Such was the buyers' eagerness that "Le Repos" swiftly ascended to $9.88 million, exceeding the high estimate.
Swiftly ascending to the upper crust in New York, he was never tainted by anything middlebrow.
These effects, such as lengthy crescendos, abrupt dynamic changes, and swiftly ascending melodic figures (the famous "Mannheim rocket"), were particularly cultivated in the symphonic works of the Mannheim composers.
The sadness is that had Lembit only clung on his Montgomeryshire seat on 6 May he'd have been in line to replace Danny Alexander as Scottish Secretary... and might from there have replicated the Alexander book by swiftly ascending to Cheek Secretary to the Treasury.
While she and Bill first emerged in the movement electoral politics of the early '70s -- hired for the anti-war McGovern for President campaign by none other than Gary Hart -- they quickly forged a very pragmatic politics as Bill very swiftly ascended the ladder of Arkansas politics.
The pilot and a British passenger jumped out, before the ballon ascended swiftly.
He was a tireless promoter of the railways and of himself, and he ascended swiftly, heading provincial bureaus on his way to the seat of power in Beijing.
Whiteread ascends as swiftly as a seasoned sailor on a ship's rigging, the journey now a familiar one, although we go up on a rare day when rainwater on the metal steps hasn't been a worry.
As soon as he issues a command, the band springs into action, exploding into a frenzy of bright noise or collapsing into a ballad or swiftly scaling the peaks of an ascending chord pattern.
Luise Rainer, said to have been a keen childhood mountaineer, ascended to Hollywood's peak swiftly but suffered a vertiginous fall after finding her intellectual outlook and solid sense of self-worth were out of sync with the studio system.
The chimp casually but swiftly pressed the squares, calling back the numbers in ascending order — 1, 2, 3, etc.
