Readers recommend is like a great big cooking pot, and each week we come along with our carefully hand-picked ingredients and put them on the table, and then the chef de jour will take their pick from the wonderful selection of produce and skilfully create an aural dish to set before the connoisseurs.
K-pop is kitschy, catchy, highly produced, seamlessly choreographed, skilfully marketed and performed by (mostly) young, unthreateningly good-looking boy and girl bands with devoted, tech-savvy followings.
Using the Studs Terkel/George Plimpton technique of oral history - the book is composed almost entirely of skilfully edited interviews with myriad friends, family, colleagues and sundry hangers-on - Richard Kelly has produced a biography that is about as honest, informative and engaging as you can imagine any book about Hollywood could be.
Lee produces a riveting study, skilfully unpicking the links between Woolf's life and work and revealing the brilliance of her writing.
It's tempting to see Wuzhen as a very skilfully finessed Disneyfication of historic fabric to produce cashflow.
In last week's Film & Music, the Guardian heaped praise upon Spoon's seventh album, saying that the Austin alt-rockers "reshuffle their pack so skilfully that the same cards – guitar, bass, drums and keyboards – produce an array of different hands".
An entertainment might go beyond gratification and produce some insight in its audience when it skilfully considers universal philosophical questions such as: "What is the meaning of life?"; "What does it mean to be human?"; "What is the right thing to do?"; or "How do I know what I know?".
Every war, however skilfully conducted - and our own armed forces have shown unmatched skill in such conflicts - produces its quota of sorrow and anger, with consequences hard to predict.
We're going to make change by skilfully using our knowledge".
