But the novel is saved by its skillful and touching rendering of the mental state of each family member.
Bigger-than-life linoleum-print portraits rendered with skillful realism by Wonchul Jung imbue the rugged faces of migrant workers from Russia and India with monumental dignity.
Lobo Antunes, one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere, renders the turpitude of an entire society through an impasto of intensely individual voices.
They judge that as citizens become weaker and more incapable, it is necessary to render the government more skillful and more active in order that society be able to execute what individuals can no longer do.
Sheep, geese and dead game, rendered in Westergren's skillful hand, evoke Old Master still lifes, photorealism, and, with their flat backgrounds, Pop art.
For an elevated rendition of classic chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans (see Stroud's for the benchmark), a pair of boneless chicken breasts were rendered juicy and golden by skillful skillet roasting, given a wild-mushroom sauce and served with haricots verts and wonderfully seasoned garlic-chive mashed Yukon gold potatoes with bacon.
A monument by the sculptor John Evan Thomas was erected in 1843 by public subscription in St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, commemorating Benbow as "a skillful and daring seaman whose heroic exploits long rendered him the boast of the British Navy and still point him out as the Nelson of his times".
They are less interesting for their skillful neo-Expressionist-meets-fashion-illustration style than for their effective physical eccentricities, especially the rendering process — energetic free-form embroidery of long stitches both dense and spidery.
What is required is a machine constructed with such skill that it renders every user — from the pro to the banana-fingered fumbler — more skillful as a result.
