Sentence examples for rapidity he from inspiring English sources

As the tall writer turned the paper pages with a hungry rapidity, he easily visualized the celebrated symbologist and fancier of English tailoring Robert Langdon running around a series of famous tourist attractions in Florence, Venice and Istanbul.

Capable of articulating notes with stunning rapidity, he was also an expert with the difficult technique called circular breathing, which allows a wind instrumentalist to play continuous long notes or extended phrases without having to interrupt the musical flow to take a breath.

So blindingly obvious is the answer that there can be no surprise that he ceased to be the Royal Society's director of education with such rapidity once he had, speaking more with his clergyman's hat on (for he is a thing now rara avis in terris: a latter-day Kilvert), proposed the cobra-chemistry idea - though no doubt he had his own tradition's more banal version of it in mind.

Equally stunning was the power with which he piston-pumped his knees and the rapidity with which he swung them forward from one stride to the next.

My father knew something about the rapidity of decline: he had watched it befall not one but two cities.

"What is fascinating about Sarkozy is the rapidity with which he can react," Mr. Cohn-Bendit said.

The rapidity with which he restored order surprised his contemporaries, and the effect of his personal policy in that achievement cannot be ignored.

Unlike the decline in ad spending, which was unparalleled in its rapidity and scale, he said, the recovery will gather momentum gradually, with increases in worldwide ad spending of 3.6percentt in 2003 and 5.3percentt in 2004.

But Tachibana Hiromitsu's change from a selfish man whose outward decorum masks a crude, sexist sensibility into a sensitive nature-lover seems forced, as is the rapidity with which he advances from speaking almost no English to expressing his inmost thoughts and feelings poetically.

"I love their rapidity of change," he said of his adopted home.

"Chauvel's leadership," wrote Henry Gullett, "was distinguished by the rapidity with which he summed up the very obscure Turkish position in the early morning, and by his judgement and characteristic patience in keeping so much of his force in reserve until the fight developed sufficiently to ensure its most profitable employment".