"My goal is to bring effortless style to the masses," she said, finishing her lunch.
A wee bit of a conceptual leap, but, to spring from the earliest music I own to the newest CD I own, Fleet Foxes seem intent on bringing effortless vocal harmony back as a perfectly acceptable accessory to the modern bucolic, beard-led popular combo.
Such visible panache is not Martha Argerich's style, disappearing beneath her mane of dark hair to bring effortless sparkle to Ravel's piano concerto in G, as jazzy as it is witty, as abrupt in its mood changes as it is demanding of the soloist.
In 2003 she brought her effortless, perky glamour to a modern day reworking of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, appearing as a young pub singer in The Miller's Tale opposite Dennis Waterman as the landlord.
University of California Press; 512 pages; $35 and £24.95Aesthete, patron, diplomat, diarist, peace campaigner, defender of the Weimar republic and exile from Nazism, Harry Kessler was a cultivated amateur whose brains and background brought him effortless access to politics, society and intellectual life throughout Europe.
As Joe, Ian Hart brings an effortless sense of conviction to the screen; few actors can convey such conflicted character traits (strength and weakness, bullishness and fragility) with the unfussy ease that has become Hart's spiky trademark.
In an album on Hyperion, he brings his effortless dexterity, columnar tone, and intellectual insight to such pieces as the Piano Sonata No. 2, in which he gives an improbable coherence to the work's jump-cut transitions, bizarre motivic gestures (as in the Funeral March), and asymmetrical forms.
"We want to bring truly effortless charging to more places and more customers around the world.
The driver (Ryan Gosling) brings an effortless sense of power and influence with what is effectively his elevator pitch.
