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

    BBC: News Online

  • Operated by the Kempinski Hotel, 15 luxury ski chalets gaze over the slopes, allowing visitors to watch the bambi-on-ice skiers slip and slide down the slalom or applaud the smooth boarders as they twist and carve their way down.

    BBC: Cool down in a Dubai ski chalet

  • Rooms in this former 12-storey Neo-Gothic hat factory are industrial chic and loft-like with 12ft ceilings, dark brushed oak floors and beds framed in steel, trimmed in leather, and topped with cosy down comforters and smooth Frette linens.

    BBC: Business trip: New York City

  • Even more troublesome, those smooth curves going up, then down, turn out to be misleading.

    ECONOMIST: Local difficulties

  • In addition, he often used the hand chop, palm-down, and the smooth broad gestures that signal certainty and authority.

    FORBES: Body Language Advice for Rick Perry

  • On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee, a down-home, smooth-talking Arkansan is paired with a suave (though British-born) Cary Grant.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And so we're trying to find this balanced approach in which we have a smooth glide path from 10 percent down to a more sustainable level, and I think that's what's reflected in this budget.

    WHITEHOUSE: Detailing the FY2011 Budget

  • With traffic and traffic lights there to confound smooth progress, putting a foot down when the road does finally open up is one of the few ways an urban driver can exert some control over a journey.

    BBC: Traffic

  • It's not obvious, but it is there -- especially on the notifications pull-down, which is smooth as a whistle as it moves across the main screen, whereas it flickers ever so slightly on the Android 4.0 One X.

    ENGADGET: HTC shows off One X+ in the UK, we go hands-on (video) Mobile

  • I'm not sure if it's just my phone, but when closed, the cover sticks up about 1 or 2mm and isn't smooth when running your fingers up and down.

    ENGADGET: Hands-on with Motorola's RAZR V3 for Cingular

  • In a paper in 2005, Howell Jackson, of Harvard Law School, reckoned that whereas the main aim of American financial regulation was to protect consumers, British regulation was more preoccupied with the smooth functioning of markets and keeping costs down.

    ECONOMIST: Northern Rock

  • The large dials of the otherwise smooth center console seem pulled from old Lincoln radios, and the smooth slope from the brushed aluminum console down to the rear of the cabin are unabashedly American-car design cues that have long since disappeared.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • " We concluded: "Absolutely beautiful, velvety and smooth, like raspberry-chocolate fondue going down your throat.

    WSJ: The Simple Truth About an Earthy Delight

  • The climbing now was steeper and more difficult, until finally the stream seemed to drop down over the edge of a smooth granite ledge that rose above them and the old man waited at the foot of the ledge for the young man to come up to him.

    NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero

  • So what we're seeking is a fairly smooth path from roughly 10 percent of the economy today down to those levels that, say, at 4 percent of the economy by 2015, put us within shooting range of a fiscally sustainable path.

    WHITEHOUSE: Detailing the FY2011 Budget

  • The start button sits in the middle of the drive buttons and works only when a smooth rectangle key fob is inserted fully into the slot and held down.

    FORBES: Test Drive: 2011 Aston Martin Rapide

  • In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.

    WSJ: Urs Fischer's Beds & Problem Paintings Show in Beverly Hills

  • As we sat down for a rest around the halfway point, perching on smooth rocks and looking out at a big bend in the Firth, Manny told me about how his mother was one of the key leaders in establishing the land claim agreement that created the park.

    BBC: Camping on the Canadian tundra

  • All thirty Everleigh Club harlots remained upstairs in their boudoirs, preparing for the night ahead, running a razor under their arms, down and between their legs clients didn't have a smooth woman at home.

    NPR: Elevating the World's Oldest Profession in Chicago

  • Scrolling was especially smooth, and in Firefox we didn't have to try multiple times to fluidly scroll down the length of this very website.

    ENGADGET: The Windows PC ClickPad finally improved? Synaptics ClickPad IS Series 3 preview

  • Protease inhibitors shut down AIDS enzymes by locking onto readily available toeholds, but hep-C's protease is smooth.

    FORBES: The Next HIV?

  • And that smooth drag comes from the graphite-impregnated cork disc, which acts like a brake pad, slowing it down without locking.

    FORBES

  • Add the eggs and continue to beat, scraping down the bowl as needed, for another 2 minutes, or until the mixture is light, smooth and creamy.

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