Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conceivably, the Kennedy bill might render officials even less communicative and more secretive, inhibited and legalistically subtle, more adept at what Carlyle called "the talent of lying in a way that cannot be laid hold of." Where virtue and veracity are concerned, it might be shrewder to make a sunny presumption of innocence and rely on the American people's proven talent for discerning, sooner or later, that they are being lied...
...complicates the task. But it is a problem of maturing to a fundamentally changed strategic environment. The West, including the U.S., has not been very adept at this. The West has got to understand the alternatives to détente. We have to be forever tough in getting quid pro quos and farsighted in assessing what those quid pro quos...
...ogling of manometers and Papenberg gauges, and the flooding and blowing of ballast tanks run like a litany throughout the book. Buchheim employs some tricky literary gimbals to keep himself balanced between feelings of revulsion and respect for the men aboard this stifling tunnel of dead metal. He is adept at flattening his prose in the manner of much postwar German writing, creating an ironic though pat Götterdaämerung or adding a horrific touch of 1920s expressionism...
Like Newcombe, Connors is adept at mixing strokes. "When a guy's playing Jimmy," says Pancho, "he doesn't know what to expect. Jimmy will stay back and play base line, then rush the net. He can lob you or beat you down the alley with a winner. He's impossible to predict." Much of the credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently...
...impresario Billy Rose to Streisand's Brice, stands up well under the painful effulgence of her superstardom. He is a scrappy actor, always looking for an opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only Robert Redford in The Way We Were was so adept at keeping his balance. Redford did it by playing off Streisand and cooling her out. Caan goes straight at her, battling for every breath, every inch of screen space...