His analysis of the rapid-fire thought process that accompanies an MP standing to ask a question is a tour de force.
The BIS, a 30-item self-report measure, assessed three aspects of impulsivity: attentional (rapid, unstable thoughts and lack of cognitive patience), motor (a tendency for impetuous action) and non-planning (lack of future orientation).
The metaphors, myths, and gnomic sayings that ornament the odes are often difficult to grasp because of the rapid shifts of thought and the sacrifice of syntax to achieving uniform poetic colour.
Look closely, though, and his quietly elegant suit jacket and rapid turn of thought point to formative years at Harvard — an editor of the Lampoon, class of '76.
I had broken through the threshold of night, beyond which sleep would not come only a rapid stream of thoughts and disconnected suppositions".
And with all that stress, comes anxiety - the million-mile-per-hour (at many times contradictory) thoughts, rapid heartbeat, uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach.
From cultural progress as documented in Galdwell's Blink or back to the start-up with McConnell's Rapid Development, these thoughts happen very quickly, unpredictably.
The general acceptance of death was to be subverted by the advances of modern medicine and by the rapid spread of rationalist thought.
From the end of World War II to the brief interlude of prosperity after the cold war, politicians could console themselves with the thought that rapid economic growth would eventually rescue them from short-term fiscal transgressions.
The ability to do accelerated work should be very useful everywhere that speed of thought and rapid interaction with computers is useful.
But it was not until the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the subsequent rapid industrialization that serious thought was eventually given to making its urban structure more proof against disasters.
