briskness
Example Sentences
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It ultimately undercuts a narrative whose strongest suit has always been its briskness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
Yes, his eventual shot went in off Fabian Schar, but the briskness and intensity of Scotland’s counter was electrifying.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
Sometimes, as in a Polonaise with panache at the start of the Act III ball, the briskness was right; sometimes it felt spirited but faceless, simply too lightweight.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2022
“His briskness in Chopin’s famous Funeral March restored dignity to the usual mopiness,” Times critic Bernard Holland wrote in a review of a 2007 recital at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021
To which the Aged replied with great briskness, before saying that he gave, “All right, John, all right, my boy!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
