"The Buddha spoke of using 'skillful means' I see technology as a skillful mean," said Oppermann.
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The operative word here is "skillful," and it doesn't take too much scrutiny to note how few skillful multi-cams there really are.
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The average manager is more skillful than in past years.
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His response to the disaster, however, was skillful and reassuring.
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Just some skillful programming, and a willingness to play along.
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It is worth recognizing Gregos's skillful curation, reflecting her experience.
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You have to be a bit more skillful in America.
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Their play is more skillful, more intelligent and more sophisticated.
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This requires constant maintenance and skillful navigation along the way.
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Q: Is it more important to be lucky or skillful?
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All are skillful at multitasking and undaunted by traveling economy.
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"My grandfather was a very skillful amateur magician," he said.
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While I was the governor in Colorado, we launched Skillful.
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But definitively we need to move in a skillful way.
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Sure, it's silly, but the dancing is impressively skillful, too.
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Click through to hear some of Butler's most skillful musical performances.
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Surreal nature motifs elevate her skillful attention to the female form.
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Roth, a skillful reader of his own work, embraced the idea.
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Bishop is too skillful a writer to provide a simple answer.
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And Mirren's performance, skillful as it is, doesn't close the gap.
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At the level of the sentence, though, she's a skillful writer.
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Weirdly, though she had many skillful throws, the creature evaded her.
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But FireEye says APT37 isn't necessarily any less skillful or well-resourced.
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I like the artists who are less skillful in fooling the eye.
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They're skillful social manipulators, able to persuade underlings to do their bidding.
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Skillful reciters respond to one another in stunning call-and-response patterns.
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He is skillful and persistent at persuading customers to buy more fruit.
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How aggressive should AI drivers be versus how skillful should they be?
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Hickenlooper, who is mulling a presidential run in 2020, singled out Skillful.
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Mr. Urie gives a characteristically skillful performance, but it feels pasted on.
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But their performances, skillful as they are, don't completely escape self-consciousness.
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Ramaphosa is everything Zuma was not: decent, skillful, at heart a constitutionalist.
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She has also been skillful at reminding South Koreans of her lineage.
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Finally, senior year, Vicky had pulled this really skillful tension-release move.
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He wasn't a very skillful criminal, though, so he always got caught.
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Mr. Hekmatyar is a skillful orator who has written dozens of books.
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A defining feature of Nihonga is the skillful use of precious mineral pigments.
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The problem is only the most skillful of blacksmiths can forge the steel.
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It's some of the most skillful rapping I've heard in a long time.
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That said: not everyone has skillful parents or the capacity for self-reflection.
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Baker is especially skillful at describing the emergence of the new Republican Party.
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She is known for her skillful play, especially diving headers to score goals.
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They speak of the skillful way Mr Trump has treated President Xi Jinping.
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She, at her most gracious and skillful, did a great deal with shawls.
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He eventually does a skillful job shaping up his girlfriend's crusty-nosed son.
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William Barr did a skillful job of managing the news media this weekend.
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In part, he admires his seemingly unlikely idols for their skillful self-branding.
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"Ball court players are exciting, skillful, creative — they play off instinct," Otim said.
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A skillful constructor can make fill pleasing, and I like Mr. Taub's anagrams.
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It's a style — skillful, glossy, overwrought — but what is its point of view?
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"We certainly can conclude that the prime minister is a very skillful political player ... when there's a skillful politician that still has considerable popular support, you'll also see that they tend to survive scandals like this," Van Der Wal said.
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The president's decisive action calling off the summit was a skillful exercise in diplomacy.
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Companies like Apple, Microsoft, General Electric and Pfizer have been skillful practitioners of it.
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Waltzer suspects some funny business with the judging, and throws some rather skillful shade.
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It also doesn't include her skillful miming of a slashed throat or finger gun.
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In other teachings, he makes the helpful distinction between unskillful fear and skillful fear.
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"I'm more skillful when carving it," Dante says when he calmly starts doing it.
