She spoke smoothly, often throwing in obscure Chinese idioms, which, upon seeing my blank expression, she would jot down and explain.
Someone lofty may have spoken smoothly into the ear of his lieutenant, Michael Gove, to persuade him he was prime minister material and that he should desert.
The stars, meanwhile, must navigate the five-hundred-foot red carpet in their heavy gowns and towering heels, must speak smoothly and graciously about their fellow-actors, and must be charming yet aloof.
But there he was last week, at Eleven Madison Park, leading a tasting of his wines, speaking smoothly in French, gesturing with long arms that seemed as if they would be a lot more comfortable sprung from the confines of his rumpled blazer.
To hear Latin poetry spoken smoothly and quickly is to hear a mellifluous, rat-a-tat-tat language, the rich, distilled, romantic, pure, heady blueprint of its close descendant, Italian.
Were you speaking smoothly or stammering?
In fact, slowing down or pausing when you reach a stuttering obstacle can train you to speak more smoothly and with less anxiety.
Mr. Colla speaks the speech smoothly, sometimes while smoking a cigarette.
He speaks quickly but smoothly, with so few hesitations and such a command of detail that it is easy to picture ministers and prime ministers – tired or inexperienced, perhaps, or distracted by party-political matters – listening a little passively, and then doing whatever "Jeremy" suggests.
Dr. Dean, who speaks Spanish more smoothly than any of his rivals, largely because of a summer he spent as a teenager working on a Florida ranch with Cuban immigrants, weighed in with a full sentence saying his health care plan in Vermont covered everyone under age 18.
