By contrast, in the United States and many other countries, haggling between buyers and sellers is an under-practiced skill.
A sudden storm comes up, and her grandparents work together in the yard to get the "wildly flapping laundry" off the line, folding sheets "with practiced skill" as the lightning hits and the rain pelts down.
I began by helping my mother with fabric selection, but with practiced skill the shopkeepers divided and conquered.
They wield their scalpel here with practiced skill, though like some of the other sharp blades on display, it takes its time to emerge.
There's something quite animalistic and raw about watching a pale man finger his controller with practiced skill, something heart-poundingly exciting about watching Samus make precise leap after leap onto precariously-placed platforms hanging above a void.
For most surgeons now in practice, cementing acetabular components is a relatively little practiced skill.
Sure, they spent hundreds of nights playing the clubs of Hamburg before their inherent talent and practiced skill were discovered.
Think of the cello suites, played with such impassioned and relentlessly practiced skill that they echo down the ages.
To say that difference in stature is merely a function of an actor's practiced skill at performance is both to understate the character of Ronald Reagan and to impugn the art of acting.
With a cochlear implant to capture sound and a practiced skill at reading lips, translating the random noise into words, he had since learned to converse face to face, particularly in quiet settings like his tutoring room.
Routine isn't necessarily easy, but it is a practiced skill.
