Marion Eals and Irwin Silverman, of York University, have conducted research suggesting that women are sixty to seventy per cent more proficient than men at remembering details from a scene.
It takes a minute or two to find the play button on the right Web page — Internet-proficient, the man is not — and suddenly the tune is blasting out of a pair of speakers at concert volume.
I must admit that our boss, Mr. Fuh, was a decent man, proficient in English and knowledgeable about business management; he even provided health-care benefits for us, which was another reason some of the women worked here.
She becomes very proficient in pleasing men sexually but also remains childlike she dries her face with her skirt and plays with its hem.
He was a repairer of cars, including those of his friends; a creative cook, a fixit man, a proficient gardener, an early environmentalist who taught many to garden without pesticides and to start compost heaps (he gave away many cuttings, some to strangers passing by).
Although the assessment of sexual differences in perceptual and reactive abilities is complicated by a number of factors (including age and personality), girls and women tend to be more proficient than boys and men in such psychomotor skills as finger dexterity and inverted-alphabet printing.
But the crowd — mostly women, with a few brave men — seemed fairly proficient.
Manning, though a proficient 27/38 for 301 yards, was somewhat of an afterthought in Denver's win at Carolina.
He is highly proficient as a pick-and-pop man and can usually force opposing bigs away from the basket.
His eight-man band is relentlessly proficient, with heavily signposted solos and smooth transits between the numerous genres that Simon has tried since his split with Art Garfunkel 40 years ago.
Researchers are churning out senior sex studies at an increasingly rapid rate, virtually all of them confirming that physically healthy men can be eager, proficient, even vibrant sex partners well into their 80s.
