What's the difference between adroitly and idolatry?
Adroitly
Definition:
(adv.) In an adroit manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wonder whether they'll miss Borini, who was superb for them, holding the ball up adroitly and linking play wonderfully.
(2) Then, drawing on vast experience, they accelerated adroitly, denting young Salter's figures along the way.
(3) The media mogul adroitly launched Sky in 1989 from Luxembourg, because the broadcasting regulations of the time meant that it would have been banned in the UK.
(4) Well-built, forceful yet technically adroit, and an excellent passer, he kept his place in the team.
(5) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
(6) These include more careful monitoring of the blood pressure with particular care for control of high levels during the early morning hours; attention to all alterable risk factors with care to avoid worsening of other risks with antihypertensive drugs; adroit use of nondrug therapies; and, when drugs are used, the pressure should be lowered slowly and only to a level that avoids coronary hypoperfusion.
(7) He has formed pragmatic partnerships to block progress and has been adroit in synthesising Israel's competing anxieties into a single story with broad appeal, one that sustains him in power.
(8) However, in later years she would confuse and combine the material, so that members of the band would need to skip adroitly from one tune to another at any moment.
(9) Tioté’s absence heightened Newcastle’s initial sense of vulnerability and Leicester might have scored when Leonardo Ulloa imperiously shrugged off his marker before laying off adroitly to Matty James who proceeded to shoot straight at Tim Krul.
(10) He had fleeting success, and ducked under Mayweather's slightly anxious hooks adroitly, to share the points.
(11) Seeking to exacerbate Wearside misery, Darren Fletcher chested a ball down adroitly before unleashing a fine volley, ably diverted by Pickford.
(12) The mild bleeder is less likely to be detected by screening tests than by adroit questioning.
(13) Possibly unnerved by the presence of Lukaku they both failed to take control, leaving the Chelsea loanee to bring the ball down adroitly and step disdainfully around Coloccini's despairing attempt to recover.
(14) The president is very adroit at putting somebody on the spot.” Following the meeting, Meadows said he was still not persuaded by the president’s pitch and that he was confident there was “more than enough” opposition to block it from passage.
(15) Agbonlahor, who had squandered a decent chance to put Villa ahead earlier in the night, linked adroitly with Benteke before skipping round a couple of half-hearted challenges and drilling a left-footed shot that took a deflection, forcing Mignolet into a one-handed save.
(16) Watford nearly restored their two-goal advantage when Ighalo and Deeney combined adroitly but Chancel Mbemba’s splendid late intervention denied Deeney.
(17) Yet no matter how fast and adroitly it jinked and weaved, the pursuing bird held to its tail, maintaining a two-skylark-length distance between them, never closing, never lagging, seeming content with matching every turn of its harried opponent.
(18) 3.34am BST Joe ODonnell (@Joeod3) @LengelDavid Dan Girardi proving he's adroit at using his skate...
(19) At least the 47th minute featured a save, Kelvin Davis repelling Craig Gardner's shot with his legs after Altidore's adroit flick on.
(20) Less of an overt manifesto than The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama’s book published ahead of his first White House run six years ago, Hard Choices still manages to adroitly position Clinton for a 2016 presidential bid.
Idolatry
Definition:
(n.) The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
(n.) Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.
(2) Focusing on glorifying and eternalising the leaders and taking refuge in God and inserting them into hidden shirk [idolatry] through immortalising ephemeral, temporary personalities.
(3) How the ancient city of Palmyra looked before the fighting – in pictures Read more Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(4) Vilks' cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(5) He rejected what he saw as pagan accretions introduced by bid’a (innovation) and shirk (idolatry or polytheism), which detracts from the absolute transcendence of God.
(6) Peckham's main difficulty in writing a script, he found, was to do justice to such a familiar and beloved figure without tipping into idolatry.
(7) Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(8) Among the many accusations levelled at the medieval Knights Templar to justify the brutal suppression of the order was that of idolatry.
(9) So it is difficult for many people to understand why for Muslims, especially in the Sunni traditions, such depictions are anathema, as idolatry.
(10) His alleged crimes included representing Syria at “infidel conferences”, serving as “the director of idolatry” in Palmyra, visiting Iran to commemorate the anniversary of the “Khomeini revolution” and communicating with Syrian military officers, including his brother Col Issa al-Asaadin.
(11) K-pop idolatry is played out daily on the streets of Shin-Okubo, a Tokyo neighbourhood packed with Korean restaurants and shops selling K-pop paraphernalia.
(12) But we were wrong not to discourage the idolatry on the left.
(13) Dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(14) Its puritanical interpretation of Islam deems them a form of heresy and idolatry.
(15) Those who understood him admired him to the point of idolatry but he was also considered as the supreme egotist not giving an inch in discussions and overriding many of his colleagues, making enemies of them as he went and then deeming himself greatly wronged by lack of recognition.
(16) It looks as if the notoriously prudish Ruskin, who worshipped Turner to the point of idolatry, couldn't actually bring himself to destroy his work.
(17) The extremists condemned the buildings as totems of idolatry.
(18) Maybe that’s what Saudi Arabia’s mufti fears | Stephen Moss Read more Sheikh justified the ruling by referring to the verse in the Qur’an banning “intoxicants, gambling, idolatry and divination”.
(19) But what always made me uncomfortable – then, in 2008; now, in 2016 – was the idolatry that followed him.
(20) Indeed, if he wasn't so authentically loved, such idolatry could look North Korean.