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Her marriage to Wolff resulted in French fluency, with recordings and appearances in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
These little differences cost the side attacking fluency, as defenders can regain their positioning and anticipate the coming move more easily.— WordPress.com News
There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive to him who is devoid of that talent, though it be, in so many cases, nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly, without new information, or precision of thought,--but the same thing, neither less nor more.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858
He was endowed with few of the qualities which secure a quick success--fluency, finish of style, the art of giving graceful utterance to current thought; he had in full measure the stronger if slower powers--sound knowledge, infinite industry, and the sympathetic insight of penetrative imagination--that ultimately hold the fastnesses of fame.— Thomas Carlyle
He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but his fluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in too great a mass of verbiage THE VISION CONCERNING PIERS THE PLOWMAN.— A History of English Literature

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