They can be smooth, crumbly, toothsome, enamel-like, over-rich and overwrought.
It can be smooth as glass, then shatter into bright fragments.
"My gut feeling is that it can be smoothed over," he said.
But this is a small bump that can be smoothed out in future versions.
Such kinks, though, can be smoothed out, Mr. Riesgo said, and are far less important than the show's symbolism.
Paul Guilfoyle has a wonderful turn as a Bostonian grandee, confident that any unpleasantness can be smoothed away with a hand on the shoulder and a quiet drink.
Their simulations suggest the flow of pedestrians through a narrow doorway can be smoothed by plonking an obstacle such as a pillar just in front of the exit.
The scientists show how a picture of a cosmic ray can be smoothed to make something that looks very much like a glowing flying saucer and exhaust fumes.
But Downey, though his surface can be smooth, is turbid with frustration underneath, and there are times when "Due Date" assumes the air of a queasy contest, with each man trying, or straining, to be the less predictable.
For those concerned about wrinkly old skin, it might be an ingenious solution: a stretchy "second skin" that can be smoothed on to make aged tissue look more youthful.
