She looked at me in swift judgment, said, "You've got terribly fat" and departed.
At the same time, they pronounce swift judgment upon themselves, often more harshly than the reader might be tempted to do.
In a rare case of swift judgment, a court in western Rajasthan convicted two men of raping a German tourist in Jodhpur three weeks ago and sentenced them to life in prison.
Two antitrust lawsuits filed by players against the N.B.A. were merged on Monday in the hope of bringing a swifter judgment against the league, and a swifter end to the lockout.
Instead of relying on a few experts selected by leading publications, they advocate using the Internet to expose scholarly thinking to the swift collective judgment of a much broader interested audience.
Shipler's underlying mission, no doubt, is identical to that of the narrative stylists who toil among America's underclass: to press readers beyond appraising poverty's causes and effects, so often inventoried for swift, harsh judgment, to the deeper understanding that the working poor are really us.
Expect stiff, cheap drinks and weekend bouts of amateur behavior followed by regulars' swift and merciless judgment.
Any act of bullying, animal cruelty, or disregard for the environment is met with swift and harsh judgment followed by a proclamation that not only should we find that behavior intolerable, we should use it as a reminder to remain vigilant and united for the good and the just.
When Koolhaas unveiled his plans in 1999, public judgment was swift and sure.
Such slow growth was a jolt for investors, and Wall Street's judgment was swift, with Groupon shares down 27 percent on Tuesday, the day after the earnings were announced.
More by luck than swift action or good judgment, none has been worse than level three on the international scale (with Chernobyl scoring seven, the maximum, and Three Mile Island five).
