northampton hooker's sore ribs and form permitting. Welcome to the era of steelier mindsets, basic skills relentlessly honed, unapologetic power and extra pace to cope with an ever-swifter game.
Still, in an ever-globalizing world, the swift extinction of the Netherlands' bumblebees and sunflowers, France's Little Prince, and Belgium's sleeping farmers may be only the latest blow to the cultural flourishes that make many of the world's currencies so interesting.
Breezily playing the prankster Puck in a baseball cap, Seamus Mulcahy aptly presents an ever-boyish spirit whose brain is not quite as swift as his body.
And there is absolutely no chance that he'll ever get "swift boated".
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Its opening act is staggering in its inelegance, but the film keeps pounding through the predictable set-up and storyline until finally, when you think it can fight no longer and will have to throw in the towel, it charges back with some scenes of originality, pathos and, in ever-so-swift jabs, excitement.
As I began contributing for The Huffington Post in this ever-too-swift year, I found myself changing more and more.
Yet market strategists note that recent surveys of investor sentiment point to an unusually swift eruption of bearishness ever since fears of another economic downturn started pressuring stock prices in late April.
One by one, individuals collapsed in agony and within days, around 200 were dead, victims of the deadliest and swiftest outbreak of cholera ever to have struck Britain.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that women who get an abortion should receive "some form of punishment" if it is ever outlawed, drawing swift condemnation from activists on both sides of the divisive social issue.
