Mr. McCartney and Mr. Copeland have at times depended on classically trained assistants, similar to the way politicians rely on speechwriters to finesse their ideas into fluid prose.
And rather than employing a syncopated musicality or fantastical flights of magic realism, Mr. Hijuelos wrote fluid prose, sonorous but more earthy than poetic, with a forthright American cadence.
Singers Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming positioned themselves as nuanced observers of the cheap and the vulgar, their fluid prose made all the more remarkable by the fact that both possess extraordinary vocal ranges (for the record, the bass notes are just as vital to the Beasts as the high ones).
"He is a repository of theatrical knowledge and a vessel of gratitude," Barbara Grizzuti Harrison wrote in the Book Review in 1999, "a man whose impeccable, fluid prose takes us from inner thought to outer action seamlessly, a man who in all his ways is buoyant, vivid and brave".
In fluid prose and with the precision of a detective story, Harrington offers a taxonomy of the main narratives that we draw on to try to make sense of disease, whether they emphasize our ability to heal ourselves or more magical interventions.
Given this abundance of subtlety, tenderness and fluid prose, most readers will be able to adapt to the novel's pace, which is at times so measured, so defined by indirect action, that it can feel a bit as if one were watching an epic produced as a shadow play.
Science writers, she observes, must absorb complex information quickly and write fluid prose, but they don't have to be specialists.
In 2006, Kiran Desai became the youngest woman to win the UK's Man Booker Prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, a multicultural, postcolonial, immigrant tale distinguished by its exuberant narrative and fluid prose.
Because of these majors, Eugenides is able to weave some heavy literary and academic references into his otherwise fluid prose style.
As is often the risk with short story collections, some stories are stronger than others, and one, the title story, feels primed for a longer treatment, but they're held together by Alvar's incisive sensibility and fluid prose.
In fast and fluid prose, Paradiso shows us how the ambassador and his team risked it all to cross the front lines of the Liberian war to broker a local ceasefire that gave peace one last chance.
