The darkness of these late lilies compared with the earlier versions is explained by the trauma of their making, which Ross King makes the subject of this fine, fluent book.
Part of the problem, ironically, is that Colquhoun is such a fine, fluent writer that her words slip down as easily as a milky junket without you really noticing what is happening.
Elsewhere, there was some fine Prokofiev – a fluent account of his Third Concerto by Andrejs Osokins and a more restless one of his Second from Jiayan Sun – and another performance of the Emperor, technically impeccable if rather cool from Jayson Gillham.
His translation to ballet of one of Shakespeare's most uneven and intractable plays, while flawed, makes for a fine and thought-provoking entertainment, gleaming with fluent, confident dance.
In other words, despite its good looks, Fluent is still walking a fine line between favoring pretty over powerful.
Meanwhile, factories are left without skilled machinists, and hotels are desperate to hire bilingual professional chefs, bartenders and waiters fluent in the ways of international fine dining.
Activity is restricted to a subset of cerebellar lobules because only they are engaged in fine control of the articulatory muscles required for fluent speech (Dhanjal, Handunnetthi, Patel, & Wise, 2008).
But with Mr. Macal, the orchestra's music director, offering one of his finest interpretations in memory, the symphony proved enchanting: flexible, fluent and refined.
Pommier himself was fine: his playing of Beethoven's Op 34 Variations was fluent and attractive, and he was a solid if unremarkable accompanist in sonatas by Mendelssohn and Brahms.
You will, and I quote: "Be fluent with current practices located at the intersections between fine art, history of art, art writing and curation".
