No use holding up traffic trying to smoothly slip by him.
"Deviance or innovation?" Ron Silliman asked in his 1996 poem "Under," before imagining himself living the erotic life of the insertive capital: "How sweetly, smoothly I slip inside of you where I belong".
Then, smoothly, she slips into a harder register for her airstrike on rumors about the video of an elevator tussle between Jay Z and her sister Solange: "And we could go around and get some good karma, but, no, we escalate, up in this bitch like elevators.
"Hey, how about that $30 million for Uday and Qusay," you can imagine Bob Hope saying, slipping smoothly into gear.
It's the kind of wry sentiment you'd associate more with Robbie, but the arrangement is undeniably Barlow at his most McCartneyesque, slipping smoothly from the solemn opening to a chipper, thumbs-aloft celebration of a "requiem with all my friends".
So the hunt accelerates for skilful popular fiction that can slip smoothly into a beach-bag or a deck-chair without insulting its readers.
When the after-work crowd hits the bar at the Four Seasons restaurant, John Varriano slips smoothly into overdrive, sliding over glasses of Champagne and pouring Scotch for his patrons.
Wiley's work has slipped smoothly into soap operas and advertisements for luxury goods — proof, perhaps, of the fecklessness of its pluralistic gestures.
The Nazca rams against South America with exceptional force, and Lamb proposes that this is because it can't slip smoothly underneath the continent.
I was moving toward the mock-up of the kitchen and dining area where neat sliding panels hide a home office and a chopping block slips smoothly over the sink.
