How To Use Skilfully In A Sentence
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Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
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Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
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Women skilfully carry heavy loads on their heads.
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She had used make-up skilfully to mask her bruise, and with the subdued stage light it was scarcely visible.
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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They skilfully adapted traditional beliefs and customs to European material culture and economic realities.
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They attacked suddenly and skilfully using natural covertures, destroy our positions one after another by the direct fire.
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Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below.
A Wanderer in Holland
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Women skilfully carry heavy loads on their heads.
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
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The elements of photography have been skilfully woven into the cinematography.
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This bill skilfully balances the difficulties of the elderly with the avariciousness, often, of the capital interests in retirement villages.
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The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind.
Nicholas Nickleby
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He skilfully dissects the complex and varied forms of the labour process during periods of transition.
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They scarcely knew one another personally, but the idea of a group identity was skilfully promoted by the Kansas art dealer.
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X. plays skilfully and correctly, but his expression continues crude, cold, monotonous; he shows too pedantic a solicitude about mechanical execution and strict time; he never ventures on a _pp. _, uses too little shading in _piano_, and plays the _forte_ too heavily, and without regard to the instrument; his _crescendi_ and _diminuendi_ are inappropriate, often coarse and brought in at unsuitable places; and -- his _ritardandi_! they are tedious indeed!
Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
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The author skilfully draws together the different threads of the plot.
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When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds.
The Sun
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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Sea, sun and sky could not have been arranged more skilfully had Dr Barbara herself been in charge of the mise en scene.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Her acquired knowledge of the history of place and people along her chosen route is interwoven skilfully with her record of the moment as she lives it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Even when the tame _cabestro_ came, with tinkling bell, to entice Vivillo away, she could hardly bear to leave him, though she well knew that he was safe; that his wounds would be skilfully tended; that he would be restored to health, and that, in very shame (when the story was made known), Carmona must surrender the bull to her.
The Car of Destiny
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This "albumenized" paper the youth lays gently and skilfully upon the surface of a solution of nitrate of silver.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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The four players skilfully acted out very different scenes, playing with universal images of rejection, seduction and romance.
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For indeed in the middle the fashion thereof was red, but at the ends it was all purple, and on each margin many separate devices had been skilfully inwoven.
The Argonautica
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The account of events leading up to her dismissal and her subsequent reinstatement is skilfully narrated.
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In fact, can anyone trust anyone in this skilfully crafted thriller?
The Sun
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Debbie Tucker Green's recent Royal Court play, Truth and Reconciliation – though nothing like as so skilfully carpentered as Dorfman's – covered a huge swathe of history to suggest that some crimes are so grievous they can never be forgiven.
Death and the Maiden – review
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The characters are credible and beguiling, and skilfully rendered by the cast.
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Alpiew wrapped her arms round Rebecca's waist and clung on as the woman skilfully raced her horse along the Strand.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The sun ensures you handle one-to-one relationships skilfully.
The Sun
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No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing.
Là-bas
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This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
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If he had a cut finger she would bind it up very skilfully and healingly, but unless he told her she never discovered he had a cut finger.
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
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Hmas Wewak was greeted on entry by flotillas of dug-out canoes skilfully paddled by locals whose ages ranged from six to 60.
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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You have the blend of intuition and common sense that helps you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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Indeed, she takes up nearly four pages of the index, and her political career is skilfully interwoven throughout the text.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The contents of the paper was skilfully worded so as to convey the impression that the deponent was a woman of somewhat doubtful character herself, but that on the other hand she had been tricked by the defendant into a secret -- and what he intended to be a temporary -- marriage.
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble
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Using blended oils, the masseur skilfully used his palms and fingertips to apply pressure in a series of flowing movements across my body.
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Liedertafel" (Society for vocal music) and as teacher, and then to the numerous pretty melodies intermixed with national airs, in which particularly the old "Dessauer march" is skilfully interwoven, then the wellknown student air "Was kommt dort von der Hoeh '", which of course gladdens the heart of every student old or young.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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He skilfully manoeuvred the motor boat past the rocks.
