Sentence examples for skilful hands from inspiring English sources

In less skilful hands than Seldon's, this could have been Tescolit.

In less skilful hands, this could easily become mawkish or sentimental.

In less skilful hands, this would be folly but it is typical of Phillips's fearlessness to try.

To clinch a series with the highest Test score in the Lions's 125-year history also shows what skilful hands can achieve.

She may envy her cousin Helen's seductive powers and her husband Odysseus's legacy, but, in Atwood's skilful hands, Penelope proves herself a magnetic and captivating storyteller.

But all those potential pitfalls become virtues in Carey's skilful hands, and his great gift is not only to make us believe in this very foreign vision of the past, but also to care about it deeply.

"There is no knowledge, but, in a skilful hand, serves either positively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge".

The skilful controlling hand the president's admirers claim for him will be badly needed.Most of Mr Wahid's other choices are more impressive.

In a skilful pair of hands, there can be few experiences more excruciating than being cross-examined.

It was no accident that his male characters were often skilful with their hands, even if they were good at little else.Yet Mr Miller's plays were not conceived as simple artefacts.

Mitchell says Khan has taken a soft option in meeting Malignaggi, who was thrashed in 11 rounds by Ricky Hatton: "He's a skilful boxer with fast hands but he can't break an egg".