Professionals such as Michael Phelps make the butterfly looks effortless, an act of coördination, grace, and endurance; for beginners, it can look and feel like a wild, flailing doggy paddle.
"Cloud Atlas" is an effortless high-wire act.
Through ceremony, ritual and spiritual initiation, including a twice daily practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM), an effortless technique which acts to calm the flight or fight response, the hyper vigilance that Warriors cannot seem to shut off, Warriors gain access to their own internal adaptive mechanisms discovering profound relief beyond currently offered treatments.
The act was so effortless, it was like watching a magician pull a handkerchief out of a viewer's ear.
That act works with effortless charm whenever Steven Eckholdt is on screen as the central character, a restaurant owner named David.
Truly cocky people exude an air of easy confidence, so even if you've put a great deal of effort into your appearance or behavior, act as if it's effortless.
A. O. Scott wrote that Will Smith gave a "graceful and effortless performance" and also noted the "third-act collapse".
And then, of course, they must act like it's all such effortless fun.
The goal of these apps is to make the act of saving as frictionless and effortless as spending and allow users to save for different goals.
There's a lot of sex shown in "Nymphomaniac," but von Trier's depiction of sex acts is blandly pneumatic, mechanical, virtually effortless, and filmed as casually and as indifferently as is the rest of the action.
The act of writing seemed quite normal to him, effortless and automatic, like walking or talking.
