Our sense that Shakespeare knew a lot about life's realities is an illusion, a trick of his incomparable skill as a dramatist and poet.
His abandonment of rhyme, for which he had an almost incomparable skill, made me fear he no longer had total mastery over what he was saying.
As well as admiring his incomparable skill at constructing witty and clever clues I shall, like so many others, miss him greatly as a friend.
"Jim Callaghan," said Healey in his memoirs The Time Of My Life, first published in 1989, "handled the situation with incomparable skill and understanding, both on the spot and in Westminster".
With an emphasis on Britain and the United States, his stunning new book is the first full-scale history of the printers, sign-writers, engravers and punch-cutters who — before the early 20th century, when the term "graphic design" was coined — did all the same things that today's designers do, with incomparable skill.
Are you a hacking speed demon of incomparable skill?
That speaks to both the lack of depth of the vaulting field at this Olympics and to Maroney's incomparable skill.
And, in the days before Youtube, a VHS video called Champions Forever introduced me to the incomparable skill, grace and beauty of the man who stood above them all.
"A curiously absorbing drama," said a critic for CBS News. "The reason for this lies in the incomparable acting skills of its star, Mel Gibson and, frankly, the fact that he lets a hand puppet do most of the talking".
So many beautiful tributes to Scully have focused on his incomparable broadcasting skills.
