On that score the Chelsea Show is, as ever, a counsel of perfection, a triumph of skill, and a defiance of weather.
They're handmade and hand-decorated, and the slightest mistake in firing can ruin a dial, so each is a triumph of skill over the laws of physics.
When active managers as a group make the headlines because they "beat the market," it is not a triumph of skill, it is an error in measurement.
"Some people question if what is happening at Chengdu is a worthwhile use of conservation money but, as Sir David says in the film, the project is a triumph of science and skill," Ms Downer said.
Nearly everything on view is a kind of marvel, usually one that combines an exotic and beautiful natural material with a triumph of human skill.
Local newspapers devoted the front page to the event, which The New York Times called "another triumph of human skill over the resistance of nature".
Confirmation that the Costa Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, had left the ship before completing its evacuation prompted a bout of mortified soul-searching.The removal from Giglio on July 23rd of the refloated, if rusty, hulk was thus more than a triumph of salvaging skill and technology: it eased a huge symbolic weight from the national psyche.
But no matter what happens, this second straight Detroit-Pittsburgh Cup series promises to be a triumph of positive, inspiring, skill-centered hockey, another repudiation of the brutish physicality that used to set the example in the N.H.L. and that reached its ultimate expression in the 2007 championship of the provoked-at-a-glance Anaheim Ducks.
Whatever "The Oasis" (Random House), by Mary McCarthy, may be called — a long short story, a novella, a short novel — it is an absolutely unmitigated triumph of wit and writing skill.
It was also a triumph of courage and technical skill, to stand near the thunderous carnage of the war and try to record it, using a difficult and unwieldy chemical process, and clumsy instruments, operating out of a moving darkroom that was highly visible to all.
In a conference call, Mark Loughridge, the chief financial officer, described Watson, I.B.M.'s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, as a triumph of the company's skills in analytics.
