Word: adept
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...when it comes to crises," says Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based political scholar. "The sort of centralizing impulses that have been the hallmark of the current leadership enables them to respond in a large way and quickly. It's very good at confronting a tragedy, and it's adept at cleaning up afterward. And it's also very quick to claim credit...
...high throughout the record, dominate Muhly’s complex arrangement and contribute significantly to that unpretentious quality. “Go” is an album which is easy to appreciate on first listen, but its immediacy never detracts from the emotional rollercoaster Jónsi is so adept at creating...
...makes some sense that bikinis were made for athletes because it prevents drag, but I didn’t know that they were invented so long ago,” says Shyam S. Vichare ’12. At the time of their invention, women were such adept swimmers that the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, shattered all previous records held by male swimmers. American women looked up to athletes like Ederle and wore bikinis to emulate these strong female role models...
...accommodate him—it’s impolite to abuse your instrument’s noise-making ability while your vocalist is trying to sing. And as the album’s second single “Chinese Whispers” shows, they’ve become quite adept at integrating melody into mathcore. Throughout the track, TDEP use mellow breaks to release the tension built up during their aggressive sections. For instance, about half-way through the song, Puciato begins to scream atop an angular guitar riff and steady drumbeat. Then, as Puciato’s screams grow...
...Grey, and pioneering female to male transsexual porn star Buck Angel. With lectures such as "Babeland’s Lip Tricks: Blowjobs and Going Down," "Sexual Fantasies," and "The 'M' Word" (spoiler alert: it's masturbation), expect our frenemies in New Haven to go from sexually inept to sexually adept...