Sentence examples for by a skillful from inspiring English sources

Far from Vanderlyn's familiar neo-Classical style, it has a comical, cartoonish look, as if it had been made by a skillful folk artist.

Salisbury came up with the archers too late to retrieve the day but recovered the bodies of the dead and by a skillful retreat averted further disaster.

The torso had washed up in Staten Island four years after her disappearance, and the limbs appeared to have been severed, perhaps by a skillful surgeon.

Sure, we can all think of cases where a jury was razzle-dazzled by a skillful attorney, or lost in the complications of evidence, or swayed by popular prejudice.

In the main, the play may be best taken like an illustrated slide lecture delivered by a skillful group of actors who represent art-world stereotypes, viewpoints and dilemmas.

A legal team is gathered by a skillful Charlie Anderson Bruce Greenwoodd), who heads the union, and by the union's lawyer Hugh Lang Don Cheadlee), who has never performed with such nuance and subdued authority.

In fact, these and other items are works of art by Nathaniel Robinson, a skillful creator of subtle, trompe l'oeil sculpture.

The other exhibition at Cue presents works on paper by Lee Baxter Davis, a skillful draftsman and watercolorist who recently retired from a 30-year teaching career at Texas A&M-Commerce, formerly East Texas State University.

Here, Robinson is played by Chadwick Boseman, a skillful actor whose skill is needed to convey the psychological torment kept entirely on the sidelines in Robinson's own movie.

And on Friday the series ends with performances by JENNIFER WALSHE, a spirited and imaginative Irish composer and vocalist, and by Mr. Hallett, a skillful tenor.

Yudof is by many accounts a skillful manager and a good listener, but his vision of the university falls something short of Churchillian.