| 单词 | adept |
| 例句 | She was also surprisingly adept at speaking without moving her lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She wore some of the world’s earlier high-heeled shoes, the first ‘designer’ perfumes, and owned the first side-saddle to allow women to ride as adeptly as men. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There are a few genuine adepts present who throw themselves rapturously into the music, eyes shut, arms upraised, waiting, no doubt, for the onset of glossolalia. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The pilots became so adept with the tap code that they started inventing shortcuts, a kind of low-tech texting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If Cora’s own mask was occasionally askew, she proved adept at maintaining the disguise of Bessie Carpenter, late of North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He grew adept at manipulating the shapes of cooking hot dogs and, for fun, developed an entire line of gag frankfurters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At some tasks that one might reasonably suppose to reflect aspects of brain function, such as the ability to form a mental map of unfamiliar surroundings, they appear considerably more adept than Westerners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the years, we devised many ways of obtaining them, but back then we were not so adept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And just as she became more adept at her work, the winter came in earnest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Penelope did become very adept at drawing squirrels. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z As a result of all their outdoor exposure, Washington’s boys were, year after year, particularly hardy and particularly adept at rowing in rough water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The madam was broad-minded and modern, adept in the trajectories of human desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Virginians were also the most adept at employing what Adams called “puffers,” what we would call “spinners” or public-relations experts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She liked having a glass-half-full outlook and was adept at putting a good face on things. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He lashed out at me, and the blow would have caught me full in the face had I not been so adept at ducking. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Mac had studied law and was adept at putting the authorities on the defensive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The organism was too frightening. to handle, even for those who were comfortable and adept in space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Glassmakers became adept at turning out ever larger sheets of plate glass. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Actually, the whole prayer is ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a miserable sinner,’ but none of the adepts in either of the Pilgrim books put any emphasis—thank God—on the miserable-sinner part. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Deeper in, men worked to adeptly remove the large arteries and segment the limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Penkovsky proved more adept than the Americans at finding a way to communicate with the West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was an awkward system, and it took me a full year to become reasonably adept, and another year before I could set down every word without begging him to speak more slowly. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She was adept in creating any number of hair styles, but each one left her with a pinched and harassed look. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, I was adept enough with white kids not to get bullied by them, but the white kids were always going shopping, going to the movies, going on trips—things that required money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With even half an hour of practice, he says, people can become adept at picking up microexpressions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Your friend performs delightfully,” he continued after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; “and I doubt not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Claudia would also drive him to and from certain out-of-the-way Los Angeles destinations; otherwise he was quite adept at traveling by bus to wherever he wanted to go. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the younger lad grew adept and indeed more adept at petty thieving than at begging. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This he did, no doubt, more promptly and thoroughly than I ever had done: he was an adept of the Handdara, after all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He was less adept in lugging the bulky machines to the repair shop. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So, sometimes, even if the legal beautician is not as adept as Violet, a regular customer will sneak to a shop just for the pleasure of a comfy shampoo. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As fishermen became more and more adept at bringing illegal liquor ashore, the Coast Guard patrols also became more experienced and began using faster engines on their boats. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Within a few days I was quite adept at the machine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She becomes quite adept at manipulating fabric, altering her gowns as expertly as a master tailor to accommodate the weight she has regained, her body feeling like her own again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He would not have spoken to her, but she came to him and greeted him pleasantly: “I know you, you are the Sparrowhawk, our mage’s adept. I wish you would tell me about sorcery!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, from my experience as a little boy at the Lansing school, I had become fairly adept at avoiding the white-girl issue—at least for a couple of years yet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The design was so elegant, so adept at exploiting the strength of thin strands of steel, that the wheel appeared incapable of withstanding the stresses placed upon it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Bobby seemed unafraid of the cigar-smoking adepts hunched over their boards. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As public education expanded in the South, North Carolina legislators proved adept at giving blacks equal educational opportunities on paper while funneling most state resources to white students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in her role of unhappy helper but obedient daughter, Shirley had become quite adept with tools and familiar with the inner workings of the old house. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z For the last few years, I'd been employed as a creative executive at ABC Daytime, and I'd gotten adept at finding windows of opportunity to catch up on scripts. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He was a compact gentleman, and one could easily imagine that, in his earlier years, he had been adept at springing and vaulting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Salvation Army was starting in on “Bye Bye Blackbird” at which they were far more adept. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As it happened, he proved to be extremely adept at getting his name into print and his mug on the telly. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z L am now quite adept at keeping warm no matter how low the mercury falls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A reasonably adept teenager, working quickly, can insert a toothpick into a lock, snap it off, and walk away in approximately three seconds. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bobby loved languages and, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, was becoming adept at Russian and German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a fatiguing effort, but on the date set for the ceremony the child was as adept in the ways of the world as any of her sisters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I have never enjoyed flying much, and while this was the most frightening episode I have ever had on a plane, I am sometimes adept at appearing brave and I pretended that I was unconcerned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry supposed that as Hogsmeade was the only all-wizard village in Britain, it was a bit of a haven for creatures like hags, who were not as adept as wizards at disguising themselves. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Traveling at high speeds, often in the dead of night, to evade authorities, drivers became adept at navigating winding roads and making hairpin turns. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In two days we were fairly adept at matching the colors on our fingers with the colors on the keyboard diagrams. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Joan took Spanish and German in high school and was adept in both, “Industry!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Tycho was, like his peers, a believer in astrology and became adept at casting horoscopes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Growing up in this environment, the young Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in Britain had found a few people who seemed particularly adept at multitasking—potential supertaskers—for Dr. Strayer to put through the paces. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She was still beautiful, still funny, still adept with chopsticks. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “It is one of my specialties, yet there is little opportunity to use it. I am not adept at creating this type of illusion to be viewed by more than one person at a time.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Always adept at turning pain into humor, he wondered later, “Did this teacher have a problem with On the Waterfront?” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But I had by now become adept at dodging blows and I nimbly ducked my head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Haydn was so adept at sculpting a tune from small beginnings that the younger Mozart and Beethoven simply copied the technique in their own way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z To work out his species theory he had to become adept at describing at least one creature in minute detail. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hall had become so adept at running climbers of all abilities up and down Everest that he got a little cocky, perhaps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was affectionate in ways she rarely encountered in men, and he was adept at business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ms. Headland is far more affable and socially adept than her characters. Look Out! Playwright Leslye Headland Has Her Eye on You 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Redmayne is a master of technique, adept at significant gestures, freighted glances and the kind of showiness that masquerades as subtlety. Review: ‘The Danish Girl,’ About a Transgender Pioneer 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z We are familiar with the idea of the past seeming another country but no contemporary writer in my experience has ever been more adept in giving time the character of Google Earth geography. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-04-27T14:00:01Z Now, if you're more experienced and adept in the kitchen than I am, there's a solid chance you already consider this "hack" old news. How to peel and cut butternut squash without losing a finger 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z As with the culinary concept of terroir — using local ingredients to impart a sense of place in their cooking — these chefs seem equally adept at creating memorable places to sleep. Journeys: In Spain, Chefs Extend Empires to Hotels 2010-03-12T17:01:00Z In Fishman’s bold, ambitious and wickedly smart first novel, a Soviet émigré writer in New York becomes disturbingly adept at forging applications for Holocaust reparations. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But Marie becomes dazzlingly adept at using the elements of repression to her own advantage. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Schmidle’s remarkable account of the commercial space program adeptly jumps between our celestial aspirations and our human, earthbound limitations, shifting from an account of Virgin’s efforts to a more personal story of fathers and sons. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z But he gets quite adept at violence; he grows feral. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z How does such a prolific writer who is so adept at mining teenage angst stay well? For ‘To All the Boys’ author Jenny Han, self care means protecting her creativity — and baking 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z As ThePinkElephant adeptly summarised 'The Fault in Our Stars is an insightful and moving novel that will leave you with a lump in your throat, but with a more optimistic understanding of life.' Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z The young man from Southern California proved so adept with that famously drug-damaged British vocal styling that his friends began calling him “Oz.” Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z She has a separate history of duologue with Mr. Blake, her former mentor at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and a venerable pianist adept at fostering harmonic intrigue. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He was extraordinarily adept at navigating space in all its forms, as the video — a montage of clips of free-running and other types of sequences — shows. Jackie Chan: The Fists, the Fury, the Oscar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z If we start to habituate ourselves now, we will be prepared and our taste buds adept to alternative bananas in time for its demise. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z But I was more fearless and socially adept. Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books 2011-08-12T20:52:47Z He cried, too, often over minor things—when I couldn’t make him a B.L.T., when I missed the school play—since children are fabulously adept at redirecting great pain into small containers. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a jerky, dark, and layered record, complete with the kind of adept musical craftsmanship the London band first built its name on. Bloc Party Returns to Punk Roots with Four 2012-08-21T16:30:20Z Hardly a likeable man, he was a brilliant offensive field commander, adept at deception, using false radio traffic and other ruses to help the enemy draw the wrong conclusions. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts – review 2013-06-28T16:40:00Z Gilroy’s pacing is adept, and the movie creates a what-will-happen-next tension, even as he continues to lather bile on his target. ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Review: Art Snobs Get a Gory Comeuppance 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The children, well-behaved and smart, are equally adept at skinning a deer and reading "The Brothers Karamazov" by the campfire. 'Captain Fantastic' is a Swiss Family Robinson for today 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He is ardent and adept on this topic, but vaguely tiresome too. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z In fact, Mr. Pace was adept at discreet reworking. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z I am happy to report that Foy and Smith are equally adept at delivering such ambivalence, common to nearly all long and intimate relationships, at high volume and in equally high gear. ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s an honest way to confront an overwhelming moment, and while simple enough on its face, it’s hardly easy to do so adeptly. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z It takes a village to perform Handel’s “Messiah”: a nimble and speedy chorus, an accomplished orchestra, four virtuoso soloists, and a keyboard player who is equally adept at the harpsichord and the organ. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z For Mr. Richie, the “Idol” gig is another opportunity to do what he’s become adept at — trading on millennial pop culture’s ironic fascination with his pleading 1983 hit “Hello” without letting himself become the joke. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Jesso is far more adept on guitar — that was clear on “The Wait.” Review: Tobias Jesso Jr., Puppyish and Playful, Plays the Mercury Lounge 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Robin, meanwhile, is a slippery orphan, desperately poor but as adept with technology as any tween in the West. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway But Browning’s performance succeeds because she is adept at playing characters that hover between bravery and vulnerability. Emily Browning: ‘Hollywood movies are made for white men’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z He was adept at keeping up with shifting genres, combining a contemporary pop sensibility with traditional Mexican music, often appearing with a full mariachi band in tow. Juan Gabriel, a Pop Music ‘Icon’ in Mexico, Dies at 66 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The winning actress also had to prove adept at mastering a Swedish accent. How Rooney Mara became "Girl With Dragon Tattoo" 2010-08-17T06:52:00Z Nixon, already adept at playing outcasts and intellectuals, understood that Miranda was integral to, but not fully of, the gang of fashionable women who composed her friends. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Teaching the needs for patience, self-control and respect alongside the necessary brickbusting moves, the three most adept students are given a chance to continue their training in Hong Kong. TV highlights 27/05/2013 2013-05-27T05:59:01Z Over the last few years Ms. Perry, 25, has proved adept at working those angles, making an unlikely turnaround from gospel singer to provocative starlet, while keeping her audience tracking the authenticity of both. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z The director is increasingly adept at getting her actors to bask in emotions without any pretensions. 'Laggies' a lively break from the pressures of adulthood 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z I stress this because guys like your brother-in-law are adept at converting our natural tendency to avoid conflict into a license to bully. How Do I Handle My Creepy Brother-in-Law? 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z He is, indeed, an adept classical musician, but he also writes pop songs, folk songs and rock songs. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Bill, no doubt about it, was more adept at rolling with the punches, charming his way out of trouble, while Barack Obama’s special power was rising nobly above the fray. 'As guarded as Fort Knox': the inside story of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But, human beings are remarkably adept at detecting artifice or insincerity. Lake Wobegon’s new mayor: Chris Thile’s “Prairie Home Companion” will go “from Bach to Kendrick Lamar” 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z She is shy and awkward, and her attempts to connect with her more socially adept peers are continually rebuffed. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It is not that fashion never requires translation; a lot of it is arcane even to adepts. The Year in Style: Daphne Guinness, Fashion?s Wild Child 2010-12-31T04:15:37Z And by his teenage years, he was already an adept entrepreneur. Off Broadway, Showmen Seal Their Biggest Deal 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Chi” is similarly intimate in those moments that are about families and friends trying to get along — and the cast is particularly adept at bringing those subtler emotions to the surface. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z DiDonato is always communicative, adept at the finer points of concert presentation. Joyce DiDonato – review 2013-02-07T15:19:37Z And Enriquez is particularly adept at capturing the single-minded intensity of teenage girls. In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Hence my grandfather, who was adept at visiting young ladies by way of their roofs, was known as "zumpa balcone," or "jump the balcony." T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z The inspections have also received more attention in recent years, as consumers have become more adept at scrutinizing and rating facilities through the growth of sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp. More cruise ships failed sanitation inspections in 2017 than any other year 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Tune in, or drop out?Tune in, for a show that's high on concept and adept in execution – even if the humour signal comes and goes. The Imaginary Radio Programme – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-08T09:30:28Z A master of tasteful grandeur, Adler was adept at interpreting a client’s request by turning to time-honored sources for inspiration and creating beautifully proportioned dwellings that felt venerable but were calibrated for modern living. Miles Redd's Latest Project Features A Paired-Down Palette 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The basic drug combination – “first line” treatment – has become cheap, but the virus is adept at mutating. UN calls for urgent action to protect young women from HIV/Aids in Africa 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Dark, confessional poems had their place, but he believed a true poet should be just as adept at humor and light verse. