The talent gap was illustrated by Kramnik's almost effortless win over Anish Giri in Round 5. Kramnik, at age 36, was bound to be well versed in any opening that Giri, who is just 17, would choose.
The horse owned by Ahmed Zayat offered a glimpse of good things to come with an effortless win at the Arkansas Derby in April, prompting Jill to say, "I'd better get a dress".
The horse went back on everyone's radar with a seemingly effortless win in the Los Alamitos Futurity in mid-December against a better-than-average field of 2 year olds.
Friday's effortless 6-1 win over Armenia in the last friendly before the World Cup finals did leave some happy faces behind in Mainz, but the national manager boarded the plane to Brazil with a fresh, deep furrow on his forehead.
Calleja, as Riccardo, has effortless virtuosity and winning presence, which did much to bring life to the production.
Perelman, a fabled reader, told me he had once written the grand old man of British letters to express admiration for his effortless style, and won a similar mash note in return.
She takes advice and runs with it, and she cares deeply about the craft of expository criticism, putting her writing through draft after draft to achieve what seems like effortless sparkle". Joani won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, given to select sophomores, in 2015.
The form of his win in a maiden race over a mile at this track is hard to assess but there is no doubting the style of it, as he sauntered clear in effortless fashion to win with any amount in hand.
And the other part was Josh Duhamel, who gave an effortless performance in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (an underrated little comedy from 2004), then disappeared in the TV series Vegas and thankless soldier roles in the two Transformer movies.
In political parlance, the phrase is commonly used to describe a candidate's ability to nudge and elbow their way through an otherwise competitive intra-party primary uncontested, thereby positioning themselves for a relatively effortless or imminent win in a successive dual-party match up.
Her win looks effortless, inevitable.
