| We were surrounded by gifted cricketers and adroit hockey players, and he owned none of their stylish skills, but you knew this, he would try. |
| Her poetry displays an adroit mastery of simple language and an eye for the fine threads woven into ordinary lives. |
| The series was also notable for the wonderfully adroit way it visually mixed the father's past and present, and segued from one to the other. |
| He was a self-taught musician and the beauty of his compositions lies in the adroit mix of folk, Indian classical and western classical music. |
| Shakespeare, socially adroit and professionally gifted, would have been well placed to make his big career move into the Chamberlain's Men. |
| In the end, then, Shaw's greatest skill turned out to be not in adroit plot construction, but in creating good roles for actors. |
