How To Use Skillfully In A Sentence

The document, which critics of the plan describe as convoluted and skillfully worded, does not specify any dates for construction or even mention demolition. NYT > Home Page
However, the Trouts have skillfully created a spectacle as beautiful as it is thought provoking.
On this magnificent necklace, worn by either a young woman or man, the beadworker has skillfully played with colors and geometric shapes.
Review: Light-hearted (skillfully borderline silly) and inventive story with strong characters and good back story about Kaz's bleb paranoia since the death of his parents at the "hands" of a bleb (a set of steak knives attached to a coat rack). REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois
Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.

Capt Yost continued the approach, skillfully aligning the aircraft with the runway using right rudder and fanning the speed-brakes once the landing was assured.
Instead of static, talking-head interviews, all are skillfully supplemented with stills and clips, and are indexed by subject.
The telepic also dealt skillfully with the common issue of longtime friends as would-be lovers.
He skillfully parried all the interviewer's most probing questions.
Soprano Gretchen Johnson skillfully sang the witty minimal texts set to an academic mix of serial and popular music styles.
What's stunning about Flower and Garnet is how minimally all these complex emotions are communicated and how Behrman skillfully negotiates the volatile path of his story without lapsing into melodrama or sentiment.
These sculptures are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic.
Alice de Souza has dealt herself a winning hand and she has played it skillfully.
Yet perhaps because the book is so skillfully wrought, one wishes that it could have been written without not just foul language but also foully specific images, such as that of a 16-year-old girl sleeping with a sadistic drug dealer. Desperate Kids On the Run
The highly unusual interplay of materials affords rich tonal contrasts and skillfully integrates the solidity of the carved wooden structure with the intricacy of the inscribed inlays.
Skillfully and carefully, the owner maneuvered it into position between the stacks of oats, unhitched the tractor and turned it around to the face of the threshing machine.
Apparently Thais don't trill their tongue skillfully enough to produce an intelligible ‘r’ sound.
His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings.
Maxwell's text, in opening and closing monologues, overwrites the story of his family's trans-American migration onto the biblical arc of the Creation and Redemption allegories, a contemporary flavor skillfully affected by somehow tasteful references to free-basing. Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion"
Two lads with notably large feet and broken shoes dance skillfully while a slovenly, fat woman picks at her guitar.
Skillfully, she unlatched the catch and opened the door, allowing Edward and James to enter.
Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.
Overall, the storylines are engaging and skillfully intertwined, and the acting well-done.
Beyond mere rhetoric, Church leaders have skillfully capitalized on their formidable influence in Catholic countries.
In this case he is surely right, but I am left wondering whether the factors in relationships between confessant and confessor that he so skillfully unpacks are felt equally in all types of those relationships.
Connie tried pumping her for information on what Hardwick wanted, but she evaded the questions so skillfully that Connie realized she was in a different league.
She skillfully uses ethnohistorical methods to demonstrate that although changes occurred, essential values persisted.
She has created an intriguing story by skillfully interweaving fictional and historical events.
His singles have skillfully mixed pop R & B with gentle hints of UK garage rhythms.
After skillfully ducking and dodging the two shoes hurled at his face at his final press conference in Baghdad, our dodger and ducker-in-chief calmly reported the size of the famous shoes. David's Flying Shoes v. Goliath's Bloody Ruse
Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
On Buis 'tune "Zest for a Zizz," he suggests the opulence of Ellington's dozen horns by skillfully arraying The Astronotes' five winds in background and foreground roles. Joost Buis And Astronotes: Controlled Anarchy
Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out.
It was an elite, skillfully and ruthlessly controlling demoralized and apathetic masses.
All respect to the Konrads, as they are working hard, smart, and skillfully on a unique fishery, but I feel that the triploids should be asterisked since they are genetically modified. New Record Brown vs. New Record Rainbow: Apples and Oranges?
Illustrator Stephanie Buscema has that perfect “retro cute” thing going on with paintings of children, skillfully rendered in gouache. Avalanche of Cuteness : Scrubbles.net
The jackets are skillfully constructed, whether impeccable blazers or little jackets with bouffant sleeves.
They skillfully refuted an expert witness's notion that Marsh had been in a ‘dream-like dissociative state’.
