Sentences with phrase «alacrity as»

The forthcoming Focus RS and Volkswagen's Golf R both have gobs more power and torque, albeit at a slightly higher starting price, but then so does the cheaper Focus ST.. The JCW has size on its side, though, and the resulting power to weight ratio makes for a city car that can squirt out of bends and away from stoplights with as much alacrity as far more powerful sports cars — up to a certain speed.

Google expected the DMV ruling by the beginning of this year, but governments do not move with the same alacrity as Silicon Valley.

It handles darks and lights with the same agility, capturing the steaming nights of a New York winter with as much alacrity as the interiors of Romulus's sepia - tinged hallucinations of moth - seraphs.

Not exact matches

As CNBC wrote last week, this seesaw dynamic between tech and bank stocks is «happening in the context of an overall market that has become quite selective and eclectic, with stocks and sectors rotating in and out of favor with unusual alacrity.»

In fact, they were just pretending to ignore Centesimus Annus, as is evident in the alacrity with which they have pounced on the two aforementioned statements.

After over 25 years of the functioning of the Fourth Republican Constitutional dispensation, acts such as this must not only be frowned upon but must also be jettisoned with speed and alacrity and perpetrators named, shamed and dealt with to guarantee the growth and progress of our democratic order.

These are the moments you can feel great calmness along with great alacrity, relaxation even as a sharp alertness heightens.

She responds with coquettish alacrity to his advances, accepting a dinner invitation with her «hungry boy» and readily adopting the recently vacated position of in - house muse as he fusses over her slender figure and marvels at what she considers her flat - chested imperfections.

Jackson wraps up the strands of Tolkien's complicated story with alacrity, and despite its length, the film only starts feeling as long at the end — or, more correctly, ends.

With the PASM in its firmest setting the GTS turns in with staggering alacrity and the lateral grip feels almost preposterous, as does the body control.

It changes up with alacrity and each gear engages crisply if you change at the correct moment, but ignore the prompts from the head - up display and wait right to the redline, and you'll be left waiting for the next gear as the engine stumbles into a soft - limiter.

You shouldn't be too disappointed if you opt for the non-AMG SLs though, as both SL 400 and SL 500 offer strong performance and, if not quite as sharp as the AMGs, fulfil the role of grand tourer with alacrity.

It sheds forward momentum with the same alacrity, with an as - tested 60 - 0 mph distance of 116 feet, not bad for the high - riding cat.

A degree of alacrity is present still, but thankfully the lightness diminishes as you step up to D or R.

As the road opens up, though, the Polo's DSG makes more sense, slipping between gears and shifting with an alacrity missing in most mainstream rivals.

Rather than drive these cars through corners, you practically think them through, as they seem to respond with telepathic alacrity.

The possibility of clipping apices early is a real occurrence as the GT3 turns in with such alacrity.

Doesn't the fact that «T» can stand there in the shower room at our gym, confidently toweling off his tiny unit, while «O» is at home changing their spark plugs with alacrity, indicate that it is only a short stroll down a slippery slope before he is completely happy being the «girl» in their relationship, from which it is only a slight fey hop down the same slope before «T» is happily married to another man, perhaps my car mechanic, a handsome Portugese fellow I shall refer to as «J?»

These will be stories, lessons, and entertainment that cross media thresholds with an alacrity never before seen, and libraries will be able to «collect» such materials only with as much ease as they might collect the web.

To the our dark lord I present to you this virgin girl's soul in hopes that you give me the edge to obtain this symbol of the gods, that will allow me to enjoy this boon you've sent to humanity known only as Brutal Legend, and that I may use it with precise alacrity.

These elements demonstrate the alacrity with which Richter had perfected the use of the «squeegee» as a tool for painting: adapted from the wipers used by window cleaners, it was only in the mid-1980s that the artist began to apply paint with them.

This proposal was accepted with alacrity by bodies worldwide such as the «Natural Resources Defense Fund» and the «Environmental Defense Fund».

But, as Bruce McEwen recently noted in a posting entitled IBM Watson & Machine Learning, in discussing how IBM Watson may affect the practice of law, «For once it would behoove us to respond with alacrity and nimbleness in place of denial, resentment, and behind - the - lines guerrilla resistance.»

Readers of SLAW know that, as a rule, librarians are passionate about their collections, and despite negative stereotypes, they embrace the electronic resources and developments with alacrity, often way ahead of the pack.