Sentence examples for competent simply from inspiring English sources

"What fascinated me was that there was such a need for a hero at that moment, and such a frantic need to create that character that this young man was simply picked from among many others who were equally as competent simply because he was beautiful," Mr. Annaud said.

This is because it is impossible, without such a control, to definitively differentiate whether a silent gene is in the occluded state or whether it is competent but not expressed simply owing to the lack of a conducive milieu.

Or was Mrs Palin a calm, competent but sheltered governor who simply started to crumble under the klieg lights?

Perhaps I'm overvaluing The Wolverine simply because it's competent, but, for this type of a movie, "competent" is a fairly rare attribute.

He had a number of supporters and actually was a competent general who simply made some critical mistakes at crucial moments.

When the focus on the present is such that no one waits for history to make decisions about what is great, good, or simply competent, marks of validation like the Turner Prize become more important.

One way of stating their differences is that Dr. Lewis says she has never seen a "mere sociopath" -- that is, someone with a normally competent brain who simply has a gross lack of empathy -- while Dr. Kirwin says she has seen plenty.

"It's as simple as the fear of: Is someone simply competent enough to do this particular job?

When the entire planning process is shoe-horned into two days, the time required to do a good, competent job is simply not available.

In this respect, a leader is not simply a competent manager but a person with a bigger vision and the shrewdness to make that vision reality.

Fayṣal was simply more competent than Saʿūd: it was he who developed the ministries of government and established for the first time an efficient bureaucracy.