People who sound fluent may have issues with reading and writing, and many people struggle with confidence.
When it was time for solos, Mr. Woods sounded fluent and unhurried, leaving all traces of the frenetic to Mr. Lynch.
The teacher doesn't say "Good" and close the matter, but rather says: "Can you say that faster so it sounds more fluent?" The teacher does not just collect answers from the first two or three students who volunteer, but puts questions to a range of people around the class, intuitively adjusting the difficulty to what she knows of each student.
The Times reports: "Any serious papal candidate has to be prayerful, theologically sound and fluent in Italian, the language of the Vatican and of Rome, which is, after all, the pope's own diocese".
Any serious papal candidate has to be prayerful, theologically sound and fluent in Italian, the language of the Vatican and of Rome, which is, after all, the pope's own diocese.
"Concord," for her, is an old friend and a classic, and she made it sound as fluent as Schubert if, like Schubert, prone to eddies and strangenesses in the musical flow.
Herbert was a devoted viewer of Fox News and talked in fluent sound bites about McCain's post-Convention "bounce" and Sarah Palin's "executive experience".
Mr. Feinstein, the evening's host who also performed several numbers, was joined by Nellie McKay, Sachal Vasandani and Connie Evingson, wonderfully disciplined singers steeped in a vocal tradition in which any impulse to show off was subsumed to the goal of a harmonious, fluent sound.
Indeed, the happy surprise was to learn how fluent he sounds in the reading, or rather in the reading out.
Even young liberals like Mr. Jeremic, whose fluent English sounds more Bronxville than Belgrade, cannot let go of Kosovo, though it could endanger Serbia's chance to move beyond its recent troubled past.