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But the selling point of this delightful book is its setting in the legendary France profonde, where market stalls offer goat's cheese and foie gras, home-made jam and oils flavoured with walnuts and truffles, where steaks are timed to perfection by singing the Marseillaise, and menus composed as skilfully as Martin Walker's prose.
Bruno, Chief of Police: Summary and book reviews of Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker.
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A half basin of tea with a liberal supply of butter is heaped up with tsamba from a skin bag, and without spilling a particle of the meal, the natives skilfully knead the whole into a mass and eat it from the hand in pieces, as we eat bread.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Consequently Morgan and Mrs. Spaulding were constantly together during the ensuing ten days, and so skilfully did I behave that the innocent pair regarded the flirtation which I was carrying on as a superb joke -- a case of a banterer caught in the toils, and Mrs. Spinney's manners suggested that she was agreeably flattered.
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
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The violinist played the difficult passage skilfully and surely.
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Indeed, she takes up nearly four pages of the index, and her political career is skilfully interwoven throughout the text.
The Times Literary Supplement
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You have the blend of intuition and common sense that helps you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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And social awareness enables them to create opportunities and neutralize opposition more skilfully.
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His four-man backing band worked hard and skilfully for their money.
Times, Sunday Times
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When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds.
The Sun
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Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Her debut album, Seasons of My Soul, skilfully apes the pensive breeziness of that era.
Rumer: Seasons of My Soul – review
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Jupiter aligns with the moon and helps you handle relationships skilfully.
The Sun
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The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama.
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Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation(Sentencedict), which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
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He had been taught fencing as a part of his education, and would use the singlestick, arquebus, and crossbow, while the fashion of every gentleman wearing a sword had rendered it necessary that this weapon should be handled skilfully.
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
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The jokes are pushed to their limits but it's skilfully done, with excellent singing notably Julia Riley, Clint van der Linde, Laura Mitchell and rumbustious playing from the Old Street Band conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Xerxes; La bohème – review
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The moon visits the most sociable part of your chart and you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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Instead, she can operate the mouse like a teenager while skilfully moving from one educational game to another, and carrying out a Google search is a doddle.
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth
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The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama.
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Will it result in a facile anti-reductionist anfractuosity so skilfully punctuated way back by E.H. Carr in his What is History?
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The film skilfully keeps the leads straight, relying on support to bear the brunt of the comedy.
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Every meeting should be skilfully chaired to achieve consensus over strategic issues.
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We're victims, we say: mere vessels, drinking the vanilla scent of this one's skin, the lustre of another's eyes so skilfully darkened with bistre.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Our guide Roberto skilfully navigated his boat into the various grottos lining the coast.
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His lyrics are incisive and true without self-consciousness or contrivance, yet tackle subject matter as diverse as socio-political commentary to lovelorn heartbreak as skilfully as the best in the genre.
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He skilfully evokes the battles through circumambient sound.
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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The aristocrats of plants grown in pots are bonsai, perfectly normal garden trees skilfully trained to grow as miniatures ranging from three inches to three feet tall.
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There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well – favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone.
Little Dorrit
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His shot arrived at the feet of Kerins, who skilfully chipped the ball over the stranded goalkeeper and into the net.
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If unskilfully and casually treated, it will be but the ape of nature.
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The little Grey Mantis (_Ameles decolor_), which differs so widely from the Praying Mantis in that the wings of the female are almost completely absent, builds a nest hardly as large as a cherry-stone, and covers it skilfully with a porous rind.
Social Life in the Insect World
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The moon visits the most sociable part of your chart and you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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The landing was skilfully executed.
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The only decoration was on the grip of wood, deeply and skilfully carved.
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The word 'buzz' worries me if I'm honest," he says, before pausing, and skilfully steering the conversation on to more familiar ground.
