The irony is that I had those skills, but the way I presented my background led him to think that I was unfocused, broadly exposed to work, but hardly deeply skilled.
Gilbert M. Tucker, in "Our Common Speech" (1895), suggested that "a tongue that already includes diseased, gifted, lettered, bigoted, turreted, landed, skilled... will hardly suffer much by admitting other formations of the same kind".
Yet it turns out skilled work avoiders hardly ever say no.
Siemens reserves about 10% of its apprenticeships for those who would not pass the first hurdle on their marks in school, on the logic that grades are hardly the best test for a skilled manual worker.
According to this biography of a biography, Boswell was hardly a nitwit but a highly conscious, skilled author well matched to his subject.
Slowly we find ourselves inside the heroine's head, led there by a rhetoric so skilled and daring that we hardly know it's operating.
A skilled pivot is necessary, but hardly sufficient.
A highly skilled string quartet playing for 30 hardly rich patrons in a Williamsburg nightclub may not be the most alluring of business plans, but I hope the Chiara can keep it up.
Even to the skilled eye the simulated recordings are hardly distinguishable from the real data, and thus pose a good test for the IAP method.
Skilled labour is scarce.
