Sentence examples for himself proficient from inspiring English sources

Playing to a sold-out crowd of 23,000, Sir Mick did not mention the death of Scott, but proved himself proficient in Norwegian-language between-song patter.

The light-hearted tone is mostly due to an expanded role for Pegg, who again proves himself proficient at looking astonished and/or peeved at the cool stuff Tom Cruise is doing.

Not everybody liked this centralising of power: the new order prompted the departure of the chief risk officer, Thomas Fischer, who once fancied himself for the top job.Mr Ackermann has shown himself a proficient cost-cutter in the past, at the expense of American investment bankers.

Mr Clinton, himself a proficient jazz saxophonist, is known as the most musical of ex-presidents.

We also get to hear about a hilarious face-off — on the tennis court — between two masters of comedy, in which Groucho Marx, finding himself less proficient with the tennis racket than Charlie Chaplin, decides to compete for laughs.

While Rousseff has focused on efforts to reduce inequality by expanding social welfare, raising the minimum wage and fixing energy prices, Neves has proven himself a proficient economic manager, improving efficiency, balancing the books and cutting poverty at a faster than average rate in Brazil.

Writing in 1923, Kwee Tek Hoay – himself a proficient author – wrote that he had been fascinated by the story as a child, to the point he had "memorised more than half of its contents by heart".

"I'm not too worried about face-planting in the snow and getting sick," said Kaelan, who describes himself as a proficient skier.

He has experience as a shooting guard and also proved himself to be proficient at the point position in the combine.

Until about 1880, when a man named August Renouard arrived in N.Y., Holmes thought of himself as the only proficient embalmer in the country.

Eventually he finds peace and enough confidence within himself to become a proficient mage and an asset to the party thanks to the love and support of his friends.