Sentence examples for mere skills from inspiring English sources

However much critical thinking plays in democratic character, active participation requires something more than mere skills, even thinking skills.

He needs a translator of genius rather than mere skill.

"We have a lot of skill on the team, but mere skill will be for nothing if we don't work harder".

"Trying too hard" might be one way of putting it: a sense that the artist hadn't sufficiently enfranchised his or herself from an urge to display mere skill.

And had critics recognized May's directorial genius — not mere skill or talent but true originality, the creation of a new cinematic world — and clamored when it wasn't being fostered, financed, and realized, then my vision of her present-day preëminence might be no pipe dream.

The greatness of great musicians is in more than their mere skill at performing; it's in self-challenging creation and emotional exposure — a self-challenging that's all the more audacious when it takes place in public, in the presence of an audience, rather than in the studio, where the failures can be erased or shoved into a drawer.

The greatness of great musicians is in more than their mere skill at performing; it's in self-challenging creation and emotional exposure a self-challenging that's all the more audacious when it takes place in public, in the presence of an audience, rather than in the studio, where the failures can be erased or shoved into a drawer.

However it is in undertakings like the creative process that stepping past mere skill can be examined.