The phrase "ably engaged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is skillfully or competently involved in an activity or task.
Example: "The team was ably engaged in the project, demonstrating their expertise and commitment to success."
Alternatives: "skillfully involved" or "competently occupied".
In this context, rhetoric becomes an important tool, helping the virtuous leader in his attempts to found a virtuous city by ably engaging average people's imaginations (and affecting them in a way that philosophical argument could never affect them), and in this way guiding them along towards right action and the happiness that comes from human flourishing.
White civilians were assisted ably by local law enforcement agencies, which engaged in an orgy of official violence that was extreme even by Jim Crow standards.
It is taken as a given among left-leaning observers that the coalition government has been engaged in something of a propaganda war against benefits claimants since 2010, ably assisted by political allies in the newspapers and other media.
In this edited conversation, we hear the best of Professor McClain - first as a public intellectual engaged in civil discourse with David Blankenhorn and then as a teacher helping me better understand the chorus of voices and viewpoints in the contemporary discussions about parenthood, all ably presented in her recently released book What is Parenthood?
The Los Angeles Film Festival isn't an A-list festival nor does it claim to be – but it's a growing, respected showcase that can draw top directors and ably cater to a local thirst for engaging innovative cinema.
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