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With a little skillful negotiation, policy makers can develop a balanced and effective program.
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He is, hands down, the most influential and skillful Twitter troll of all time.
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Rouhani's victory was aided by his skillful embrace of anti-establishment and reformist rhetoric.
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In some cases, China has proved more skillful than Russia in infiltrating American intelligence.
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She's obviously a very skillful player, and you don't ever want to limit that.
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Warren was particularly skillful at pivoting to the points she wanted to drive home.
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"Such a time calls for skillful leadership, strategic thinking, and disciplined execution," Lee added.
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I love Toni Morrison's work, I respect everything she does, she's skillful and brilliant.
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It is also a beauty to behold for its skillful digital animation in 3D.
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In the first act, eight skillful actors describe events leading up to the explosion.
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And that is really the result of skillful diplomacy on the part of the President.
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In fact, he was one of the most skillful networkers the world has ever seen.
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The authors combine serious journalism and skillful comic-making to deliver an engaging, illustrated report.
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He was a NAACP leader in high school, a charismatic speaker and a skillful organizer.
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Rather, they're a renegade performance — skillful improvisations, at high altitude — of 15th-century Flemish portraiture.
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It's not as easy as you might think, because emotional manipulators are typically very skillful.
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The more skillful actors can communicate their fears and desires without recourse to direct address.
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An exceptionally skillful draftsman with an idiosyncratic, storytelling imagination, he's especially good with colored pencils.
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That's some skillful deflection from a celebrity who has pledged to maintain his daughters' privacy.
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Ms. Shahab called Mr. Bista "lighthearted, funny and skillful," and a devoted husband and father.
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The international community should now exercise skillful diplomacy and willingness to help Venezuela move forward.
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Technically, the production is extremely skillful — you might even say cunning — at producing that response.
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A skillful politician with a fervent support base, Mr. Erdogan still leads in the polls.
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"She's skillful in a way that I don't think gets enough credit," Ms. Daly said.
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Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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Instead, she encompasses them in all their contradiction, laying them out in breathtakingly skillful juxtaposition.
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For a very skillful chef, he can even make 30 pleats on a soup dumpling.
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In many cases, especially in sports, skillful action is a matter of automaticity, not effort.
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Then again, most characters seem lacking in juxtaposition with Badgley's sinfully skillful mastery of Joe.
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He is known for his disarming sense of humor, quick wit and skillful cross-examinations.
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When it came to reaching out, listeners heard skillful delivery in the service of something new.
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Bad actors looking to spread their message are skillful in taking advantage of messaging apps' vulnerabilities.
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Cooper, who also co-wrote the script Eric Roth and Will Fetters, is a skillful director.
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It's not just some cute, nice thing we do; it's a necessary part of skillful practice.
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By playing into stereotypes, the most skillful multi-camera sitcoms can defuse them, bit by bit.
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And skillful hackers are like germs: They tend to get in via some orifice or another.
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Therefore, someone skillful at gossip will have a good rapport with a large network of people.
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It's very much a film, though, a feat of tireless research, dogged interviewing and skillful editing.
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Payne, sans Chewbacca mask, performed a skillful rendition of the national anthem at an Astros vs.
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Commanding appearance, language that people understand, varied voice, expressive arms, skillful use of pause and emphasis.
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Compare that to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, which is hypnotizingly skillful, but also has 20 motors.
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And a skillful attacker could alter the results of a vote without leaving any obvious fingerprints.
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Perhaps that's why Daniels has attracted a following among women who admire her skillful put-downs.
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The best intentions, however, can be broken on the wheel of skillful (or even inept) interviewing.
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The overall impression of these dances only adds to my sense of Mr. Peck's skillful anonymity.
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" He added that "as a result of our president's skillful leadership, we got what we wanted.
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Skillful, a partnership among the Markle Foundation, LinkedIn and Colorado, is one initiative pointing the way.
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But when it comes to tugging at heartstrings, Thrones: Season 8 has been less than skillful.
