In fact the librettists, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, interweave two stories with uncommon skill.
As she's done in so many of her earlier novels, Ms. Smiley conjures up her characters' daily routines with uncommon skill, delineating the tidal flow of desire, disappointment and wishful thinking that informs their domestic and business lives.
Today he might be accused of plagiarism or parody, but really he created impossibly attractive and original masterpieces that Tharaud performs with uncommon sensitivity and charm on a modern Steinway grand piano.
That uncommon skill might have been ripe for a new kind of Fox reality show.
Despite this arrangement, all three of Cersei's children (including Joffrey) were fathered by her twin brother Jaime, who is employed by Robert due to his uncommon skill with a sword (pun unintended).
Collaborating with Ms. Baker and Mr. Belber, Mr. Gold showed uncommon skill at revealing the minutiae of real people experiencing real life, rendering the most delicate of plays emotionally robust.
He had recently disseminated a short video of himself dancing and leaping about there, with uncommon balletic skill, to the tune of Pharrell Williams's song "Happy".
The director Christopher Alden, who last season kick-started an abbreviated City Opera season with a darkly sexy production of "Don Giovanni," once again showed uncommon skill in traversing the uneven terrain of "A Quiet Place".
It will take uncommon skill for him to stop it falling.
But Stalin also showed uncommon skill in creating his personal dictatorship.
All the singers, instrumentalists and dancers performed with admirable skill and irresistible gusto.
