Between those points it's quite a slog, however, because the expectations raised by the breezy prose and the mass-culture references is that we'll get to a new take on the development of audiences and markets: something beyond a competent walk through the isms.
We therefore conclude that azhdarchids were more competent at walking on firm substrates than in marshes, swamps or intertidal environments.
According to the study, "women find themselves walking a tightrope between being seen as too feminine to be competent, and too masculine to be likable".
"This is the son who bears his name," said Tim Chambless, a University of Utah political scientist who has observed the Huntsman clan for 40 years, "and the father for many, many years has been cultivating, helping, expediting, opening doors that his very competent and able son can walk through".
These competent grownups launch their diabolos up into space – and then walk on their hands or juggle with kitchen knives – before catching them on their ropes as they come down.
"In other words, if competent adults want to place a rope between two tall buildings and walk along it, I don't think we should prevent them.
Except that, as Epstein points out chillingly, these days every one of us walks around with devices in our pockets that allow even a mildly competent intelligence service to track our movements and overhear our conversations: our smartphones.
He stands in front of contestant Emelia Jackson, one of the show's most confident and competent cooks, pierces her with a stare, lifts her bowl of Lobster ravioli, inhales and walks away.
We relied on a few astoundingly competent nurses and tried to nurture the rest, many of whom were recent conscripts who walked tentatively onto the wards with panic-filled eyes and found scores of reasons to leave.
Cupp said Haley ― whom she called arguably the "strongest, most competent and effective Cabinet official" ― was "thrown under the bus" by the White House when officials tried to walk back her announcement of new sanctions aimed at Russia. .
