There was one worrying moment when he was hit on the left thumb by Marchant de Lange but after a few minutes' treatment he continued, growing in fluency.
Over the years, his music grew in fluency and confidence as he led combos that introduced a series of important young musicians, including drummer Hamid Drake, trombonist George Lewis, and saxophonist Douglas Ewart.
As she studies the language, against the wishes of her mother, and her fluency grows, so does her cynicism about Soviet Russia.
It also helps that China is pressing its citizens to speak better English in preparation of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and that growing international trade has increased the importance of fluency in English.
The judges were later denounced in the news media and in the blogosphere for being impressed by her English fluency and for disregarding the fact that, despite growing up here, she needed interpreters to translate the judges' questions.
Yet on Saturday night he not only went home with defeat, and a score of questions about England's lack of composure, passing fluency and workaday game nous, but a record of growing futility against the Southern theatre of war.
The parallel implies that fluency in many languages is a signifier of a growing heartfelt connection between hosts.
Maryam's growing authority as a character involves a negation of Abbas's narrative fluency ("She says our children are here, in a strange place, and all we have given them are bewildering stories about who we are. She thinks it makes them unsure and afraid about themselves").