Eddie Redmayne: the loneliness of being a hot young actor
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Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation, which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
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Anna Sten does not possess the thematic elements which, though skilfully concealed, can be traced in many of Mirjam Tuominen's stories, for example 'Irina' and 'Brevet' (The Letter) in the first collection, and later on 'Flickan som blev en växt' (The Girl who Turned Into a Plant), 'Chérie Klosters dagbok' (Chérie Kloster's Diary), or 'Resan' (The Journey).
Archive 2010-05-01
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He skilfully worked the fringes of the rough created by the bowlers' footmarks and although never a prodigious turner of the ball, he does generate some spin.
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I simply do not have confidence in him to navigate the waters ahead skilfully enough to avoid or survive the darkening clouds on the horizon.
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The icy cliffs echoed the crashing volley, as both barrels poured forth their deadly hail almost in unison, and the huge animal settled down amid incarnadined waters and ice crimsoned with his life-blood, shot to death through the brain so skilfully that scarce a struggle or a tremor bore witness that the principle of life had departed.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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The author skilfully depicts the military situation as the vast Soviet armies approached the German heartland, anxious to exact revenge for the miseries that Russians had suffered since the invasion of 1941.
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With the left hand they dipped up sand, handled this skilfully or "dextrously" with the right hand, so that in a few minutes they could give grains of gold to the gratified explorers.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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The Minister was her usual evasive self, skilfully dodging reporters' questions about her possible resignation.
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Abrahamsen builds her argument by positing and skilfully exploring three key aspects of Africa's political economy that militate against the development of democracy.
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The ebony diapason was marked at the fifth, seventh, and twelfth frets with a pattern of ivory dots, and the rounded belly of it was composed of tapering strips of close-grained maple, separated skilfully by thin fillets of rosewood.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Director Ryan Redford skilfully employs music, sound and montage to create a taut film.
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Their alert presence, so skilfully depicted, gives immediacy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Even in his climactic speech, he skilfully keeps you guessing.
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By profession he is a barrister but he skilfully juggles so many other careers he ought to be in a circus.
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He skilfully manages to convey the meat of the science without undue technicality, but also without any dumbing down.
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Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
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The elements of photography have been skilfully woven into the cinematography.
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I suspect that the teacher saw a situation getting out of hand, defused it skilfully, gave me a firm but slightly more sympathetic telling-off and that was the end of it.
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This is a credit to the hard work of those employees who have skilfully planned and carried out the project from start to finish.
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The characters are credible and beguiling, and skilfully rendered by the cast.
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In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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The aristocrats of plants grown in pots are bonsai, perfectly normal garden trees skilfully trained to grow as miniatures ranging from three inches to three feet tall.
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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He skilfully convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has been adulterous with Cassio.
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Nowhere was there such a fusion of Greek, Jewish, and Oriental peculiarities, and an intelligent Jew educated in that city could hardly fail to manifest all these elements in his mental character. eloquent -- turning his Alexandrian culture to high account. and mighty in the scriptures -- his eloquence enabling him to express clearly and enforce skilfully what, as a Jew, he had gathered from a diligent study of the Old Testament Scriptures. came to Ephesus -- on what errand is not known.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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If the writer has not "moralized," it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skilfully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist.
Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise
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The author skilfully draws together the different threads of the plot.
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I was speedily made aware of rich, firm tonal assurance by each player, and the way they skilfully blended together.
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The cast skilfully confronted the delicate issue of mental instability with poise and sensitivity.
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Have you exhibited very much?" said young Porson in the bar-parlor of the "Coach and Horses," where Mr. Watkins was skilfully accumulating local information on the night of his arrival.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Then a bayman washed down the enameled surface of the table, rinsing the blood away, and another attendant skilfully dressed and bandaged the second wound as he had done the first.
Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
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(Judg. 3: 15; 20: 16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; and also one who uses the left as well as the right, ambidexter.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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With a sudden pang, he recalled the heaped baskets of food that Olikea had used to bring me, and how skilfully she had prepared and balanced the feasts.
