It's opposed to the rapidity of society — rapid growth, rapid foods, and rapid celebrities.
Unlike arrow keys, with the mouse you can move up, right, down, wherever you want with rapidity.
"The rapidity with which the technology allows you to copy has really challenged people on what to do with all of this material, how to contextualize it," said Francis Blouin, a historian who is director of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.
You can tell by the rapidity of movement, the glazed looks, even how quickly and carelessly beautiful old buildings are being town down and replaced by characterless facades.
(post-consultation interview, age 79, right hip, listed for TJR by Surgeon B) Patients preferred to have the opportunity to ask questions, and reflected on the rapidity of some consultations: Interviewer: How do you feel the consultation went overall?
You can't advance across the ring with any rapidity while doubled over.
The rapidity of the jumping between years cuts both ways: the pace is kept tight, but you're often left reeling, not given space for events to settle before their repercussions have already become bread-and-butter to the characters.
(Several former repeat customers, now in their seventies and eighties, pointed an imaginary knife at me and said, "You wan' onions, keed?") He sliced the pickles the long way, with a rapidity that mesmerized his customers.
And you can feel his body in the work itself: the "delicacy in lightness, in rapidity; the quickness in the thighs, the arrowy flexibility of the instep; the responsiveness in the torso, the poise of the arms, the sweetness of the wrists".
Then emulate the rapidity of a running hare and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.
