With his big, almost hulking frame and long, quizzical-looking face, Mr. Lithgow on screen or onstage effortlessly manages to seem like a panic-stricken creature imprisoned in the wrong body.
Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian Or perhaps you've got a rather staid image, and you need to show that you too can be cool, as William Hague and Ffion effortlessly managed at the Notting Hill carnival.
But Donald Trump effortlessly manages to strike the wrong note in just about everything he does.
She complained that Depp had "shattered" his "effortlessly managed, meticulously curated persona as mysterious eccentric creative hot thoughtful intriguing super cool guy".
Now expanded to over a dozen venues across San Francisco, SF Sketchfest effortlessly manages to walk the line between paying homage to comedic milestones of the past and serving as a platform for comedy's most exciting new voices.
I was thrilled, then, to see how thoroughly Ms. Kidman knew that, and how apparently effortlessly she managed to create a Woolf who was difficult, thorny and frighteningly fragile but was, at the same time, always the most compelling person in the room, funny and incisive, a woman so fiercely engaged by life that she's all but bursting from her contact with it.
Thirty or 40 years ago, it seemed to manage effortlessly to have many of the things the rest of Europe could only dream about, notably an all-encompassing welfare state in which no one was properly poor any more and if you sneezed on the street a fleet of ambulances would draw up at once to speed you to hospital.
Wooozy Rainbow Danger Club - Neighbors On The Rooftops With riveting, epic melodies that soar and patter along majestically, the Rainbow Danger Club manage to effortlessly skirt the line between beauty and ugliness, light and dark, innocence and depravity.
When he tries to connect — to attract women, to form alliances — every move is painfully premeditated, every awful result turned over and over in his mind, as he attempts to figure out how to do what everybody else seems to manage so effortlessly.
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