fleetness

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Sinner's relentlessly clean ball-striking from the back of the court, plus his fleetness of foot when his opponent tried to lure him forward, began to frustrate Alcaraz in the fourth set.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2019

His feet tap dance on the organ pedals with a fleetness that puts Fred Astaire to shame.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2019

This marvelous horse passed successively into Hercules’ and Adrastus’ hands; and the latter won all the chariot races, thanks to his fleetness.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)