Sentence examples for formal skill from inspiring English sources

Mr. Munisteri is an established choreographer with a reputation for formal skill and the ability to create pieces full of life and color.

Like an older duo, "Smash Through to Sunlight," it shows his formal skill and ability to color movement through tempo and phrasing.

Given his formal skill, it's no surprise that Maxwell excels at the traditional lyric -- and the closer these lyrics get to his personal experience, the better he writes.

"Quality," primarily defined as formal skill, is back in vogue, part and parcel of a conservative, some would say retrogressive, painting and drawing revival.

These had always placed greater emphasis on formal skill in argument than on truth of outcome, and during the Baroque period and the Enlightenment they came to seem sterile and farcical.

In 2001 our reviewer, Daniel Mendelsohn, praised both the formal skill and emotional intensity of Merrill's work, saying "his lyrics... have a lapidary smoothness and mosaic fit that recall not his beloved Greeks but, if anyone, the Roman lyricist Horace -- another poet who was haunted by the specter of time and death even as he puckishly pursued the pleasures of life".

Lancret is far more interesting, but for all their formal skills, these artists are earthbound beings.

He said that small talk can be as important as formal skills for getting a job.

His inventiveness is matched by his accessibility, a rare combination of formal skills, intellectual curiosity and emotional power".

There are many biologists who are better mathematicians, but Bill more than made up in vision and purpose for any lack of formal skills.

And once one is aware of it, no attempt to focus on Stubbs's formal skills can easily disguise the pervasive slaughterhouse atmosphere.