I would be moving smoothly through my day when suddenly I'd come up against one of them, a word-snag, an obstacle in my path.
In the interview on Thursday, Mr. Obama hesitated to guarantee that the health care website would be working smoothly by the end of the month.
Mr. Ruben, a thoughtful, precise director whose next film would be the smoothly engineered thriller "The Stepfather" (1987), pushes the predigital technology (optical printing, stop-motion animation) to its limit.
A couple of years ago, I wondered whether Zooey Deschanel and her distinctive, Etsy-elf presence would be incorporated smoothly into the fabric of "New Girl".
This could ensure that your car would be running smoothly on the road.
With VVOS, users can stream a 4K 360 video using roughly half the Internet speed that would be needed to smoothly stream that type of content otherwise.
Sometimes publications would be moving along smoothly, with peace reigning among the analysts and junior members of the sequencing teams as co-authors, only for the journal to discover that the heads of the sequencing centers had not been consulted and were not happy with the deals that had been made.
"If FSA were to decide to end Sallie Mae's contract, some sort of extension would be necessary to smoothly transfer the millions of loans that the company handles to other servicers... but the department effectively can cancel those contracts at any point," Nolt said.
Despite fears that electoral problems seen in 2000 and in the Democratic primary this year would be repeated, voting went smoothly.
If public management were a science, Whitehall permanent secretaries would be lab-coated techies, smoothly running their departments on the basis of sound knowledge.
