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quick (Discerning), adjective acute, adept, adroit, agile, aggressive, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, deft, dexterous, discerning, educable, fiery, intelligent, irascible, irritable, keen, of ready intelligence, peppery, sagacious, sharp, skillful, snappish, teachable, trainable

quick (Fleeting), adjective active, artful, born, brief, caducous, cursory, deft, elusive, ephemeral, evanescent, expeditious, express, facile, fast, fleet, fleeting, frisky, hasty, hurried, immediate, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, meteoric, momentary, nimble, perfunctory, perishable, perspicacious, precipitate, proficient, prompt, rapid, ready, short-lived, speedy, sudden, summary, swift, temporary, transient, vivacious, volatile, wide-awake

See also: alert, artful, born, brief, conscious, cursory, deft, expeditious, facile, immediate, impulsive, instantaneous, live, perfunctory, perspicacious, precipitate, proficient, prompt, rapid, ready, summary, volatile

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Each vignette is brief yet directly cuts to the quick of John Paul's philosophy and understanding.

Purity of Heart by Taylor, John / Reviewer's Bookwatch

Even more paradoxically, perhaps, the photographic process, miniaturizing and crystallizing every detail of these man-made worlds, cuts to the quick of filmic fascination.

John Divola by Tumlir, Jan / Artforum International

This narrative device makes it difficult to sort out who's who in the beginning, but the direct and powerful idiomatic language cuts to the quick.

Dive by Vasilakis, Nancy / The Horn Book Magazine

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