When her middle granddaughter, Lady Edith, frets that she will end up a spinster, Lady Violet says briskly, "Don't be defeatist, Dear, it's very middle class".
"When her middle granddaughter, Lady Edith, frets that she will end up a spinster, Lady Violet says briskly, 'Don't be defeatist, Dear, it's very middle class.' There is nothing middle class about 'Downton Abbey.' Even a world war can't sever the bond between aristocrats and the servants who love them".
He had a tremendous influence on the Coke children; from Bozoun, Coke learnt to "loathe concealers, prefer godly men and briskly do business with any willing client", something that shaped his future conduct as a lawyer, politician and judge.
Compared with other jurisdictions, this is business briskly done.
"It's a fairly briskly done piece of business," Gilroy said, "and John did it well, but I remember thinking as we shot it how cloistered he was, how much of his life has been on the stage".
The tragic postnatal depression and ensuing mental illness of Isabella Thackeray, which began after Minny's birth in 1839 and lasted until Isabella's death as an old lady in 1894, is briskly done.
"A Life's Work" briskly does away with any frilly illusions about the joys of motherhood even as it depicts this glamourless burden as the definitive joy; that's the book's triumph.
Though the considerable action in "Shadow Warrior's" second half is briskly done, there is no shaking the feeling that Branagh and his cast are a kind of an espionage film B team, capable of mild diversion but nothing more.
Included activities were walking leisurely/fast or briskly, cycling leisurely/fast or briskly, doing light/heavy gardening, doing light/heavy housekeeping, jogging or running, swimming, playing tennis or badminton, playing team sport indoors or outdoors, doing light exercises to maintain physical condition (stretching, flexibility training) and doing heavy exercises (fitness, strength training).
To move the performances along briskly, players don't type their lines in real time but rather paste them in advance into text boxes.
Instead of running with the arms bent tightly at the elbows and swinging briskly, as do our short-distance men, the Greeks plowed down the course with arms outstretched and swinging wildly — a practice consistently pictured in the art of the time.
