Word: adeptly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cyril, who'd been serving as interim head of the Church since the Dec. 5 death of Patriarch Alexy II, was particularly adept at keeping warm relations with both Kremlin insiders and religious counterparts outside of Russia. His many contacts with the West, including a meeting in 2007 with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, helped earn Cyril a reputation as a pragmatic reformer who favored moving his Church closer to Catholicism after a millennium-long schism...
...capes, shawls, top hats, and vests were abundantly on display; all actors were impeccably clad in plain, plaid, and floral patterns.The production’s truly carefree live music was provided by the Mellstock Band and Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble. From oboe beats to clarinet trills, the players are adept at creating a joyful, holiday mood with their modern and old-fashioned musical instruments. One of the main debates over tradition and change in the show emerges from the addition of a new musical instrument to the church’s store of objects: some are eager to embrace...
...actors who write their own lines, improvise to meet the occasion and use the courtroom as a stage to declaim on matters of life and death. Sir John Mortimer, who died at 85 on Jan. 16, was an Oxford-trained barrister (and the son of a barrister) who proved adept at arguing his cases both in his fiction and in real life...
...crisis, but there's not much sand left in the hourglass. Very soon, he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will have to hit the ground running with an initiative that shifts the media focus from whether Obama is going to distance himself from Israel to how diplomatically adept his new team is. And since he doesn't yet have that team in place, the challenge is even greater...
Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth - fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects. This month, both have their eye on the same thing: the plot turns inside the Russian Orthodox Church, which is weighing a successor to longtime Patriarch Alexy II, who died last month...