Word: adeptly
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...with a particularly difficult part in the role of Tommy, who must be both densely naive and a stunningly talented salesman. His innocent pursuit of a sophisticated older woman has a good shot at being the new classic in the older woman-younger man scenario. Kate Capshaw is similarly adept in this situation; she is seductive without being evil, and perfectly outrageous when she is introduced to Tommy's provincial family...
know one's shit: (v.) to know one's business, to be adept at something...
After a huge game against Buffalo the previousweek, Hood could only manage 64 passing yards. Hedid, however, prove adept at eluding the Crimsonrush. He spun out of a few Crimson tackles andfinished the game with 48 yards on the ground,nearly matching his passing numbers...
...Pollyana Ribeiro as Giselle and Patrick Armand as Albrecht. It was Ribeiro's first time as Giselle and while technically strong, she lacked the artistic refinement and softness that the role requires. She looked too young and cute for the frail and tender Giselle, and while she was technically adept--the balances held and the turns and jumps refined and light--it was unfulfilling...
...time. "The tendency to tell lies," as Jean Piaget wrote in 1932, "is a natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow. Facility breeds falsity. In the end, Presidents lie for the same reason everyone else does. It's just that the rest of us can't blame national security...