| He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him. |
|
| Shakespeare, socially adroit and professionally gifted, would have been well placed to make his big career move into the Chamberlain's Men. |
|
| Akin to an artist to his canvas, he plays with an adroit cunning that is matchless to his peers. |
|
| In the end, then, Shaw's greatest skill turned out to be not in adroit plot construction, but in creating good roles for actors. |
|
| 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. |
|
| We hop, skip, jump around and over it, at least twice a day, familiar now, to the danger, adroit at avoidance. |
|
| He had climbed the ladder by a combination of brains, energy, efficiency, adroit networking and sheer likeableness. |
|
| There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights. |
|
| He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress. |
|
| 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. |
|
| Her poetry displays an adroit mastery of simple language and an eye for the fine threads woven into ordinary lives. |
|
| Again the Chilingirian chose a very fast tempo, which required the first violin especially to be extremely adroit. |
|
| So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp. |
|
| While lacking in merit as a decision-maker, he was extremely adroit in working the congressional funding process. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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. |
|
| Even the most clever, adroit, and skillful legislature cannot achieve zero risk in human affairs. |
|
| But the contrabandists were occasionally too adroit for him. |
|
| Modern circumstances require an adroit approach to the manner in which our foreign policy is being implemented. |
|
| 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. |
|
|
|
| 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. |
|
| You mentioned in your presentation that particularly younger people who are both adroit and adept at the new technology, thrive in that environment. |
|
| 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. |
|
| This is an adroit sidestepping of the issue, but a sidestep all the same. |
|
| 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. |
|
| From a rough start, he has proven adroit at managing these public moments. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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. |
|
| He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life. |
|
| Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts. |
|
| In several texts Fraser proves herself an adroit museologist, betraying a historian's fascination for things archival. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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. |
|
| The artist's adroit rendering of floral, foliate, ornamental, avian, and bovid motifs, however, accords with her earlier etchings, as does her effective illusionism. |
|
