Word: adeptly
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...village in Hubei province and videotaped himself painting portraits of the villagers, who in turn drew pictures of Chen. The result is the winning Dialogues with the Peasants of Tiangongsi, a wall-size series of paired oil paintings. Chen makes his untutored peasants, some of whom prove to be adept artists, "equal participants in my work." It's a welcome dignity for a voiceless people...
...four-term Senator from Kentucky is one of the GOP's most outspoken fiscal conservatives, and has fought tooth and nail against campaign finance reform, citing possible infringements on 1st Amendment rights. Although he is a member of the powerful and often contentious Judiciary committee, McConnell is not especially adept at handling controversy, and has generally shied away from social issues. Of course, given Lott's recent foray into social commentary, McConnell's relative reticence could suddenly seem quite attractive...
While the Crimson was particularly adept at handing the ball over to BC, the squad was not nearly so successful at finding its own players, generating only seven assists as a team...
...10th grade. It was an illustrious start. Spotnitz went on to win state honors at the Westinghouse Competition for his work on the physiology of hemispheric asymmetry. (“It was a psychological study that compared left-handed to right-handed people—left-handers were more adept at the divergent thinking task,” he says.) Though it was more of a psychological experiment, Spotnitz says that this was the time when “it clicked.” He was in love. His life began to follow the path of his research...
...comic moments, as in one of the funniest scenes in 2000's Down Under. Bryson is chased by wild dogs in the Australian outback but ends up suffering his worst injury at his own hands, when he conks himself on the head with a brick. Bryson has proved more adept at wielding humor as a weapon, and uses it to express his disappointment with the world. "People accuse me of being a curmudgeon, but everybody should be one! Why don't more people get annoyed at, say, ugly supermarkets? It bothers me that they're not bothered." He may have...