Word: adeptly
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Chevalier is especially adept at character studies: imperious burghers, butchers, biddies and crones. It's as if, after scrutinizing Vermeer's masterworks (and doing the required reading), she began to think and feel like a 17th century Delfter...
Kathleen (not her real name), a suburban mom from Iowa, wishes she'd known about it 27 years ago. She says there was something chilling about the way her only son coaxed her for a cookie at age two. "It was way beyond manipulative. He was very adept at reading me, at figuring out what it took to get him what he wanted." By adolescence, the handsome, popular high school athlete had taken to stealing from her purse, torturing animals, driving drunk and making violent threats against classmates. Typical boyish rebellion? "There was a difference," Kathleen says. "I didn...
...sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells as a playable instrument. Her performances hinge on improvisation and experience. Though she and the other ringers have gradually become adept in the bells' individual utterances, no tune as we know it will ever cross their lips...
...Schubert to adopt Fiona Apple. However, the true shame is that Germans (and Americans, too) listen to the inane drivel pushed on MTV and Top 40 stations instead of listening to music which would express their frustrations or increase their sensitivity to beauty or pain. Rock music is as adept at this function as Schubert...
...Harvard offensive output shows that the Crimson has not fully mastered the exploitation, but it is started to prove itself quite adept at creating confusion...