Mr. Molloy can draw, but his real vocation is sculpture and installation art, the artist skillfully manipulating found material and images to create symbolic, politically charged objects.
The puppeteer, who had not taken a break for hours, narrated an epic tale of nationalism while skillfully manipulating dozens of shadow figures to the accompaniment of a 20-piece orchestra and high-pitched singers.
To this end, dollies, skillfully manipulated by the crew, transport the characters into view and out of sight.
The reaction against the French and the indigenous Jacobins became a great antiaristocratic movement, which the Bourbon monarchy skillfully manipulated to its advantage.
In fact, he skillfully manipulated the great powers, usually with the support of China, to ensure his survival as well as his country's independence.
Generally speaking, Robertson's characters are recognizable as individuals, his plots are skillfully manipulated, and his characters' dialogue is easy and conversational.
Driven by jealousy that has been skillfully manipulated, Othello takes the life of Desdemona, his doting wife, and then his own.
Updated by the director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist"), who wrote the screenplay with Will Conroy, it skillfully manipulates familiar tropes: innocents abroad, ominous glowering foreigners, conspiracy and duplicity, erotic intrigue.
"It skillfully manipulates familiar tropes: innocents abroad; ominous, glowering foreigners; conspiracy and duplicity; erotic intrigue," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in July.
At McNally Jackson, he insisted that the book is not autobiographical; nonetheless, he skillfully manipulates the push and pull between fact and fiction in the novel, punctuating the narrative with date stamps, real tweets, and newspaper headlines.
As the trial goes on, it will be skillfully manipulated by the lead defendant into an indictment of the indicters, and the divisions in the country will almost certainly grow deeper.