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z He remixes melancholy vocals into promises of redemptions, and he’s more than adept at the step-by-step buildup from beat to pulsing bass riff to whooshing, triumphal chordal fanfares. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z “Parts of Spain are semiarid like San Antonio, and the Spanish were able to settle here because they were adept at water engineering and established an irrigation system along the river,” she said. San Antonio’s Summer Homage to Spain 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In those clips, which still pepper YouTube, he’s a clear adept, able to breezily disassemble and reformat popular songs for his limited vocal range — a recipe for modern “Idol” success. Music: On ?Idol,? Shifts in Power, Not Talent 2010-02-22T22:51:00Z For a band so adept at terseness, it was a distraction. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z As the day dragged on, Alicia became increasingly engrossed by and adept in online slaughter. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Election Day 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Historically, television and film writers haven’t been particularly adept at depicting female anger, especially the anger of adolescent girls, in a complex way. How "Big Mouth" pushes back on the angry teenage girl stereotype 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Bamford is adept at creating wonderfully uncomfortable comedy out of family mundanity, and Ask My Mom continues this fine run of form. Catch-up TV guide: from Silence In The House Of God to Ask My Mom 2013-06-15T05:00:07Z She couldn’t help but notice that her father wasn’t exactly an adept interviewer: He didn’t seem especially curious about the people he was talking to. A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z As a teenager, she spent spare time at the Playgoers’ Club, an amateur theatre troupe where she became adept at stage management, set building and prompting. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Few bands are more adept at navigating such volatility, especially when it means blurring lines between good and evil, selfishness and repentance, temptation and restraint. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Like previous efforts, the new album shows Lopez's wide-ranging tastes, but "A.K.A." also showcases a singer better adept at balancing her pop and hip-hop roots. Jennifer Lopez, at peace with herself 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z These films were cathartic, funny and uniquely adept at capturing the cultural zeitgeist in a period of a newly free sense of black identity. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “Chelsea was extremely adept at analyzing struggling chemicals companies,” said Matt Kimble, her former boss at the hedge fund Avenue Capital. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But he's just as adept at portraying the psychological power play between Ald. 'Chicago Code' shows city streets, corruption in vivid detail 2011-02-07T20:08:47Z Yet it is very easy to imagine a more maudlin and less adept adaptation of Jesse Andrews’s novel, particularly one not anchored by Thomas Mann’s performance. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Dazzling fragments of films that tend to be visually adept and dramatically inert or vice versa. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z He is adept at metrical, syllabic and free verse, and borrows unusual stanzaic forms from Wyatt, Shelley and Robert Bridges, among others. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z But she ultimately proves adept at the job, so much so that Sidney assigns her Dan’s top three clients. 'Veep' Recap: Listen, You Are Beyoncé 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z And because children are young and immature, their brains are not adept at navigating the transition from “work” to home. One question my daughter can’t stand: ‘How was your day?’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z I’m still adept and adjustable to the changes, and growth is one of those things. For his latest tour, CeeLo Green is riding his train of love home 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The Girls & Boys resident D.J.’s, who played both before and after Mr. Schulz, were uniformly more adept. Robin Schulz Plays Webster Hall’s Girls & Boys Party 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z A laconic though riveting musical storyteller, Mr. Clark was adept at getting at the heart of an experience or an event. Guy Clark, a King of the Texas Troubadours, Is Dead at 74 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Rockwell, always an adept comic, plays Doug’s metamorphosis lightly, and Ms. Wilde, for all her charms, refrains from portraying Elizabeth as a poisonous temptress. Movie Review: ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ or at Least Better Loving 2014-03-13T23:05:47Z The movie industry excels at recycling genres, stories and stereotypes, but it hasn’t been adept at making them work with emancipated women, who no longer need men to have their happily ever after. ‘La La Land’ Makes Musicals Matter Again 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Long before he became a conflicted Marine and renegade U.S. congressman in Showtime’s “Homeland,” the Emmy-honored Lewis was well known in Britain as an actor equally adept at comedy and drama. Top 5 DVD gifts: cute animals, Cirque, ‘Oz’ 2013-12-13T20:58:29Z He is adept at creating and then disrupting rapidly shifting spatial patterns, so that the eye is engaged on both the macro and micro levels. Dance Review | Keigwin & Company: At Joyce Theater, Pop Sensibility and Quirky Flair 2010-03-17T21:48:00Z The animations — conceived by the graphic artist Eric Drooker — are sincere, visually adept and nearly disastrous, the one serious misstep in a film that otherwise does nearly everything right. | 'Howl': Leaping Off the Page, a Beatnik?s Poetic Rant 2010-09-23T22:49:00Z Like his brother, Kennedy adeptly assessed the value and potential of young people at a time when many in a divided country thought youth were failing the nation. A Kennedy for millennials: RFK’s egalitarian legacy is a progressive model 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The competitions unfortunately proved not to be very adept at choosing great artists. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z Americans are particularly adept at this kind of thing. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z But when you reflect on how adeptly they’re edited to appeal to liberal expectations and biases, you find yourself in an inescapable vortex of paranoia. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z As Manning shows, he was adept at tailoring his message to different audiences, often blatantly contradicting on a Wednesday what he had clearly and emotively stated on a Monday. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z They're performed adeptly and stylishly by members of Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theatre. Theater review: 'On the Town' brings back a '40s romp in Times Square 2010-04-16T18:38:00Z Although he was adept at drama and action, Garner was best known for his low-key, wisecracking style, especially with his hit TV series, “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files.” Police: Movie, TV Legend James Garner Dies 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z He also raps and is an adept practitioner of kung fu. Will Smith's child labor question 2010-10-19T21:15:00Z He’s capable of so much murder and betrayal and is so adept at concealing it behind a mask of loyalty, it would do everyone well for him to keep his head in a holy book. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 5: Baptism 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z On his final studio albums — in 2012, 2014 and 2016 — he collaborated with an unexpected and adept fan: the producer Patrick Leonard, who wrote and produced “Like a Prayer,” among many other songs, with Madonna. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Neal Stephenson is a Seattle author with a huge following among the technologically adept. Today's recommended reading: Jonathan Raban, Neal Stephenson 2011-09-19T19:08:47Z Ms. Carrington is a seasoned adept in the studio, and her production sounds lush and crisp. Review: Terri Lyne Carrington’s ‘Mosaic Project’ Sequel 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Alex proved adept at the skills expected of a young French aristocrat: especially fencing and horsemanship. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss – review 2012-09-28T21:55:05Z On programs like "Worst Cooks in America," it's apparent that the concept of becoming an adept home cook is aspirational for so many people. From the ambitious to the everyday, cookbooks are a magical portal to our culinary futures 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. Radcliffe admits being drunk during "Harry Potter" scenes 2012-02-03T18:51:58Z More than any other major American sports league, the N.B.A. has become adept at generating story lines in the age of social media. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The dreams tantalize, and in this way mirror the most pervasive form of life writing the world has ever seen: social media — another medium in which Ortiz is adept. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A young generation of opera singers is adept at shuttling between ancient and modern styles: Witness Anthony Roth Costanzo’s “Glass Handel” or Kate Lindsey, assured in both Monteverdi and Kurt Weill. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He's adept at filling his music with colors, textures and temperatures of the different worlds he thrives in by using funky horns, tender acoustic guitars and thoughtful lyrics. Billboard CD reviews: Christina Aguilera, Korn, Jewel 2010-07-02T21:49:00Z Some people are culturally adept or know people in the city.” To Join the Met?s Board, Have a Checkbook Handy 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z Silence may not be an option, but retweeting the wisdom of more adept thinkers is free. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Saariaho has always been adept at weaving together acoustic and electronic sounds, and here she adds tastes of medieval harmonies and North African rhythms. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z And that the music industry is very adept at re-defining bands. 'White Noise': Racism with a good beat 2011-03-26T14:08:30Z More specifically, how, when given chase by a particularly adept hunting dog, a hog would always end up backing into a hole in the bank of a creek. Frugal Traveler Blog: Texas Road Trip, Part II: Art, Natural Beauty and Quietude 2012-02-21T17:55:52Z No matinee idol he, Walsh was extraordinarily adept at playing understatedly malevolent creeps, as he did in Red Rock West and Breakdown. Hollywood's late bloomers 2010-08-26T22:00:00Z Weaving all this together adeptly, Ms. Brown suggests equivalence, too indiscriminately. ‘Mr. TOL E. RAncE’ on Black Entertainers and Race 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z His astute observations were leavened with tart humor, and he was adept at using misunderstandings, either accidental or willful, as fuel for drama. A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z But Adam was just as adept at fielding questions as they were. Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Both Nick and Amy are extremely adept liars, and they lied to each other a lot. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z While it's obvious that Garten needs to hire handlers who are a little more adept at vetting her offers, the firestorm remains a cautionary tale of how public shaming can spin out of control. The Barefoot Contessa's Make-a-Wish fiasco 2011-03-29T15:15:00Z The system proves increasingly adept at finding and exploiting weak points, like a father’s worry and guilt about his daughter’s well-being, or a magistrate’s concern for her career. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Jackson, an adept and sympathetic interviewer, engaged both artists in conversation onstage, without knocking the performances off balance. Music Review: Derrick Hodge and Aaron Parks at 92YTriBeCa - Review 2011-10-28T23:42:57Z “He is adept at constructing overarching plotlines with heroes and villains, their conflicts supported by flurries of carefully chosen adjectives, quotations and leaks from named and unnamed senior officials,” Samuels wrote. Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Rahman’s “In the Light of What We Know” circles around the haunting memory of a technically adept but emotionally empty performance of the Chaconne from Bach’s second violin partita. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z With Mr. Tashlin, he found a director both sympathetic to his style of comedy and technically adept. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Lee is quite adept at conveying both the thrill of pursuit and the agony of self-reflection. 'I Saw the Devil': The hellish tables turn on sadistic killer 2011-03-31T21:26:10Z He became so adept, he could knock off an adaptation in a weekend and an original play in a week or two. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Franzen threads these stories, and their tributaries, so adeptly and so calmly that at moments he can seem to be on high-altitude, nearly Updikean autopilot. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z A glance around Unconventional Diner shows him to be just as adept with a color wheel as with a chef’s knife. Review | A creative chef breaks the rules at this all-day diner 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Attenborough is no stranger to polar bears and such, but the Fothergill team was adept at innovative camera placements and filming techniques, with revelatory results. Animals Sly Enough to Surprise David Attenborough 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Seattle Shakespeare Company's airing of the 1912 work at Intiman Playhouse adeptly elucidates Shaw's splendid text — adding a cameo by the author himself. Seattle Shakes delivers a fine 'Pygmalion' 2012-02-28T23:02:04Z As his autobiography revealed, Mr. Springsteen is as adept in prose as he is with lyrics, so expect plenty of stories to accompany the songs. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Brest said that Mr. Goldman was an adept collaborator, not only with other screenwriters but also with directors and others involved in the moviemaking process. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z No matter the assignment, it’s clear that Adjaye is adept at customizing his aesthetic to fit a space’s function. Three Shops AD Visited This Summer 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z What Lévy sees as a virtuous hegemon, Carpenter sees as a naïve and hapless superpower playing the sucker to “foreign factions … adept at exploiting Americans’ sincere desire for the spread of enlightened liberal capitalist ideals.” New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The astute performer-lecturer — especially if he’s French — is adept at charming those walls down. Dance Review: Xavier Le Roy?s ?Product of Circumstances? - Review 2011-09-21T22:25:18Z During his career, he's proved to be equally adept at playing good guys and villains. This time, Sean Bean's character will live — at least for now 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z He’s an improviser steeped in the jazz tradition, a composer adept with contemporary protocols, and an artist engaged with sociopolitical realities. Jazz Pianist’s Multiple Worlds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z She has become adept at pouring drinks on the ground when the men aren’t watching; being drunk would be dangerous. 'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z And now we know that there are two types, or at least two types, and they have this relationship as adepts and drones. Bill Nighy on being an alien rock star in Showtime's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Self has never been shortlisted for the Booker, but Umbrella is such a linguistically adept, emotionally subtle and ethically complex novel that this could and should be his year. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z In addition, opera is adept at depicting the terrors of mob mentality, warning about the dangers of revenge and extolling the healing value of clemency. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The reality of recent music conferences such as South by Southwest is that artists and bands must become as business savvy as they are musically adept if they want to build long careers. SXSW 2013: For Amanda Palmer, it takes a village 2013-03-13T19:51:00Z Willis is not as adept as Cranston in driving the action through drowsy patches. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z In the press room, Amy Adams, a Golden Globe winner for “American Hustle,” talked about how adept the director David O. Russell, whom she’s now worked with twice, is at creating female characters. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z Drama is especially adept at cultivating an appreciation for something sorely absent in our public life today — complexity. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Heck delivers the play’s only moment of real pain, though Ms. Dowd, adept at cutting humor, also does well with quiet emotion. Review: Naomi Wallace’s ‘Night Is a Room’ Unfurls a Complex Reunion 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He and his adept band moved easily — often in the same song — between jazz, blues, world, rock and country, changing up tempos, rhythms, keys and time signatures. Sting strips down his sound, melts crowd 2011-12-06T19:36:03Z Some Hollywood stars seem adept at pulling a film’s centre of gravity towards them; Chastain seems to exist in a quiet gravity of her own. Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s a myth that women don’t get along’ 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Bess, in particular, was a shrewd "lady speculator", adept at playing the stock market and managing investment portfolios, acting on tips from her friends the Rothschilds and the Barings. Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake - review 2011-08-19T21:55:03Z Mr. Rambaldi was adept at designing monsters, from the terrestrial to the decidedly not. Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z You need really, really adept and fearless actors. Rebel Wilson brings quirky comedy to film and TV 2012-09-06T16:34:08Z A great percentage of all film is coming out of Southern California; not only are they more adept at making it, they treat people better. ‘The Deuce’ Jumps Ahead to the ’80s and Sees the Future 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But the production boasts a number of adept performances. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Professor Dan Carter first published his book on the Scottsboro Boys trials as long ago as 1969, so he's become adept at summarising how the complex legal and human saga began. Real story behind Scottsboro Boys 2013-10-17T10:03:54Z As the Mao speech shows, Mr. Eimer is especially adept at ferreting out obscure historical facts and documents that put the lie to Beijing’s claims that these outlying areas have always been part of China. ‘The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China’ 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z My fear is what this list mostly shows is which authors are most adept at exerting pressure through social networking sites. Recount! The Not the Booker prize goes back to the jury 2010-09-07T14:58:00Z What’s he doing in this crowd, besides adeptly contributing a few bars in select ensemble medleys? Review: TV Crooners (and Danny Aiello) Head ‘Home for the Holidays’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z While attending several recent soirees, I asked a select group of luminaries if they considered themselves adept interior designers. Find Out Which Celebrities Are Interior Design Aficionados 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z He was so adept at reproducing gore that Martin Scorsese had to lighten the color of the blood in the climactic shootout in “Taxi Driver.” Dick Smith, Oscar-winning master of movie makeup and special effects, dies at 92 Some teenagers are surprisingly adept at analyzing significant life experiences and articulating deep emotions — but most are not. Perspective | My dilemma as a college essay coach: How to walk the fine line between helping and cheating 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Still, you have no choice but to root for him — the actor and the young kung fu adept. | 'The Karate Kid': Jacket On, Jacket Off in a Remake With Jackie Chan 2010-06-10T23:25:00Z “Her skills at reading other people make her socially adept, but because imaginative empathy is still, fundamentally, imagination, she is also easily misled.” A short story in the New Yorker sparks an intense debate on social media 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Say what you will about his diplomatic skills, he is at least adept at the classic move of making an apology that turns out to be nothing of the kind. