Word: prowesses
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When Sports Illustrated runs a feature on a star athelete, they celebrate her for her athletic prowess. There is nothing wrong with celebrating beauty as well, but, for some odd reason, I did not notice any male beauties--oops I mean people who just happened to be modeling swimsuits--in the issue...
Shultz's success in shaping policy is much greater than his prowess in articulating it publicly. Lately he has permitted himself some public flashes of the temper he shows in private, pounding a table angrily in December when a Yugoslav official offered some excuses for terrorism. But for the most part his public utterances are studiedly bland and numbingly repetitious. In Shultzspeak, the invariable progress report on any problem is that "we're working at it." Even his wife Helena has complained, "George, you sound so dull...
...with man, whose prowess...
...otherwise utopian atmosphere of the castle is spoiled by the affair of Lance and Jenny; she cannot resist his physical prowess. This second act is comparatively heavy due to the sad unraveling of Arthur's ideals, but the acting compensates well. Korn is a mystified but never self-pitying king and the two lovers generate a high reading on the steamometer. The rest of the east is consistently supportive, but generally better at clownishness than solemnity. Mordren (Jon Tolins), Arthur's wicked illegitimate son, is especially adept at delivering bitingly sarcastic lines like "Ah, Camelot--where the King gives freedom...
...resigned to believing that the evil corrupter had escaped her moral net. Of course, when she asked about the shoe, I only smiled. It's funny. My mom shares the same delusion I suffered. Besides, my mom would not have such a healthy respect of my sexual prowess if I did get that dream single. Mom, if you only knew...