quickness

1 They also remind me of George Meredith’s dictum in his Essay on Comedy that laughter depends on quickness of perception: you realise how much film-makers once relied on the alertness of a mass audience.

2 She took a quick shower.

3 He does not have much burst, does not run the floor well and struggles against quickness.

他没有多少爆发力, 在场上的跑位也不是很好,身手也不够敏捷.

4 “Girl, you can have those stilts back with a quickness!”

5 Judging from his specials and interviews, his calling cards are his intelligence, charm, quickness and ability to get across a sharp point of view in an ingratiating manner.

6 Because when it comes to memes, when it comes to the quickness with which black folks find a reference and align it with something in the current zeitgeist, it can’t be matched.

7 Their works emphasized the dancers’ liquid ease of movement, their surprise quickness and their serenity in sailing through the most devilishly abandoned, limb-flinging feats of cannonball force.

8 The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count’s leap back saved him.

9 This slight piece needed quickness and a touch of the bizarre, but instead hit the same note over and over, finally getting to its gory conclusion 15 minutes beyond its scheduled running time.

10 Although he never instigated brawls with me, the quickness with which his temper rose showed he was game.

11 Given the brevity of the episodes and the quickness of the pace, we are always at the edge of a cliffhanger.

12 If she could find a way to use the boys’ quickness against Athens, Luma felt the Fugees had a chance to knock off the best team in the league.

13 Gaum gave me an airy little nod, as if applauding my quickness to reply: a conspirator’s nod.

14 He is always balanced—there’s that split step—which helps his quickness.

15 He begins to describe the invitation with rhythmic quickness, his mouth close to the microphone.

16 The quickness of the strokes are immediate — many of the compositions shade toward abstraction, slowing down just enough to allow for a windswept palm.

17 Kosky said he was trying to bring together “the loneliness and melancholy of those isolated characters in Fassbinder’s films” with the “wonderful, naughty, Lubitsch quickness, irony and lightness.”

18 He has the courage, quickness and depth to hit the big threes that spread the floor for Nowitzki and others.

他有勇气、速度和深度去命中一个个重要的三分，为Nowitzki和其他人铺路。

19 I can't run any quicker.

20 While not specifically based on Zweig’s work, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” conjures some of its defining traits: quickness, compression and a highly refined sense of the nuances that separate comedy from tragedy.

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3 敏捷

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4 急速

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5 快速

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6 机敏

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8 机智

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