(n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
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.
Prowess
Definition:
(a.) Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
(2) Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
(3) Chelsea have not been defensively tight this term, their frailties masked by attacking prowess at the other end, but the sight of Draxler gliding through them at will was disturbing.
(4) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
(5) Especially after the levels of sexual activity that are said to have taken place during the last set of Olympic Games, which showed it's possible to display athletic prowess while breaking Grindr .
(6) Meanwhile, the symbols of their adopted country’s world-beating prowess, from football to cars, look somewhat tarnished.
(7) That was when Orlando finally imposed their superior attacking prowess and simply overwhelmed the visitors with three goals in the space of eight minutes, with two more from Dwyer and one from local product Dennis Chin.
(8) The BBC director general, Tony Hall , said the controversial boxer had been put on the list for his “sporting prowess” and that he trusted the public to judge who should win the contest.
(9) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(10) The potential impact on future patient draw, professional prowess, and income, which may result from a continuation of this wide gap, is also discussed.
(11) Fresh to office, and gung-ho to demonstrate their prowess at cutting, a lot of the Tory ministers were naive or reckless about the impact of cuts.
(12) Zlatan Ibrahimovic: ‘Mourinho is cool – the older coaches get, the cooler they get’ Read more The clubs have agreed a fee of around £25m plus add-ons for Bailly, who can play across the back four and looks to have the physical prowess to prosper in the Premier League.
(13) The duo are famed for their deal-making prowess, founded on a strategy of driving profits by slashing costs.
(14) Chelsea have won seven matches during that sequence and once we had waded through all the varying subplots and controversies the bottom line is the Premier League leaders have re-established a five-point advantage ahead of Manchester City – and gone nine clear of Arsenal – courtesy of Eden Hazard’s expertly taken penalty and the latest demonstration of Diego Costa’s penalty-box prowess.
(15) Here was the team that comes at opponents in a blur of red and terrorises them with their attacking prowess.
(16) What special extra element can the RAF add, other than trying to demonstrate Britain’s military prowess Even if the forces of Isis are attacked even more intensively from the air, the military consensus appears to be that they cannot be defeated without ground troops.
(17) Santos had bridled at suggestions before the game that Greece’s tactics have not developed since winning the European Championship in 2004 with a watertight defence and set-piece prowess.
(18) More than talking heads: why Davos matters Read more Without emotional connections, these leaders – the vast majority of whom are men – will use their intellectual prowess to find solutions with little attention trickling down to the greatest agent of change: our hearts.
(19) Gassman had started out, quite promisingly, as a sportsman in his hometown of Genoa, but quickly decided to put his athletic prowess, good looks and prodigiously mellifluous speaking voice to work in the theatre.
(20) But the event has not taken place for the last few years, reportedly because North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, wants to improve the country’s sporting prowess first.