expertness

But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished, and with such liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence.

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice.

As she knew her own expertness with the needle, this did not surprise her; but she felt some wonder that more and better work should produce the least reward.

Many children develop such expertness in silent counting that, in the absence of close observation and questioning, they are believed to have procedures much beyond those they do have.

Mistakes were almost always due to "lack of expertness," according to the first professional child-placing manual, which described child-placing as "exceedingly technical" work that "gives almost uniformly satisfactory results." (67) Until standards were firmly in place, child placers would stumble along with nothing to guide them but trial and error.

He admired the expertness of these artists so much, that he copied many of their paintings in order to learn as much as possible about the way these artists worked.

(1.) See, e.g., Joan Flynn, "Expertness for What?": The Gould Years at the NLRB and the Irrepressible Myth of the "Independent" Agency, 52 ADMIN.

(120) This test recognizes that even if an agency does not rely on its delegated policy-making authority--the exercise of which would make the agency's decision dominant--its policy decisions should be given respect consistent with "the degree of the agency's care, its consistency, formality, and relative expertness, and to the persuasiveness of the agency's position.

The higher a participant rates a counselor, the greater the perceived degree of expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness attributed to that counselor.

With a masterly expertness, Bell shows us the tensions among political coalitions and any results thereof.

More specifically, Hovland, Janis, and Kelley (1953) discovered that audiences reacted to cues indicating a communicator's intentions, expertness, and trustworthiness by judging a message more favorably when delivered by a source who was perceived as having a relatively high, rather than low, level of credibility.