The C.I.A. later noted, in its file on him, that he was an intelligent, capable young man who would not break "under normal interrogating techniques".
"He's a very intelligent, capable man," said Hope Whitehead, 78, a retired history teacher, after she voted for Mr. McCain at the Davis Middle School in Guilford, Conn.
Intelligent, capable and confident, Wesley Crusher held his own in conflicts with older, more experienced officers, seeing off dangers and finding solutions to problems that eluded his crewmates.
It feels sometimes like our foremothers had to minimize their sexual identities and sexualities to be recognized in professional capacities as intelligent, capable women.
"For that matter Penny Arcade, Diamanda Galás and countless other women performers have explored these ideas — and presentations of the human body — in more intelligent, capable, insightful and artful ways".
"He's intelligent, capable, competent, but not necessarily a wise choice if the goal is apolitical fair justice," says Richard Dicker, the director of the international justice program at Human Rights Watch.