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Now the Metropolitan Opera, which has been placing a premium on theatrical values in recent years, is growing adept at switching directors, too. Richard Eyre to Direct ‘Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-08-28T21:51:58Z With a “Ring” on the horizon in his new position at the Zurich Opera, is he adept at leading this challenging composer’s music? Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Murphy is so adept at giving so little away that you begin to understand why he clicks so well with Walsh and his work. Cillian Murphy: playing a blinder 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Durning had everyday looks - portly, thinning hair and a bulbous nose - and was a casting director's delight, equally adept at comedy and drama. Character actor, World War Two hero Charles Durning dies at 89 2012-12-25T14:22:25Z Thereafter, she proves an adept jazz soloist herself, often tossing in some scrap of melody early, then picking it up a decade or so further into the plot, airing out the intrigue anew. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Like "Gone Girl," the novel is filled with surprising turns and features a character adept at games and riddles. 11 thrilling facts about Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Now, two decades later, I'd argue that the bulk of us have softened and grown in appreciation, now authentically enjoying Ina and her calm, cool delivery and clearly adept culinary knowledge. Is store-bought really fine? Our favorite tweets about Ina's semi-homemade Thanksgiving 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Jamie proves to be quite adept at espionage even if he doesn’t favor it. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 3: An Unusual Lady 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z This acclaimed author is quite adept at scaring your pants off and making you think hard at the same time. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z He has a talent for exploring social issues with a camera, and he's equally adept at getting under his audience's skin. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z The adept collection included ponchos and toggle coats, white cotton shirts based on a cape, and fuzzy wool checked shorts and cute suspendered skirts with leather binding. Fashion Review: The Big New Idea Is Modesty 2010-02-19T14:09:00Z An understated comic actor, he was especially adept at conveying life’s tiny bedevilments. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Rihanna, a social media natural, has been particularly adept at playing along with fans’ agonizing waiting game. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Jesus turning to camera and saying “Audience, I am inexplicably adept at kung fu” would have been less jarring. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The broader culture has become adept at absorbing the extremes and sanding down harsh edges, whether it be sagging jeans that hang off the rear or mohawks paired with shredded denim. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z One approaches it instead for highly charged neurotic situations and for Williams’s adept word-geekery. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z As people grow more adept at abstract thought, they find it easier to imagine themselves in other people’s shoes. Better and better 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Traditional spies seem far less important these days, because unclubbable, technically adept people can do that kind of work far more effectively. Is Edward Snowden a Spy? A New Book Calls Him One. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Nowadays, I’m adept enough to handle many different foods at once. 11 mistakes novice grillers make — and how to correct them 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It also has a chef, Fredrik Berselius, who has become very adept at broadening and intensifying the flavors of his ingredients. Top New York Restaurants of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Unlike the eventually messy antihero of Martin Scorsese’s movie, Clean, seeking sober redemption after a tragic and criminal past, is actually adept at meting out violence. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Although she did not begin to take voice lessons until she was in college, she proved so adept that she made her professional debut less than two years later. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z On the contrary, the set pieces are bigger than ever, with Lin proving especially adept at inserting moments of brevity into major action sequences. Vroom to Grow: How Fast & Furious Became Hollywood’s Greatest Action-Movie Franchise 2013-06-03T19:41:45Z The cast, which also includes Gaten Matarazzo as a teenager out for vengeance, is uniformly splendid — as adept in the work’s solo outings as in the electric group numbers. ‘Parade’ Review: The Trial and Tragedy of Leo Frank 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z She became as adept at using it, both to sing and to stand up for herself. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z However, I wasn't particularly adept in the kitchen at that point, so I mostly lived on chocolate soy milk pudding cups and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A 4-ingredient marinade for sheet pan tofu that gets dinner on the table in no time 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I’m not sure there’s another American band quite as adept at reflecting a certain kind of masculine rage—a deep and splintering fear of helplessness. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Séverin, a young French noble who was disinherited by the Order, has become adept at retrieving these artifacts with help from a crackerjack team of teenage accomplices, each with a complicated back story. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z VT: Most creationists seem pretty adept at deflecting the evidence for evolution. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z I also sit in on an impressively adept classroom of teenagers, chattering away in silbo like manic songbirds. Sing like a canary! The whistling consultant who taught Romanian noir gangsters a tune 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z And yes, most of us had to become "adept at extemporizing poetic toasts" before drinking because in a way by doing so we acknowledge our appreciation to the sacred tradition of wine making. A Fierce Toast From Alice Feiring’s Drinking Horn 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z A pops orchestra had better have a technically adept violin section if it performs “Fiddle-Faddle,” a joyous perpetual-motion piece alive with dizzying strands of 16th-notes for the violins. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Students are adept at astronomy, alchemy, self-transfiguration, and casting spells by pointing their fingers and various hand gestures, since Rowling states the wand is a European invention. J.K. Rowling Reveals All 11 Wizarding Schools in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z "All the Wilderness" seems tailor-made to play to the actor's strengths — Johnson's script is as lean as Smit-McPhee, both proving adept at doing more with less. Struggling teen faces a rocky road in 'All the Wilderness' 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Will she be more adept going forward, and did her apprenticeship in no one-ness provide the chrysalis phase crucial to all callow youths turned formidable warriors, be it Luke Skywalker or Daniel Larusso? ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z No show has proved more adept at this than “The Walking Dead,” which has regularly dispatched lead characters. ‘Do No Harm,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ and Other TV Horror 2013-01-18T23:36:30Z Ferguson moved adeptly into Jon Stewart territory, giving his viewers a concise history of apartheid that was both cutting and hilarious. Craig Ferguson’s History Show, “Join or Die” 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z McPherson is adept at constructing rockers and ballads. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Overwhelmingly it was a gathering of musicians concerned with craft and adept at recycling traditional forms for contemporary uses. Critic’s Notebook: Newport Folk Festival, With Arlo Guthrie and Jackson Browne 2012-07-30T22:02:03Z STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — Thomas Cromwell, the guileful right hand to King Henry VIII, was said to be fluent in many tongues and adept at double talk in all of them. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z "We could have just gotten somebody who was technically adept at impressions," Goldberg said. How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z But there was enough dislocation in the early life of Seehorn, who was born in Norfolk, Va., that it seems no accident she has proved so adept at inhabiting the character. Rhea Seehorn Is Getting Away With It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z She is "as adept with human emotion as she is with pulse-quickening action," he said. The Carpetbagger: Zinging Spielberg and Hooper, Praising Bigelow and Lee 2013-02-04T18:05:08Z But pop stars aren't really known for being adept at surfing the financial waves. Buy into brand Bono? I'd rather eat at Britney's 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Intriguingly, his trio features the pianist Bill Carrothers and the bassist Billy Peterson, an Upper Midwest crew adept with melodic abstraction. New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z As in “The Runaway,” Abraham adeptly combines ballet with other influences, from Merce Cunningham to club dance. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Calm Control of Bodies and Space 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z BA Second outing this series for the Jupiter Mining Corp's least adept crew. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z No current pop star is more adept at stoking and channeling swells of online fan curiosity than Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande Is Living a Public Life. The Real Reveals Are in Her Music. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This is an artist who fuses an adept use of paint, colors and materials with subjects that are funny and tragic as well as smutty and smart. Datebook: A film on losing words, bedsheet paintings, sculptures of salt 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Wang, 34, said in an interview that early in her career she faced stereotypes that she was technically adept but emotionally shallow. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z "This doesn't set you up for direct comparisons of a sequel, and PD James is writing in a style that she's incredibly adept in, but still using incredibly famous characters," . Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z Evangelical Christians are typically far more adept at that outreach, he said. CatholicTV rolls out shows in 3-D to attract youth 2010-03-23T20:28:00Z The music writing in “Traveling Sprinkler” is mostly ardent and adept. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z He was adept at handling multiple superstar egos in one-time events, which made him a go-to producer for benefit shows. In Trippy Times, Bill Graham Took Care of Reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z A broadly grounded musician, he grew up playing classical piano and was adept at jazz, rock and R&B. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Conversely, Allen writes that while you might presume he was a lonely nebbish in high school, he was in truth very popular and adept at many sports, especially baseball. Woody Allen’s New Memoir Is Sometimes Funny — and Tone Deaf and Banal 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z After Carr, there will be other fine media critics, reporters and analysts, but no one so adept at all three. Remembering David Carr, Media Critic and Media Lover 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Christensen is also adept and nimble with his camera and imaginative framing. ‘Before I Disappear’: Drama’s star is better behind the camera 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Years ago, when its three promoters heard the buzz about Ms Krall’s arresting vocals and adept piano playing, they arranged a spot for her at the 1995 festival. All that jazz 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z For all its memento mori philosophy, the show is a hoot, as adept with physical comedy as with its quips — watching Lyonne navigate a flight of stairs on which she’s met several demises is priceless. ‘Russian Doll’: Programmer, Debug Thyself 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Saunders has noticed that Jennings is particularly adept at more complex clues that require the contestant to make multiple connections in mere seconds. Greatest of All Time on ‘Jeopardy!’: Who Won Game 1? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He is adept at orchestrating what he calls a “symphony of illusion,” a strategy to put potential assailants off-guard by keeping them guessing about just who he is. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps most striking about Kaufmann, both in the context of his career and the curious position in which lieder put the singer, is how adept he’s become at inhabiting the form. Review | At the Kennedy Center, songs you haven’t heard and cellphones you wish you hadn’t 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z At the Tonys and Emmys, Harris proved adept at walking the line between edgy and obnoxious. Academy Awards show producers hope their third time is a charmer 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z For Tinniswood is both a careful scholar and a nimble writer, particularly adept at graceful summary. Review | Future kings don’t squeeze their own toothpaste: Tales of the pampered British royal family 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z However the show has gotten very adept at dancing around explicit lyrics. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: 'The songs are the heart of the show' 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z They are more likely to be framed as gorgeous, frivolous or "hot messes" than vocally or musically adept. Being a pop star once meant baring skin — now, for some artists, it’s all about emotional stripping 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The degree to which the music is ironic — its bubbly passages even politically subversive — is unclear, a familiar ambiguity from a composer adept at playing all the angles. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Gradually, the rest of the adept eight-member cast arrives and joins in, and soon we are seeing and hearing counterpoint. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z He’s adept at creating different realisms and textures for each story line, variations that add layers of meaning. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “I became really adept at finishing his sentences for him.” The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z But rabbits, apparently, were adept at having quick heart attacks when under mortal threat. Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As befits a woman whose given name means “great queen” in Welsh, Giddens also is adept in Celtic music. Well-deserved ovations for Rhiannon Giddens 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But Adams, adept and powerful a composer as he is, often follows Sellars’s lead and writes similarly evocative, slightly oblique music — creating works that are dramatically static. Review | Noseda, NSO prove to have ‘Gospel’ truth 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Taylor is adept at using her mouth for everyday tasks, such as retrieving items from her handbag. Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Some objects in the exhibition blend tradition and innovation so adeptly that it would be hard, without context, to guess in what century they were made. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z It’s one of those 90-degree days, but a canopy of trees and a light breeze reveal Mother Nature to be an adept air conditioner. Review | These 3 restaurants make you feel like a neighbor, and we all need a dose of that 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z This is an artist who fuses an adept use of paint, colors and materials with subjects that are both smutty and smart. Datebook: Experimental photography, stitched portraits, night of stories 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The brothers became adept at making all kinds of food, Habtemariam said: “Ethiopian, Indian, vegetarian, American, everything.” Forget Popeyes: A viral tweet has customers lining up outside this immigrant-owned chicken sandwich restaurant in D.C. 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z He is especially adept at capturing the point of view of children, with a Salingeresque understanding of their alienation, their vulnerability, their keen powers of observation. 'The Dream Life of Astronauts,’ Hopes Too Fragile for the Cold 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z While Mr. Obama has a decent sense of comic timing and is adept at delivering written joke lines, many perceive his default bearing to be professorial and aloof — anything but light. Seeking Humor on the Campaign Trail 2012-02-03T23:13:23Z As Varble gradually realized, the art market is adept at absorbing and neutralizing resistance. Stephen Varble: The Street Was His Stage, the Dress Was His Weapon 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Like Janus, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is pretty adept at looking backward and forward at the same time. This Past Provides a Nice Prologue at Film Society of Lincoln Center 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Though some cultural organisations are adept fundraisers, others have hardly given it a go: the argument is that private giving presents a barely tapped source for arts funding. Will philanthropists save the arts? 2010-10-21T19:30:00Z "He has a very adept way of unsuspectingly ripping the mask off the world he's portraying and showing the base essence of things." David Hyde Pierce to go off-Broadway for 'A Life' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Rhythmically adept, she is an accomplished scat improviser who exudes an engaging blend of confidence and cheer. Review: Sara Gazarek Exudes Confidence and Cheer 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, they show they're equally adept at the euphoria in which Arcade Fire deal, with the sumptuous Breakers and Black Balloons. Local Natives: Hummingbird – review 2013-01-27T00:06:20Z If that makes it easier to embody a woman who is equally adept at charming and infuriating viewers, sometimes within the same scene, so much the better. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z In the football religion everything signifies, although what precisely is ultimately best left to fantasy football fiends, the adepts and exegetes. Fashion Diary: From AstroTurf to Red Carpet at the N.F.L. Draft - Fashion Diary 2013-04-26T18:11:47Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of players adept in this style began to dwindle, as the system’s vestigial influence faded. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z To be Asian-American, then, was to be necessarily adept at compartmentalization, to be aware of one’s capacious sense of self without necessarily knowing how to navigate it. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Reid was such an adept that he was able to make convincing parodies, too. Clarence Reid, Singer and Songwriter Also Known as Blowfly, Dies at 76 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z “Perennial” adeptly captures the complexity of the subject and reminds readers how difficult it is to understand and overcome such events, even decades later. Review | Gun violence, loss, grief and love: Three poets grapple with emotional turmoil 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Despite her disciplined attention to detail and poetry, her collaborators describe her as a socially adept whirlwind, ready to break loose at any moment. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Other creative kitchens reminded me how adept some American chefs are at borrowing from the global pantry of ideas. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Burton was a little less adept when another journalist asked about the directors Jafar Panahi, who’s under arrest in Iran for his political views, and Roman Polanski, who remains under house arrest in Switzerland. Film: Cannes Runs a Bit Short on Stars This Year 2010-05-13T21:44:00Z In shows like his “La Bohème,” which presented the opera’s four acts in reverse, Sharon has proved himself adept at executing thorny, even silly-sounding concepts in ways that end up being surprisingly clever and moving. