"Sexual desire leads us awry," he says, speaking softly yet authoritatively in his impeccable Oxbridge accent, the ideas spilling out in fluid sentences.
And The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism and with a quotidian attentiveness to sights and sounds, tastes and smells, surnames and nicknames and brandnames - an accumulation of des petits faits vrais - that dissolves any residual disbelief.
Students should not draft formal statements and memorize them, but must sufficiently familiarize themselves with their arguments so that a word or short phrase on a card (for instance, "2004-moral values-Bush") can "cue" one or more fluid sentences (for instance, "In 2004, moral values led voters to re-elect George W. Bush")., delivered with effective eye contact.
Today, on the cusp of a new school year, I can't wait to be back in the classroom, engrossed by evocative details, fluid sentences, and literary analysis.
The linguistic fluency of any good translator tells them that, syntactically, "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte," is not the most fluid English sentence.
More recently, the smartphone has become cursive's chief enemy as the graceful, fluid lines of sentences inked on paper by a carefully gripped pen have rapidly given way to tweets and texts battered out with indifferent thumbs on mini keyboards or screens.
The rhythm of speaking is different from the American accent in that sentences are said in one fluid motion.
Time seemed eerily fluid.
