"Youth in Revolt," which was directed by Miguel Arteta, and skillfully extracted by Gustin Nash from the novel by C. D. Payne, centers on a familiar type: the frustrated virgin.
That artisan skillfully extracts the glass from the furnace when it is at the right working temperature and uses a variety of tools to blow, cut or deform it into the desired shape using skilled hands and air pressure from the mouth.
I feel confident that he'd be able to return the favor, given that he can pinpoint the exact moment at a party when I've had too much alcohol or too many interactions with other people and then skillfully extract me from the situation before anything untoward happens.
Nearly all observers journalists, politicians, even those in Yanukovych's immediate entourage assumed that Yanukovych, after years of skillfully playing the West and Russia off one another, buying time and extracting favors from each side, would sign a long-awaited trade-association agreement with the European Union.
Nearly all observers — journalists, politicians, even those in Yanukovych's immediate entourage — assumed that Yanukovych, after years of skillfully playing the West and Russia off one another, buying time and extracting favors from each side, would sign a long-awaited trade-association agreement with the European Union.
But now that Jay Taylor has written his comprehensive book "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China," we are able to see Chiang as a man of considerable cunning, brutality and patience who skillfully played a weak hand against the Japanese and Mao's forces while extracting huge sums from the Americans.
That scene was skillfully assembled from extracts of Gluck's "L'ivrogne corrigé," interspersed with a canon by Rameau, "Ah! Loin de rire" ("Ah! Far From Laughter"), at the moment when the characters believe that the drunkard of the opera's title has died.
Kim Il-sung skillfully played the Soviet Union and China against each other, using their rivalry to extract as much aid as possible.
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