To loyal Democrats, either you call yourself a Democrat, be a team player and move issues forward as part of a concerted, directed party strategy … or you believe in the power of, to use one common liberal phrase, "Bernie's magic elves", who will mysteriously and effortlessly accomplish all the hidden work that it takes to make policy goals a reality.
For Buffy studies scholar Rhonda Wilcox, The Gentlemen and their straitjacket-wearing minions, who clumsily flap, gyrate, and crouch as they move, are representative of class disparity and patriarchy: The Gentlemen, with their Victorian suits, move effortlessly to accomplish what they set out to do while their minions, whom Whedon called "footmen", do the "dirty work".
In 2003, Duke jolted academe with a report describing how its female students felt pressure to be "effortlessly perfect": smart, accomplished, fit, beautiful and popular, all without visible effort.
In September, for example, after a study found that undergraduate women at Duke felt pressured to appear "effortlessly perfect" -- smart, accomplished, attractive and popular -- in a way that undergraduate men did not, she said she hoped that the university could find ways to improve the women's experience.
I have found that moving from the middle road to mindfulness is accomplished rather effortlessly once you gain insight and self-control by containing and centering your emotions in that space between throat and navel.
The use of acrylic paint, while necessary in highlighting distinct features, merely aids in creating a bridge between art and nature, which Eleni seems to accomplish effortlessly.
He'd spend a month or two writing sonnets or mastering the newest theories in particle physics, disdaining as futile what he accomplished — it seemed to me — effortlessly.
The fact is that we women are marvellously accomplished and capable of passing on our skills to the next generation seamlessly and effortlessly, whatever our age.
No matter how technically accomplished a dancer may be, it's not easy to exhibit this kind of presence effortlessly.
An accomplished double act, suave patrician and brusque street-fighter, they specialised in keeping their opponents on the wrong foot, often expressing divergent opinions on some contentious issue or other before effortlessly reuniting in victory.
