Sentence examples for not so adept from inspiring English sources

All this would have been an arid affair if Mr Stillman were not so adept at creating characters who convey a certain "fin de siecle" air of privilege and intellectual disaffection.

He is not so adept as some of his peers at hiding his anxieties and bluffing his way through crises, which may explain the damning, ill-chosen words after the Bangladesh defeat about the need to "look at the data" – four harmless little words, which somehow managed to encapsulate all the reservations about Moores as an international coach.

It's not so much with a different voice, because I'm not so adept at that.

He appears not so adept at the daily bread and butter of running a city.

They are not so adept at nurturing growth.

Brazilian defenders used to be commonly stereotyped as being comfortable in possession of the ball, but not so adept at the grittier side of their duties.

My only defense, when it all started, was either sheer physical strength, which I was not able to use, or else simply to pretend I wasn't bothered, possibly the best approach, but something I wasn't so adept at, since the children, at least the most forward of them, immediately discovered how uncomfortable I was in their presence.

The scientists I know are good at presenting the facts, but even they admit that they aren't so adept at moving people to take effective action.

Gore was great at thorough, and not so great at adept.

In contrast, the results of this study show that not all tutors are so adept at PBL and that on the whole tutors' behaviors are quite resilient to change.

The result is even more Polly Positivity, and not just because people are so adept at what psychologists call self-presentation: pointing out one's own wonderfulness.