Examples of alacrity

• Immediately after this television programme the riot spread with alarming alacrity.

• It helped to have a robust constitution, and to accept intense, unpredictable work demands with alacrity.

• The alacrity of such systems needs to be that much greater for pharmaceuticals or other technologies, with a strong marketing push from manufacturers.

• If they can, people avoid real life ' tests ' and ' opportunities for growth ' with alacrity.

• The actors are on stage all the time and collectively create complex scenes, through which their bodies interweave with heart-stopping alacrity and split-second precision.

• What emerges from such records is the frequent ability of people to talk about political events and issues and the apparent alacrity with which they were prepared to do so.

• Words like 'alacrity' and 'ruminate' entered the language in just this way, words that nobody would blink at now.

• Wong's virtuosity partially overcame this difficulty as she was able to enter and portray each one distinctly with alacrity and sensitivity.