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«To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.»
Author: Christopher Andreae | Keywords: brisk, conductor, conductors, flung, gesture, nod, punctuation, strained, tautness
«When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.»
Author: James Agee (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, automatic, brisk, canter, distinct, flogged, flogging, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, gearshift, headlong, jog, jog trot, piston, ran, soberly, sprint, transitions, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, walk-to
«One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: brisk, coda, hangs, unashamed, unspeakably
«A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: brisk, crowded, docket, police court
«Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: benumbed, benumbs, birch, birches, brisk, torpedo, torpedoes
«These most brisk and giddy-paced times.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: brisk, giddy, paced
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