Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless".
Achieving a No. 1 ranking in his Ivy League graduating class had been effortless compared with selling a screenplay.
Kate Middleton's progression through life had, by most standards, appeared to have been effortless.
A soft slide into the machine would have been effortless.
For both Ryan and Mr. Novak, it has been a rapid rise that looks effortless.
It does not appear effortless, but it has been more than effective as Klein is ranked the second-most efficient quarterback in the F.B.S., and he has completed 70.5 percent of his passes.
"I expected executive producing to be terrifying, but in many respects it was like being a playwright, exercising control over creative decisions, but on a much larger scale — choosing stuff like costumes, casting, locations". This is not to say that the adjustment has been wholly effortless.
With the Bears cruising along at 6-0, it seems as if every game has been just as effortless: After all, since a 41-31 opening-day victoverover the Cleveland Browns, they have allowed only three touchdowns, outscoring five opponents by 125-36.
As a writer and a marketer, it should have been almost effortless to create a dazzling dating profile.
In "I've seen tide-rips and whirlpools, waterspouts, the dawn / That lifted like a flock of doves", that apparently effortless arrival has been restaged by Jenkins to follow the central, hallucinatory divagation of wave-walking Virgins and "Unimagined Cubas, where a flower idles / In the skin of men".
