However skillful the management in Washington, the slump was bound to last longer than any since the Great Depression.
An additional trouble with it, which keeps the suspense thriller, however skillful and polished, a subgenre, is that the novelist, manipulating his human counters on the board, must keep them somewhat blank, with selective disclosure of their inner lives, lest the killer or mole or whatever be prematurely unmasked.
Food also figures tellingly in "Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye," but the images of raw meat (including an adorned calf carcass) and fruit, however skillful, are not the standouts in this absorbing collection of 50 works — the largest gathering of his works in this country in two decades.
Some readers will tire of this high nonsense, however, despite its skillful orchestration and period authenticity.
Rugby prides itself on the variety of qualities that it caters for, but in truth one fears for any side, however intelligent and skillful, that is facing another so much better endowed in the power department.
Is it simply out of your hands, so that your own striving -- however well-intended, skillful, and honorable -- just can't make it so?
A fair stretch of the book's second half is powerfully brought to life, however, by Conover's skillful account of Sing Sing's past.
He is notable, however, for his bold and skillful arrangements of groups of geometric shapes and for his dramatic use of richly contrasted materials, spaces, and surfaces.
The scientific attributes of colour and light in interior design are, however, less important than the skillful combination of colour values, hues, tones, shades, and above all textures.
"Whether we do, however, depends partly on our skillful intervention, more on the attitudes and behavior of the Iraqis themselves, and even in the best case, on our willingness to persevere".
Tōson's "Akikaze no uta" (1896; "Song of the Autumn Wind"), however, is not merely a skillful echo of Percy Bysshe Shelley but a true picture of a Japanese landscape; the irregular lines of his poem tend to fall into the traditional pattern of five and seven syllables.
