These he had earned through decades of clockwork productivity, the kind of brisk, un-neurotic industriousness more often associated with Major British Authors than with their American cousins.
Directed by Gary Winick from a script by Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan, the film fulfills every one of its ambitions with the same kind of brisk efficiency that its heroine brings to her job of magazine fact-checking.
110% retains a little drum'n'bass, but quickly transforms into the kind of brisk pop nugget that reminds you of the run of Scandinavian popstrels five years ago, headed by Robyn.
It's as if the documentary, the personal, and the historical fused in a graceful yet majestic vessel that pared away the literary and the theatrical to become a new kind of slender, brisk instant classicism.
He says the restructuring of RBS is the biggest and most complex of any bank in the world.Mr Hester may be the kind of big, brisk City banker who has the average braveheart reaching for his claymore, but his superlatives are part of an RBS tradition.
He has, among many other gifts, maintained that old-fashioned kind of curiosity, allied to a brisk sense of utility.
If you're more a meat sandwich in the woods on a brisk morning kind of guy, maybe give it a pass.
You didn't make your number!' " Blond, petite and kind of preppy, Ms. Berner has one mode: brisk.
G. Wells: Another Kind of Life" (Peter Owen; $35), is a brisk and witty complement to Lodge's novel, issues an even sterner verdict: "If a hemorrhage had carried Wells off in 1898, how would we see him now?
It is a brisk, no-nonsense kind of place, with an extensive counter lit up with brightly coloured Indian pastries and sweetmeats to greet you as you go in, and a small, fundamental dining room (melamine-topped tables, robust chairs, lemon-yellow walls) just off it.
The edginess of user-generated content sites can sometimes scare brand advertisers away, but Chris Oates, who manages the Brisk brand for owner PepsiCo, says this kind of ad made sense, since meme-style content seems to resonate with Brisk fans.
