Sentence examples for smooth-tongued from inspiring English sources

"A wise man adheres not to his religion, because it was that of his ancestors," a smooth-tongued mullah says to a tongue-tied American in Royall Tyler's 1797 novel "The Algerine Captive".

That is the smooth-tongued Mualem speaking.

Smooth-tongued spokesmen downplay a once-core assertion of the RSS: that to be Indian was to be Hindu.

His closest advisers, with the notable exception of his wife, are not smooth-tongued in the least.

"Talking, not shouting", as various smooth-tongued western envoys used to say in Beijing, when describing their approach on Chinese human rights.

And while this 76-minute album flags near the end, there's still more than enough smooth-tongued, quick-witted rhyming to justify his boasts.

Indeed, many of these genes (GH, GHR2, GHR1, IGF2, and IGF1) are up-regulated in a variety of tissues (e.g., skeletal muscle, brain, and liver) from faster growing strains or individuals within several species including Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus[ 23], smooth tongued sole, Cynoglossus semilaevis[ 24], and channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus[ 25].

The veteran actor Donald Moffatt makes him smooth, silver-haired and silver-tongued; it is easy to see why he is so successful a manipulator.

There rushes up toward the plane the astonishing face of the world's enemy: pine woods on little hills, gray-green, glossy lakes too small to be anything but smooth, gardens tall with red-tongued beans, fields striped with red-gold wheat, russet-roofed villages with high gables, and pumpkin-steepled churches that no architect over seven could have designed.

The Smooth Jazz Mayor, however, who says he stood for election "not necessarily by choice," has vowed to keep as firm a hand on the ship of state as his famously scrappy, sharp-tongued friend and predecessor, Mr. Spencer.

Several years ago, he recruited six iron-tongued….