fleeter

A decade of painstaking, often painful lessons resulted in a military that is in many ways fleeter and more adaptable.

Changed by Iraq, Military Asks What Will Stick Julian E. Barnes 2011

As they all plunged into a copse of petrified saplings, the fleeter ones darted ahead, the slower ones lagging.

Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010

Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter.

Digitizing Medical Records May Help, but It's Complex 2009

The Tex-Mex button accordion has a mellower, fleeter sound than the reedy Cajun instrument, with its organlike stops.

Meanwhile, Back In Cajun Country 2008

Keilberth's stereo sound and somewhat fleeter interpretation though no Böhm or Boulez tip the scales in his favor in my opinion.

Archive 2007-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

Keilberth's stereo sound and somewhat fleeter interpretation though no Böhm or Boulez tip the scales in his favor in my opinion.

A Festspiele Patrick J. Smith 2007

Leaving these fleeter means of getting over the ground, or of depositing oneself upon it, to those who like them, by hackney – coach stands we take our stand.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Hogwood's is fleeter, a bit tentative and flighty.

The Secret Mozart Patrick J. Smith 2007

On the same day on my first day on the bins that one jumped out of the bin I saw a chain smoking colleague of mine experience almost the same thing except despite his age he was fleeter of foot than I and he chased it and kicked it to death.

That Was Then But This Is Now 2007

Hogwood's is fleeter, a bit tentative and flighty.

Archive 2007-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007