I'm not good at lying.

Fadil was a classic manipulator.

But that response must be intelligent, calibrated and proportionate.

He was adept at writing and became a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Royal Society.

Most economists viewed his performance as masterful.

I was pretty good at the video games. I was not very good at the other part, so I stayed alone with the cosmos.

Yes, Achebe told a world sold to the art for art s sake mystique that it is, indeed, possible to be an accomplished novelist who is also a teacher.

This con man, Henry Oberlander, he was such an effective con man British authorities say he could have undermined the entire banking system of the Western world.

Selling five rupee sachets of shampoo to poor consumers is considered clever marketing, but lending 5,000 rupees to a starving peasant at high interest rates is viewed as exploitative.

I already knew how to design, but it wasn't like I was amazingly brilliant at it, but more like I was sensitive to the ideas of grids and space and alignment and typography.

The central proposal was ingenious the Kremlin proposed to guarantee the election s fairness by installing webcams at all polling stations every citizen could personally monitor the voting process.