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Seductively skillful, a perceptive passer, and first-class finisher — Neymar has it all in his arsenal.
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By virtue of skillful editing, we see and hear double, caught in a hypnotic aural trance.
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He wasn't a skillful enough criminal to hide his penny-ante personal fraud from the public.
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The terrible violence of the image was rendered appealingly neat, even pretty, by the skillful weaving.
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Mr. Wheeldon's choreography is skillful as always, but we learn little about the characters through their movement.
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With skillful aim it can cut through medium-health foes like Reaper in a matter of seconds.
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Ingrid packs up, goes west, and through some skillful acts of manipulation, she actually accomplishes her goal.
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In addition to being a former child star, it turns out Sweetin's also a really skillful dancer.
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Never a skillful liar, he had pointed me toward a particular oyster and suggested I try it.
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Experimental, unconventional, rebellious, and incredibly skillful, the beauty book rule-breaker is a true master of makeup.
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And also like Trump, Willkie came to national prominence through his skillful use of the national media.
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However, Iranians are skillful negotiators, Browne told "Power Lunch, " so these conversations will take time, he said.
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Development aid, supported by skillful diplomacy, is the cheapest and best tool at the president's disposal. 2.
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Standard 22v22 is a more skillful game that requires precise passing and expert defensive rotations for success.
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Turns out, baking a leg cake involves big slabs of cake and a lot of skillful carving.
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Lanza is a skillful advocate for the president and is experienced at defending him in the press.
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Jones's skillful craft shines in straightforward descriptive verse, and also in more experimental and sound-driven modes.
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According to Ruskin, an artist's skillful deployment of such imagery could yield insight into the human condition.
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His supporters say that reflects Mr. Ramaphosa's skillful negotiating style and his view of the big picture.
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There can hardly be any doubt that Mr. Modi is an exceptionally skillful and charismatic political leader.
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Smaller players don't tend to be quicker, or better shooters, or more skillful because of their size.
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A skillful and intrepid researcher, Wolff offers pocket histories of the two singers that echo each other.
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For Troemel, the solution is to embrace frantic creative production and the skillful use of social media.
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Pinckney "reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of black experience," Lauretta Charlton writes in her review.
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Inscribed on the statue's base are the attributes of the ideal Trojan: Faithful Scholarly Skillful Courageous Ambitious.
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But our affection for charismatic mini- and megafauna can be applied to more than just skillful marketing.
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Academically trained in Germany (Stuttgart, Berlin, and Munich), her early drawings are far more than skillful studies.
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His understanding of Italian-Renaissance art and Art Deco was evident in his sketches and skillful finished designs.
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And in hindsight, many believe its skillful use of 3D filmmaking techniques obscured its lack of substance: Hey.
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While skillful implementation of legislation is important, the solution here is not as simple as just legislating differently.
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And many of the ones that weren't tightly contested were only "open" thanks to unfathomably skillful dribble moves.
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Documentaries help us step away from the incessant news cycle (which the president has proven skillful at manipulating).
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"One of the most difficult things in life is to recognize a skillful and smart psychopath," says Galynker.
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This five-part course was specifically designed to train you on how to become a skillful outdoor photographer.
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Investors who believe they have found honest and skillful advisers may still want to understand all of this.
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Lee's skillful piano playing and strong vocals wowed the judges, including the notoriously hard-to-please Simon Cowell.
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Contract pumpers can make more money, because if they're skillful they can do more wells in a day.
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Here, he reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography.
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If you're watching a particularly skillful player, it may not even be immediately clear you're watching a game.
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Pinter's time-bound references—to skillful letter writers and long holidays spent without thought to telephonic communication—chafe.
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MODERN LOVE On this week's Modern Love podcast, the actor tells a story of love and skillful parking.
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With a skillful leader guiding them, parties can even use internal divisions as a source of electoral strength.
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But even when healthy the Rockets lacked the skillful passing Smith provides as a big in their offense.
