Discarding all armour except for the helmet and cuirass, the Swiss were able to march 30 miles a day and attack with a celerity and discipline that were disconcerting to their adversaries.
When Churchill and Roosevelt were considering their declaration of the Atlantic Charter, it was Attlee, acting with a celerity and a clarity of purpose that belied his reputation for caution, who insisted on including "freedom from want" as one of its aims, making economic rights and, with them, a decent life for all, one of the official aims of the war.
With a celerity that today seems almost indecent, the consoling words delivered in 1910 by Canon Henry Scott Holland at the funeral of Edward VII were adapted to fit the mood of a country that couldn't come to terms with the enormity of its loss.
She takes in all that Touchstone feels and knows and, with a lightning celerity -- Rosalind is one of Shakespeare's quickest-thinking characters -- begins compounding a version of erotic love that includes sexual desires but isn't bounded and defined by them.
When it was down, it did not keep water in the basin, and when it was up, it did not let water out of the basin with any celerity.
Before dawn one spring morning at the Fulton Fish Market, as we were admiring a machete-wielding Ecuadorean who, with the celerity of a Jedi, was quartering and trimming a mattress-sized yellowfin tuna, Pasternack noticed a neatly pressed silver-haired gent standing nearby.
These differences include a shorter wavelength component moving with a lower wave celerity, nonlinear spatial focusing, and a mean water level that varies in space.
Gordian Weber of Cologne, who showed a rare group of the Egyptian god Thoth, represented as an Ibis worshipped by a kneeling Pharaoh, concluded a deal with equal celerity.
A quick gulp of stout, and they skid with feral celerity down to the footlights, coming triumphantly to rest in an attitude suggestive of St Joan bidding her judges to light their fires.
Not long after that, in 1990, before we could even have a reconciling cocktail — and just after he had written an essay (reprinted here) that stole my idea for a satire of those who asked for Perrier water in bars only to demand a handful of Potomac water, in the form of ice cubes, to go with it — he took a bad tumble on his way back to his office/home and died, with distressing celerity, at 66.
The food, in portions meant for sharing, aims for innovation and arrives with astonishing celerity.
