Skillful readers retrain their visual system so they see written words as wholes, not collections of individual letters.
The first look at the real Zidane on the world stage, skillful, great game reader, petulant - one of (if not the) best in the world.
In the Pulitzer Prize citation for "Life on Mars," judges lauded its "bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain". Toi Derricotte, poet and Academy of American Poets chancellor, said: "The surfaces of a Tracy K. Smith poem are beautiful and serene, but underneath, there is always a sense of an unknown vastness.
The reader gets skillful at speed-reading these identical scrolls of bombast, accelerating through their falsities and imprecisions, keen for the noisy lies to end so that the slightly quieter dubieties of the plot might surface.
He was a skillful sailor, photographer, and a reader who loved to share his passion for literature with everyone he touched.
("Everyone had secrets; I understood now that I did. With that one revelation, the world multiplied"). But for readers of Simpson's more skillful novels, who presumably learned these particular lessons long ago, it's not clear what "Casebook" has to teach.
With an incredible depth of knowledge and with skillful insight into the times, he enables readers to know something of the cultural context within which travelers chronicled their visits.
He was a regular reader of biographies and, he knew, a skillful writer.
Quindlen's skillful novel unfolds with grace and ease as the reader gets to know the Latham family.
