Even right across the hall, someone whose facial features are too distant to be distinct can nonetheless carry himself in a way that seems heart-stopping; it's his fluency of impetus and the lift of his carriage.
The Taunton Courier noted that at one dinner, he "made a great impression by the perspicacity of his utterances, by the breadth of view they indicated, and by his fluency of speech".
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, which is among the critical battleground states in the general election, said that "short of a major scandal" he believes Mr. Romney would be the nominee because of his fluency on economic issues.
The magic in his playing grew out of his fluency in the grammar of tabla, the verbal corollary of the drummed beats, and his ability to translate spoken tabla into an improvisational, poetic music.
The elusive senior Qaeda figure with whom Mr. Zazi had contact is the Saudi-born Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, 34, long described by law enforcement officials as a hardened operative who was all the more feared because of his fluency in English and knowledge of New York City.
But Mr. Clinton has not lost his fluency, and grasp of granular detail, in politics.
In the same year, his fluency and warmth of tone unblemished, Terry recorded duets with leading pianists including Tommy Flanagan and Marian McPartland, and in 2002 he joined another octogenarian jazz giant, the bebop-drums pioneer Max Roach, on the album Friendship.
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 animal quality bothers Mr. Freud's critics, predictably, but their disinclination to what they seem to consider a kind of musky, melodramatic despair I take to be evidence of his fluency as a realist.
He survived Buchenwald because of his fluency in German and solidarity among the communist prisoners.
Prince also bristles uncomfortably at PR descriptions of his fluency with 27 separate instruments.