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The illusory layering of "Mystic Chart" also points to her skillful varying of the textures in her prints.
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For Daniel, a skillful woodworker, the seemingly insurmountable obstacle in his quest is his complete ignorance of computers.
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Further, liberal donors have been nowhere near as skillful at coordinating their giving as conservative donors have been.
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For that reason, his book's final chapter is especially inspiring, filled with varied, skillful, and thematically challenging works.
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All in all, it was a very skillful deployment of information that was not, on its face, particularly damning.
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It takes time, skillful parenting, and a capacity for self-reflection on the part of young people like Sam.
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The Nomadic Studio, an ongoing series of small sketchbooks, are skillful examples of how he vivifies his subject matter.
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Sometimes, without us even realizing it these skillful background players end up becoming the hidden heart of a series.
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Skillful fear is watching it, getting really close to it, and uncovering the purer feelings, like love, underneath it.
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The assistant directors were incredibly skillful, and the extras were just so engaged, so dedicated to making it real.
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Italy does produce decent players, as the number being recruited by top clubs suggest—but not enough skillful ones.
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We can't work out whether this seal is the most skillful beast in the ocean, or just the luckiest.
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Beneath the glittering carapace of Abbott's lush, skillful, subtle writing, it's impossible to know what we're supposed to think.
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He won by promising that skillful diplomacy could improve Iran's economy without sacrificing key aspects of Iran's nuclear program.
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"Look, I want you hardworking, I want you competent, I want you thoughtful, I want you skillful," Szymanski says.
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Tencent, in fact, has a reputation as a skillful investor that can be an asset for non-Chinese companies.
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She's a skillful rhetorician, gracefully navigating her way around partisan land mines by talking about babies and ancient Greece.
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That United is more dangerous — more skillful, more imaginative — with the Frenchman in the team is not in question.
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The only thing missing is a skillful political marauder — Trump isn't him — ready to tear the whole thing down.
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Patients of even the most accomplished and skillful doctors may benefit more when that doctor also connects with them.
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There is no better example than that of the incredibly skillful cheesemongers and dairy farmers all over the Northeast.
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Partnership with a compassionate and skillful clinician who encourages our strengths as well as welcomes our vulnerability is invaluable.
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The fantastically fraught kiss wouldn't be half as effective without the skillful acting of Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey DeMunn.
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Perhaps prosperity theology, boisterous, formalistic and mechanical prayer rituals, and skillful oratory have hastened the need for a eulogy.
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These figures are skillful diplomats, powerful speakers, and excellent mediators — key attributes required of a leader of this stature.
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In that case, no amount of tough talk, courageous soldiering or skillful generalship will dodge the next regional insurgency.
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It's a skillful Taylor pastiche, reminding us of the real Taylor experience without challenging it or making it fresh.
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Mr. LaBute's writing is as skillful as ever, but Tom and Jerri's date spins into a predictable downward spiral.
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Mr. Cuomo, a skillful tactician, is expected to use all kinds of carrots and sticks to get his way.
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Likewise, skillful commentators and academics have been able to identify statements, holdings and interpretive methods that seemed irreconcilably inconsistent.
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The debate and the division are driven by the skillful manipulators of economic and cultural anxieties, both real and perceived.
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The work only looked like collage as Quinn's skillful hand works through several media: charcoal, colored pencil, pastels, and ink.
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The surprisingly skillful Google machine, known as AlphaGo, now needs only one more win to claim victory in the match.
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The goal was to bring pop and country music closer together, and in the hands of skillful artists like Swift.
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Until now, they've been prevented from even seeing Felix due to crafty DFS blockades and a skillful level of shiftiness.
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And, as a skillful diplomat, Mr Tokayev will seek to nurture good relations with Russia and China, the crucial neighbours.
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Octopi are well-known masters of camouflage and skillful escape artists, but they aren't exactly famous for their social skills.
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What's great about dogs is: Watching them navigate an obstacle course is equally delightful regardless of how skillful they are.
