You come away from Mr. Schenkkan's play with admiration for Johnson's peerless political skills, his ability to bend a recalcitrant Congress to his will by means both subtle and blunt, but with little sense of where he truly stood, morally, on the great issues of the day.
Gen. Rikki Stormgren, is made over into the series' Ricky Stormgren Mike Vogell), American farmer, chosen from billions for his peerless people skills.
In his own time, he was legendary not just for his peerless rhetorical skills but also for his good looks and upright, manly bearing.
A dynamic Washington figure whose trademark wire-rimmed glasses and carefully slicked and parted hair gave him the appearance of a tautly wound schoolmaster, McNamara had won over both Kennedy and Johnson with his unflagging optimism, peerless management skills and bureaucratic gamesmanship that raised his profile and cowed his rivals.
Knight's answer, "You can't just walk away," might perhaps mollify more squeamish co-workers in HM Treasury – were it not for her decision, in her next post, to apply her peerless venality-finessing skills to the "big six" lobby group, Energy UK.
For all his writing skill, which was peerless among his contemporaries, he had a gift also for precision, for giving witness, for relating what he saw in front of him, for sharing insight and judgment.
From the novel's opening, it's clear that the skills that make Charles Carter a peerless illusionist — his derring-do, his irrepressible showmanship, and even the bouts of self-doubt that only spur him to greater achievement — are ones shared by novelists, and, in particular, by the novelist breathing life into Carter.
Though a peerless rhetorician, he did not always use this skill to best effect when in office.
