And I didn't see any evidence of hard living in his smooth, honey-colored face.
As in the past, the spotlight is fixed on his smooth, fluttery singing.
Russia was represented in Riga not by the abrasive Vladimir Putin but by the man who was once his smooth summit sherpa, Igor Shuvalov (he is now the prime minister's senior deputy).
His buttery smooth TV baritone voice comes by way of his nightly dip into Cuban cigars.
His surface is so smooth, his movements so easy and fluid, his voice so consistent and well-pitched that he can seem like an actor playing a politician, too implausibly effortless to be doing it for real.
His relatively smooth progress was jolted in the final set when he made a mad dash to retrieve a half-volley and hit the deck just after reaching the ball with a backhand, ending up sprawled on the rubberised hardcourt.
He told the High Court in Edinburgh that he always wore heavy duty gloves while working as a woodcutter and the safety equipment kept his hands "quite smooth" despite his manual outdoor labour.
And so, despite his reputation for smooth talk, Mr Clinton wasted opportunities in 1997 because his talk was inadequate.
Keen to take the positives from his experiences, he believes the rough and smooth of his life in England have helped him improve his work.
Mr Brown would spend his visit trying to "smooth things over" with his party's biggest political backers, he added.
Though his manner is smooth and smiley, he rails without cease against the greedy corporations that supposedly make ordinary Americans' lives miserable.
All that trash about the vodka being smooth: his whole conversation had been a sales pitch.
If a natural gas producer can enter five-year-forward contracts, why can't a dairy farmer smooth out his cash flow by linking feed and milk prices?
He still moves with an effortless steadiness over the testing terrain, not a bead of sweat on his bald pate or smooth brow, both tanned a rich chestnut.
He booted his CEO, a smooth guy out of central casting, a good fit for a company evolving toward service, and replaced him with Lew Platt, a real short-sleeves product guy, just like Dave and Bill.
His own factory used to smooth its clutch springs with grinding wheels imported from Germany.
The stance began an internal process over time that was by his admission, anything but smooth.
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Mr. Obama told radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week that his re-election will smooth over bad feelings.
There is also a recall for midfielder Cole, who has endured a far from smooth ride since his arrival at Liverpool from Chelsea.
Some professional investors put money with feeder funds linked to Bernie Madoff, for example, even though statistical analysis suggested his performance record was implausibly smooth.
Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.
While his first year in office has been smooth, that's about to change.
Second, his game has great appeal because its smooth and seamless.
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When Ward redesigned this place, he moved the main entrance to the back of the house, removed the stairs and added a smooth path that leads from his parking spot to the door.
When I was small, I would sit on his lap, staring at the stump of his left index finger, rounded and smooth, the top two knuckles so cleanly severed it seemed he'd been born without them.
He is smooth and convincing as he pitches his company, which offers computers and Internet access at an extremely low rate.
His predecessor, Kenneth Clarke, engineered a smooth recovery from the Lawson bust.
While an array of medals and championship-winning performances suggest Riner has mastered both the mental and muscular side of his sport, he is quick to point out that his path to the top was far from smooth.
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