Earlier in the evening they had done sections of "Giselle," proficiently but unremarkably; they're not models of refinement.
She sings proficiently but unvaryingly, and dances with martial neatness - as if she's listening to instructions.
Ray Milland, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young acted the screwball-comedy heroes proficiently, but the roles didn't release anything in their own natures — didn't liberate and complete them, the way farce completed Grant.
In the public imagination, "our boys" fight wars not only proficiently, but also in a spirit of decency and fair play (in mild contrast to the trigger-happy Americans).
The test, called the English Language Arts test, is based on new standards developed by the state that require fourth graders not only to read proficiently but also to write analytically about what they have read.
Claudine Gaunoux and I conducted our conversation in English, which she speaks proficiently but not quite fluently.
Vincent is a "free man," an ironic surname given the gene-obsessed world into which he is born, one that legally prohibits DNA discrimination but practices it proficiently nonetheless.
Polι, on the other hand, is unable to replicate through a cis-syn T-T dimer but it can proficiently incorporate nucleotides opposite N2-adducted guanines and opposite adducts such as 1, N6-ethanodeoxyadenosine which impair the ability of the purine to engage in Watson-Crick (W-C) base-pairing [11] [15].
She performs proficiently enough, but, to my eye, she never inhabits the core of the character's desperation.
Chappie's failings are singular: it doesn't appear to have actually been made by robots, which is more than can be said for Focus (Warner, 15), an attractively produced, proficiently plotted but oddly characterless caper thriller with none of the sparky intangibles that distinguish the best in its genre.
Armigeres subalbatus is a natural vector of the filarial worm Brugia pahangi, but it rapidly and proficiently kills Brugia malayi microfilariae by melanotic encapsulation.
