Griffith, too, had his prejudices, and in "The Birth of a Nation" he was skillful enough to make them virulent, where DeMille's could only be lurid.
Ms. Falkner is skillful enough to make something exceptional out of the utterly simple: Krescendo's marinara pizza, with four or five golden cloves of roasted garlic on a plush red circle of oregano-scented tomato sauce.
"Artur Mas is like a swimmer who is just trying to ride the waves and getting pushed by the current, but is somehow skillful enough to make it look as if he's really a strong swimmer," he said in an interview.
Similarly, our goal in business is to maintain the forward motion of the ship using the most efficient techniques and skillful tactics to make our mark.
And she is too skillful a writer to make the father an unadulterated villain; Young Ju senses his humiliation at his menial jobs, his sense of failure and his despair when his mother dies back in Korea, far from the son who should have been taking care of her.
The Taliban have used terrorist tactics — which include beheadings, abductions, death threats and summary executions of people accused of being spies — as well as a skillful propaganda campaign, to make the insurgency seem more powerful and omnipresent than it really is.
Providing sustained and focused preparatory experiences for facilitators such as cooperative planning meetings and facilitation rehearsals—helps them become confident, proficient, and flexible in their role and promotes their ability to make skillful facilitation moves as they are leading PD workshops (Borko et al. 2014a; Santagata 2009; Zaslavsky and Leikin 2004).
Although the book's melodramatic conclusion -- which involves a murder, a startling revelation, an act of self-sacrifice and one last act of fiction-making -- might have seemed contrived in the hands of a less skillful writer, Ms. Rogers manages to make it both plausible and touching.
The control of vocabulary, however, is only stated at the Basic Requirement level, requiring learners to be "able to make skillful use in spoken and written English".
Table 2 Vocabulary descriptors in the CECR Levels of requirements Range & control Basic Has a command of a lexical repertoire of 4,795 words and 700 phrases (including the vocabulary learned at senior secondary education), among which 2,000 words are active vocabulary, which a learner should be able to make skillful use in spoken and written English on the basis of recognition.
