Pamela Erens's second novel, "The Virgins," is both skillfully crafted and dangerous.
The opera is skillfully crafted, tuneful and stirring in a straightforward patriotic way.
A few of us are serious food lovers who enjoy the nuances of skillfully crafted seasonal cuisine, while another few are less informed about food beyond chain restaurants.
His music here, which embraces a total chromatic idiom, is skillfully crafted and impresses as the product of a man with a good ear.
However gently persuasive its message and skillfully crafted its game dynamics, it seems unlikely to have won many people round to the cause of revolutionary marxism.
The speech was skillfully crafted and well delivered, the grace notes were graceful, and the exhortations to public service seemed heartfelt but not cloying.
On one level, Matthew Klam's article about Ecstasy (Jan . 21 was a skillfully crafted coming-of-age odyssey, appropriately self-deprecating and entertaining.
Working with nearly all the most celebrated ballerinas of the time, he produced 23 ballets of varying importance, including several lasting masterpieces, each skillfully crafted to highlight the particular qualities of its ballerina.
Andromaque is more skillfully crafted than Racine's previous efforts: its exposition is a model of clarity and concision; the interplay of love, hate, and indifference is subtly yet compellingly arranged; the rhetoric is forceful but close to normal speech; and the innovative use of the offstage to direct the audience's attention beyond the visual to the imaginary is remarkable.
Under Putin, power in Russia has retreated to the shadows, with most high-ranking officials wary of publicity or attention; Kadyrov, by contrast, seeks it, and has skillfully crafted a public image that, even if many find it distasteful, has made him a political figure of undeniable national significance.
From what we've seen so far, this is some next-level, skillfully crafted gaming.
