Sentence examples for skillful expression from inspiring English sources

He loved the Volkslied ("folk song"); his sense of closeness to the peasants, delight in nature, and longing for the simple and natural life find skillful expression in his poetry.

Pskov perfected an extremely forceful style of icon painting that to the end of its development combined a remarkably skillful expression with a somewhat archaic, even naive, manner of presentation.

Apart from their skillful expression of physiognomy, these portraits also displayed the artist's facility with light effects on unusual fabrics, inspired by Dutch painting (7 ).

Responses then emerge as skillful action, compassionate expression.

Since the first studies on social skills, there is evidence that women behave in a more skillful manner in the expression of positive feeling (Gambrill & Richey, 1975; Hollandsworth & Wall, 1977).

"The influences of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and other Russian composers in his early works," Mr. Norris wrote in 1980, "soon gave way to a highly individual, lyrical idiom which, if it has not had any important lasting effect on the development of Russian music, nevertheless is characterized by sincere expression and skillful technique".

The database is valuable to investors, Minow and Monks believe, because certain actions by business leaders offer clues about their true preoccupations and, therefore, about their companies' long-term prospects — like the "tells" that skillful poker players look for in the expressions, gestures, and nervous tics of their opponents.

The work of Steve Agee, a stand-up comic with an endearingly hangdog expression, was the most skillful in translating the vocabulary of a narrative joke into visual language.

(Aside from being a skillful storyteller, Snicket is also endearingly schoolmarmish, pausing frequently between catastrophes to dilate on the meaning of expressions like "dramatic irony" or to explain the ingredients for pasta puttanesca).

The skillfulness response scale in the survey ranged from "1 = not at all skillful" to "4 = very skillful".

Their strikes were skillful.