over-fluency

Updated: July 2, 2026

By nature a critic, he would have been the first to detect signs of carelessness, of over-fluency even in his own writing; but the narrative, with its felicitous turns of expression, its lucid, clear-cut phrases, slipped naturally from his pen; and he felt to the full the truth of Stevenson's couplet: "Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them."

Kathlyn Rhodes - The Making of a Soul