He was certainly more effective than President Obama, whose public announcement on Monday lobbying for a deal that was very much in doubt in the House was one of the most inept bits of governance I've seen in a long time.
Perhaps the pony in question was just a bit inept, and did this a lot?
And we also like our characters to be inept, a little bit awkward, so we don't give them noses and we don't give them necks.
It was every bit as inept a bit of photography as I remembered it to be.
Let's say he was nervous about meeting me and a bit socially inept.
But later on he seemed a bit slow, inept at socializing, stubborn.
Round-bellied, socially inept and not the least bit shy about walking around without any pants on, he's the wackiest of the movie's characters; the others have their comic opportunities, but they're straight men by comparison.
Although Mr. Bicknell has apparently done some rewriting — a reference to Martha Stewart would have been obscure three decades ago — the play is every bit as inane and inept as history has recorded.
If losing the funds it needs to do its job proves the price of independence, this particular bit of constitutional reform will come to seem inept.
And then, in a last-minute bit of theater on behalf of the chronically inept House speaker, John A. Boehner, on Wednesday, Norquist caved — and said Republicans who voted to let taxes rise on millionaires could do so without consequence.
