Sentence examples for her skilful from inspiring English sources

And Josie Rourke, who masterminded the production, is no ordinary director, as was shown by her skilful pacing of the action, by turns fast and furious, and then dramatically braking into moments of unexpected poignancy.

In the studio, her skilful direction of such items as the opening scene of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and the reportage of Colin Davis rehearsing Mozart were models of precision and clarity.

Labor has the impressive Penny Wong, a junior finance minister, and Greg Combet, in charge of the climate-change portfolio, as well as Anna Bligh, whose reputation as premier of Queensland has been transformed by her skilful and empathetic handling of the floods.

Her skilful combination of diplomacy with lightning military action to achieve the independence of Bangladesh, cocking a snook at American and Chinese opposition, finally erased the humiliation of the Sino-Indian war of 1962, established India as the diminant power in the region, and made its Prime Minister the heroine of chauvinistic public opinion.

Let some emphasis fall on her skilful and charming turns in The Fast Show, and more yet on her float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee chatshow host, Mrs Merton, who as a pioneer of the faux-naif celebrity interviewer shtick, paved the way for Sacha Baron Cohen's brand of wind-up merchantry.

A year later, Photoplay reported that Griffith had called her "The most brilliant woman in the world", and praised her skilful writing, saying: "The most important service that Anita Loos has so far rendered the screen is the elevation of the subcaption [sic], first to sanity then to dignity and brilliance combined".

This she did with her most skilful adaptations: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1966), her hit stage version of Muriel Spark's celebrated 1961 novel, and her screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) and Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981).

A special thank goes to Reidun Hægland for her patience and commitment and for her conscientious and skilful work in the laboratory.

She was, of course, gifted and skilful in her writing, but her personal voice "occasionally tended to the implicit" as the examiners say, and when someone is already working flat out (and not necessarily in rude health), it is hard to ask them for more.

Her husband, Torvald (a skilful Dominic Rowan), is a laborious fellow.

Hugo Bleicher, the Abwehr officer who had reaped havoc among the French Resistance, judged her interrogation the most skilful to which he had been subjected by his captors.