| She wrote in masterfully controlled conventional form, and her great technical expertise gave her work the appearance of effortlessness. |
| Does any journalist today write with the elegance and effortlessness that he did? |
| I've met a few in my time and the defining characteristic they exhibit is a rather unattractive effortlessness and ennui. |
| Like a Chic record, or Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, it has the effortlessness that can only be achieved by months of painstaking effort. |
| And he does it with a grace, effortlessness and elasticity that has admirers reaching for artistic metaphors. |
| Yet there was an apparent effortlessness to his performances, and a lack of actorly mannerisms. |
