hypercompetent

Heinlein seemed to like all his characters hypercompetent--so that means the sex-obsessed, parenting-obsessed women in his books were more likely to solve the equations, fix the spaceship, cook the meal, and still have time to swoon and get naked than to just swoon and get naked.

Writing the Other jimhines 2010

Males in advertisements are reliably portrayed as childish, bumbling, and inept, while women are hypercompetent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Wise Latinas Make Better Judges Than White Men? 2009

Males in advertisements are reliably portrayed as childish, bumbling, and inept, while women are hypercompetent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Wise Latinas Make Better Judges Than White Men? 2009

One of the most important figures in the presidential campaign this fall is a controversial, hypercompetent blonde.

McCain's Economic Brain 2008

Soon, however, some of the hypercompetent fellows that formed Aikido of Berkeley in those days, had a portable generator up and running and the lights came back on.

Archive 2008-03-01 James Killus 2008

Soon, however, some of the hypercompetent fellows that formed Aikido of Berkeley in those days, had a portable generator up and running and the lights came back on.

Sensei James Killus 2008

But let's look at the paragraph where she allows herself to says something that doesn't fit quite so neatly into her praise for the wonderful, hypercompetent women of today:

Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007

In military-oriented fictionwhether set in the present day or notit is difficult to find anything other than jingoism (Starship Troopers), irrelevance (The General's Daughter), or a morass of incompetence/venality, perhaps surrounding one hypercompetent officer (On Basilisk Station).

Scrivener's Error 2003

"He's just a hypercompetent person," says White House senior adviser David Axelrod.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

In The-40-Year-Old Virgin, Lynch plays a blunt, hypercompetent AV-store manager named Paula - whose can-do attitude goes so far that she offers her "personal services" to Andy (Steve Carell), who's on a mission to lose his virginity.

NPR Topics: News 2009