The C.I.A. director, said one intelligence official, "has been fully engaged from the start of the agency's response, particularly in the rescue mission that was swift and aggressive".
We all remember that wine bottle hammered into a young anti-fascist rebel's skull in Pan's Labyrinth… "There's a couple of very strong violent moments, that are swift and unadorned," says Del Toro.
The code calls for enforcement measures that are swift, fair, consistent and appropriate.
Nothing was the same after that: developers discovered the historic waterfront, initiating a gentrification that was swift and unstop-pable.
It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
He proposes, for lesser offenders, punishments that are swift and certain but not necessarily severe: a night in jail, instead of a warning, for missing a meeting with a parole officer, say, and ten nights the next time.
Mr. Washington's Creasy is, in effect, a one-man lynch mob, cutting through the corruption and red tape that protects the kidnappers in order to bring them punishment that is swift, merciless and sure.
Because a tortoise is easily associated with things that are slow-moving and the hare with things that are swift, the characters already have what will be their key traits in the story built-in.
"That is why we are building a justice system that is swifter and more certain.
