The subject was BP and the $20 billion fund that President Obama had, the panelists (in addition to O'Donnell, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, the Washington Post's David Ignatius, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker) agreed, skillfully forced BP to cough up -- "at least $20 billion," Fineman said.
Mr. Wopat, as always, is very good, and he delivers Tom's big anthem of regrets, "I Stayed," with skillfully subdued force.
The playwright's language, which Mr. Warchus's screenplay skillfully imitates, retains the force of a calligraphic scrawl evoking the shadowy primal emotions of stored-up memory.
At the end of HBO's film about how skillfully Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner managed to force the top banks to accept $700 billion in bailout money, the question is posed as to whether the banks so saved would turn around and lend money to save the homes of ordinary folks.
Though Ms. Saariaho can skillfully deploy huge orchestral forces, her essence is perhaps most vividly revealed in chamber works like "Maa," which marshals the full ensemble only in the seventh and final movement.
In different ways, Obama's 2008 campaign and Trump's current crusade skillfully build on the awesome force of audacious promises.
But Mr. Gbagbo's forces -- "which he is using quite skillfully," according to Colonel Burkhard -- have so far proved too deft or too determined.
And while Schwegel skillfully tightens the plot screws that force Ray to develop his own code of ethics, she also has fun riding with the cops through the best and worst of Chicago's neighborhoods.
Later, as military commander, he skillfully led the withdrawal of French forces from Prague (1742) and successfully defended Provence against the Austrians and Sardinians (1746 47).
NME considered that the show "was all very skillfully deployed: a bruisingly clear sound of scathing force, a clockwork, Pavlovian lightshow, a variegation of light and shade in the song order that builds to the unmitigating force of 'Pornography' itself as the climax".
He compares the analyst to the surgeon, "who puts aside all his feelings, even his human sympathy, and concentrates his mental forces on the single aim of performing the operation as skillfully as possible".
