briskness

How To Use briskness In A Sentence

• Their briskness across the stones, their ability to walk untroubled through current and spray and emerge with beaks crammed with larvae, the explosive calls and trilling year-round song that pierced through even this amplified rush of water over rock, were an abundant delight. Country diary: Hay-on-Wye
• An elderly, white-haired man strode down the steps of Nagglfar Hall with a briskness that belied his years. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
• There's a chill in the night air, and a certain briskness to the mornings.
• Still, it's a triumph for the ENO, with the principals being given luxurious support by Christine Rice's warm mezzo muse/schoolboy, Clive Bayley taking the four bass-baritone "villain" roles and the orchestra conducted with convincing briskness by Anthony Walker. In 'Tales of Hoffmann,' All's Fair in Love
• Under the briskness and brusquerie, he was a softie and our respect for him was matched by our fondness. 'Under the briskness, he was a softie' | Julian Barnes
• Their briskness across the stones, their ability to walk untroubled through current and spray and emerge with beaks crammed with larvae, the explosive calls and trilling year-round song that pierced through even this amplified rush of water over rock, were an abundant delight. Country diary: Hay-on-Wye
• The story unfolds with unaccustomed briskness, and the period setting seems exactly right.
• That sparkling briskness -- the tang -- which is the best the temperate climate has to offer, gives the Native Son his high powered strenuosity. The Native Son
• He retains much of the briskness and forthrightness of his early naval career.
• (Changing his tone abruptly to businesslike briskness.) THEFT