The door was locked with the same adroitness and the same silence.

Then with the adroitness of a skilled surgeon, she made the examination.

Plenty of contemporary accounts admired his adroitness, sureness, strength, fluency and tone.

It had a rare political adroitness, but it had little intellectual subtlety.

Her wonderful social instincts, her memory, her adroitness, had somehow failed her.

Thus the Republic had a reward for adroitness, for treachery, and treason.

Indeed, it requires considerably more adroitness, and far more versatility of talent.

But my adroitness, so carefully schooled, seemed momentarily to have deserted me.

But she was really admiring, and amazed at Ruth's adroitness and courage.

With Machiavellian adroitness, he set informers against informers, families against families.

Together they planned the campaigns; she executed them with consummate skill and adroitness.

The South chose violence, and prepared for it secretly and with great adroitness.

The event was managed by him with amazing adroitness from beginning to end.

He had an adroitness and a fertility of mind which were altogether amazing.

Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.

She felt proud of the adroitness of this-anexact truth, yet wholly misleading.