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• n  the smooth feel of silk fabric

• Said the Suddeutsche Zeitung: "There is a silkiness to the violins, a powerful but not overpowering force of the brass.
• Brass and strings quarreled to the punctuation of tambourines and drums, then drifted in and out of harmonywhile with his soaring silkiness, Rostropovich traced wide melodic .
• And it always works, adding a richness and silkiness to everything, a protein-on-protein, Atkins-era overindulgence that makes me psyched to be an American.

• sleekness

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• Neville Cardus in CricketZone.Com
  There was suppleness and a loose, easy grace which concealed power as the feline silkiness conceals the strength of some jungle beauty of gleaming eyes and sharp fangs,Sir Cardus wrote.
• Yi-Jia Susanne Hou in Ottawa Citizen (registration)
  The Guarneri has a lot of sheer power but at the same time a sensuous warmth, silkiness and sweetness,Hou says.
• Joseph Needham in New York Times
  Handsome, in a studious way,Needham spoke with "a silkiness, almost a lisp" and left few women free from his attentions.