Fluency wasn't something that his methods were ever likely to give me, but what he offered, in its place, was an opportunity to hear a master translator think aloud.
There are brilliant contributions from modern American directors, including Martin Scorsese, James Gray, David Fincher and Wes Anderson, and from France's Arnaud Desplechin and Olivier Assayas, whose engaging fluency and eloquence has something of Truffaut himself, and his cerebral Cahiers spirit.
You have to let something threaten the fluency and poise of the writing itself.
They call this "cognitive fluency": the idea that if something is easy to think about, we're far more likely to think it preferable, more important or true.
But after the international break they were bright and purposeful in possession from the outset against a Swansea side that had also lost their last two league games, and something of the fluency that inspired their League Cup triumph last month.
I think the idea of fluency made itself felt in me as something musical before it became something lingual.
Days Without End, in which the beautiful fluency of Barry's prose gives way to something more impressionistic, led to "some of the high days of my life": writing it felt "as if I'd been given the numbers to a safe deposit box in a memory bank and I was taking out what was in the box or maybe even stealing it.
Seeing the symphony in the flesh revealed something even more intriguing than the liquid fluency of Sibelius's handwriting.
JERROD NIEMANN On his major-label debut, Jerrod Niemann was something of a trickster figure, using his fluency in the rituals of country music songwriting in order to subvert them.
"This rather unarousing explanation suggests that what distinguishes this book from conventional erotic novels is that its purpose is not to arouse the solitary reader; rather, it is to invite women to 'carry away something' … and this 'something' is a greater fluency in the art of making love," writes Illouz.
