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When you are adept at something, you are very good, skillful, or talented at it.
Someone who is adroit is skillful and clever, especially in thought, behavior, or action.
The word aesthetic is used to talk about art, beauty, the study of beauty, and the appreciation of beautiful things.
If someone shows consummate skill at doing something, that person’s skill is very great or almost perfect in every way.
A deft movement or action is made quickly and with skill.
A dilettante is someone who frequently pursues an interest in a subject; nevertheless, they never spend the time and effort to study it thoroughly enough to master it.
If you describe something as pedestrian, you think that it is ordinary and not interesting.
Something prosaic is dull, boring, and ordinary.
A trite remark or idea is so overused that it is no longer interesting or novel.
If someone is unlettered, they are illiterate, unable to read and write.
Something vapid is dull, boring, and/or tiresome.
A virtuoso is someone who is very skillful at something, especially playing a musical instrument.
Noun
calligraphy
kuh-LIG-ruh-fee
Context
Careful calligraphy, or writing and painting of letters, is truly elegant. Words and symbols can be visually attractive if they are beautifully written using calligraphy by an accomplished artist. A special calligraphic pen or brush is used to great effect to achieve graceful lines and beautiful effects on the artistically designed, handwritten page.
Calli's Graphs are Beautiful Although most people wouldn't call hand-drawn mathematical graphs beautiful, Calli does hers so precisely and accurately that her impressed math teacher says Calli's graphs could be considered calligraphy because they are the best he's ever seen.
Examples
The most famous of composite works is the Preface to the Great Tang Buddhist Canon, compiled from the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi by the Buddhist monk Huairen at the behest of the emperor and completed in 672.
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BNET
In order to comprehend the history of Chinese calligraphy in its fullest scope, however, the role of stone-engraved calligraphy can not be ignored.
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BNET
The invitation resembles a high-end dinner menu — a leather binder with the tournament logo, two simple words 'The Invitation' on the front and elaborate calligraphy asking celebrities/amateurs to spend four days on the Monterey Peninsula.
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Sports Illustrated
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