Sentence examples for apparent skill from inspiring English sources

Afterward, van Marwijk grew incensed when asked about Robben's apparent skill at melodrama.

Robinson's main vice was gambling, without apparent skill, and he died poor, after having accumulated much wealth.

The card trick he is teaching his protégé involves no apparent skill, no card handling or card moving, still mind against mind, but without the interference of fingers.

Here there are neither characters nor really actors (despite their apparent skill at executing the gestures and delivering the lines as Godard directs).

The aircraft could theoretically fly continuously, but the pilots — despite Mr. Piccard's apparent skill at self-hypnosis and Mr. Borschberg's explorations of yoga and meditation — cannot.

Pramoedya's heroine is almost entirely without fault; her "quick mind and apparent skill at most anything she set out to do" allow her to adapt to her new surroundings, and her inborn beauty and talent, despite her humble origins, make her more fairy-tale princess than village girl.

Even before significant questions of integrity arose, as early as 2000, many of us feared the consequences of putting someone in the presidency with so little experience and with few apparent skills.

There's a similar lack of curiosity in the public arena into the recent career of Australian counter-insurgency figure David Kilcullen, offered fawning profiles in the press celebrating his apparent skills in defeating insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan while working for the Pentagon.

We believe the same goes for selecting social change agents, and therefore, we give all promising candidates a week-long field assignment to test how their apparent skills and character strengths translate to the field.

It became apparent that skill deficits existed among the ward staff and highlighted the need for more skills training.

Yet despite his apparent managerial skill, Mr. Boyle's career has been marked by repeated incidents that critics said called into question his ethics and, at the very least, his judgment.