Sentence examples for otherwise smooth from inspiring English sources

Are the biggest moments of his otherwise smooth ascent destined to be spoiled by aquatic fiascos?

Then a monkey wrench landed in this otherwise smooth legislative process.

The Piurans' regional slang is the lone stumbling block in Edith Grossman's otherwise smooth translation.

He recovered from the glitch, but it marred an otherwise smooth performance.

Aides to Mr. Obama conceded that they had mishandled the process, a significant stumble of his otherwise smooth transition.

But small cracks and intermittent holds, protruding wartlike from the rock, provided passage up an otherwise smooth surface.

"This is made by a power drill," he said, pointing to a rough area on the otherwise smooth figurine.

She laces loopy handles and tactile relief patterns onto the otherwise smooth, white components of her Landscape dinnerware.

Mr. Veazie, of Washington, spent several hours a day for two weeks last spring sanding, spackling, and otherwise smoothing out the grain of his plywood frame.

Certain nursery directors -- Nancy Schulman at the 92nd Street Y or Marlene Barron at West Side Montessori, for instance -- are famous among parents and admissions directors for writing dozen-page recommendations for their students and otherwise smoothing their way into kindergarten.

They were intrigued by the many cracks running for a thousand miles across an otherwise fairly smooth crater-free surface.