The girls played skillfully and passionately.
It plays skillfully, it makes lovely sounds, and Lorin Maazel has schooled it to new heights of discipline.
Its rhythmic pulse is overshadowed by a cerebral structure that plays skillfully with repeated motifs and seems to peel off layers of potential meaning that, in the end, remain enigmatic.
The diagramed deal from the Open Pairs, which began the tournament, was played skillfully by one of the country's best female players, Sue Picus of Manhattan, who owns three world titles.
She also gains more and more weight, as surprised herself as the viewers to discover she was pregnant from a night with Pete Campbell, the ambitious, resolutely untalented scion of an old New York family and resident irritant at Sterling Cooper (played skillfully by Vincent Kartheiser).
Working on the principle that "ya gotta git a man in the way a man gits got," H.C and the boys -- Noah, the overprotective and emotionally limited older brother, and Jimmy, the slightly simple but beautifully spirited younger brother, played skillfully by Keith C. Beechey and Matt McCarthy -- pay a visit on File, the sheriff's deputy who has a checkered marital past.
This ability to make money in a down market is an old trick of Alcoa's, played skillfully enough that it can keep 450,000 tonnes of annual capacity (14% of its total) shuttered.
But finally to them you are just a singer of silly songs with a sweet voice who plays skillfully.
Herman's leadership mastery was put to the ultimate test by the Four Brothers Band, which included numerous players who managed, despite severe drug problems, to play skillfully.
Ultimately, at the painful volume level enforced through Act 1 of "Bahia: Land of Magic," it didn't matter if vocalist Vania Amaral hit the right notes or if the percussion ensemble played skillfully.
