| While lacking in merit as a decision-maker, he was extremely adroit in working the congressional funding process. |
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| I think a larger point maybe to be made is we're looking at a guy who is an inveterate maybe even shameless but wonderfully adroit scene stealer. |
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| Even the most clever, adroit, and skillful legislature cannot achieve zero risk in human affairs. |
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| Akin to an artist to his canvas, he plays with an adroit cunning that is matchless to his peers. |
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| We hop, skip, jump around and over it, at least twice a day, familiar now, to the danger, adroit at avoidance. |
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| We were surrounded by gifted cricketers and adroit hockey players, and he owned none of their stylish skills, but you knew this, he would try. |
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| Her poetry displays an adroit mastery of simple language and an eye for the fine threads woven into ordinary lives. |
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| Again the Chilingirian chose a very fast tempo, which required the first violin especially to be extremely adroit. |
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| He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress. |
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| There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights. |
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| The series was also notable for the wonderfully adroit way it visually mixed the father's past and present, and segued from one to the other. |
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| In the end, then, Shaw's greatest skill turned out to be not in adroit plot construction, but in creating good roles for actors. |
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| He had climbed the ladder by a combination of brains, energy, efficiency, adroit networking and sheer likeableness. |
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| Shakespeare, socially adroit and professionally gifted, would have been well placed to make his big career move into the Chamberlain's Men. |
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| He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him. |
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| He was a self-taught musician and the beauty of his compositions lies in the adroit mix of folk, Indian classical and western classical music. |
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| So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp. |
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| But some apt political lampoonery, a dash of adroit physical comedy, a pinch of puppetry and a few saucy tunes give Insanity Fair some entertaining moments. |
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| But the contrabandists were occasionally too adroit for him. |
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| Although adroit at parliamentary debate and a good organizer, Clark was lampooned by the media as awkward and inept. |
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| Well-built, forceful yet technically adroit, and an excellent passer, he kept his place in the team. |
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| There was Mr Ward, with his very adroit motion for inquiring into the peculiar burdens alleged to be laid on land. |
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| However, after years of adroit procedural manipulation by China, frustration mounted to the point that international support waned. |
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| Modern circumstances require an adroit approach to the manner in which our foreign policy is being implemented. |
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| He hoped the venture would help generate tourism as the society planned to invite groups adroit in the ancient art of change-bell ringing to the Barbon church. |
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| With an adroit and intelligent adaptation, Ruiz has forced us to reflect on how we make our own lives into stories, and how we tell them to ourselves. |
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| You mentioned in your presentation that particularly younger people who are both adroit and adept at the new technology, thrive in that environment. |
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| My hands are bigger, and more adroit, with nimble fingers that can tie shoes, unwrap candies, and get the sand out from between my toes before we leave the beach. |
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| This is an adroit sidestepping of the issue, but a sidestep all the same. |
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| From a rough start, he has proven adroit at managing these public moments. |
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| Acerbic, sharp-witted and adroit at playing any instrument ever invented, he transformed the image of pre-mediaeval music from scholarly study to sheer fun. |
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| In reality, however, he may be little more than an adroit poseur who has successfully exploited the decadence of late modernist vanguardism to his own advantage. |
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| Having paid this tribute to gossip as a social force for good, we must adroit that the rattling tongue that dissects dead scandals or whips up new ones to amuse companions is doing a great deal of damage. |
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| His power has been waning and he's holding on by his fingernails, although he might do that for a long time, because he's a very adroit politician. |
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| I can assure the honourable Member that the Commission is very adroit and active in organising sufficient support for what it does, but in this case, it was a purely fortuitous occasion. |
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| In several texts Fraser proves herself an adroit museologist, betraying a historian's fascination for things archival. |
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| Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts. |
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| She will be a great help to you as secretary and can give lessons to your children, all day, being well educated, very sweet, and adroit and knows how to do the most beautiful things. |
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| Size, or perceptions thereof, matters immensely to men and your suggestion of standard sizing or bar coding is no substitute for adroit salesmanship or clever marketing. |
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| During the spring of 1970, the Yale campus had been roiled by political unrest, and Schmoke had distinguished himself as an adroit and coolheaded player. |
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| He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life. |
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| The design team at DKNY was especially adroit in picking up on their potential double life as free-form clothing, parading variations that included cowled blouses and dresses. |
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| The artist's adroit rendering of floral, foliate, ornamental, avian, and bovid motifs, however, accords with her earlier etchings, as does her effective illusionism. |
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| I have read very little science, and all through my schooling I was so adroit at weaseling out of physical training that corporeally I have worn a dunce cap all my life. |
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| Smith's adroit handling of these proposals impressed Callaghan, and in November 1978, when Edmund Dell retired, Callaghan appointed Smith Secretary of State for Trade. |
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