That Binet's solution seems obvious is testament to the brilliant ease and fluency of his book: his historical novel makes use of novelistic invention while apologizing for doing so.
This bizarre French fluency, so brilliant, self-conscious, and self-delighted, leaves many of us caught in an uneasy limbo between admiration and ridicule.
Mann's recreation of the Kinshasa spectacular is impressive and Smith does a superb job with Ali's face and voice: the endless, effortless fluency, the speaking style of a brilliant preacher crossed with the kind of comic who makes everyone laugh without needing to say anything.
She is brilliant at it, feisty and funny, introducing the day's phone-in topics with an articulate fluency that's almost beyond belief (15-minute fault‑free monologues are not unheard of), and was duly rewarded with a Sony gold award for speech personality of the year in 2009.
Simon's a brilliant musician, and as an actor he has perfect pitch – his timing, rhythm and physical coordination have a musical fluency.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Fluency, however, is declining.
Now the fluency returned.
And what does fluency mean?
Fluency in French and Spanish.
