One turned its pages with a cheerful shock of recognition, marveling at the skillful fit of words to music, merrily singing along.
Mr. Uros Drazevic for the radio "Story of Equine Therapy" that was broadcast on the Belgrade based Radio Studio B. In eight minutes, the author managed to create a touching story and a vivid sound picture using a skillful combination of words, music and authentic sound effects.
The Latin words for right and left, dexter and sinister, form the roots of English words meaning skillful and evil, respectively.
Britten's operas are admired for their skillful setting of English words and their orchestral interludes, as well as for their dramatic aptness and depth of psychological characterization.
It led to a three-year series of immensely skillful trompe-l'oeil word pictures, in which he made oil paint resemble any number of viscous fluids.
Officially, the men are each called emeritus and the women emerita, honorifics that originated with the Latin word for "skillful, but honorably retired". In many ways these professors, many of them still active in their fields, are the keepers of Harvard's living history.
Smiley's text uses a skillful repetition of the word yawn (taking full advantage of its contagious nature) to make the reader increasingly more tired with every page turn.
Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant in New York, called the book a skillful attempt to reinvent the image of a woman whose words and deeds in the White House were the subject of bewilderment and derision.
Shippey notes that Saruman's name repeats this view of technology: in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon used by Tolkien to represent the Language of Rohan in the book, the root word searu means "clever", "skillful" or "ingenious" and has associations with both technology and treachery that are fitting for Tolkien's portrayal of Saruman, the "cunning man".
To make the word "craft" mean something again, to make a show with some soul, the producers need to explore the dual meaning embodied in that William Morris quote: skillful, but also skilled in making it work.
Lisa Loeb got lucky early in her career with "Stay," which had musical convolutions and a rush of words that showed how skillful Ms. Loeb could be.
