He seemed ready to applaud, as though he'd just heard one of Vic Fontaine's Las Vegas sidemen lay down a particularly adroit jazz solo.

Dogs are particularly adroit at manipulating human emotions; they have inherited a sharp sensitivity to social cues from their wolf forebears.

Another reason was that Mr. Sulner had become particularly adroit in using, or rather misusing, a device his wife's father had invented for comparing handwritings.

The Italians are particularly adroit at this sort of packaging.

In the past, robots have not been particularly adroit; getting from Point A to Point B can be arduous, and navigation systems cumbersome and complex.

Their descendants, however, their mostly thin-blooded heirs, were not particularly adroit at moneychanging.

That envelopment you accomplished at zero-two-twenty was particularly adroit.

Joe McDonough's dancing was particularly adroit as the Scarecrow.

It is particularly adroit in its mixing of chilly soundtrack music with clinking sound effects of everyday objects filmed in close-up to evoke a jittery suspense.

"Pataki has been particularly adroit at essentially neutralizing any possible gender gap McCall could take advantage of," said Richard Schrader, a Democratic political consultant.