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z He’s a singer-songwriter of observant insight and penetrating empathy, brilliantly adept at compressing a complicated range of emotions into a terse, plain-spoken turn of phrase. Review: Jason Isbell, Slowing Down to Feel the Americana 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Militant and terrorist groups are as adept at using social media as the savviest teenager. Charlie Hebdo killings highlight the increasing targeting of journalists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Actually, this touching show is adept indeed at touching universals. 'Passing Strange' a rockin' good time at Bailiwick 2011-04-26T21:34:42Z Dausgaard proved adept at conducting the audience, too: when a few audience members began to applaud between the movements of the “Four Last Songs,” his raised hand in a “stop!” gesture immediately silenced the clapping. Review: Seattle Symphony, guest conductor and soprano scale ‘Alpine’ heights 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “The TV industry is very, very adept at creating self-fulfilling prophecies,” Bill Lawrence, who co-created “Scrubs” and “Cougar Town,” said wryly. Television: In Bear Times, a Bull Market for Sitcoms 2010-04-17T21:50:00Z You don’t have to be an adept of the souk to notice that the brass workers and tailors are being squeezed out by teleboutiques offering Internet hookups. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z Knight is highly adept at releasing this information drop by drop, and viewers will learn more about concrete than they ever dreamed. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Many workers absolutely, unequivocally need flexible work arrangements, and the American workplace should by now be far more adept and visionary about that. Marissa Mayer, morale killer 2013-02-26T19:37:00Z She's adept at illuminating how certain periods and places — the forging of the American Colonies, the rise of industrialization — lent themselves to powerful turning points in female community and collaboration. 'The Social Sex' is an entertaining but uneven history of female friendships 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z An adept jazz player, he became a favorite of producers who recorded pop music as well, even though he was more than 10 years older than many of the rock musicians he worked with. Andy White, Drummer on the Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do,’ Dies at 85 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z With its garish color, canted angles and baroque violence, the first “Suspiria” is still adept at unsettling your equilibrium, which is fitting for a film that renders psychosis into visual style. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Inside the family’s modest, gracious house, the film relaxes and slows down, and Mr. Daniels reveals himself, once again, to be singularly adept at capturing the informal rhythms of leisure. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z “I wasn’t especially adept at climbing trees,” she told me as we walked through the woods near her home in Columbus, Ohio. How Black Foragers Find Freedom in the Natural World 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The tonal shifts of teenage life are beautifully rendered by Gerwig, her film adeptly veering between comedy and pathos within the space of a scene. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 5 Lady Bird 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z But they’ll find dazzling new dimensions in his scholarship, as adept with large swaths of history as attentive to small crannies of expertise. Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The brokenhearted Crystal Bukowski proves a welcome distraction and rather adept at Tantric sex. Books by David Nicholls and Edward St. Aubyn 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Both actresses are adept at the wariness and keen listening that comes with bargaining, especially when both parties have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Blues are buoyant, but ‘Black Pearl Sings!’ should have been rousing emotional duet 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z While the setting whets an appetite for meals from the sea, the kitchen is equally adept with ingredients from the land. Johnny’s Half Shell review: In Adams Morgan, Ann Cashion is really cooking again 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard is, as always, an adept craftsman. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z All were adept at the long lines and the rapid-fire ornamentation of bel canto style. Music Review: ‘Olivo e Pasquale,’ From Amore Opera, at Connelly Theater 2012-11-05T22:32:50Z They are marvelously adept at capturing the playful but nuanced tone of Szymborska’s poetic voice, which somehow fuses an emotional gravity with sudden tenderness and delightful flights of the imagination. ‘Map: Collected and Last Poems,’ by Wislawa Szymborska 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The city’s long-term residents, in turn, become adept at moving among world views as if entering and exiting friends’ homes. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Forsythe’s steps in themselves, in the care of dancers as adept as these, say what they need to say. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Plays With Limits and Dystopia at City Center 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z At the centre of all these jokes is the comic himself: bemused, cowardly and adept at involving us in each situation's absurdity. Kumail Nanjiani – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-20T17:12:07Z He proved adept at allaying questions of style while basically avoiding the conversation entirely, so he never came to symbolize any particular turn. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Edward was adept, coolly friendly under their scrutiny, and survived. Time to get out my ‘sex shirt’ … tonight might be the night 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Details like an adeptly shaped canine tooth, or adobe-colored teardrops, come to have a supernatural charge, as if they’d thrown themselves into existence fully formed. TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z For all his skills at inspiring writers and reshaping a magazine, Mr. Chancellor was less adept at managing money. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He became so adept at turning his life into art that he began to fear he could no longer have a private experience without feeling a need to mediate and share it. Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z Ms. Brown is adept at subverting traditional notions of how choreography develops; much like the misty cloud, the dancers momentarily cohered into larger, shared themes, only to melt away along individual trajectories. Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance at Dia:Beacon 2010-05-03T21:42:00Z It’s no mystery why Mr. Gilmore enlists players so adept at polyrhythmic aggression: his music stacks one elaborate system atop another, drawing from African music and many strains of fusion. 2010-01-15T04:23:00Z We became adept at turning every penny over before spending it and making budget-conscious meals. Family life 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z As adeptly staged by the Mint's artistic director, Jonathan Bank, his cast is quite accomplished at making the most of these nuances and pivotal moments. Review: Mint has a subtle revival of 'Katie Roche' 2013-02-26T01:16:07Z These writers ... are adept at really expressing those characters and writing those stories because I'm assuming they're struggling with the same thing I am, which is: What's going to happen to us? Funny women flourish in female-written comedies 2012-09-28T13:37:10Z She imitates her absent mother, who was very adept at crafts. Books of The Times: ?The Land of Decoration? by Grace McCleen 2012-03-21T22:17:22Z McCarrick does some adept character development and gives the actresses plenty to work with — too much, at times. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Now he was to show how adept he was at negotiation on their behalf. Hilary Rubinstein 2012-06-14T14:56:25Z He’s less adept, unfortunately, at making readers care much one way or the other about what will become of the various characters populating his story. Review: ‘Fives and Twenty-fives,’ by Michael Pitre, a tale of dangerous duty in Iraq “It’s not the greatest voice, but whether he’s on a quiz show or a red carpet or a reality show, he’s adept at it.” Ryan Seacrest: The Mogul Next Door 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z You have to get more adept at reading the body language.” Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z This show is an extremely rewarding kind of free-for-all, with Rosanjin being especially adept at conflating aspects of different styles. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The group adeptly bounced around genres, time signatures, and stage configurations. Andrew Bird rocks with ease at Auditorium show 2012-05-13T12:57:00Z He understood the rules of French fashion; he was adept and enthusiastic in breaking them. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator The voter is very adept at sorting out what’s over the top and what isn’t. In sorting out the difference between satire, political promotion and advertiser. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Nations are adept at swerving uncomfortable episodes in their history and Spain is no exception – the civil war’s legacy, for example, was not confronted for decades after Franco’s death. Barcelona’s slave trade history revealed on new walking tour 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Sherman is adept at distilling the action into theatrical gestures that open up our understanding of the forces at work on the characters. 'Bent' exhibits enduring power of love, courage and identity 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The anger and violence are wrapped, however, in farce and the kind of bitter, erudite insult humor at which the British are so adept. ‘Babylon,’ a Dark British Comedy About Policing 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Later on, seven of them were just the right height to substitute for a broken bed leg, and I became adept at lifting up the bed with my shoulder while swapping volumes. Wikipedia is the non-fiction writer's best friend 2011-01-17T11:14:36Z Over the years the distribution of work became more equitable, as Allison, who had long been content as a position player, became more adept at songwriting and the guitar and began to move out front. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z The Bradley sisters sassed it up, spicing their adept and powerful tapping with lots of vernacular sauce. Michela Marino Lerman and Others Tap Into Betty Carter 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The middle sequence of the short production, which features Hladik recounting the plot and structure of his yet unfinished play, is an especially adept meeting of performance and effect. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Freeman, the adept comic actor, is always good playing an ordinary joe, and here he portrays one in an extraordinary jam. Comic Performers Play It Dark in Netflix Movies 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart’s music director, is adept at cheer, and led the festival’s house orchestra in a tender performance, in English, on Friday evening. Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z As kids mature, Lee suspects that they’re increasingly aware of the morality of lying, even as they become more adept at it. Perspective | All kids lie: How to handle it, and when you should worry 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Moreover, if Western donors or investors try to lay down conditions on such matters, African leaders have become adept at threatening to “go east”. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z However, Blumberg seems adept at deflating expectations, and confident that they can weather the storm. Yuck: A taste of things to come 2011-02-03T22:50:01Z Chon is a combat veteran, whose tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan have left him cynical and suspicious, as well as tactically adept when it comes to dealing with trouble. | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z Mr. Rossington was adept as a lead and also had a knack for adjusting his style to support the other guitarists when one of them was front and center. Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The Man and Black Lips rocked adeptly for their sets, loaded the gear, banked the checks and probably made a beeline for Highland Park. Kendrick Lamar blasts Air + Style sound system, cuts off set early 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z But both books are particularly adept at bringing to life the stark issues surrounding patriarchal societies. ‘The Golden Son’ review: An immigrant’s dilemma 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z An institution so adept at fostering new work should be particularly protective of artists and the ways they choose to express themselves. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “Frank is particularly adept at spatial relationships between different parts of the house,” Eli says. Tour Edythe and Eli Broad's Frank Gehry–Designed Brentwood Estate 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Few filmmakers are as adept at leading viewers through the geography of a sequence. Don’t Get What Makes Brian De Palma an Auteur? Try These Two Films 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Her worthy partner as Tristan was Clifton Forbis, a tenor with a warm baritonal tinge to his voice, and equally adept in portraying the intermingled torment and ecstasy of his role. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' presented masterfully as an opera of the mind 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z It is hard for a technically adept conductor not to make a big impression with ’s gripping Fifth Symphony. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z A lover of fast cars and motorbikes on the screen and off, and a lifelong rock climber, Scott was adept at injecting thrills into his slick films. Tony Scott 2012-08-20T14:21:33Z Known as an electrifying stage performer and an adept improviser, Williams effortlessly switched between musical styles. Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87 2011-10-09T00:01:04Z Perry, the prolific author of books such as “The Butcher’s Boy” and “Metzger’s Dog,” adeptly plays on our awareness of public-place terrorist bombings, creating an atmosphere of anxiety and dread. Review | A believably creepy villain plays on the fears of a city 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Cooper is a talented actor, with all the New York theatrical training you could want, and an adept physical performer. "Limitless": Take a pill, become a celebrity 2011-03-17T01:02:00Z A friend of mine adept in CGI assures me that the effects are absolutely state of the art. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z Gander is a young British artist already adept at labyrinthine mind games. Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:08Z After breaking out as half of a satirical comedy duo with Elaine May in the late 1950s, Nichols found his niche as a director and proved equally adept at theater, television and film. Mike Nichols: Six of the late director's memorable movies 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Referring to a part of the exhibition called “Mandalas and Dervishes,” the brochure invokes the whirling dances of Sufi adepts: “Gyrating works in this group invite hypnotic or psychedelic imbalance — mystical experiences by other means.” Op Art Through a Latin Lens 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Browder and his Russian team became adept at amassing scandalous information about their foes and then presenting the findings, tied up in a neat package, to Western journalists who could inflict maximum damage. Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice,’ About His Russian Misadventures 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Sabath, like most contemporaneous studio rats, is equal parts songwriter and producer, as adept at inventing new melodic hooks as he is at perfecting the timbre of a rim shot. The Teen-Age Hitmaker from Westchester County 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Originally an illustration and photography student, Saint's foray into music really kicked of thanks to wanting to expand on a poetry project, proving her adept at multiple mediums of expression. 5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Jules Feiffer has always been adept at using satire to trace the links between our public and private anxieties, our political and personal preoccupations. Books of The Times: ?Backing Into Forward?: Jules Feiffer?s Ink-Stained Memoir 2010-03-17T22:47:00Z Ward Swingle grew adept at the clarinet and the oboe and began playing piano professionally by his teens. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Both men are damaged by catastrophic and irreparable loss, and Casey is adept at illuminating the tissue-thin fabric that sometimes divides the well mind from the ill. ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The director Brad Anderson adeptly handles the story’s many parts, the dealing and dealers, the jittery car trips and late-night machinations. Review: In ‘Beirut,’ a War-Torn Backdrop for American Spy Games 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Another unusual picture book by this author artist, who is adept at personifying machines. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the much younger members of Modern Baseball aim smaller, with scraggly guitar riffs and rambling Facebook confessional lyrics, but are equally adept at tugging at those high school heartstrings. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Here, occult detective Arnold Rhymer discovers that German adepts are reanimating dead soldiers into unstoppable killing machines. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But sometimes no motif is evident, as in a collar where the lace pattern is tiny, and goes every which way, as if the pattern were based on the scribbles of very small adept child. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z She has become increasingly adept at pointing at things, and “Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence” gives a succinct account of her progress. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z Keenly in tune with characters fighting on both sides, Atkinson adeptly shifts perspectives without being overly focused on single representative figures such as George Washington or Lord George Germain. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “Greg is someone who’s clearly adept at getting a lot on screen for not a huge amount of money.” Right Man to Handle an Irreverent Alien 2011-03-11T05:36:15Z Lim is certainly adept at orchestration, and I wouldn’t mind hearing more of her work, but I hope she will someday develop a more original voice. Guest conductor Sung makes inconclusive NSO debut 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z But the choreography is never less than skillful, the dancers touching and adept. Ballet Review: This Ballet Season in Britain, a Cinderella Complex 2010-12-21T13:30:03Z Hunt demonstrates why Hannibal was so adept at battle, in particular his ability to turn to his advantage the quirks of terrain, weather and the characteristics of his Roman foes. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But Jane and Annabelle are famous and adept at getting special treatment, whether from a general sending a comfy car or an Air Force pilot willing to fly an unauthorized mission. Theater Review: ‘Love Goes to Press,’ at Mint Theater Company 2012-06-20T23:14:03Z At the very least, it’s an annual reality check that there is a world of cultures other than our own, and some of them are quite adept at writing pop songs. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He is comfortable with the business of promotion: An affable speaker, he is familiar with the patois of fandom and is adept at generating buzz through the nerd mafia of like-minded collaborators. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z These days, Hollywood sometimes seems less adept at making movies than it is at churning out a parade of walking luxury billboards — still quaintly known as celebrities. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z And while his recorded work is full of psychedelic production flourishes, Mr. Garzón-Montano is equally adept at pure solo performance. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Another strategy in St. Louis is to cultivate new talent — something at which Lord, who took on his present role at the festival in 1992, is particularly adept. In 39th season, Opera Theater of St. Louis shows good health, new work From its earliest shows, it’s been adept at filling a space with a sound that’s imposing, urgent and mildly gloomy. Savages, a London Band, Plays Three New York Clubs 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But our brains are so remarkably adept at putting unused neurons and virgin synaptic connections to other uses. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z But mostly he is an adept literary magpie. Books of The Times: ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ Transcribes the News 2013-06-18T19:13:23Z "It's one-dimensional, very tactical and it's on the seedy end of media relations. "He's as adept at keeping things out of the press as he is at getting them in there. Max Clifford: The fallen king of spin 2014-04-28T14:09:34Z The brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, who created the series and honed their skills on the mind-bending Fox show “Wayward Pines,” prove themselves adept at homage. Review: With ‘Stranger Things,’ Netflix Delivers an Eerie Nostalgia Fix 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Each musician seemed adept and engaged, and tuning was carefully and efficiently done as often as needed; the purity of the final chords gave real pleasure. Viols give a glimpse into a musical past at the National Gallery of Art 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Manet had always been an adept of women’s fashion, and “Manet and Modern Beauty” looks carefully at how clothing and accessories work to signal modernity in the artist’s late work. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But she did make it on TV, where she proved an adept apprentice in his media techniques. How Stormy Daniels Out-Trumped Trump 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z He’s also adept at what must be the tedious business of playing scenes with Happy, who zips around the screen. Review: ‘Happy!,’ or, Law & Order: Imaginary Friend 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Despite these escalations, many families have become no more adept at planning for the inevitable. The stunning rise of cremation reveals America’s changing idea of death 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The British press are very adept at disguising themselves as bushes and staying in the garden with a long-lens camera. T Magazine: Bon Mots 2012-11-09T16:00:43Z In a recent interview, Senator Franken said he and Mr. Davis had complemented each other, Mr. Davis bringing his improvisational experience to the act while Mr. Franken was adept at structuring a routine. Tom Davis, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedy Writer, Dies at 59 2012-07-19T21:41:39Z The psychologically astute storyteller Amy Bloom and the adept historical novelist Kelly O’Connor McNees could hardly be more different as writers; consequently, their books occupy distinct territories. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Life, as Fodder for Fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Michael Kahn, the longtime artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, unsurprisingly proves supremely adept at guiding his actors through the verse, so that there’s no daylight between character and language. Review: A Revival of ‘The Liar’ Plays Alternative Facts for Laughs 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Yes, these 21st-century performers, elsewhere adept in the acrobatics of modern technique, are mining the charm, wit, delicacy and musicality of legwork often less high and less fully stretched than we see today. Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z In a section devoted to his extended stays in France, Oller’s modestly adept plein air landscapes are interspersed among considerably more assertive paintings by Courbet, Corot, Millet, Pissarro, Monet and others. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “But Ai Weiwei is incredibly adept at understanding the built environment … and he welcomed the challenge.” @Large: Inside Ai Weiwei's Unprecedented Exhibit on Alcatraz 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The equally adept Mr. Storaro, who shot “Wonder Wheel,” has worked in digital. New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z As adept as the island is at lulling you into a kind of tropical reverie, the resort bungles the job of managing its guests’ expectations. A Plush Hideway in the Florida Keys 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Bobby is wonderful at playing charismatic streetwise characters, he’s a magnetic stage actor, equally adept with comedy and drama, plus he’ll be a dashing presence in Nick Arnstein’s tuxes and ruffled shirts. ArtsBeat Blog: It's No Con: Bobby Cannavale to Play Nick Arnstein in 'Funny Girl' Revival 2011-09-13T17:55:02Z Unlike many women of the time, she was surprisingly adept around an automobile engine, and she loved to fish, traveling with my father to Florida for bonefish and to Maine for landlocked salmon. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Lyrically, the songs adeptly bridged innocence and adulthood, straddling a dichotomous yearning to achieve both. Smith Westerns show youthful swagger at Empty Bottle 2011-02-27T16:40:00Z He shot equally well in color and black-and-white, she said, and handled other tasks — like dealing with difficult characters and having a feel for musicians — adeptly. Don Hunstein, Who Photographed Great Musicians, Dies at 88 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z That said, aspiring skating tourists should be relatively adept on in-line skates — the ability to brake is crucial, especially when hurtling down a steep boulevard surrounded by thousands of other skaters. Skating the Roads of Paris 2010-08-15T10:00:00Z Blanchett adeptly realizes these motes of internal struggle throughout the series, which makes the moments when she drops her façade and voices her aggravation at having to dim her abilities pay off splendidly. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Through the mid-’50s, he was an adept bebop player with a spare style. Paul Bley, Adventurous Jazz Pianist, Dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Wiseman, a master of cutting and composition, is adept at providing aesthetic information without passing aesthetic judgment. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z In his role as a teacher and a critic, Hendricks proved that he was adept at dealing with jazz in an analytical way. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z His trio is adept at rounding corners and shifting gears, as it does on a brooding Afro-funk tune called “Sleepless Night.” Review: Lionel Loueke’s Sinuous Serenity 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But walking the bustling city streets, Mr. Green proves equally adept at recalling black figures whose rich tales are integral to this city’s story. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Director Matthew Gardiner adeptly turns his eye for onstage spectacle to the screen. Review | Digital theater productions highlight the power of art without an audience 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z There remains no more adept fuser of the sacred and profane working in pop, and no one else who, time and again, will unflinchingly assess — at his own peril — the costs of audacity. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Technically adept, often with formal training and a keen sense of colour and form, they have produced work, down to the singular brushstroke or cut of the clay, that rivals the originals. The Conman: How One Man Fooled the Modern Art Establishment 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z A series that popularized the idea of TV as “cinematic” — spectacular in visual scale, adept with surprising imagery and montage — has produced an actual film that plays like an extended TV episode. Review: ‘El Camino,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Sequel, Is Suspenseful and Superfluous 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Those in the middle are more conventionally structured — and brilliantly executed, proving that Ms. Kleeman is adept at more than oddity. Books by Melanie Finn, Alexandra Kleeman, Robert Seethaler and Margot Livesey 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Wiley, who was born in Los Angeles in 1977, is adept at heroicizing his subjects — some of whom he found through open calls or simply by approaching people on the street. For Their Portraits, Obamas Shine Light on African-American Art 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Bruce McDonald, the director, is adept at building dread through spooky noises — a creaking floorboard, a sinister whisper — and claustrophobic sets. Review: ‘Hellions’ Reminds Us That Halloween Isn’t About the Candy 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Berlin was such an adept writer about loneliness. Reading Is About the Lines That Leap Off the Pages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s these journalists who prove the most adept at keeping the truth from him. ‘After Visiting Friends’: the mystery of a father’s early death 2013-04-03T22:33:49Z Shaughnessy and Whitehead, as the doctors at loggerheads, are perfectly adept at playing the craziness straight. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Us joke-makers both professional and nonprofessional need to be adept at temperature-gauging, and to be quick to put the “more” in “remorse.” Circa Now: Avoiding Jokers’ Remorse 2013-05-31T18:44:10Z Equally adept at comedy and drama, there isn't a better actress working today. Who will get an Emmy nomination in the drama acting categories? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This diary is a record of the interior weather of an adept thinker. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, Avery is so adept that viewers in bygone eras might have surmised that he’d sold his soul to the devil. In the galleries: Tales from the dark side — of Canada 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z As was evident in her debut collection, “This Is Not Your City,” Horrocks is adept at playing with perspective, delving into the minds of puzzling, sometimes troubling, characters. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Karadaglic is a charismatic, sensitive player, adept at offsetting fiery, visceral passages with thoughtful if by no means subdued ones, where the music allows that. Music Review: No Easy Road 2011-06-23T21:33:45Z Slaughter is wonderfully adept at showing decent people struggling in their relationships. Review | White supremacists are the eerily relevant villains in Karin Slaughter’s new novel 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Since the Sanders campaign started, he has become adept at talk-show sparring, but he isn’t typical. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Since moving back into David Geffen Hall this season, the New York Philharmonic has tried to use its newly renovated, technologically adept space to give extra multimedia glamour to a few premieres. Review: Julia Wolfe’s ‘unEarth’ Is Crowded Out by Multimedia 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z And men’s magazines have proven pretty adept at sniffing out the shifts in culture, both trivial and seismic, over the decades — which is one reason they have been around for decades. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Duwenhögger is a sly, seductive stylist and storyteller, adept at figurative painting as well as film, sculpture and suavely domestic installations — all guided by a decorative sensibility that is both between-the-wars and among cultures. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Cotten is an expert in voice and speech training and a self-described “research nerd,” adept at seeking out audio recordings and other materials to identify the habits that make a character’s language unique. How Should Black People Sound? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z With strong performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as the spies, a beautifully shot pilot, which adeptly captures the feel of the early 1980s, and a great script, this is definitely one to catch. Girls, games and golden boys: what to watch on US TV in 2013 2013-01-04T16:14:02Z He built Juilliard’s first dormitory; added new programs in jazz studies and historical performance practice; and proved adept at fund-raising. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z To be fair, it departs from Mr. Saraceno’s prevailing use of pliable plastic and the cocoonlike softness this material permits; he doesn’t seem as adept, yet, with rigidity and metal. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z “He is very adept at making his guests funnier,” said Kent Alterman, who’s the president of original programming at Comedy Central. Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z No museum in the city is more adept than the Frick at capitalizing on what it owns. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z Perhaps, as Stephen Walsh muses in his new biographical study, “Debussy: A Painter in Sound,” he was merely resorting to his skills as “an adept borrower.” John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He also was always, he said, pretty adept with the ladies. The West Wing Cast Draws Chatter 2014-03-14T23:19:21Z The music establishment has gotten reasonably adept at sweeping up composers — men and women of all backgrounds, races and ages — who break bounds. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It wasn’t Mr. White’s recipes that won a generation over, not that he wasn’t more than adept in the kitchen. Marco Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’: A Game-Changer, Revisited 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The musical content was minimal, and while Fleming is adept at singing popular music, these songs seemed to hit an awkward point in her vocal range. Renée Fleming launches Seattle Symphony season in high style 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Shteir is an adept guide through tired clichés like “the madwoman in the store.” Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z The baseline service is very good, and servers are often adept at finding chances to make a meal memorable. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The pianists were adept at changing the piano preparations on the fly, which I've never seen done so fluidly. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Still, he says of his friend, “If I dealt in coins and cunning, Chaucer dealt in words and figures, which he mingled, cooked, and distilled with the adept mastery of an alchemist.” ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The Met chairmanship is one of the most prestigious positions in New York’s cultural firmament, requiring someone who is politically deft, an adept fund-raiser and well liked and respected by the rest of the board. Met Museum Elects New Chairman 2011-05-10T20:27:27Z Instead, he did what most people of his generation are preternaturally adept at, which is parlaying connections made through social media. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He is enthusiastically praiseful of the actors he admires and is adept at impersonating their voices and manner. When Alec Baldwin reads his memoir to us, it’s even better than the book 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z As a historian and a novelist, neither of us is especially adept at the confessional mode; it’s possible that we take pains to avoid it. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Stephen Colbert, with whom Mr. Cavett has lunched at the Yale Club, is perhaps most adept, Mr. Cavett said, at puncturing the celebrity bubble, “most deliciously when the guest doesn’t realize he’s puncturing it.” Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z There was a Chinese story performed by adept Chinese dancers, but there was not an aesthetically coherent and compelling ballet. Review: National Ballet of China Brings ‘Peony Pavilion’ to Lincoln Center 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Chekhov's characters are adept at laughing through tears. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Shechter, an Israeli choreographer based in London, is adept at moving packs of dancers across a stage, a skill he uses in “Cave.” Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The clash of expectations between a rough American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad provides the basis for some smart comedy, and Cohen is particular adept with moments of silly absurdity. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Pete Campbell is usually pretty adept at this sort of thing, but he's a little busy fighting fires in his troubled personal life; this week he's forced to deal with an unexpected guest. TV highlights 15/05/2013 2013-05-15T06:00:15Z Mr. Haggard was an adept study, and that was the style he relied on at the outset of his career. Merle Haggard and ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ the Hit That Helped and Hurt Him 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Few authors are more adept at translating technical jargon into graceful prose, or at illustrating how hubris and greed can cause geniuses to lose their way. Book Review Podcast: Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z WaMu seemed adept at the complex task of buying and integrating other thrifts and mortgage lenders. 'The Lost Bank:' the catastrophic collapse of Washington Mutual 2012-07-19T20:03:04Z Or is the person under the table just incredibly adept? Turning orgasm into art 2012-08-24T23:28:00Z Holding him accountable for his lies takes guts and fortitude, especially when he’s proved adept at sliming right out of your grasp. Review: Denial Takes on the Bullying Bluster of Liars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z They were not only early risers but also magicians, guarding the secrets of their home cuisine more adeptly than Houdini. Global leftovers: what Airbnb guests bring to your fridge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Money may not be the prime motivator, though he is extremely adept at accumulating wealth. Where does Dr. Oz — and his reputation — go from here? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Weiner adeptly traces the F.B.I.’s slow recovery after the scandals of the 1970s and especially its dismal record tracking Al Qaeda and Middle Eastern terrorists. Books of The Times: Tim Weiner?s ?Enemies? and F.B.I. Counterintelligence 2012-03-14T21:09:12Z When you see a range of his work you realise how adept he was at handling paint. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z Houston was gospel-trained, but her voice also lent itself to R&B, pop and ballads, and she was adept at each style. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z But it’s a little more adept at teasing the audience. The Times Critics' Guide to the 'Friday the 13th' Movies 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z As he adeptly shows, not only are work and rest not in opposition, they’re inextricably bound, each enhancing the other. Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The Lima poem that provided the line is not available anywhere online; maybe women make more adept poachers than men? Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z What forcibly struck a longtime follower of the New York early-music scene in the massed performances was just how many players hereabout are now adept on period double-reed instruments. Music Review: A Band No Halftime Ever Saw 2011-01-16T23:03:45Z “He’s very adept at securing rights that have been historically hard to get,” she said. ?Marmaduke? Producer Is a Friend to Comic Animals 2010-05-28T22:31:00Z One adeptly balances the familiar with the new and unusual, with Ravel’s “La Valse” and Debussy’s “La Mer” framing Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Violin Concerto and Thomas Adès’s “Angel Symphony,” which they will premiere this spring. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What We Want to Hear 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The group is perhaps more adept at “hacking” the media, generating a ton of interest around a specific issue, than pulling off actual network intrusions. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z Lloyd Mayor, a dancer of firm sculptural definition, adeptly conveyed Adam’s arrogant innocence. Review: Martha Graham’s ‘Embattled Garden,’ Deconstructed 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating the audience’s feelings and expectations with quick edits and well-chosen songs. Movie Review: ‘Rust and Bone,’ Starring Marion Cotillard 2012-11-22T22:47:22Z Some of the creators of “Homeland” are veterans of “24,” and adept at action. The TV Watch: Two Faces of National Security on ‘Homeland’ 2012-09-27T12:49:42Z An accomplished actress with ballet training, Ms. Qualley is highly adept at creating compelling expressions and evoking strong emotion with her voice, face and body. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Almond is much more adept at drama than chuckles, and Ten Plagues is his tour de force. Marc Almond/Ten Plagues – review 2013-04-26T11:33:49Z He used the high runs sparingly, a man adapting to one changing instrument while remaining remarkably adept on his bass. Paul McCartney at Dodger Stadium: Fit, giddy and in vintage form 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Xiomara Reyes, on Saturday afternoon, was technically adept at every moment. American Ballet Theater Performs Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Browning is adept at intellectual seduction: she prolongs largely irrelevant anecdotes, pauses just before imparting crucial exposition, teasingly asks your permission to reveal information she knows you desperately desire. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In the months between he criss-crosses Britain, recording his search in this same vivid, adept, unapologetic voice, wonderfully catching the spirit of these ethereal creatures. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z It’s a splashy move from a figure who’s grown increasingly adept at staying in the public eye and at the center of many conversations. What Megyn Kelly Loses by Leaving Fox News 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Esplund is equally adept in analyzing video pieces like Jeremy Blake’s “The Winchester Trilogy,” inspired by a mysterious San Jose mansion built by the widow of the Winchester firearms magnate. Review | How to open your mind — and your heart — to contemporary art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It reveals her as adept in the delineation of eccentric characters and the possessor of a keen sense of humor as well as the ability to concoct a puzzling mystery yarn. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He’s reciting a script we all know well, and he’s not adept at improvisation. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z I was not adept at understanding her needs nor in managing her behavior. Fathering and masculinity in the age of COVID-19: A noteworthy silver lining 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Directors less technically adept than Spielberg, though, took from Jaws the lesson that bigger is better. 'Jaws': The 40th Anniversary of the Movie That Changed Hollywood 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z He’s also adept at changing the subject and moving on before yesterday’s shock wave reverberates for a second news cycle. Amid the cycles of outrage, a strategy emerges: Just ride it out. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Over its decades on air, “Jeopardy!” has become adept at finding ways to bring back its biggest stars, like “Star Wars” and Marvel do on the big screen. Greatest of All Time on ‘Jeopardy!’: Who Won Game 1? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z No one is more adept at salving wounds. Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, AuCoin proved to be an adept bartender, a temp, a cater waiter. Supporting character: Washington-raised actor in two top D.C. series 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Crowe, heftier than he was back in those ancient Roman days, and attired in earth-toned tunics instead of sandals and togas, is adept at finding nuances within bluntly conceived characters. | 'Robin Hood': Crowe and Blanchett in Ridley Scott?s Nottingham 2010-05-13T19:58:00Z An admirer of the nature documentaries of David Attenborough — the film’s title is a garbled reference to his name — she is an adept mimic of the ways of birds and apes. Movie Review: ?Attenberg? Is Athina Rachel Tsangari?s Debut Feature 2012-03-09T00:17:23Z Henry grows up to become an adept commercial artist. Books of The Times: Lisa Grunwald?s ?Irresistible Henry House?: A Charmer?s Tale 2010-03-15T20:54:00Z The actors are adept at embodying dissipated rockers, especially Manning, whose loud, sloppy Coyote Dan makes you believe that decades of carousing have left their mark. Review | Sex, drugs and rock-and-roll: Sounds good? Turns out the formula’s not foolproof. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Competitors were sometimes thrown off by the unflappable geniality, since he was a shrewd competitor, adept at luring clients and pleasing them. In Their Words: Remembering I.M. Pei 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z They subtly nail the somber, meditative passages of its first and third movements and are equally adept at the folk-flavored dance rhythms of the second and fourth movements. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z Rist became adept at tying flies as a teenager, but as a criminal he proved less successful. The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Initially a victim of his own innocence, he is all the more adept at exploiting the innocence of others. Jesse Eisenberg vs. Michael Cera: Who's Winning? 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z On top of that, adults sometimes aren’t all that adept at discussing things like emotions or sex. 2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z I remember bristling at McEwan’s “Saturday” because it was so adept at capturing a prevailing mood in the run-up to war, and I wanted something less smoothly sure of itself. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Over the course of four albums, she’s grown only more adept at crafting tunes of slow and big harmonic movement, with quick, tensile rhythms that keep them feeling agile. The Playlist: Mary J. Blige Sings of Self-Empowerment, Kendrick Lamar Raps About Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z As an author, she is equally adept at promoting her novel unlike some of her fiction-writing contemporaries. "Jersey Shore" star Snooki turns novelist 2011-01-11T20:42:17Z It is smart, devastating, unpredictable and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z While the Brauns have been long regarded as adept sales reps, they’re increasingly involved in consulting and giving creative notes on their projects. “Wild Wild Country”: How 3 sets of brothers scored an unexpected Netflix Emmy contender 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Southern Igbos dominate trade in hard drugs, proving adept at creating networks of buyers and sellers in the diaspora. No fantasy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The translation, by Arch Tait, is adept if occasionally less than idiomatic. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z Stifled in acting, Stuart poured her creativity into decoupage, opening a shop, Décor Ltd., to sell her wares; later she became adept at bonsai. 'Titanic' Star Gloria Stuart Dies at 100 2010-09-29T08:55:00Z “The room should feel empty when you’re in it,” he is told by supervisors, and he becomes adept at disappearing in plain sight. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z Unfortunately, this revelatory approach, adeptly straddling the line between their roots and their major label demands, loses its momentum by the fourth track. The Avett Brothers’ Slick but Charming New Album 2013-10-18T09:45:18Z McCarthy isn’t an intuitive or innovative filmmaker and, like a lot of actors turned directors, he’s more adept at working with performers than telling a story visually. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Prescott, who once worked as a political-campaign operative, obviously knows her stuff, but she’s less adept at drawing individual characters than at conveying the women’s groupthink. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Drummer Leonard King and organist Gerard Gibbs are equally adept, making intense musical gestures without breaking sweat. James Carter Organ Trio ? review 2011-07-24T16:31:00Z You might say “The Mandrake” is a cautionary tale designed to remind you those who are adept at self-justification can talk their way in or out of anything. 'Mandrake' a puzzling departure for Red Orchid Theatre 2011-04-18T22:15:03Z In her teens, Hall flirted with not being an actor—she thought of following a career in the visual arts, and remains an adept painter, as is occasionally evidenced by her Instagram feed. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Clarkson adeptly goes from beaming bride to skeletal cancer patient and back in the course of telling the story. Television Review: ?Five,? Directed by Jennifer Aniston and Alicia Keys - Review 2011-10-09T21:23:53Z You are very adept at playing both rich and poor characters and assume the roles of both in "Workforce." In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The show’s supporting players role-juggle adeptly to conjure up the constables, servants and other figures required to establish these narrative developments. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z And when he later goes alone into the kitchen to mix the drink, Andy adeptly performs the chore, pausing only briefly to rip off a paper towel to dab his eyes. Would you help your good friend die? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z It is a strong – if eccentric – concept, full of possibility for a comic adept at subverting gender, cultural and class stereotypes. Russell Kane – review 2012-10-29T17:26:22Z As demonstrated by the entries below, voters — like the candidates themselves — have become adept at wielding the weapons of the social media age, and their role promises only to grow in future election seasons. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A few years later, his mother moved her two sons to France, and Ross, by then adept at the organ, entered the Nice Conservatory, where he delved into — and increasingly concentrated on — the harpsichord. He Was a ‘Bad Boy’ Harpsichordist, and the Best of His Age 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As other art historians have suggested, it may be impossible to think of their style as anything but collaborative, especially since Michel was an illustrator, adept at abbreviating forms. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z For adepts of slow rail travel, the new cars preserve the romance of overnight trains, in contemporary comfort, with a choice of hotel-style suites, classic bunk beds or seats. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z That’s because, in a nation so adept at producing globally famous screen stars, there are quite a few of you. Where Is Hollywood When Broadway Needs It? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Guerrero is also adept at portraying the duality of her existence. Actress Diane Guerrero Recounts Her Family’s Deportation Ordeal 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Technology allows the government to harass and punish the poor, but Eubanks adeptly shows that what they need instead is help. How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z He’s especially adept at finding that sweet, destabilizing spot where an audience’s comfortable laughter turns suddenly, confusingly, queasy. Review: ‘The Brothers Grimsby’: From Sacha, With Love 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z She’s also adept in finding the wry humour that lurks within darker moments with plenty of bittersweet laughs along the way. My streaming gem: why you should watch Private Life 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Not ideal conditions for Trump, who as a Gemini is adept at media and sales, but cares less about the day-to-day grunt work to be leader. Astrologers predict New Hampshire results: whoever wins will be president 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Boyfriend, recently back from Vietnam and adept at hitchhiking, probably would have gone, but I think he had to work, too, delivering food for some chicken joint. Perspective | Woodstock can’t be duplicated. Perhaps we should leave it at that. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Celery is a team player, equally adept at imparting subtle flavor, unseen, as it is at the center of the plate. The Real Heart of Thanksgiving 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Circumnavigating the park, with its famous triumphal arch, allowed me to settle into the rhythm of people-watching, something at which I suspect Bowie was adept. In New York City, following in David Bowie’s footsteps 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He may be handsome and charming and mechanically adept, but he’s rather dull and inarticulate with no defined personality. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Baker is equally adept at coming up with evocative analogies. Books of The Times: Nicholson Baker, ‘The Way the World Works’ 2012-08-12T20:34:47Z She is equally adept at weaving in wide-angle glimpses of the surrounding city, national politics, and the global economy. 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers': Elusive justice in a Mumbai slum 2012-02-08T22:13:05Z Lest you think Asawa, while meditating on all these phenomena, was living the solitary life of a Zen adept in a mountaintop monastery, she wasn’t. Is this the most beautiful show of the year? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Posin’s choreography — largely conventional ballet, adeptly arranged and accessorized with Arctic hula — settles for incongruity. Review: ‘Climate Control,’ Where Hot and Cold Mix It Up in a Pas de Deux 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z An adept packager, she likes to “create a universe,” she said. Carine Roitfeld?s Daughter Builds Her Own Empire 2011-12-14T22:12:09Z Some shows have become so adept at polygraph segments that the cameras are not readily apparent in the examination room. TV?s Go-To Guy For Playing Truth or Dare 2011-07-02T04:00:14Z Ms. Johnson, a magnetic performer, is adept at mobilizing people, onstage and off; you want to follow. Review: ‘Shore,’ a Dance and More Over Space and Time 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Regardless of how it all shakes out, the nominations alone should remind us that the American record biz is still chillingly adept at using whiteness to sell blackness. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Another possible candidate is Curia Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and one of the few Vatican insiders who is adept at handling the media, politics and the public. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z An effective N.F.L. commissioner must be adept at two things, he contends. Is America’s Most Popular Sport Under Siege? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Phil finds himself tasked with proving to his offspring that he's every bit as adept at solving teenage problems as their mother, while Cam and Mitchell fret over their increasingly sassy infant daughter Lily. TV highlights 12/04/2013 2013-04-12T06:00:05Z Mather proved adept not just as an architect, but also in relating to curators, academics, trustees and donors. Rick Mather obituary 2013-04-29T17:02:08Z Ms. Tartt is especially adept at showing how Hampden’s ‘hermetic, overheated atmosphere’ leads to a melodramatic inflation of emotions that in turn results in acts of violence.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The Loser Community has proved itself amazingly adept at rearranging letters into clever anagrams. Style Invitational Week 1318: Love the tiny tail stain* — an anagram contest 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Some restaurants are gracefully adept at accommodating extremely large customers. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Just so you know, this company’s performers have always been adept at assessing just how far they can push the boundaries between you and them. Review: ‘Behind the City’ Immerses You in New York and Yourself 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Her attention to the recurring nature of racism in this country, and her gift for weaving these insights into a gripping narrative, establish Benz as an adept critic and storyteller. The Legacy of Slavery in Two Novels of the American South 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Frank Oz directed both the stage version and the film, and he adeptly captures the project’s unique atmosphere. ‘Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself’ Review: Wow Factor Meets Why Factor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z None of the 10 bears visible seemed particularly adept. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Women are very adept at fitting themselves into and relating to a male narrative, a male lead character. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z And he’s proven adept at maintaining a spot in the social-media conversation, even if he’s been less present on hip-hop radio, as seen in his recent public discussion about his throuple home life. How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And, he realized, he was adept at excavating them. How Zane Lowe Became Pop’s Unofficial Therapist 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z He is also adept at revealing secrets, with recent stories by The Associated Press and other media outlets, featuring photographs never previously published. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z In the end, it is a novel interested in the psychological effects of slavery, a grief that Coates is especially adept at parsing. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Debut Novel Mingles History and Fantasy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This prize may well suit those Losers not musically adept enough for last week’s prize, the Toilet Tunes electronic mat. Style Invitational: Mergers you wrote — combine two businesses 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Baraka is as adept with spare, imagistic lines as with lyrical realism. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Most important, the gang’s all here, and Mr. Lin proves once again to be an adept ensemble wrangler. Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sticks to Its Brand. That’s Not Necessarily Bad. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z After the Playboy interview, tabloids feasted on his comments about his famous ex-girlfriends, restarting the gossip cycle he had been so adept at steering for the last couple of years. Music: Now Letting His Guitar Do the Talking 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z Earlier this week, I got a lovely e-mailed invitation from one of my most gracious and socially adept friends. Motherlode Blog: Thank you so much for the online invitation?but which of my children did you mean to invite? 2012-03-08T16:37:40Z Mr. Mariotti proved wonderfully adept at building up each scene layer by layer, drawing sensitive and alert playing from the orchestra. Review: ‘La Donna del Lago,’ With Fiercely Athletic Vocals 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Reef is equally adept at choosing quotations that cut to the heart of a matter. ‘Viva Frida’ and ‘Frida & Diego’ 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The Gills just laugh in their gentle, accepting manner because they are adept at none of those things. Finding Joy in the Unknown 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The collection's support for artists at the start of their career can make their names, and its 10-strong team have proved adept at spotting rising stars and identifying important trends. Online gallery will open forgotten art to public view 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z Klein was a complicated creature, given to hyperbole, adept at self-mythology, guided by an overweening narcissism and full of contradictions. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z A great many “children of” are adept at their craft. Nepotism in the movies: it's time to call out the acting school of mum and dad 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Paper Monument is adept at this kind of small, unpretentious volume. Books of The Times: ?Draw It With Your Eyes Closed,? Edited by Paper Monument 2012-03-29T16:33:22Z No wonder these adapted birds are so adept at the arboreal life. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z By carefully selecting their own profile pictures, making public comments, and curating the photos they post, younger teenagers have become quite adept at managing their image. Motherlode Blog: For Teenage Girls, Facebook Means Always Being Camera-Ready 2012-03-07T17:05:43Z O'Donnell adeptly balances caustic humour and compassion, as the trio is pursued by social services, drug dealers and a sinister, long-lost grandfather. Commonwealth book prize 2013: Regional winners - in pictures 2013-05-14T09:01:00Z The work juxtaposes nervous, fragmented passages with generously measured singing phrases, and both Ms. Benedetti and Mr. Jurowski proved adept at molding them with dramatic intent. New York Philharmonic With Guest Violinist and Conductor 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z She is an adept choreographer who knows how to keep things moving, within a song and across an evening. Review: The Tapper Ayodele Casel, Honoring Ancestors, Radiating Joy 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The supremely adept Latvian artist’s pictures are six feet high and either eight or 11½ feet wide. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Green, already adept at distilling, took Daniel under his wing and, after the Civil War and the end of slavery, went to work for him in his fledgling whiskey operation. When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z She is equally adept at providing comfort by feeding and bathing her injured husband, but also being spattered with blood while wearing a stylish fur coat, or wielding a blunt instrument to protect herself. Kate Bosworth on the delights of playing the villain: “We wanted to turn it so the Hitchcock blonde would be the psycho rather than the victim” 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It shows the artist looking wise beyond his years, already adept at a suavely brushed surface redolent of Manet, Ingres and Degas. When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The director's trickster genius is shared by the main characters; each is supremely adept and understandably suspicious of the others, any one of whom could be the evil mastermind. 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z The baron is adept at smilingly applying positive spin. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z And, as my colleague Bernard Avishai has noted, appearing adept and cosmopolitan to the denizens of that continent is a perennial element of Israel’s Eurovision endeavor. Eurovision’s Sanitized Vision of Israel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris, like Mr. Brown, is adept at fluidly combining styles, letting particular steps flare and freeze for a moment within a propulsive flow. Dance Review: Philadanco at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-05T23:25:20Z He’s as obsessed with internal rhymes as Cam’ron, and maybe more adept at them. Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z "I would say he has been a very lucky man," expanded Parky, so adept these days at keeping the bitterness out of his public pronouncements. 'Russell Brand is pointless,' says Michael Parkinson 2010-10-14T19:00:00Z Mr. Blanchard’s band, which will appear at the Jazz Standard this week starting Wednesday, is adept at evoking a cinematic melancholy. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z This is an adept volume — a sort of “Chaplin 101” — but it breaks little new ground and cannot be compared to the searching full biographies by David Robinson and the late Kenneth S. Lynn. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Gordon is magically adept at fusing the banal and the mythic in a creature like this. Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z Eig is adept at weaving in other characters, and other voices. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The disadvantage is that, if not handled adeptly, you may come off as being prejudiced against this group yourself. This is not about political correctness or Internet outrage. It’s about where we draw the line 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Philipsz is particularly adept at finding curious and evocative sites for her sound pieces, which invariably consist of recordings of her own pleasant, but untrained, singing voice. Turner prize shortlist includes painter who imagines death of Dr David Kelly 2010-05-04T21:12:00Z Unlike the brashness that often characterizes computer-generated animation, the old-fashioned two-dimensional look of the hand-drawn "Song of the Sea" is simple as well as sophisticated and especially adept at creating a specific sense of place. 'Song of the Sea' is a masterwork by director Tomm Moore 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z While known for her intellectual rigor — she has long taught architecture at Princeton — Ms. Diller is also clearly adept at navigating the internal politics that often accompany major public projects. Practicing Architecture in a Pandemic 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The play is less adept, however, in clarifying its own story. Review: In ‘Stet,’ Rape, Journalism and the Elusive Truth 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “Ben and I are of the same generation, steeped in and adept at irony,” he said in an email. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But the modern world is so adept at foiling pirates or independence of any kind. From the ‘Lemony ’ author, an adult novel of upper-middle-class despair 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Hipps is as adept as a gifted playwright at setting a scene. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The war, after all, is a great scrambler of human beings, a calamity as adept at forging relationships as breaking them apart. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Although he was adept at drama and action, Garner was best known for his witty, low-key style, especially with the TV series “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files.” Police: Movie, TV legend James Garner dies 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z It's very adept but quite unobtrusive – it's not a flashy poem at all, but there's a lot of integrity to it. Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition 2010-03-30T18:35:00Z Part of the exhibition is devoted to the art of the goldsmith, a craftsman who also was adept at shaping many other precious materials and types of objects. ‘Treasures and Talismans,’ at the Cloisters, Puts Rings on a Pedestal 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Melinda Sullivan gave the most polished performance, a cabaret-style song and dance that adeptly mixed past and present styles without developing a distinctive new one. Review: An Anemic Tribute to Tap Dance History 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z This would require wineries — especially smaller ones — to be more adept and forthcoming in their Web presence, something they are notoriously bad at. Wine labels can be vague, and drinkers are thirsty for clarity 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z But it took the input of Mr. von Stuelpnagel to make sure the play is both culinarily accurate and theatrically adept. For Sondheim, Raúl Esparza Protects His Voice. For ‘Seared,’ His Fingers. 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z These forces, formed by provincial clan leaders, were basically private protection societies, miniature armies, adept at equestrian skirmishes. Art Review: ‘Samurai!’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-05-02T21:35:50Z Brown is adept at baring emotion through the body. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Kaiser was adept at spinning yarns of his prowess to get on a team, then fake an injury that would serve to keep him sidelined; he even bribed spectators to chant his name. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Because Sedgwick is so adept at world-building, I wanted to see more of the history and society of the London he’s created. Graphic Novels to Give Kids Chills and Thrills 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Critics saluted him as a literary master, adept at imbuing the familiar with narrative drama and bringing momentous events to life through small details and the accounts of individual witnesses. David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z My brain was becoming more adept at critical thinking. Faith in America: From evangelical teen rallies to the Women’s March on Washington, Christianity still informs my politics 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Comedians are adept at turning defects and deficiencies into sources of strength and he is still disarming the school bullies by pretending to be a dunce. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z As a multimedia artist Irving adeptly wrangles with the too-muchness of contemporary experience — of injustice, violence, inequality and insatiable capitalism — creating new constellations for representing a library’s worth of information that might otherwise go unrecorded. Kahlil Robert Irving Roves Across Millenniums at MoMA 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z He subtly interweaves quotes of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with made-up classical riffs and elements of Stucky's own music, adeptly moving us not only back and forth through history but also through reality and fantasy. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Always thrifty and resourceful, Marker was adept at using modest cinematic means to pursue visionary ends. ‘Level Five,’ Directed by Chris Marker, at BAM Rose Cinemas 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z If Barlow is gritting his teeth while the two perform Williams's recent hit Candy, he hides it adeptly. Gary Barlow – review 2012-11-28T14:31:28Z Like the hero, Mr. Conroy said he had grown adept at concealing parts of himself. Kevin Conroy, Who Gave Voice to Batman for 3 Decades, Dies at 66 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z And Mark Hamill called the incident the ugliest Oscar moment ever, tweeting “Stand-up comics are very adept at handling hecklers. Violent physical assault… not so much.” Comedians react with horror at Will Smith’s Oscar slap 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Duwenhögger, now 60, is a sly, seductive storyteller adept in several mediums, especially figurative painting. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Because no matter how smart or adept at social engineering we might be, people can’t be definitively controlled, not forever. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z And still Trevor Noah proved mostly adept: vibrant energy, a little bit of awe, some topical-humor fluency and a bit of cheek, but not too much. The Best and Worst of the 2021 Grammy Awards 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z After the war she apprenticed herself to a ceramics company, where she proved so adept that she quickly had her own line of tableware, for sale at high-end San Francisco department stores. Mary Fuller McChesney, Bay Area Artist and Historian, Dies at 99 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Brooke is more firm and controlled, yet Aduba is adept and versatile enough to let us see her professional shield slip — in different, tiny ways with each patient, and dramatically in her off-hours. Review: ‘In Treatment’ Thinks You Could Use a Session, America 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z At this point in the cruise, I was adept enough to knit, talk and gaze at the landscape without dropping too many stitches. On a Windjammer cruise in Maine, passengers knit a seaworthy yarn 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z In his plays and screenplays, he became especially adept at skirting Communist censorship through allusion and metaphor, though less subtle means were not beneath him. Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright of Terror and Dark Humor, Dies at 78 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z A technically adept bassist with a smooth tenor voice, Mr. Wetton came up musically in London in the late 1960s and early ’70s. John Wetton, Rocker With King Crimson and Asia, Dies at 67 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z One of his best traits as an actor is his generosity: He is a great scene-sharer, adept at using his charisma to illuminate the gifts of his fellow performers. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Louis went confidentially down the aisle to sit on his grandfather's lap for an extended period, and Charles seemed at ease and adept at soothing the boy. When a royal child misbehaves, a mother is blamed. She shouldn't be 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Today, fashion is less adept at delineating between insiders and outsiders, between the establishment and the rebels. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Beneath the easygoing facade is a coiled energy, released in the rapid, perpetuum-mobile playing at which Meyer is adept, or in the sinuous slides of hand along fingerboard. A firm bass: Edgar Meyer at the Kennedy Center 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Jokes that adeptly split the difference include “Richard Nixon’s Childhood Home Annotated by My Daughter” and “Am I Jared Kushner?” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z High Castle” is at least addictive as a mystery: Is the “Grasshopper” film, for instance, simply technically adept propaganda or is it somehow an actual glimpse of an alternative universe? Review: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Imagines America Ruled by 2 Foreign Powers 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z So when Tyler, as devoted and adept a student of hip-hop as he is a practitioner, arrived in the studio, he detonated a meta-Flex bomb in Flex’s house. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z He’s adept at aphorism, brainy humor and dreamlike sequences. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Douglas absolutely did not bother to learn piano for this one, so all the performances are probably his head CGI’d on to a more adept body. From The Doors to Behind the Candelabra: which classic biopic is best? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z A man would come into the store looking forgettable and then, after donning a well-cut two-button, single-breasted navy suit with a peak lapel, he would look accomplished, adept. Africa Style: With Freedom Came Fashion Flair 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Propaganda, of course, was another essential element of imperial rule, and Roman emperors became adept at using art to memorialize themselves. Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z Unlike his squad mates in the next installment of the rabidly popular “Call of Duty” series, he’s not adept at sniping enemy combatants or piloting drones. Dog of War: Meet ‘Call of Duty’s’ New Barkout Star 2013-10-18T15:14:40Z He’s not a natural yet on camera, or adept at keeping up with guests who are going at the speed of Mr. Affleck. Bill Simmons as TV Host: Heavy on Sports and Cursing 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “So you have very detailed forensic recordings of the station — without wind, which I was very adept at removing.” The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Stone, so adept elsewhere, seemed utterly at a loss with Firth. Here's Why Emma Stone's Artistic Alliance With Woody Allen Is So Complicated 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Homer’s lessons are life lessons; Mendelsohn their adept teacher. Review | Daniel Mendelsohn’s ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ is a master class in criticism 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Though the play offers a series of sensitive moral arguments, it is more adept at philosophical inquiry than at theatrical force. Theater Review: ‘Our God’s Brother,’ by the Future Pope John Paul II 2014-04-18T22:24:02Z Few writers are more adept at examining, as Mr. Antrim put it in “The Hundred Brothers,” his second novel, “the sorry indignities that pass as currency between us in lieu of gentler tender.” ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Jonze is also adept at creating a different visual language for his films. The Carpetbagger: Spike Jonze, Video Game Character 2013-12-20T17:25:33Z Atmosphere is paramount in a country so adept at making things cozy that the Danish term — hygge — became a worldwide trend. 36 Hours in Copenhagen 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “Ideal Home” is genuinely funny, and the poignant and pithy script is aided by the chemistry between its stars, who are equally adept with comedic punch lines as they are with dramatic gut punches. Review: A Child Adds a Layer to Gay Couple’s ‘Ideal Home’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The unspoken things began taking sips of oxygen out of the rooms we lived in, slowly, adeptly. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z The choice seems both odd and unnecessary, since Bible is at times quite adept at bringing out the strange fire at the heart of everyday life. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The sopranos Heather Buck and Yuko Kakuta were similarly adept in their vocal gymnastics, producing all manner of grunts, clicks and pops. Spoleto Festival Premieres Follow Somber Reflection 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z As a horror film it is as adept at psychological chills as it is jump-scares. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 3 Get Out 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The exhibition will rightly cement her position as one of the most important abstract artists of the modern era, showing how adept she was at making expressive, strong statements in the most delicate of ways. Tate Modern Unveils A Major Agnes Martin Retrospective 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z She is adept at applying local anesthesia to the consciences of clients and collaborators. “Flack,” Reviewed: Anna Paquin Has Plenty of Cocaine But Only One Pair of Shoes 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Visually speaking, I'm not that adept and I'm ready to put that medium aside. Geek out!: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and the lure of Comic-Con 2011 2011-07-25T20:30:00Z For several years, a growing branch of Smith family enterprises has adeptly delivered reality-style revelation and emotional intimacy across an expanding number of platforms. A Slap Could Sting the Smith Family Brand 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Toibin is such an adept and morally serious close reader that his criticism becomes nearly as galvanizing as his fiction. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z Hewitt, a constitutional law professor and avowed Republican, has proven to be an adept and rigorous questioner of the candidates on his radio program. The GOP is trying to create a better debate. Tonight is the first test of that strategy. 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z He’s more adept at balancing their racing needs with those of their corporate overlords. Bale and Damon go into overdrive for ‘Ford v Ferrari’ 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Musically, Mr. Finn is quite adept at the pastiche this approach requires. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Navigating through Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and more, Norman is adept at locating his subject. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z But restraint is part of the package too: few figures in pop are as adept with dynamics, at building pressure in a song. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z Rather, runners become adept at making quick and calculated judgments to inform them about which tactic would be the best, most appropriate and plausible in any given encounter. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Some of the writings will be chosen to receive a live performance by a group of adept Seattle actors. On Seattle stages: ancient Greece, 'The Scream,' your neighbors' deep, dark secrets 2011-02-03T20:38:12Z But, while “Testimony” proves that Robertson is an immensely capable storyteller and a keen observer of the gifts of others, he is less adept at explaining his own creative process. Robbie Robertson Offers His Story of the Band 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z His design won plaudits as visually arresting and technically adept and as a structure that transcended its fundamental purpose. Bing Thom, Canadian architect who redesigned Arena Stage, dies at 75 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z One novel emerges as particularly adept in this regard. Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “Few singers are as readily identifiable; fewer interpreters are as adept at making outside material sound like their own creation.” Joe Cocker, singer known for his raspy voice and unbridled performances, dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z With each new book, Mr. Mezrich becomes increasingly adept at how to use his kid gloves. Books of The Times: ‘Straight Flush’ by Ben Mezrich 2013-05-22T21:41:01Z He’s as adept at wooing Marian as he is at gulling the townfolk. ‘Music Man’: Good times in River City 2013-02-15T22:22:43Z The reference to “Back to the Future” is resonant because Mr. Lerner plays so adeptly with temporality. In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z These women are adept code switchers, clear on who to be when courting exclusive organizations or ordering food, but they’re not superhuman — they experience failure, loss, doubt. Debut Story Collections Full of Vulnerable People and Their Pain 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He later became adept on guitar and by age 13 was appearing on local radio stations as Johnny Dee. John D. Loudermilk, Nashville songwriter of ‘Tobacco Road,’ dies at 82 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Lorin studied it, along with a recording his father also bought him, and when he conducted a family ensemble in the work, his parents noted that he was adept at cues and balances. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The Greeks themselves were adept rewriters and reshapers of their own myths for dramatic purposes. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z Jones co-wrote Moon with Nathan Parker but showed himself to be adept at taking on the work of others with Source Code, which was based on a blacklisted script by Ben Ripley. World of Warcraft: Duncan Jones signs up for a massively multiplayer movie 2013-01-31T10:51:27Z And it sure delivers on the music, thanks to a cast of vocally adept, mostly Seattle-based performers, a nimble orchestra and some crisp, attractive new orchestrations by Seattle's own Bruce Monroe. Review: Gamblers and dames ? in fine voice ? hit town in 'Guys and Dolls' 2011-05-23T22:25:04Z But even some awkwardness couldn’t spoil the annual thrill of seeing a troupe so effortlessly diverse, international and adept — which goes for the four-legged members, too. Review: The Big Apple Circus Still Delivers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Although he was adept at working in many genres, he was unmatched in being able to create films that would increase in tension, pulling the viewer closer as the story unfolded. Hollywood pays tribute to Lumet 2011-04-10T10:38:11Z Turnage, too, is as adept as ever at writing music that almost parodies a catalogue of styles, yet remains his own. At Sixes and Sevens – review 2013-07-04T17:25:00Z She is more adept than many choreographers-turned-directors at integrating dancers with opera singers and choristers. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s an encouraging start, promising the kind of interwoven supernatural and societal horrors that Jordan Peele, an executive producer on the series, employed adeptly in films like “Get Out” and “Us.” The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z “Godsend” contains some very adept writing about theology and religious feeling. In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Still, Liu and Shang are both perfectly likable characters and entertaining fighters who adeptly usher in a fun, new dimension of Marvel storytelling. "Shang-Chi" is an unapologetically Asian triumph about an unapologetically Asian superhero 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It sometimes put me in mind of Allegra Goodman’s work; both writers are adept at auditing the emotional lives of frazzled Jewish intellectuals. Books of The Times: Molly Antopol Looks to Old World in ‘UnAmericans’ 2014-03-18T19:56:45Z Mr. Skidmore is adept at placing in proper perspective the dilemmas that faced Richard when his brother unexpectedly died at age 40. ‘Richard III’ Review: The Villain Wore a Crown 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Yet, as a toddler, she demonstrated profound musical ability, and she was soon adept on keyboards, flute and other instruments. Review: ‘Hearing Is Believing’ Documents a Rare Talent 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z For every George Orwell, equally adept at nonfiction and the novel, there's William Gass, whose fiction falls as silent to me as his essays sing. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Adam proves an adept pupil and immediately fits into the club's all-male team, whose backstage dressing room behaviour is indistinguishable from football players or chorus girls. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-14T23:05:59Z Philip turns out to be an adept con man, but he’s as much a victim as a victimizer. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z There are no conventional guitar solos on “Breaking English” — perhaps a strange choice for someone so adept on the instrument. Rafiq Bhatia Is Writing His Own Musical Language 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Many are adept at moving into that role because they are highly attuned to social mores, and if there is a professional reason, if that’s the expectation, it becomes draining. Cultural Studies: Shyness Often Afflicts Unexpected Victims 2012-07-06T19:50:34Z She’s so adept at registering the emotions of her character, whether they’re just below the surface or breaking out into wailing hysteria. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Their director, Stéphane Bensimon, is adept at finding ingenious transitions, and the cast’s many talents — music, dance, even acrobatics — are used at exactly the right times to enhance group scenes. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The relative weakness of these stories is surprising, given that Pelecanos is adept at the clipped and precise observations that make for great short fiction. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Evidently, the alligator was adept at his job. ”As soon as you get near it—the plexiglass area—the alligator gets agitated,” says Sgt. J.D. Alligator found guarding pile of pot 2013-01-10T22:52:00Z But Rutter is adept at turning any situation to his advantage, and the thought is unlikely to cause him to lose much sleep. King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Once he moved to Vicenza and started designing buildings, he became particularly adept at negotiating the region’s treacherous social and political waters, often working for clients who were enemies of one another. | 'Palladio and His Legacy': ?Palladio and His Legacy? at the Morgan Library 2010-04-08T22:16:00Z But from the way they played for Mr. Storgards, the Philharmonic musicians seem to have a natural rapport with this technically adept and dynamic maestro. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Accordingly, there may even be a hint of Malcolm Tucker in Capaldi's crankier, less socially adept Doctor, who will be seen getting "impatient, vexed, worried" about his valiant image this season, according to Moffat. Peter Capaldi strikes a confident note as he takes on 'Doctor Who' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Evans is adept at marrying matter, metaphor and myth. Nancy Evans marries metaphor and myth at Jason Vass gallery 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z She is adept at synthesizing a range of styles, images and techniques in a single canvas and has put her talents to the test on the largest interior wall in the airport. Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z And that is frequently what we see in the piece: eight adept and unaffected dancers moving simultaneously in separate but interweaving currents. Review: A Tere O’Connor Dance That Ebbs, Flows and Weaves 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z America's white youth share many of the same racist attitudes and values as their parents and other older relatives but have just learned to be more adept at hiding such beliefs in public. Donald Trump voter family values: Trump’s supporters are teaching their kids to embrace bigotry 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z But then the poker-faced, psychologically astute and comically adept Smith is a specialist in bizarro male behavior. Review: Hero of 'All My Children' broke up but can't let go 2010-06-03T17:52:00Z The Inuit approach also differs from that of performers in Mongolia and adjacent regions of China and Russia, where adepts produce high and low notes simultaneously. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z He proved so adept at rewriting maladroit dialogue that he soon turned to full-time screenwriting. Stewart Stern, 92, Screenwriter of ‘Rebel Without a Cause,’ Dies 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The ensemble’s 11 men displayed some of the most dazzling breaking techniques I’ve ever seen, while Mr. Albright’s choreography possessed a sly humor and an adept sense of spatial composition. Dance Review: At BAM, DanceAfrica?s Links Between Traditional and Modern 2010-05-30T21:33:00Z The waiting staff are very pleasant and helpful, and adept at navigating the rows with heavy trays in the dark. Cine-files: Everyman, Hampstead, London 2012-06-05T16:07:46Z It is also a high-water mark: The staging throughout is never more than adept; then again, it is never less than that. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Like a Zen adept, Cézanne tries to let go of the idea that one thing is more important than another. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z She was less adept in her personal life. Nonparelli 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Whether by death, design or disputes, television shows are adept at losing or killing off key characters and carrying on without them. Death, disputes and disgrace, but the TV show must go on 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And let’s face it, tech workers are not the most socially adept. Why I visit prostitutes 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z In the second act she proves herself equally adept at creating a shameless soap opera-ish confession of her wanton youth and the child she bore and lost. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z Park is especially adept at the small associations that might resonate with young readers: a shared bowl of soup, or the black hair so much like Hanna’s own. Linda Sue Park Rewrites ‘Little House on the Prairie’ with an Asian-American Heroine 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Luisi is a frequent guest conductor internationally, equally adept at Strauss, Verdi and Wagner. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z Isherwood is not a particularly adept or persuasive literary critic in his diaries, but his enthusiasms are vital. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z Many of the Illinois political class are expert in the lawmaking arts, and adept at using words as weapons. Kass: Long prison term a stern warning 2011-12-08T06:01:00Z So is Matt Damon just a normal guy, adept at pretending to be mysterious? Matt Damon: 'You're a better actor the less people know about you' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Ada Grey's illustrations adeptly render shiny-haired Duchess, owl-goggled Queen and even the royal auntie, catering the welcome party and bellowing for "More blinis!" Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z According to Daniels, Locke was especially adept at channeling the voice of matriarch Cookie Lyon, a standout character played by Taraji P. Henson, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Though he began studying both violin and piano at a tender age, the Pittsburgh native proved so adept at tennis he achieved ranking in the Midwest and was offered tennis scholarships. Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z Instead, sports journalists simply became known as sports gurus adept at parsing the finer points of a football receiver's routes or debating the merits of a basketball team's zone defense. Serena Williams forced journalists to get out of the "toy box" and cover tennis as more than a game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z For one thing, his work is almost completely handmade, perhaps not surprising for an artist who is adept at carpentry and plumbing. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The majority of the project’s budget went to hiring people adept at wrestling with the temperamental machinery. XFR STN Offers a Digital Update at the New Museum 2013-08-11T21:52:12Z He was more adept in almost every other arena: as a critic, historian, editor, journalist and translator, a “one-man assembly line,” in the words of a colleague. Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z Reinhardt proved an adept accompanist in the Tchaikovsky, but the rest of the program made it clear that she also is a conductor with strong ideas of her own. Incandescent talent of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and conductor Ruth Reinhardt shine with Seattle Symphony 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Instead, they are tossed into a single Pyrex to roast among the other flavors; audiences will decide whether this style is adept or clumsy. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Nor are Ms. Harrow’s lyrics particularly inventive or adept. | 'This Side of Paradise': The Tormented Fitzgeralds at Theater at St. Clements 2010-04-23T22:52:00Z Many believe him the best of all film composers, as adept at the yearningly romantic as he was at the outright terror of Psycho. Herrmann: Scoring the best 2012-08-04T00:16:46Z The Indian leader, a skilled orator adept at revving up crowds, arrives to deafening cheers, accompanied by his guest of honor, President Donald Trump. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Monogamy is a nice idea in theory, but in practice, humans are less adept at it than they might admit. 9 things you might not know about infidelity 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Martin Margiela, a frequent and adept dabbler in size distortion, showed a spring 2000 collection of such exaggerated proportions that it brought to mind Lily Tomlin’s plight in “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.” The Next Big Thing in Fashion? Big Things 2014-04-23T22:56:50Z Like many authors, Williams wasn’t adept at expressing himself outside of his work, but he sometimes evinced a startling degree of tough self-awareness. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Needless to say, she is adept at social media. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z It's just that within all that hard-driving determination, some of the more heartfelt, reflective moments for which Hill is also adept at, were lost in the new mix. Late and erratic were Lauryn Hill's calling cards 2011-06-04T13:26:00Z Mr. Davis is adept at composing programs that balance traditional dance with a more contemporary use of traditions. Dance Review: At BAM, DanceAfrica?s Links Between Traditional and Modern 2010-05-30T21:33:00Z Somewhat surprisingly for a director so adept at probing hidden feelings, Mr. Gold, who lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, the playwright Amy Herzog, concedes that he is neither emotional nor sentimental. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z In the company’s early years — when the economy was strong, unemployment for boomers was under 4 percent and middle-aged people were less adept at social networking — hires skewed young. Generation B: Experienced Hands, Still Valued 2010-03-05T22:10:00Z These vegan Philadelphia chef-restaurateurs are especially adept at seasoning and saucing. The 31 best cookbooks of 2016 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Treuer adeptly synthesizes these recent studies and fashions them with personal, familial and biographic vignettes. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z His muscular fingers are adept at plucking the beans swiftly from their stems. In the Azores, the Menu Includes Coffee, Tea and Tradition 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The book is a comprehensive primer, more for those learning their way around live-fire cooking than those already adept at taming the flames. The cookbooks you need to raise your grilling and barbecue game 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Few strategies are more adept at solidifying compunctions than suggesting that a revered political figure might be hiding something that the lamestream media — including Fox News since they fired Carlson — is too timid to share. People say Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson's love of conspiracy theories is desperate – and dangerous 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z This was therefore less an exhibition than what my colleague Siddhartha Mitter, reviewing the show in June, adeptly called “a whole vibe.” The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Skilled at reading the customer, adept at pacing the meal, the staff operates like a tag team, which guarantees many watchful eyes on the floor. Earth-friendly locavore mission greets guests at Terra Plata 2012-02-02T21:04:03Z As a combat soldier, writes Dilworth, Jones would be “canny, efficient, adept at survival.” Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z And not sloppy in the hilarious way that Johnny Carson and Carol Burnett were so adept at, melting down with ad-libbed wit when a guest or a bit ran off the rails. | ?Soupy Sales: The Whole Gang Is Here?: On WLIW, Channel 21, a Comic?s Children?s Shows 2010-04-23T22:09:00Z But at its less grandiose moments, the combination of expressive acting and kinetic action pays off in ways that are likely to satisfy both novices and adepts in martial-arts fandom. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z Her voice, adept at elastic runs and flowery embellishments, is also soulful and sincere. Opera’s Miss Congeniality Takes On a Rare ‘Cinderella’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Even then, Obama was adept at fending him off. Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ debut: A straight-talking work in progress It seemed that the fact that Snow wasn’t quite as beholden to concepts like honor and tradition made him more adept at handling the harsh realities both north of the Wall and at Castle Black. Game of Thrones Recap: Season 5 Finale 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Most of all, she wants fame, which she proves particularly adept at attracting. Review | Qandeel Baloch was a social media star in Pakistan. A new book explores her life and murder. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “There’s brutality here, but also brilliance — anemones, despite literal brainlessness, adeptly size up their rivals — and astonishing tenderness.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z And just like everyone else, young people are adept at “code switching,” meaning they using different language depending on who they’re with and the situations they find themselves in, Professor Holliday added. Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Cross has always dealt in darkness and been so adept at conjuring bogeymen from the catacombs of mythology that you start to see them everywhere. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice ?reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:12Z Predictably, many of the interns are less than adept at running or catching a ball. Google goes Hollywood with 'The Internship' 2013-05-28T20:25:03Z Harlow is a notably adept technical rapper, cocksure and also sometimes witty; some of his earliest breakout moments were punch-line-packed radio freestyles. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The photos were shot with an iPhone 5, demonstrating that Grey, 81, is quite adept at changing with the times. | A Second Act for the Legendary Stage Actor Joel Grey 2013-09-03T16:43:20Z Mr. Quinton was especially adept at playing women, including the nasty stepmother in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” which toured the country early in this century. Everett Quinton, a Force in Downtown Theater, Dies at 71 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The result is a salmagundi of boilerplate #MeToo musings, wannabe bad girl confessions and elliptical woo-speak dressed up as deep thoughts, at which Woolf is exceptionally adept. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z “Stand-up comics are very adept at handling hecklers,” he wrote on Twitter. Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock After Academy Condemns His Slap 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Prints, most technically adept, form the bulk of the show. A survey of June Wayne at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z "As it shrinks, the music industry is becoming ever more adept at controlling what enters the mainstream," Hasted said. UK's BRIT Awards slammed as celebration of bland 2013-02-21T13:05:27Z She added, “He really was a joyous, warm, relatable human being who was adept at playing these dark characters.” Miguel Ferrer, Celebrated as a Film and TV Tough Guy, Dies at 61 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Theaters have grown more adept at swiftly managing the lines of people waiting to get in. Broadway Is Back. Here’s What It’s Like for Theatergoers. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Thai filmmakers and Asian filmmakers are very adept with the horror genre. Thai ghost film remake appeals with funny twist 2013-05-16T06:33:09Z And Ra, like this show’s excellent cast of five, proves adept at lightning-quick switches between the crushing and the comical. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z We may never listen to them all, but Kunhardt’s film is adept at picking the choicest moments. HBO’s ‘Nixon by Nixon’: On tape, the heart of darkness Stockily built and adept at playing both light and heavy roles, Bob Hoskins became an international star of the cinema after a long career in the theatre. Obituary: Bob Hoskins 2014-04-30T13:56:01Z If, on the other hand, you're simply trying to win within the allotted six guesses, the top three words to play are "adept," "clamp" and "plaid." Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Organized religion, by contrast, is incredibly adept in the areas of ethical development and moral nudging. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z Skilled dancers are particularly adept at identifying and hitting the most addictive choreographic notes. TikTok Is Dead (Maybe). Long Live TikTok Dance. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Lanigan-Schmidt is as adept with words as he is with the bevy of other materials that are his mainstays — glitter, cellophane, foil and Magic Marker, among them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Antony works with notable physical confidence and ease and is especially adept at multimedia collages that use found papers and images, involve as much destruction as construction and combine varying degrees of drawing and painting. Art in Review: ‘I Am the Magic Hand’ and Antony: ‘The Cut’ 2013-06-27T20:04:50Z If both are adept comedians, neither has the wherewithal to begin to impersonate the other’s body language and thereby raise the farce to a higher comic level. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z And, of course, misinformation; Mr. Jesurun is adept at playing with those gaps between what we know and think we know, and all of the hazy possibilities surrounding the petty certainties to which we cling. | 'Stopped Bridge of Dreams': John Jesurun?s ?Stopped Bridge of Dreams? at La MaMa 2012-01-31T01:00:37Z The Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman has always been a thoughtful interpreter with a gift for clarity and singing melodic lines — adept at the modes of expressive longing in Romanticism and Chopin alike. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “But kids are really adept at modeling what they see” – even when parents are not trying to teach. How to Help Your Kid Take a Moment 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z His parents dreamed of him becoming a lawyer, until a high school debate teacher told him he was more adept at dramatic interpretation than verbal sparring. Rami Malek, Catching Mercury 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. King’s earlier books were full of phantasms and demons, but he grows ever more adept at rooting his dark thoughts and toughest struggles in reality. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z |
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