Renegade's Magic
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They scarcely knew one another personally, but the idea of a group identity was skilfully promoted by the Kansas art dealer.
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Over the five years of treatment she must have skilfully and sensitively enabled you to process some almost unbearable feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
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I call especial attention to this forthcoming article because it abounds in accurately observed and skilfully generalized facts; and because it is most suggestive on the whole subject of the health of women, and the causes of its failure.
The Education of American Girls
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Sure, it's a loving and skilfully crafted homage to a man who was the film-maker's own sporting hero, and as suggestible as my teenage self.
Why two new sports documentaries have messed with my mind | Emma John
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We recognize, too, that a healthy lifestyle contributes more to looking good than skilfully used cosmetics.
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Every day little dugouts would skilfully intercept our boat, almost rolling in the wake before lashing on properly.
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His narration - delivered in a monotone from the first frame - holds you in thrall through all the twists, surprises and ironies of the plot, all skilfully handled, I thought.
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Her acquired knowledge of the history of place and people along her chosen route is interwoven skilfully with her record of the moment as she lives it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Jupiter aligns with the moon and helps you handle relationships skilfully.
The Sun
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He broke his arm last year but he plays the piano as skilfully as ever.
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The canard tipped and the pilot skilfully dived us back into the field for a perfect emergency landing.
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He parried the unwelcome question very skilfully.
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He skilfully convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has been adulterous with Cassio.
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In this volume Storni skilfully explored the many possibilities of recreating meaning in rhythm by means of freer versification.
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The political and physical war is skilfully reported, as well as the emotional and ideological ambitions and conflicts of the hotel's iconic characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The murder investigation is skilfully interwoven with family and political plot strands in a powerful denouement that loops the story back to the forest where it began.
Times, Sunday Times
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This story, jammily mixing up class-bound England with super-celebrity Hollywood, has been skilfully and attentively directed by Simon Curtis, an experienced theatre and television director his credits include Cranford, here making his film debut.
Evening Standard - Home
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The murder investigation is skilfully interwoven with family and political plot strands in a powerful denouement that loops the story back to the forest where it began.
Times, Sunday Times
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Houseman's Shropshire that was once visible from Telford's shopping centre has been very carefully and skilfully gnawed away.
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Clearly the later volumes show these talents in more skilfully written poems, but their sudden appearance here demands comment.
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Three cheers therefore for the man, who a day later in The Times skilfully twitted his ignorant colleague.
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Diagnosis, or recognition of the disease, must have been necessarily imperfect, when no scientific nosology, or system of disease* existed, and the knowledge of anatomy was quite inadequate to allow of a precise determination of the seat of disease; but symptoms were no doubt observed and interpreted skilfully.
Nature Cure
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I was speedily made aware of rich, firm tonal assurance by each player, and the way they skilfully blended together.
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Director Ryan Redford skilfully employs music, sound and montage to create a taut film.
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In fact, can anyone trust anyone in this skilfully crafted thriller?
The Sun
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You keurig k cups to go at him with a few skilfully dispossession, devotedly passim distressfully and tael a afternoon or else your atherosclerosis disturbance be impertinently masked and undramatically orad as each as reciprocally to ashamedly.
Rational Review
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She steered the car skilfully through the narrow streets.
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While less creative or inspiring than French or Italian cuisine, German cooking regards itself as full of high-quality ingredients which are skilfully cooked.
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Even in his climactic speech, he skilfully keeps you guessing.
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She had used make-up skilfully to mask the bruise.
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The film skilfully keeps the leads straight, relying on support to bear the brunt of the comedy.
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In fact, can anyone trust anyone in this skilfully crafted thriller?
The Sun
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Twentieth-century bonbons and sweets made in France include numerous skilfully marketed regional specialities, traditional or modern, unobtainable anywhere else.
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Among the most picturesque items on display are the skilfully fashioned figures in pottery.
