Indeed, on the field last week as the team's captain, she was a quick, wise, natural and generous leader.
"I am sure he will make a quick, wise decision," Ban said, saying that climate change was having severe impacts from the Arctic to Antarctica.
We're smarter, more adept, quicker, wiser, shrewder, more dynamic, more tolerant and more connected than any of our generational predecessors.
One, who is the same age as me but is now deputy head of the school, introduced me to a group to whom I was delivering training, saying that she may have progressed quicker career wise, but she wished that other staff and students would look at her the way they look at me.
When it was announced that Cramer was going on "The Daily Show" to debate Stewart, the media ballyhooed the clash as if it were the reincarnation of Ali-Frazier, albeit with two quick-witted, wise-guy Jewish flyweights.
Heard but not seen as their ambulance cruised midtown was Scorsese himself, cast as a sardonic radio dispatcher, delivering dialogue courtesy of Paul Schrader (by way of a novel written by Joe Connelly) in a voice that was unmistakably, quintessentially New York — a quick-tempo wise-guy patois with a don't-tempt-me edge of neurotic potential.
Generous, wise, quick, very funny.
(They are also teenagers, so they are quick with the wise cracks).
The lead character, Gideon, is described as a man in his 30s: "Charismatic, charming, cynical, worldly-wise; quick to buy a round or throw a fist, slow to open his heart.
"Back home it's quick and scrummaging-wise it's not that hard.
(via ArtsBeat, Rolling Stone).
