• And I didn't see any evidence of hard living in his smooth, honey-colored face.

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  • As in the past, the spotlight is fixed on his smooth, fluttery singing.

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  • Point guard Trey Burke the AP's national player of the year fits the coach's system beautifully with his smooth combination of quickness and savvy.

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  • 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).

    ECONOMIST: Baltic co-operation

  • His buttery smooth TV baritone voice comes by way of his nightly dip into Cuban cigars.

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  • He pulled her to the bed and his body was smooth and taut through his shirt.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Murray starts with convincing win

  • 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.

    BBC: Robert Marshall

  • And so, despite his reputation for smooth talk, Mr Clinton wasted opportunities in 1997 because his talk was inadequate.

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  • 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.

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  • And I also wish to thank President Obama for his contribution to the smooth running of this G8 meeting and his involvement to ensure that this multilateral world of ours is run smoothly.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Sarkozy at G8 Summit

  • Mr Brown would spend his visit trying to "smooth things over" with his party's biggest political backers, he added.

    BBC: TUC warns of four million jobless

  • As ailing dictator Kim Jong Il uses his brinksmanship to secure a smooth transfer of control over his malnourished slave state to his son ahead of his death, it seems as though no one in the West has a clue what to do about North Korea.

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  • Though his manner is smooth and smiley, he rails without cease against the greedy corporations that supposedly make ordinary Americans' lives miserable.

    ECONOMIST: Iowa

  • He showed me how he used his hands to smooth it down.

    BBC: News Online

  • Israel should do nothing to smooth his path forward.

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  • All that trash about the vodka being smooth: his whole conversation had been a sales pitch.

    NEWYORKER: Raj, Bohemian

  • 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?

    FORBES: Creative destruction 101

  • 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.

    BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

  • 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.

    FORBES: Digital rules

  • His own factory used to smooth its clutch springs with grinding wheels imported from Germany.

    NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

  • 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.

    WSJ: Fred Barnes: Obama and the Back-to-the-Future Campaign

  • There is also a recall for midfielder Cole, who has endured a far from smooth ride since his arrival at Liverpool from Chelsea.

    BBC: England boss Fabio Capello calls up Kevin Davies

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Hafez Assad, Syria's ageing president, may well have decided to settle Syria's defining dispute once and for all, perhaps in order to smooth the path of his son and likely successor, Bashar.

    ECONOMIST: Can Israel and Syria make up?

  • The country he led for more than 21 years effected a remarkably smooth transition and after his elaborate funeral, I thought that was it and his legacy would live on in the history books.

    BBC: Letter from Africa: The legacy of fallen leaders

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

  • He makes "humorous" remarks about Hitler in an effort to ingratiate himself with his new friends -- a ploy that works quite well, actually -- and liberally distributes what he calls "little envelopes of happiness" to smooth the way for his business proposal, a plan to build a match factory staffed by the country's pygmy tribe.

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