Sentence examples for as skillful from inspiring English sources

Not all are as skillful as Ms. Barton.

Outside the bedroom, though, his compact dialogue continues to sparkle, and his scene-setting is as skillful as ever.

As a piece of argument and rhetoric, the dissent is as skillful as his majority opinion in the King case, though not persuasive.

He embarks on a long effort to dissuade her, which involves "a form of masculine flirtation that was as skillful as any girl's".

But, as skillful as they are, they meet a remarkable opponent in the mouth, whose tissue is designed to withstand salivary acids, bacteria, fungi, and chewed food.

Joan Crawford's performance in Curtiz's "Mildred Pierce" is as skillful and as accomplished as Curtiz's direction; her performance in "Female on the Beach" is exhilarating and terrifying.

You might hope they were as politically skillful as Clinton or as financially successful as Romney or as... um, good at barbershop quartet singing as Larry Craig.

Though not a flamboyant personality — staffers joke about his lack of charisma — Schiff has continued to build a reputation as a skillful tactician, even as a Democrat in a Republican world.

However, Truman Nelson in The Nation lauds the epilogue as revelatory and describes Haley as a "skillful amanuensis".

And that context is a new-style New York rhythm section, as shrewd and skillful as they come.

Fazıl Ahmed Paşa became grand vizier on Nov. 1, 1661, and proved as energetic and skillful as his father in asserting his authority.