Dinah's career as a nurse accompanying ambulances in the Blitz; her humiliation at the hands of a backstreet abortionist; the boys, precipice encurled, exulting on the mountainside - all this is written up with almost effortless fluency.
Bale's run between the centrer backs was spotted by Gylfi Sigurdsson, who earned the start in place of Lewis Holtby and the injured Clint Dempsey (calf), and his sumptuous pass was seized upon by the Welshman with almost effortless cool.
John Ziegler, a Maryland physician, pioneered their use on American (York) lifters in the early 1960s, and their use quickly spread to virtually all sports and forms of physical activity as individuals discovered the rapid, and almost effortless, gains in muscle mass achievable with the aid of steroids.
In the video on SOG website, they cut a washer in half with it, and it seems almost effortless.
Coupled with the simplicity, it makes them feel light and almost effortless".
And with that perspective, one more step can at times feel almost effortless.
Imagine how a bond with a stranger could come so quickly, could actually be almost effortless.
While at Cambridge he first studied zoology but soon switched to French and Russian literature; he graduated with first-class honours in 1922 and subsequently wrote that his almost effortless attainment of this degree was "one of the very few 'utilitarian' sins on my conscience".
"It was almost effortless.
Almost effortless, but startlingly evocative.
