In 1834, the New York Times (a newspaper unrelated to the one founded in 1851 and extant today) wrote of Jackson, "He arrives at conclusions with a rapidity which proves that his process is not through the tardy avenues of syllogism, nor over the beaten track of analysis".
They convert our transaction at the till into waste with a rapidity that can seem almost poignant.
At Christmas she was still able to enjoy a conversation and follow a television programme; a fortnight later she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which progressed with a rapidity that, I was told, was very unusual.
(Several former repeat customers, now in their seventies and eighties, pointed an imaginary knife at me and said, "You wan' onions, keed?") He sliced the pickles the long way, with a rapidity that mesmerized his customers.
"From the beginning he showed a rapidity and intelligence to understand exactly what needed to be done," Mr. Sorgentone said.
Rather, their personalities take a back seat to the material, and their teamwork and timing have an acrobatic virtuosity (at times, their rapidity leaves a viewer wondering whether what's happened isn't actually about to happen).
He smiled at those who stared at him with mouths agape, stunned at rapidity with which his NFL career was careening out of control even before it started.
My friend's wife was stunned at the rapidity of events.
I've always been puzzled at the rapidity and the eagerness of the press to embrace the anticollecting lobby.
The article marvels at the rapidity of the 1918 flu's spread, at the virus's unusual ability to lay waste to young adults, and at the fact that no pandemic among birds occurred before the outbreak in humans.
