'skilful shape' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the artistry of a painting, sculpture, or other object that has had its form shaped with skill and precision. For example, "The intricate details in the vase show a skilful shape that only a master artisan could create."
"The author has gone to some lengths to absent himself from the lines and claims to have changed very little to produce what he calls 'a rapid fire kind of poetry', but don't be fooled: Motion's skilful shaping and alterations have resulted in a subtle and magical transformation.
He has also been skilful at shaping policies which have a good chance of setting Democrats at each other's throats.
The sophisticated, skilful leather shapes - from elegant skirts to draped funnel necks - bode well for the designer's upcoming debut at Spanish leather house Loewe.
Lennon is interesting in this context, a player who seemed to be the wrong type (cocky, clever), the wrong shape (small, skilful) and too easily led into the casino culture to avoid the hard edges of the system.
If this group rather than that had been wiped out, the future would have been different, and the vertebrates, let alone humanity, might never have arisen.Such musings led him into further conflict with orthodox neo-Darwinians, led by an equally skilful writer in the shape of Richard Dawkins an Oxford man, and an exponent of effortless superiority if ever there was one.
But flipping a runny tortilla is hard work – invert it on to a plate, and you'll be left with a goodly quantity of liquid to tip back into the pan, which, unless you're exceptionally skilful, can spoil the shape of the finished dish.
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Sculpture combines with the shape of the land and the skilful plantings to make the modern Tremenheere garden, and if you lift your eye at the right moment from streams, exotic foliage or stone feature, it is drawn through a gap in the screen of mature oak and beech to the bay and the sea and the sharp-edged silhouette of the mount itself.
Shape-shifting can be politics at its most skilful, finding ways to confound expectations even while acknowledging that the form the drama takes has to follow some rules.
"The peascod was a style of doublet constructed by skilful use of padding and stuffing to achieve a rounded and tapering look akin to the fecund shape of a peapod ripe for picking," she said.
