Sentence examples for skilful that from inspiring English sources

Pastiche, when present, is so skilful that it can go unnoticed.

The feat was so skilful that Mr. Musharraf won more than $10 billion in American military assistance for his army, as well as unannounced covert aid.

Their "conversation" had attracted a huge audience, but no one seemed to notice that while their questions were directed to Iris, John fielded every single one of them – in an unselfconscious manner so skilful that you couldn't tell that Iris had scarcely spoken.

So skilful that Johan Cruyff signed him for Barcelona; so laid-back that he only lasted a season, his most memorable day in Catalunya coming when he won 10,000Ptas from Albert Ferrer and Carlos Busquets for going from the Camp Nou to the Mini Estadi, 500 metres away, and back again, twice stopping at the traffic lights, performing kick-ups all the way.

It's a form of fly-fishing considered so skilful that its originator corresponded with Einstein on its physical properties (these letters will soon be published).

A famously skilful team that was practically unbeatable on its day – days that were decidedly few and far between at the time, it must be said – Offaly had gone into the 1994 All Ireland final dogged by a reputation for not over-exerting themselves in training that, while exaggerated, was not exactly unfair or without foundation.

Very engaging but rarely elating, this show is a skilful confection that doesn't quite produce the inspired sugar-rush of magic that's required.

It is a skilful compromise that takes account of French sensitivities.

If these were just conversation pieces, and demonstrations of skilful toil, that would be the end of it.

Mark Lyall Grant, British ambassador to the UN and skilful diplomat that is he, didn't bat an eyelid.

While it took Christie's bullheaded determination to get the opera house built, it was only his wife's skilful diplomacy that enabled the first season to happen.