Handiness used in a sentence

Handiness in a sentence as a noun

That handiness is why the usage of the dozen and the foot persists.

I've gained enough "handiness" to do projects around the house. These things are part of who I am and I value them.

What it lacks there is more than made up in handiness and readability. My go to application for it is equation solving.

Depends on if any backlash comes against the current leadership for their heavy handiness with committee assignments. I get the feeling that some groups are gearing up for a 2014 fight.

I think there's been a decline in "handiness" and self-sufficiency, at least among white-collar workers. But I'm not sure it's entirely bad; I think it's just a different mindset.

Because reading on paper just has a certain handiness to it no matter how sophisticated our portable devices are.

I'm not saying it's a great analogy, but among it's strengths is handiness. Among it's other strengths is that functional programs can be built bottom up from lots of little pieces and when we get unexpected results, we can track them down.

Would you say Topolsky's praise of the snappiness of the OS, the keyboard's usefulness, and the browser's handiness are overstated? If the Paperwhite had some of that tablet-like functionality, that'd be great.

Personally, it is improving my "handiness" around the house. Plumbing, exterior wood care, property maintenance, etc.

I believe most ordinary folk will believe it's there fault when things don't work as expected and their lack of expertise or handiness instead of blaming the interface. Or by learning the nuances and quirks of a system they consider themselves as skilled and knowledgeable.

Take away quote: “But the high summer honeymoon soon give way to an autumnal realization that the list of skills required to really make the business work was topped by secretarial and bookkeeping efficiency, home improvement handiness and a nose for where to source the cheapest toilet paper. “

Tacitly reinforces the idea that handiness is a man's skill because it is in line with that norm. Phrasing it in gender neutral language makes it clash against the norm, and that clash encourages the reader to pause for a moment, consider the norm, and possibly conclude that there's no inherent reason that a mother or grandmother couldn't be the handy parent.