Methods 22 cases of ruptured inferior lacrimal canaliculus were operated with silica gel collapsible bulb skillfully as holdfast.
The bold but subtle planes of the robust little head suggest mobility; a distinct person animates the inert material that Rodin manipulated so skillfully. A Most Revealing Face
The helmsman skillfully navigated the ship towards the enormous docking bay doors which engulfed the view screen.
He looked them over, awe and curiosity registering on his face before he skillfully masked his emotions.
The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude.
But meanwhile, with marvelous artistry, he skillfully carved a snowy ivory statue.
The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was also frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.
Her profession seems almost engraved in her form as she holds the distaff under her arm, draws the thread skillfully from it, and winds it on the bobbin with her other hand, all the while looking fixedly, eyes not quite focused, at us.
Kennedy skillfully evokes the atmosphere of an edgy defeated Germany and that of a victorious Britain awash in disappointment and disillusion, but she is at her best when conveying the turmoil inside her protagonist’s mind. Cover to Cover
He uses his narrative's inherent elasticity to open perspective and depth of field naturally, then skillfully dollies around and pans in and out of larger contexts as illuminating backdrop for his two odd couples.
Now unjoint the legs and wings at the middle joint, which can be done very skillfully by a little practice. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
Staying focused on what's important has ensured her success as she skillfully avoids the trials and tribulations of the pressures that surround her.
I watch their uncalloused hands, hands not used to such tasks, skillfully wrapping the shape with twine, transforming what had been a violent an chaotic death into something more orderly, peaceful â something that the living could make sense of and that the dead may have ultimately wished for. Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives
Many of the critical essays skillfully blend pertinent close readings with wider cultural background.
With sharp mind and witty words, the silver-tongued diplomat skillfully coped with the tough questions from the press.
Bhim, our Nepalese boatman on the sweep oar, skillfully hauls the raft around so that we hit the wave bow-on.
No hand, skillfully placed or not, is going to catch all the aerosol content of a fifty mile an hour cough.
Pearl's world, which Bradby skillfully recreates, mirrors the one that she grew up during the 1960s.
Beyond mere rhetoric, Church leaders have skillfully capitalized on their formidable influence in Catholic countries.
Its arms were made from femurs and fibulae to achieve the sense of scale, its great jointed legs an ornate arrangement of skillfully wired bones, the barest hint of the joins visible between them. The Black Angel
And they perform far more skillfully in soccer, lacrosse and softball than they do in basketball.
Her fingers danced skillfully on the taut strings, creating an intricate melody.
The film builds suspense in a skillfully organic manner, then never pays off.
For what are idols but what the same Scripture describes in these words: ‘Eyes have they, and they do not see,’ and whatever else may be said of substances however skillfully carved into shape, but withal lacking life and sense?
I noticed how he paled and saw traces of fear in his eyes even if he masked them skillfully.
In Sadness, these two threads are delicately and skillfully woven together to create an elegant and intensely moving documentary.
The helmsman skillfully navigated the ship towards the enormous docking bay doors which engulfed the view screen.
Curried Vidalia-onion fritters, lightly battered and skillfully fried, come with a sweet-sour tamarind dipping sauce.
Durso skillfully gleans her story from both primary and secondary sources, portraying a woman who rebelled against established societal norms.
Toth, the Indiana anthropologist, is the founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute at Bloomington, where he demonstrates how he can skillfully craft the hammers, sharp knives and spear points that evolution enabled the forebears of Homo Sapiens to make long before the dawn of true humanity. Archive 2007-02-01
Still, the stories seamlessly and skillfully intercut, and the film retains a hypnotic coherence.
The outer casing's inverted curve is skillfully worked into the afterdecks to round off the ship's hindquarters in a flattering tribute to the lamented cruiser sterns of yesteryear.
Milanich skillfully blends the archaeological, ethnohistorical, and historical literature to provide the reader with a clear understanding of Spanish Florida.
It is also clear that people did not crowd into the mission on Azusa Street because of a skillfully crafted publicity campaign.
