At once compelling and unreachable, he has a swiftness of mind which convinces the audience that language is being coined in the moment.
Others have marveled at the swiftness of a guy two and a half months shy of his 76th birthday.
I agreed with a swiftness that they found alarming.
Ian Kinley, our excellent course manager, had been surprised at the swiftness of the thaw but gave us a course with only one winter green.
"When it sees any object on the surface of the water," he wrote, "[it] descends from a great height… with the swiftness of an arrow; and at the instant of seizing with its long beak and outstretched neck, the floating morsel, it turns upwards, with extraordinary dexterity, by the aid of its forked tail, and its long, powerful wings".
Well, aside from the novelty factor of its origins, it is a surprisingly effective product, one that reads with a swiftness that is not unlike the experience of clicking through multiple screens at a time.
Then, from Twenty-sixth to Twenty-fifth, blackness descended with the swiftness of a theatre curtain.
The Saudi was identified, with a swiftness that surprised some, by body parts found at the scene in Sultanahmet.
The higher court needs to take a hard look at whether the unusual swiftness of this trial allowed defendants enough time to prepare an adequate defense for a verdict that resulted in sentences that seemed disproportionate to the offense.
The frequent result is a distinctive wittiness, a lightness and swiftness of tone familiar to readers of Muriel Spark (another writer interested in combining short views and long views).
Chronology breaks down, replaced by impressions that change with the swiftness of the click of a gear shifter.
