Word: adeptly
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...cast is marvelously adept, especially Sternhagen and Dishy. She never camouflages the essential hideousness of the character she portrays, and he distills a tormenting anguish from the dregs of self-pity...
...Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
...publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman considerably less impulsive and a bit more socially adept than his fictional alter ego. Beyond this however, The Hindsight Saga offers little. Perelman relates his experiences with a number of the celebrities of the day, but, with the exception of a terrific anecdote about Dashiell Hammett, these are lackluster. Most of the characters don't even have the fresh...
...statements must not have mixed very well with the British people, whose young sons were coming home in body bags. And, after the war, Wodehouse himself publicly apologized for the broadcasts, saying they were the greatest blunders of his life. But if these broadcasts revealed Wodehouse as not very adept at foreseeing the consequences of his actions, they certainly do not reveal him as a traitor against England...
...there is one last problem. A staff writer on The New Yorker, Malcolm is an adept practitioner of that serious-but-silky prose. The writing is polished and stainless; there is something appropriate about both her and Green speaking in the cultured dialect of the uptown Manhattan brownstone. It seems the entire dramatis personae of the New York Psychoanalytic Society must speak roughly the same way. Nonetheless, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is fascinating. But the powerful ideas of psychoanalysis and the murkiness they dredge out of all our sick psyches somehow require a more patient, vigorous prose...