As humans, while we fool ourselves into thinking otherwise, in reality we're actually not skillful multi-taskers.
Just as fancy restaurants don't discourage patrons, advisers don't discourage active management, even though it would take a miracle to actually deliver skillful management.
Ramona is "educated," we are told vaguely — we know far more about her lacy black undergarments and the multicourse dinners she prepares than we do about whether she is actually intelligent or merely a skillful flatterer eager to connect herself to a prominent intellectual.
Actually, it's a pure garden strawberry, an extraordinarily skillful or lucky combination of four older European strawberry varieties (Gento, Ostara, Red Gauntlet and Korona) bred at the Marionnet nursery in France more than 20 years ago.
But the skillful, tactful and very lucky few will actually succeed in making their film a reality thanks to the kindness and generosity of talented professionals both on-screen and off.
Satan has not actually come to call in this tense moment from "The Good Negro," a skillful new historical drama by Tracey Scott Wilson that opened on Monday night at the Public Theater.
The first of these commissions, the partitioned ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (Hall of the Council of Ten), reveals characteristics of Veronese's mature style: skillful foreshortenings that make figures appear to be actually floating in space above the viewer, chromatic splendour, and luminous passages that endow even the shadows with colour.
It's like Michael Jordan makes basketball look easy, but when you actually try to apply that to what you do, it's incredibly more skillful than you had initially thought.
Harvard is actually focusing on measuring the physiological response to meditation -- not just mental -- with the expectant result that skillful meditators will feel, look, taste, screw, eat, sleep, dream, love, work, move and smile better than people who don't, because obviously.
The skillfulness response scale in the survey ranged from "1 = not at all skillful" to "4 = very skillful".
