Sentence examples for rather skillful from inspiring English sources

Avatar is a rather skillful composite of earlier movies like Alien, Dances with Wolves and Platoon.

"The drawing is of course one of the most important aspects of the game, but it's more oriented around rewarding a good thought process rather than skillful drawing per se".

It contents itself with the broadest of clownish behavior that relies on conditioned audience reflex rather than skillful construction to extract laughter from its gags.

What makes a person lucky (rather than talented or skillful)?

On the evidence of this broadcast, though, the company today dances "Beauty" as a series of skillful feats rather than as a poetic or suspenseful drama.

Poitras is a skillful yet rather prosaic filmmaker.

I am convinced that when a police officer starts with a commitment to non-aggression and preventing harm, the gun and badge become symbols of skillful means, rather than symbols of authority and power.

As serious a position as that may sound, Arcimboldo captivated audiences not for his skillful likenesses but rather for his wacky and whimsical allegorical portraits.

And now he is — and better still, killed in close quarters, by skillful and courageous soldiers, rather than by remote control from the sky or kidney failure.

And now he is and better still, killed in close quarters, by skillful and courageous soldiers, rather than by remote control from the sky or kidney failure.

The dialogue is pleasingly sparse and feels like a skillful and rich reduction rather than the big, wordy sauce you so often find in period drama.