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the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The two live cuts from 1965, on which Bell is accompanied by the bassist Larry Gales and the drummer Ben Riley—both members of Thelonious Monk’s quartet—reflect a darkly moody fervor roiling its surfaces and feature passages of nerve-fraying rapidity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The thrusters in question were facing the sun during long stretches of the Starliner's approach to the station and engineers suspect the problems experienced earlier were related high temperatures and the rapidity of firings during final approach.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 July 2024
But, even allowing for the competitive extremes of teen-age culture, the sheer rapidity of Riley’s devolution beggars belief in ways that her emotional crisis in the first movie didn’t.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The two live cuts from 1965, on which Bell is accompanied by the bassist Larry Gales and the drummer Ben Riley—both members of Thelonious Monk’s quartet—reflect a darkly moody fervor roiling its surfaces and feature passages of nerve-fraying rapidity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The thrusters in question were facing the sun during long stretches of the Starliner's approach to the station and engineers suspect the problems experienced earlier were related high temperatures and the rapidity of firings during final approach.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 July 2024
But, even allowing for the competitive extremes of teen-age culture, the sheer rapidity of Riley’s devolution beggars belief in ways that her emotional crisis in the first movie didn’t.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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“Rapidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapidity. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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