"And do you understand that I like this world?" Mr. Middelhoff had reached this universe on a career track as swift as the pace he prizes in business.
From his 18th-floor law office on the southwest corner of the Woolworth Building, he is hypnotized by the swift pace of the cleanup and the haunting glow that makes the area resemble a sports stadium under the lights.
Later in the day, the swift pace of change in the post-Bush political landscape in Texas was further underscored when Senator Phil Gramm, a conservative Republican, said he would not seek re-election next year.
But that seems swift compared to the pace of past wars.
But by noontime, as the swift pace of the recount suggested Scott was no longer in danger, the tone of the protests had mellowed considerably.
Very possibly, it was Ballet Theater's appointment of Mr. Baryshnikov that set the swift pace for the exceptional number of male dancers who suddenly became artistic directors in companies once headed by founders, administrators or choreographers.
Ms. Gallagher's lawyer, Stephen Rubino, attributed the Salesians' policy shift to the swift pace of events in the temporal world.
The swift pace at which the travel ban was drawn up was plain in the conduct of the court.
For it will follow that the outer stars are the swifter, and that the pace of the stars corresponds to the size of their circles.
When visiting scientists entrenched in the frigid business of unlocking the secrets of halogen particles on the Greenland ice sheet, she camped near the hole where extraction of two miles of ice cores in 1993 awakened the world to the swift pace of global warming.
