1.   His voice was soft, almost emotionless, but the ideas emerged fully formed, articulated with machinelike precision.

2.   She seems to have emerged fully formed, with her own identity intact.

3.   Some songwriters seem to emerge fully formed, with a gift for distilling stories and emotions into a few words and a shapely melody.

4.   Somehow he seems to have emerged fully formed as a painter, judging from the earliest works attributed to him.

5.   The ancients would certainly have had Ms. Chang emerging fully formed from some Botticellian scallop shell.

6.   The founder, after all, did not emerge fully formed from his childhood home, Hibbing, Minn.