However, in denouncing Abbott's conservatism and backwardness, some writers swiftly quipped that our prime minister could behave in no other way due to his Catholic beliefs.
The writers swiftly explained Charlie's absence (actor Christopher Abbott left abruptly in April) with a fantasy of a possible brain tumour – a case for Oliver Sacks, suggests Hannah – and it certainly didn't feel like a rushed fix; it was very much part of the show.
As if in some metaphysical slapstick farce, every public accolade for Pinter the writer is swiftly trumped by a mortifying setback for Pinter the creature.
I used to believe that writers would swiftly forget my brief conversations with them as they signed my books; that I was anonymous and inconsequential.
But as a Greek writer, Petros Markaris, swiftly retorted, this ignores the cultural contributions around Europe's fringes a pantheon without Homer, Cervantes, Shakespeare or Ibsen.The right conclusion, however, is not that people are using the wrong definitions of Europe: it is that "Europe" cannot really be defined in terms of a single culture at all.
While there were plenty of tributes recognising Grass as one of Germany's most important post-war writers, social media users swiftly revived many of the controversies of his divisive career, bringing up his membership of the SS and his alleged anti-Semitism.
Ms. Thompson ran a perfect panel that moved swiftly with every writer being heard from.
His publisher, Longman, apparently under pressure of a boycott from other more profitable writers on its academic list, swiftly remaindered the book, and Scruton was left with several boxes of them in his garden shed.
As a science writer, I knew hantavirus could be swiftly lethal.
It sounds like an art project that could swiftly go awry: A dozen writer-directors -- NYU students -- collaborate to turn a book of poems into a feature film.
