"He certainly is competent.
The therapists admitted to feeling jealous or contemptuous on occasion, and though Dr. Karasu said of his patients, "They are, almost all of them, smarter than I am, and certainly more competent," he rarely missed an opportunity in interviews for a joke or aside about the absurdity of talking about wealth as an affliction.
As you can see, it's certainly a competent camera, but I couldn't pick anything out that would set it above the other cameras in the field, whereas the 7D has excellent video options and Pentax is famous for its lenses.
You are greedy and selfish, consuming the world up, gulping it, in denial, in need of therapy but certainly not competent to have an opinion that is outside the new elite consensus.
Having worked with hundreds of children over the years, Ms. Dixon was almost certainly a more competent caregiver than I, a first-time parent, not yet two years in.
(And the water authority would certainly recognize a competent plumber, since that is their business).
But certainly "Requiem" goes beyond competent lyricism.
"Compared to uniformed officers," Deutch said, "they certainly are not as competent or as understanding of what their relative role is and what their responsibilities are".
"Compared to uniformed officers," he said in September, "they certainly are not as competent, or as understanding of what their relative role is and what their responsibilities are". He figured out later that the spies knew what he thought of them, and began to rethink his first impressions.
