I've never proved particularly adept at what they think is important.

He had no training to make either type of decision, and he did not prove adept.

That is something Norfolk has proved adept at - thanks to a professional support network.

But Dee was a natural and had proved much more adept than either of the older boys.

Over the last six years, this city has proved unusually adept at building inexpensive housing for the poor.

In practice, however, he was proving remarkably adept at party politics.

They proved adept at acquisitions, doing 42 of them in 21 years.

For the next several years, he proved adept at finding the winner's circle.

But she was proving even more adept at numbers and the sciences.

Television work was different, but he proved equally adept at it.