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I fear much more the inevitable capture of sprawling administrative state by determined muscular, skillful, articulate compliment, well-lawyered factions.
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Yet the ovations were long and loud, befitting a skillful, imaginative conductor who never got his due in New York.
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MacDonald's skillful depiction of her heroine's unraveling results in a "complicated braid of third-person narration," Maggie Pouncey wrote here.
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And with some artificial intelligence, skillful design, and practice, bots could create personalized conversational interfaces we can't dream of yet.
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Ambrose perfectly distills the journals, and his skillful retelling of the journey becomes a perfect introduction to this important event.
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And the President's campaign is a well-funded, skillful and ruthless outlet bristling for the chance to bring Biden down.
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In an article for Vox, Alissa Wilkinson recommended watching the film for its skillful depiction of the spread of disinformation.
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Throughout much of this novel, Dovey's skillful prose lifts off the page, particularly as Vita reflects on her university days.
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His crimes were terrible and inexcusable, but even a century on, it's clear Stockford was a skillful literary critic, too.
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That's important, since you don't watch these movies for the in-depth characterization or the skillful storytelling and world building.
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He glanced over at his three sons a few seats away, eyebrows raised and clearly impressed by the skillful volley.
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"He's still my idol," Son said of Park, who scored a skillful goal against Portugal in the 2002 group stage.
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Letter of Recommendation Facebook is so persistent and skillful at unearthing past versions of yourself that you would rather forget.
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It symbolized a peculiar fondness, verging on devotion, that the skillful forward has developed for the tiny South American country.
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PG: You've been so skillful at interviewing public figures on camera and demonstrating, without any fancy footwork, that they're idiots.
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" Asked which was which, she replied, "I can't tell you because then I'd be saying the Italians were less skillful.
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Only about four of the 100 or so women who joined Jane ever became skillful enough to perform surgical abortions.
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Beyond the Federal Reserve Bank's skillful monetary management, two major factors have driven this favorable economic scenario: globalization and technology.
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The country's skillful hackers could launch a major cyberattack on regional allies like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates.
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You do have very skillful meditators who are bad people, and exploit people with the help of their meditative prowess.
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The acting is generally skillful, though the three younger actresses playing schoolgirls don't yet seem quite at home in this world.
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Our kids come away from our classes able to make skillful and informed decisions for themselves, their families and their communities.
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Most Skillful: These Dabbing Grandmas Because successfully flipping a water bottle on a table can only be celebrated with a dab.
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They've built up name recognition, become skillful fundraisers, hired experienced staffers, and presumably amassed some knowledge about how best to win.
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With a frame rate that low, the game gets extremely choppy—making it difficult to pull off the quick, skillful shots.
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And even his adversaries will admit that he's an anomaly in the Trump administration: a skillful practitioner of the Washington game.
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Hannah writes: Beneath the glittering carapace of Abbott's lush, skillful, subtle writing, it's impossible to know what we're supposed to think.
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He was skillful on a variety of vessels and jobs, including dredging, and earned the senior rank of bosun, or boatswain.
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And the Kremlin political managers are skillful plumbers who deal with old leaky piping and loathe the idea of replacing it.
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This show boasts two sets of skillful performers and their distinct productions for the price of one particularly extravagant Starbucks order.
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But she's quick, skillful and a perfect fit in the Americans' new system, which requires players with many of her strengths.
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Yet what makes the craft worthwhile is how, through extremely mitigated prose and skillful curating, it manages never to become sentimental.
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Zumas is a skillful writer, expertly keeping each of her characters in balanced motion, never allowing one to dominate the rest.
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And it is one thing to say that someone who is 10 percent more skillful should be paid 10 percent more.
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The internet's new class of hand models are staged to feel like our own appendages, except more skillful, accomplished and rich.
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Even without party control of both houses, many presidents employed their unilateral powers and skillful deal-making to score political victories.
