Word: quicked
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...rest of the cast rises to meet Damon's challenge. Williams is a wonder here--he clearly has invested immense passion in his role as Sean McGuire. His interactions with Will are wonderfully entertaining--each of them is lightning quick, perceiving what the other is about to say before it comes flying out of his mouth. Ben Affleck, who cowrote the screenplay, has a small but important part here as Will's main buddy (He swears that in the next movie they write he'll get to play the Romeo). Affleck has the funniest lines in the movie...
This piecewise method of exploring the personal histories of Koltsovo's residents and their families has the remarkable effect of compressing time. Echoes of a Native Land is not a particularly quick read. The narrative reflects research and experience spanning 17 years of the author's life. Yet by not relating the past in chronological order, Schmemann is able to condense 200 years of history into the blink of an eye. As a whole, this compressed history expresses a sense of waste and of sadness for communism's unfortunate effects on Russia's fate and for the country's difficulties...
...pressure bother us in the first half," Delaney-Smith said. "We tried to be quick, we didn't use ball fakes, we used up our dribble--all the things you're not supposed to do against pressure...
Sitting on the edge of his seat and waving his arms, Carville was quick on the uptake as he diagnosed the nation's political maladies...
With less than a minute remaining in the first period, Adams stormed down the left wing and launched a wrister at Holowaty, who made a quick stick save. Adams fought through two more hits and finished the rush with a shovel shot which Holowaty couldn't handle...