The Dike, extending from the rough North Sea to the calmer waters of Bridlington Bay, is nothing more than a deep dry trench, skillfully following the hollows of the ground, and cutting off Flamborough Head and a solid cantle of high land from the rest of Yorkshire. Mary Anerley
Beethoven's most charming scherzo is based upon what might now be considered a skillfully handled Negro melody. The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature
Tas was just about to call Tanis's attention to this when Tika came out of the kitchen and slammed food down in front of the draconians, skillfully avoiding their clawed hands. Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Bolshoi Ballet before signing on this year with New York City Ballet, skillfully plays on the Baryshnikov trademark - a modernity that winks at the past, recalls the virtuosic ease of Fred Astaire and is never less than hip. Undefined
he evaded the questions skillfully
FAITH LAPIDUS: Septime Webre says that seeing a beautiful ballet dancer skillfully dancing to Tchaikovsky's music is to see a joy and faith in the harmony of the world.
fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology
The children skillfully dodged him as they dashed out the door.
How skillfully the timetable must be worked out, and how unwaveringly its edicts must be carried through, adds up to the fine art of railroading.
On this magnificent necklace, worn by either a young woman or man, the beadworker has skillfully played with colors and geometric shapes.
The director moved her sometimes space-challenged charges skillfully, eliciting overall an antic tone that brought a kind of unity to the often frenzied goings-on.
Mr. Blum skillfully intercuts these plotlines, building momentum toward his big finish. Prospecting for Gold-Rush Tales
At the opposite pole to divine magic is the type that is playful and deceitful, thanks to which charlatans skillfully produce effects that stupefy ignorant people.
Or, alternatively, has The Atlantic been so skillfully retuned from the inside out that the changes ever so slightly shift the book’s emphasis and sensibility? Letters to the Editor
It is also clear that people did not crowd into the mission on Azusa Street because of a skillfully crafted publicity campaign.
She steered the car skillfully through the narrow streets.
The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.
Skillfully, he carved an inscription, blew away the stray pieces of tree bark, and stood back to look at it.
“The people behind these sorts of activities have learned nothing about the necessity of cooperative efforts along international lines—only how to be more and more skillfully bastardly.” A Covert Affair
A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
While the crowd sipped their sparkling wine, waiters - who skillfully knew every ingredient in each dish - circulated with Plum Point oysters garnished with douglas fir eau de vie and sea beans, foie gras profiteroles with a caramelized passion fruit vanilla sauce, and a Kenyon Mills jonnycake topped with maple-glazed local squash and a pickled Herbfarm filet bean. News from www.thesunchronicle.com
They wielded a pistol in each hand as calmly and skillfully as a butcher wielded a cleaver and had spare ammo clips around their waists.
Rozema skillfully orchestrates all of these elements together, and the result is a richly textured, entertaining and impressive debut.
You could say her performing is the stage equivalent of make-up applied so skillfully by a master cosmetician that it appears to be nothing more than the often aimed-for all-natural look. David Finkle: First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster
After blurring the lines between good and evil so skillfully, this ending comes as a somewhat hollow conclusion.
The commentary, from many national, ethnic, and gender perspectives, helps to skillfully cut away facile associations and simplistic modes of naming.
Then factor in guard impacts, reverses, soul charges, quick rolls, wall attacks, and staggers and you can imagine how hectic a fight can get, if played skillfully.
In the early 1970s very thin leaf gold was skillfully implanted on rhodochrosite to make spectacular faked specimens.
And as is my wont, I sat up at precisely 3: 14 a.m. and marveled anew at how playfully, skillfully the brain arranges its thoughts when left to its own dreamy devices. A grief ago
Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle.
The driver knew how to handle it as skillfully as a NASCAR professional. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
She has created an intriguing story by skillfully interweaving fictional and historical events.
Gangrene, as a consequence of contusions or of hemorrhage or of an impediment to the circulation, caused by unskillfully applied apparatus, must not be overlooked among the occasional incidents; nor must lockjaw, which is not an uncommon occurrence. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
I felt relief because the film had rather skillfully named the proverbial elephant (s) in the room, raising issues that many educators find extraordinarily uncomfortable to talk about. Lisa Petrides: 'Superman' Puts Spotlight on Education
They skillfully insinuated themselves within striking distance of their targets.
Glumly, Ichiro nodded as he struggled with his iron bonds even though he knew they had been done too skillfully to let him escape.
Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.