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He spoke six languages, was a skillful pianist and a military pilot who fought for France during the war in Algeria.
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As Congo's prime minister, Mr. Lumumba won a large following at home and elsewhere in Africa through charisma and skillful oratory.
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Among Buddhists, you're more likely to hear about "skillful" and "unskillful" means for minimizing suffering and maximizing the possibility for liberation.
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There is skillful, contemporary Chinese food all over the menu, and color photographs to let you know what you're in for.
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Tone weaves the threads together with skillful pacing and sharp prose, marking him as an important new talent in narrative nonfiction.
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It was like I'd never looked at Haring, or noticed how his work feels naïve and skillful at the same time.
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Boies is among the highest-paid trial lawyers in America, a skillful courtroom tactician with a keen instinct for public opinion.
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They are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque (another skillful translation by McDowell) and the darkest humor.
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Skillful readers of novels recognize language as a symbolic order with rules that set it apart from the disorder of real life.
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But I have seen time and time again in business the power of skillful leadership to turn even the worst situations around.
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But Democrats will win only if they see Trump for what he is: a shrewd opponent, more skillful than he lets on.
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Michio Ito Documentary from RDT on Vimeo RDT tours globally, diffusing skillful, professional modern dance in cultural hubs and underserved communities alike.
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All of these videos were accompanied by creepy music and skillful narration that struck the perfect balance between cheesy and deathly serious.
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Humans have never been terribly skillful at organizing massive volumes of data — and it turns out, machines are amazingly adept at it.
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Evil is a big word, but perhaps it's the only one adequate to describe a swindler as skillful and remorseless as Meehan.
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But that's not the worst part: They're so skillful that, not only is everyone aware of their mood, they feel it too.
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This includes kaiseki, a traditional multi-course affair centered around seasonal, minimally fussed-with ingredients, designed to highlight quality and skillful preparation.
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It is no accident, either, that inflation rates have been low for a generation: that is because of the Fed's skillful navigation.
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These editorial blind spots, while momentarily disengaging, don't detract from the sincerity of Benn's subject or her skillful handling of the plot.
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The further you go on in the book, and the more of Kaag's skillful miniatures you take in, the deeper it becomes.
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The book makes clear that Potter always infused her skillful observational eye into her artworks, even as she delved further into fiction.
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If and when it does, the Hillary Clinton campaign's skillful deployment of Alicia Machado may be cast in a somewhat different light.
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On the minus side, the fill that crosses the stacks can be subpar if the constructor is not skillful and doggedly careful.
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All that makes the subtext of Pence's remarks at the Focus on the Family anniversary particularly pertinent — and his approach particularly skillful.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, underscored Mr. Bush's skillful negotiation among the former adversaries of the Cold War.
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All in all, though, as long as I had the patience the cluing was skillful enough to be challenging but not inscrutable.
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Nobody wants a war, but getting out of this will require skillful diplomacy, which isn't something the Trump team has much demonstrated.
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With More Life and Scorpion, for all their skillful flourishes, Drake constructed streaming-era experiments that happily guzzled inspiration from global provinces.
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And he is skillful at challenging the conventions in a way that makes people feel something and that gives them some satisfaction.
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It's not easy territory, but we have skillful book creators to help our younger kids explore it with imagination, humor and hope.
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Like many a meteoric fiction writer, Fischl used up his strongest stories early on, even as he became a more skillful painter.
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He became a millionaire, according to his family, through the buying and selling of real estate and through skillful high-stakes gambling.
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Australia hasn't had a recession in 30 years, and in theory, equally skillful governments of bigger countries could produce the same result.
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"He's a veteran quarterback who is protected very well and they have a lot of skillful players," Penn State coach James Franklin said.
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Ross took the high road and pulled off a truly skillful response, but what do you think motivates these hateful online mega trolls?
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I often try to create my games so that skillful play is an advantage, but it doesn't mean you win every single time.
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But mostly they were games that delivered on feelings of exploration (as in Minecraft or Unexplored) or skillful mastery (like Spelunky, Invisible, Inc.
