Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devlin, Iowa, 6 ft. 5 in., 277 lbs. Jones is the kind of guard the late Vince Lombardi would have admired: with 4.8 speed in the 40-yd. dash, he pulls out swiftly ahead of his running backs. Devlin is another for midable blocker, quick off the ball and adept at keeping pass rushers away from his quarterback...
Lewis's treatment of Wharton's individual books is similarly annoying. Though he is adept at tracing the thematic continuity of her work, Lewis engages in only the most cursory literary criticism, offering plot summaries more often than analyses of her novels' style or structure. At the same time, he painstakingly sets down the exact proceeds from each of her published works...
...song is deeply moving, and yet not depressing, The singer is adept at finding earthy expressions of his sexual appetites, as when he refers to "getting something quick to eat/I'm just the same as anyone else/When it comes to scratching for my meat..." or later when he wryly informs us that...
...Hollywood to become a successful screenwriter and, we are informed in a Graffiti-like postscript, really makes it. He always figured he would, since he was so good at the hustle. If he is intended to represent the author of Cooley High, however, he is not quite as adept at it as he thinks...
...armies of officials belonging to the separate state and Communist Party bureaucracies. In everyday life a Soviet citizen needs written permission for everything, from changing a job or apartment to getting a hotel room. Industry and agriculture are similarly stifled. Professional middlemen and grafters, adept at short-cutting the paper work and expediting anything from steel supplies to beefsteak, flourish illegally in the crevices of this creaking structure. But for most Soviet citizens there is no short cut through the numbing, frustrating maze of controls. The majority simply endure with apathy, and often, self-contempt...