Word: adroitness
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...doctor's health talks are an adroit mixture of sharply worded advice and blunt humor. "Life," he explains to his ten million listeners, "is a matter of moments that are lost and bowels that are distended." His descriptions of ailments are calculated to shock hypochondriacs out of their introspective gloom ("Just think of a boil-as round as a football, as red as a raspberry, as tender as the treacly smile of a lovesick maiden...
That way consisted of an adroit plugging of the common bonds of religion and blood which unite Spaniards and Argentines. It also involved some fancy costuming. It was the hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour...
...Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
Although the adroit professor was the complainant, he was quickly put on the defensive by belligerent Sir Patrick Hastings, attorney for the defendant. Laski, former Labor Party chairman, was suing the Newark Advertisers Co., Ltd., publishers of the Nottinghamshire Newark Advertiser, for printing statements that he advocated violent revolution allegedly in speeches during the 1945 election campaign...
Onetime Senator Lodge, who had given up his seat to go into the Army, carefully refrained from mentioning Dave Walsh's name in his campaign speeches. But it was this sort of adroit campaign maneuver-aimed at a rumbling discontent over a postwar dream that had gone sour-that made Republican Lodge appear as the likely winner...