The value of a username is often overlooked, but an entire multimillion-dollar security system can be shattered through skillful crafting of even the smallest, most innocuous bit of information.
A frequent metaphor for the working of the Dao is the incommunicable ability to be skillful at a craft.
"Drug War" is a skillful exercise in craft, with a lot on its mind about what a government can and should do.
In addition to his prowess in battle, he is resourceful and skillful in many crafts; he can build a house, sail a boat, and, if shipwrecked, is an expert swimmer.
Woven, feathered and beaded by skillful fingers, these carefully crafted accessories gave a whole new meaning to "hand" bag.
But Lin, along with an Italian business partner, successfully revived Desmo, creating a line of leather bags that sell for a few hundred dollars each. (The company's Web site notes that all Desmo bags are "Made in Tuscany" and "crafted by the skillful hands of experts").
But as regular visitors to the museum know, craft — as in the skillful handmaking of objects that might be decorative, functional or both — never really left the building.
In addition to serving as a reminder of the prose that made Krakauer famous, it's a miniature master class in writerly craft, beginning with a skillful intro — in media res to the point that the date doesn't appear until the seventh paragraph — and deviating from strict chronology more than one might anticipate.
At the craft level, the movie is skillful.
