The Spec V's power plant is a little marvel, a silky-smooth beast that delivers all the torque you'd want across a wide range of engine speeds.
(To be clear: these are not the big, brown, wild, hairy bison of the American prairies; they're the smooth, dark, curly-horned beasts you might expect to see in a documentary about rice farming in China).
Io — the nymph turned into a cow by Zeus, then maddened by Hera's gadfly — is the loveliest member of G's herd, a sexy musk ox: She is a beast constructed for smooth striding.
As it expands in headcount and remit, it must learn to roll with the punches a little and take the rough with the smooth as it becomes a more public beast.
This thing is a heavy beast but one hell of a smooth ride.
As Tim Teeman at the Daily Beast says, "First, straights came for the smooth, pretty gay look … and now you have come for our hairier brethren".
To "bring out the beast" in somebody is a cliché, rubbed smooth over time, but to have it uttered by a cat — that is to lend it new and jagged life.
At least the "beast", Obama's armoured limo, will have enjoyed a smoother ride than normal.
The smooth trunks of the trees surging up out of the earth seemed present and intelligent, like gray beasts standing soberly to watch them.
From a distance, the robot beast's matte-black skin makes it look panther-like; up close, the flesh is hairless and smooth and wholly unnatural.
At others Barenboim was like an uncaged beast, enacting a range of mimetic gestures, from waving away wild dogs to shaking a rug and smoothing sand.
