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Unsurprisingly, for someone who speaks five languages fluently, he is resolutely internationalist.
"I think she spoke three or four languages fluently," he went on.
"I'm one of the few rock stars who can speak English -- fluently," he says.
A young river god, headless and with shattered limbs, reclines – for all his injuries – in exquisite flowing grace, carved so fluently he seems a living, breathing creature.
In the first innings at Lord's, playing fluently, he miscued a slog-sweep against Yasir Shah and was caught from the subsequent skier.
He uses his fingers to count, very fluently; he picked up sign language by osmosis staging "Oliver!" and "Big River" for Deaf West.
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Oliver Sacks relates fascinating case histories and he writes fluently, but he treats his subjects with a tinge of the ringmaster's bravado — an underlying tone of, "Hey, if you think that's weird, wait until you get a load of this one!" It is possible to have clinical rigor without such voyeuristic emotional deficits.
He is too strong a character to be neglected: he is dumpy, moustachioed, mysterious, intelligent (he speaks several languages fluently), mercurial (he reportedly has passports from five countries), anguished about conservation (he is said to be troubled about the state of the jungle in Congo and the plight of pygmies) and is rather charismatic.
He spoke English fluently, and he had already built an accomplished career.
But his life has a touch of the larger-than-life action adventure story: the son of Spanish political refugees who fled Franco for the safety of Luxembourg, he was recognised as being exceptionally bright as a child – his IQ is 182 and he speaks seven languages fluently – but he disliked school, being thrown out of three.
Like Francis, he spoke four languages fluently, and he was busy, always rushing from one appointment, activity, workshop or meeting to another.
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