In either case, he would not be the first politician whose fortunes depended upon the adroit use of a shovel.
A serial killer is a serial killer, even if he is played by the adroit Mr. Hall, whose previous television role was as the tightly wound David Fisher on HBO's "Six Feet Under".
"As adapted with fidelity by the actress Eileen Atkins and directed by Marleen Gorris (whose Academy Award-winning "Antonia's Line" was much less adroit), the film drifts easily between past and present, romance and pragmatism, hope and despair in its evocation of Woolf's vision".
Clay thrived in Washington, a small town whose transient denizens were susceptible to the kind of adroit personal management he was known for.
In 1960, Eric McKitrick deemed Stevens "a picturesque and adroit politician, but a very limited one" whose career was "a long comic sequence of devilish schemes which, one after another, kept blowing up in his face".
Mr. Neeson, whose slightly downturned mouth makes him a big, dour soul, shows adroit comic reflexes.
But Mr. Pataki's formidable position these days is, in truth, as much a reflection of what even Democrats say is his adroit and largely successful effort to position himself in a state whose electoral dynamics have shifted notably, and increasingly to his disadvantage, in the last eight years.
He later gratefully recognized that he owed the success of his mission largely to the British minister the adroit and scholarly Sir William Hamilton, who had lived at Naples for 30 years and whose vivacious young wife, Emma, was in the queen's confidence.
Professor Neustadt, whose seminal book "Presidential Power" persuaded John F. Kennedy to seek out its author for advice, provides much adroit commentary and a charmingly rumpled professorial presence.
"Trick Baby,", which centers on a biracial pimp whose light skin allows him to move through both black ghettoes and white high society, is an adroit exposé of race and class in America.
