A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.
. . . Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years. " Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind. . . not a gift I would receive with alacrity.
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.