Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lecture class with hundreds of students, the professor 's teaching ability may not b as important as the skill of the Teaching Fellow (TF) explaining diffcult concept or leading a meaningful discussion...
...perform, often failing to distinguish between a beach ball and a cabbage, to say nothing of picking out a familiar face in a photo album filled with strangers. Such a pattern-recognition talent, says Salk Institute neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, in whose lab the work was done: "is a survival skill humans probably had even before they acquired language. For computers, it's a major challenge...
...smaller, more private works that really count, and in them it's Sargent's skill that gets you (almost) every time. True-blue modernists liked to call it "empty virtuosity"--in their book, virtuosity itself smelled of emptiness anyway; works of art had to be gritty and sincere and full of doubt, in homage to Papa Cezanne. But some kinds of virtuosity are deliciously full; they are self-delighting in their reluctance to turn every stroke of paint into the residue of a moral struggle that may not have really happened; they make difficult performance look easy, and give weight...
...past Larroquette has excelled at showing the depth of irredeemable characters, but here he plays a one-dimensional villain, and he lacks the comedic skill to pull it off. Though to be fair, Charlie Chaplin couldn't pull off these jokes. Larroquette's last show at least aimed for smarter laughs--and got script suggestions faxed in from Thomas Pynchon. It's unlikely he will make any for Payne. If he does, he'd better submit them within the next few weeks...
...Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young children in very good stead when they don't know enough or have enough skill to handle the kind of explanation that grownups prefer...