As the half-time whistle blew Germany had contributed the more fluent passing but neither side had proved able to take advantage of mutually vulnerable defences and unleash that all-important incisive final ball.
Written in English, Jal's second language, the new album may lack the poetic gymnastics of hip-hop's more fluent stars, but the plainness of the words - half-spoken, half-chanted over a mix of hip-hop and African-flavoured choruses - keeps the focus on the story.
We are evolving as a much more fluent team but we want to evolve in getting results as well".
More fluent than last year, but miles off actual oratory; snappier lines, but hardly an epigrammatist – Jeremy Corbyn is never going to conform to the lobby's platonic ideal of what a politician should be.
Paraguay was more fluent in attack, but Japan had greater organization, and it tried to catch the South Americans on the break.
(The New York Review Books edition is a reprint of a 1964 translation, more fluent and natural but more prone to infelicities than a new translation, "No Way Back," published last year by Angel Books).
He was just as busy in one-day cricket but more fluent and his mettle saw South Africa home with a four to the long-on boundary when they chased down Australia's 434 at Johannesburg in 2006 with the last pair at the crease.
Normally, you'd try to come up with something slightly more fluent than 'quantitative easing', but they did only a literal translation".
The visitors did seem more fluent in the early stages but once Loïc Rémy forced a save from McGregor in the 13th minute, Rangers grew in confidence and took charge.
For example, if the person you are speaking to is German, but is more fluent in French than in English (and your French is better than your German), you might have more success.
