"The heavy port drinker must be prepared to make some sacrifice of personal beauty and agility," Evelyn Waugh pointed out.
In my talks with young scientists across the country I've encouraged them to embrace the following concepts: due diligence, personal accountability, and agility.
The poet plays artfully with paradox and polyptoton: he is is adept at turning complex personal unhappiness into rhetorical agility.
Fostering meaningful cross-frame experiences can permit the increased mental agility; reflection on personal experiences, stories and responses can open curiosity and change the questions asked.
In 2011, Mr. Wheeler wrote admiringly on his personal blog, Mobile Musings, about the lobbying agility of the National Association of Broadcasters, which had worked to scuttle what looked like a sure-to-pass auction plan then before Congress.
He acknowledged today that last season was "a year full of injuries," and he hired a personal trainer over the winter to help his agility and flexibility.
As I reflect on my recent international consulting project, which focused on change management for a large multinational company, and while I get ready for my own drastic life changes, moving from being a student to a job as a consultant, I remind myself of the importance of agility in one's professional and personal life.
Mr. Sendak's agility with sly pictorial autobiography encouraged illustrators to inject personal symbolism into otherwise depersonalized commercial art.
Lively moves with agility between a wide range of observations on the personal and social consequences of being old, providing her readers with a perspective from "an unexpected dimension".
Noted in the Kung Fu community for his achievement of exceptional personal flexibility, Zink also emphasized flexibility training in his martial arts classes as a method to develop agility, power and endurance.
