(a.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-awaited deal includes Ten taking a 24.99% stake in Foxtel’s advertising business Multi Channel Network (MCN) and the option to become a 10% shareholder in Foxtel’s subscription video on-demand service Presto TV.
(2) Sarah Presto , welfare rights advisor, Macmillan Cancer Support : From a benefits point of view, the main issue carers face is that benefit levels are very low and do not provide someone with a suitable income while they care for another person around the clock ...
(3) We can't just sit around our committee tables and say: Hey presto!
(4) I volunteered with a charity, made tentative enquiries about maybe, one day, possibly becoming a trustee and suddenly hey presto – within the year there I was in the annual report.
(5) It's easily attached - you cut away a bit of the pipe and hey presto.
(6) Choose an action and presto: the ad-supported app makes an animated show of donating that uneaten food to a food bank.
(7) Now they're the movements I most look forward to, while I can doze off during a jaunty presto.
(8) Now, hey presto, the present Labour leader Ed Miliband finds that the prime minister, having ripped his party conference speech apart at the time, has suddenly decided that there is something to be said for those who have revived Ted Heath's jibe about "the unacceptable face of capitalism": indeed, David Cameron is bending over backwards to share Miliband's concerns about "predatory capitalism".
(9) It dragged its feet in the hope that ECO would be relaxed – and hey presto, that bet paid off this week with the government halving ECO requirements by doubling the time it can take.
(10) A local video on-demand competitor to US-owned Netflix, Presto TV is a 50-50 joint venture between Foxtel and Seven West Media.
(11) The panel so far Neil Churchill , director of improving patient experience, NHS England Joseph De Souza cares for his wife Melita who was diagnosed with a tumour in her lung Nikki Hill looked after her mother who had breast and liver cancer Charlotte Argyle , carers support programme manager, Macmillan cancer support Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan cancer support Steve McIntosh , policy and public affairs manager, Carers UK Eibhlin Inglesby , partnership and policy manager, Sunderland Carers' Centre
(12) Hey presto, that Spanish yield fell back below 7%, shedding almost half a percentage point, a huge move for one day.
(13) Then, hey presto, on Sunday the prime minister hints he might rule one in.
(14) Answer no and then yes, and hey presto – you’ll find yourself bent over a camera at all hours, or glaring hopelessly at hundreds of hours of footage.
(15) The panel ... Jo Salter , researcher, Demos Neil Shadbolt , customer diversity manager, HSBC Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan Cancer Support Richard Exell , senior labour market expert, TUC Neal Southwick , financial support programme lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Paul Elkins was diagnosed with stage 3 Lymphoma in November 2010.
(16) Add in a suggestion that child benefit for young people over 16 will be withdrawn, too, and hey presto, George Osborne , in denying all these rumours today, can try to make it look as though Christmas has come early.
(17) You pay a small fee to have your house connected to it, and hey presto: a torrent of warm bolognese on tap 24 hours a day.
(18) Thus MacDonald advised 2016 Republican candidates: “If you want to eliminate poverty overnight, you can wipe it out by having stable, two-parent households.” (Note the weaseling inclusion of “stable.”) After all, we determine income inequality by households, so take two people living together in poverty, marry ‘em, and presto!
(19) Six share third place: three classical music specialists, Crotchet , MDT and Presto Classical .
Vivace
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(2) The vivacity of the visitors made a further goal likely and after Frank Lampard lost possession cheaply in the 42nd minute, Kewell was put through on the right and he shook off Ferdinand before rounding James to finish.
(3) This team has some very good players who are recapturing the traditional Algerian vivacity,” says Merzekane, who singles out Yacine Brahimi and Abdelmoumene Djabou.
(4) Algeria may have less defensive rigour than the South Americans but the present team is in the process of relaunching Algerian football using the skill and vivacity with which we have always tried to play.
(5) "We went out to attack them, to play with our style: Algerian vivacity," Merzekane says, who personified this style more than anyone, forcing Breitner on to the back foot with barnstorming breaks from deep.
(6) "The memory of poverty and of those tedious subway rides has faded with time, whereas what I recollect most vividly is the incredible vivacity with which we all confronted the dismal 1930s," Kristol recalled.
(7) Most savvy luxury managers are well aware of this which is why, quite deliberately, they regularly try to inject a bit of scandal and vivacity into the brand.
(8) Her voice is plump and pleasure-seeking, prodding and caressing a song until it yields more delights than its author had intended, bringing a spark of vivacity and a measure of cool to even the hokier material.
(9) I hope, too, that no company could be as cynical to see the death of manufacturing in the Rhondda Valley and the dissolution of a community as a matter of 'scandal and vivacity'.
(10) One could almost have felt that the vivacity of conversation, animated gestures and full-blooded life-force around the tables were out of place at the end of a solemn week that had seen the murder of staff and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo , and others.
(11) He writes that these were "held very precious for the vivacity that Titian's colouring has lent to the figures, which seem truly real and alive".
(12) Villa should have anticipated that, too, but the hosts’ early vivacity seemed to take the visitors by surprise.
(13) Noah is apathetic, lacks vivacity, yet God, in choosing him, shows an irrationality we have seen before in Genesis (favouring Abel's offering over Cain's and setting up the first motive for murder, for example).
(14) It now, however, seems the group most likely to provide a welcome spark of vivacity.
(15) Algeria recovered their vivacity for the final group game against Chile and quickly swept into a 3-0 lead.