briskness

brisk | American Dictionary

brisk
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/brɪsk/
quick, energetic, and active:
I took a brisk walk.
Business has been brisk lately.
A brisk (= cold but pleasant) wind blew across the field.

briskly

adverbus/ˈbrɪsk·li/
She moved briskly toward the car.

brisk | Business English

brisk
adjective
uk /brɪsk/us
quick and full of energy, and only saying what is necessary:
In the office, he was brisk and businesslike.
used to describe a situation in which there is a lot of activity:
Oil prices added over 2% in brisk trading yesterday.
American manufacturing was doing brisk business last month.

briskly

adverb
The product has been selling briskly despite the recession.

Examples of brisk

brisk
Other features of motor neuron disease are generalized muscular weakness, wasting, fasciculation and brisk reflexes, though sensation is intact.
This occurs via a brisk increase in sympathetic outflow and withdrawal of sympathetic tone.
The research compared brisk walking three times a week with a stretching-and-toning class that met three times a week for six months.
The aim is to produce something which is rhythmically monotonous and repetitive; a 'sustaining' background of brisk, cheerful but unobtrusive music.
The millowners treated this brisk conclusion with caution.
In fact the brisk outer movements must have a bit of counterbalance if they are not to cloy.
Among the concentric types, they identified ten different types including several brisk types which could be equivalent to a ganglion cells.
Other classes of neurons that exhibit such synchrony in our study largely include pairs of brisk cells with either transient or sustained firing.
The brisk counterpoint and stern tone abates only briefly towards the end, for a moment of hymn-like unity on the words 'be pious, be wise'.
The walks are established primarily in order to get people fit, so are intended to be taken at a brisk pace.
Individuals were told that they should walk at their own brisk pace, and it was emphasized that the walk was for health.
Patients were told to walk at a brisk pace for 6 min and the distance walked in that time was measured.
The stage is set for a brisk disposal of my arguments by an authoritative deployment of counter-arguments.
Still, a meandering, contrapuntal progress seems preferable to the brisk and monotonous cadence of regimented cosmopolitanism.
If these were not properly about progress, brisk, satisfying braced square to the wind or, in other progress.
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