Her speech is fluid and fast, the practised ease of the professional broadcaster; it's also never less than careful, and you wonder if she's been picking up tips from the politicians she interviews on her Radio 5 Live show.
The practised jokes and witty one-liners crash and burn.
Literature solutions are compared with the practised solutions and elucidated with the case study.
Playing opposite Lindsay Duncan's Marquise de Merteuil, Rickman conveyed both the lassitude of the practised seducer and the growing self-disgust of a man aware of his destructiveness.
If he is the practised abuser and murderer he has been accused of being (which I happen not to believe), by an alleged sexual abuse victim known only as Nick, he's also the most spectacularly accomplished liar.
Crumpled and tentative, his body language belies the practised determination of his words.
And now he's dropping names with the practised dispatch of a short order chef cracking eggs into a skillet.
When engineering a smear, the practised professional knows that detail is strictly for nerds and the inside pages.
It's all in the momentary impression, the practised eye.
After serving as surgeon to the gladiators, he taught anatomy and physiology, and practised animal vivisection for research.
