Having recently wrapped a well-received turn in the off-Broadway musical, "The View UpStairs," Graham found Bernard to be "a well-rounded character that has some moxie," as well as "sleek, sassy, slick, sneaky, sexy, suspicious, snarky and supportive".
Well, a sleek round head bobbing in the water indicates a seal.
On Friday, if all goes well, a sleek spaceship-like catamaran will glide into Hercule Harbor in Monaco after a remarkable 19-month journey around the globe.
The vehicle that emerged from the process has long, covered, pontoon-style rear fenders, imparting a 1940s feel, as well as sleek sides and dihedral doors.
Doubtless because his work is inherently buoyant, as well as sleek, Calder was commissioned to make many monumentally scaled works in the last decades of his life.
These include wide-plank, richly toned Austrian smoked oak floors and cabinets in the kitchens and bathrooms, as well as sleek, glass-enclosed Corian "wet rooms" (incorporating the shower and tub) in the master bathrooms.
The windows of its boutiques, often built into an old Roman wall, glittered with Gucci, Ferragamo and other designer confections, as well as sleek Italian shoes ostentatiously displayed like jewels.
Sporting characteristics, as well as sleek exterior and interior styling, have made the 3 Series BMW's most successful model by far (through the end of October, BMW had sold 89,142 3 Series models, compared to 36,846 units of its second best-selling model, the 5 Series) as well as one of the most beloved of all vehicle lines on the market.
We don't yet know just what this might turn out to be, but it bodes ill for the form of battle that the White House and Washington are most proud of -- the well-advertised, sleek, new, robotic, no-casualty, precision conflict that now dominates the war on terror.
He was as sleek, well groomed and shiny as a Park Avenue matron's dog, but a good deal shrewder.
