alacrity

Example Sentences

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Some have bristled at the alacrity with which Solis has appeared to consolidate support.

From Los Angeles Times

They took to songwriting with alacrity, driven by an urge to create their own material at a time when there was no precedent for a band to write its own songs.

From Los Angeles Times

But the figure vanishes with the same dreamlike alacrity with which he arrives.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite your alacrity in the Colorado case, it is taking you months- months- to parse whether a president can assassinate his rivals with immunity from prosecution.

From Salon

They’re both walking encyclopedias of the genre, able to reel off titles of films, popular and obscure, with the alacrity of true aficionados.

From Los Angeles Times