But a persistent critic could argue that this showed how skillfully the participant, the caller, and the hidden accomplice had devised the deception.
He skillfully uses the books under review as a springboard for reassessing a variety of intellectuals, Victorian and modern.
Senator O'Brian skillfully dodged the crucial question.
BUt now, with excellent PR and global communication, it can be used as another tool to reinforce the ongoing effort to keep the populace fucused on the central government for a "solution" and to quell the fear that was so skillfully in generated, and that we were so gullible in cranking up. Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
Where I can learn to make a bloviatingly didactic recitation of contentless received wisdom as skillfully as “raph” makes it upthread? Matthew Yglesias » All Presidents Engage With Tyrants
In fact, the artist has skillfully coordinated his composition and palette, adding a sense of order and harmony to the realistic transcription.
But meanwhile, with marvelous artistry, he skillfully carved a snowy ivory statue.
Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
The author also skillfully portrays nonevents.
Senator O'Brian skillfully dodged the crucial question.
Pancake makeup skillfully disguised the hollows beneath his eyes; his sallow cheeks were rouged. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Senator O'Brian skillfully dodged the reporter's question.
If the wound is stitched up skillfully, it will hardly leave a mark.
The third album by this five-year-old U.K. act has a sweet but thorny simplicity all its own, morose at times and dramatic elsewhere, with large doses of murky tenderness that skillfully side-steps syrupy slop.
The directors similarly stripped down the action, skillfully focusing confrontations, blocking chorus scenes choreographically, and staging the wordless performance of the Players with creepily stylized mime. Pedestrian Score
Pancake makeup skillfully disguised the hollows beneath his eyes; his sallow cheeks were rouged. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Skillfully, Annika hoisted herself up onto the moving wagon; her own pale, pastel colored skirt billowed out behind her like a cape.
She skillfully uses patients suffering from neglect due to parietal lesions to explore a number of central questions in the study of spatial representations.
Apart from the Contes, skillfully etched narratives of casual romance published in 1664, La Fontaine is chiefly known for his animal fables in the tradition of Aesop. Mexico's Voltaire: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776–1827)
Joshua trees are monicots, grotesquely oversized lilies, with contorted limbs and trunks armored with spikes, which are used skillfully by the loggerhead shrike to impale its prey.
Although he'd ultimately outgrow his cherub-like adorableness, he, too transitioned into his teenage years skillfully, keeping a realistic tone to his portrayal of those inevitably clumsy years.
The candidate skillfully worked the huge crowd.
The Tangka, barbola and sculptures of Regong Art feature refined craftsmanship and skillfully blended vibrant colors.
Likewise, editor A. Shreekar Prasad has skillfully interwoven the three plot lines and the film unwinds with great lucidity and no jarring notes.
It has been suggested that British broadcasting corporations give the public what it thinks it should have and not what the public wants and that misapprehension is based upon this great fallacy-that if you are going to give the public what it wants you must not appreciate its view; you must depreciate it, and I am sure you will discover in Canada, as we have in Great Britain, that you must skillfully arrange and constantly raise your standard of program. Should Broadcasting Be Controlled?
The jeweller skillfully engraved the initials on the ring.
After returning to a defiladed position, he skillfully rescued and evacuated a wounded officer.
In this case, the Buddha and the bodhisattvas very skillfully condensed the teachings into a very concise form.
The author skillfully fuses these fragments into a cohesive whole.
Classic Sancerre ingredients all coming together skillfully with sharpish gooseberry fruit rolling along a mineral path leading to a flinty finale. 5 Stars.
Logan also skillfully incorporates illustrative primary source texts into each of his chapters.
What we need today is a leadership that is able to identify India's strategic interests clearly and tries to achieve them by navigating skillfully through these turbulent times.
It's worth a trip to Hollywood just to eat it; or to sample the molten, skillfully fried finger-banana dessert fritters billed on the menu as ‘banana beignets.’
Well, one option is to murmur soothing words, then carefully, skillfully amputate their necrotic toes (then feet, then legs), provide potent inhalable steroids to coax a little more oxygen uptake from their blackened lungs, and generally spare no expense or effort to keep them as comfortable and happy as possible as they kill themselves slowly. Dr. Andrew Weil: President Obama: Get Angry About Health Care Reform

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