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I was very adept at acquiring languages.
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.
I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.
Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!
Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.
Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.
I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
I've played against Griezmann several times in Spain. He's not very tall but he's very adept at figuring out where the ball will be.
I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.
The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.
The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.
One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
Like any good RPG, 'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is adept at digging its claws into that part of your brain that just loves accomplishing things.
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.
A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too.
I like meeting people from other walks of life and finding out about other worlds, and knowing that I'm fairly adept at one world and really stupid in many others.
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.
Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.
I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.
Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled.
The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.
Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.