Johann Fabian, the jolly young sommelier, skillfully described the tastes and textures among 15 wine varieties.
(The experience is skillfully described in "Foreign Babes in Beijing," Rachel DeWoskin's memoir of her time as a television star in China).
Rand biographer Anne Heller considered it "engaging, if stilted", while Ronald Merrill described it as "a skillfully constructed drama" undercut by "Rand's peculiar inability to write an effective mystery plot without leaving holes".
Restall skillfully describes a subtler story of relationships both loving and coercive.
But despite the hubris and opportunism she so skillfully describes, Ms. Anthes still comes down in favor of genetic modification of animals.
However, McGrath, who wrote a nonfiction account of the Inuit families forcibly relocated to the region, skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.
Kendall skillfully describes the Yale of this era: with only three buildings and 40 students in a class (who had to spend their Saturdays chopping the wood to heat their rooms), it was far behind the great British universities as a scholarly center.
And she skillfully describes a tension intrinsic to the Web 2.0 world: thanks to low start-up costs, the newest entrepreneurs don't need venture capitalists, and even view them with disdain for the role they play in diluting individual wealth.
"White Heat," by M. J. McGrath (Viking; $25.95) McGrath, who wrote a nonfiction account of the Inuit families forcibly relocated to [the Canadian High Arctic], skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.
Caldwell of Jesus Freak Hideout gave the album four out of five stars, describing it as "skillfully walk[ing] the thin tightrope act of balancing a heart for ministry and discipleship with a broadly appealing (if sometimes too broadly appealing) pop rock soundtrack".
