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A work for strings alone, the Academy glided crisply through its musically diverse movements, from the bold pizzicato opening of the Adagio to a moving Funeral March.
The base of every korma I make is onions – in some quantity in the case of Yasmeen Murshed's Nawab of Dhaka's family korma, which uses five onions for four people: two of them whizzed to a paste, three crisply fried then stirred into the sauce.
He flicked the ball past Colin Hendry with a deftness that confounded the laws of physics, and certainly confounded the lumbering Hendry who was left looking dazedly around as Gascoigne, with his other foot, volleyed crisply past Andy Goram.
The shop's own brewery, meanwhile, produces several beers including the wonderfully fresh, crisply bitter Marches Gold ale.
Toad's Mouth, a landmark boulder near Burbage Bridge, stood crisply against the blue sky – but the wind was cold and, being under-dressed, I dropped into the deep-set brook to bask in its shelter for a while.
Shaw has similar strength, both physical and mental, and even a similar kicking motion, whereby he seems to pass the ball crisply with his left foot like an ice hockey player slapping a puck.
4/10 While they finish crisply , US amber lagers (see also, Brooklyn lager) are heavy on the malt flavours and, consequently, something of an acquired taste.
Told that the EU claims "exclusive competence" in competition policy, a spokesperson for the treasury ministry replies crisply : "Maybe they do".
Shaven-headed and crisply suited, were it not for his Yorkshire accent and red ministeral box in hand, he could have been an American CEO, in town to inspect a new production site.Taking office, the Conservative-led coalition vowed a new, business-centred approach to foreign policy.
Her first congressional testimony in her new job was in favour of a Senate bill that would clarify the federal liability for brownfields, provide more federal funding for clean-ups, and sort out when the states have the authority to declare a site successfully cleansed.But the most promising signs for brownfield sites are probably the crisply ironed suits and the glossy brochures at Deal-Flow.
H.L. Mencken made the same point more crisply in a critique of Veblen in 1919: "Do I prefer kissing a pretty girl to kissing a charwoman because even a janitor may kiss a charwoman or because the pretty girl looks better, smells better and kisses better?"Yet rather than abandoning status anxiety, the way the rich seek to display status may simply be getting more complex.
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The adverb "crisply " primarily functions as a manner adverb, modifying verbs to describe how an action is performed. Ludwig AI confirms its usability, as demonstrated through numerous examples where "crisply " modifies verbs like fried , volleyed , and articulated .
Expression frequency: Very common
