Mr. Friedman is a nimble-minded writer with a fine-tuned sense of the absurd.
On the one hand, Slow Violence celebrates those nimble, determined writers who have testified to the environmental struggles that are intensifying across the global South--struggles for access to water, land, food, energy, and sustainable hope.
However, that often is typed when than is meant--probably because it's the more common word (and one that connects thoughts), so writers' nimble fingers are likely, through muscle memory, to hit the t instead of the n.
If separating ideas from implementation can leave you a little lightheaded, you'll still walk away dazzled by the greatness of cities and fascinated by this writer's nimble mind.
There he developed a reputation as a gifted writer, a nimble conductor on election nights and a perfectionist of an editor, recalled John Procaccino, an actor and arts journalist who worked with Mr. Brown.
For example, her biographer characterizes her as a brilliant writer with a nimble mind.
She showed me that a writer could be nimble and funny and frightening all at once and that children's books were just the place to do it.
John Updike once referred to Adam Gopnik as a writer of "avid intelligence and nimble pen".
This is itself a phrase from the writer Italo Calvino, who distinguished nimble precision from mere frivolity.
To the Editor: As a biologist who has studied birds for nearly 40 years, I have developed a deep respect for what the English writer Izaak Walton called "those little nimble musicians of the air".