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The low altitudes required skillful flying from former Air Force pilots... ...as the plane circled and flew back and forth along defined routes.
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Sam Nunn called Wray "one of the most skillful investigative lawyers in the country" with "a proven track record" in an opening statement.
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A sense of humor gets one through, and the movie is a very skillful weaving of what's funny, what's true, what's ultimately triumphant.
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At the end of the day, there's no better validation for an artist's hard work, timeliness, and skillful campaigning than a gold statue.
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While I still stand behind my initial sentiment, it's painfully clear he requires skillful writing and directing to tease out his inner genius.
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The curve of upgrades so closely mimicked the feeling of becoming more skillful that you may think that it was practice paying off.
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It was a textbook and skillful display of brinksmanship intended to remind the United States that the threat is still on the table.
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A skillful debater and political operator, he runs on a right-left coalition composed of the PAN, the PRD and the Citizens' Movement.
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Fran Sdao, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Orange County, told me that Keirstead had simply been more skillful at lobbying delegates.
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Now 25, Emily is a skillful assassin in her own right, following in the shoes of her father Corvo, the first game's protagonist.
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I know what I'm getting myself into, and I enjoy doing things in games that make me feel cool or clever or skillful.
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Their play is more skillful, more intelligent, more sophisticated — not unlike that of Barcelona, whose star, Lionel Messi, is also modest of stature.
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And that's where this deceptively simple play becomes more unsettling (in ways I won't reveal), and where Mr. Joseph's skillful writing becomes apparent.
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What is immediately evident, though, is that the high frequency of enormous jackpots results from skillful planning, says Salil Mehta, an independent statistician.
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From tabletop games to skillful gamers, there is a ton of opportunity on Twitch, allowing streamers to build a brand and their platform.
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This will require clear thinking, skillful negotiation, and resisting tendencies to seek win-lose and not win-win deals with other sovereign powers.
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Portage Lakes had the distinct advantage of recruiting more skillful Canadian players for small sums of money, and the results reflected that edge.
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Thankfully, Journey Live provided a skillful performance of a fantastic score, paired with the powerful drama provided by the performers playing the game.
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The sculptural, playful plaits didn't wind down the models' necks, instead sticking out thanks to skillful knotting — and the look lit up Instagram.
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Barbara Ballow, the documentary's skillful editor, would have been justified in billing for triple overtime with all the footage and photographs used here.
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As he sought the presidency he used counterattacks, lies, and skillful denials to avoid answering for his record and gain the White House.
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And protest today is respected for how skillful its messaging is — activism, with its symbols and hashtags, has become as slick as advertising.
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Each of these steps will take time, skillful negotiation, and, most importantly, the will of the United States and North Korea to succeed.
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He is a skillful and popular politician, one of the few in modern Russia, where nearly all officials tend to be charmless functionaries.
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Hiroki Odo, one of the most skillful Japanese chefs in town, is giving the ancient tradition of kaiseki a modern, New York slant.
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"In these late innings of the Trump first term, [Pelosi] is the most skillful leader that we have," Swalwell said on Fox News.
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Mr. Mars is a skillful, well-studied mimic, and that was all it took to have "Let's Go Crazy" rev up the room.
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The thing about Bob Huggins is that he is just what he appears to be: an ornery, frumpily dressed, incredibly skillful basketball coach.
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Film is an art form made of light, and what's generally considered to be skillful filmmaking conceals the process of generating that light.
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Rayne's work and curatorial fellow Javier Sánchez Martínez's skillful arrangement has created an environment that curates silence and silent refusal into a whole organism.
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Convinced of their abilities, they mimic certain words and phrases they associate with skillful political commentary, all without realizing how clumsy they must appear.
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After some seriously skillful flirting (is that part of the DEA job requirements?) Peña manages to scare Christina successfully enough to contact her husband.
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Here the mood is more farcical, the score a skillful homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, and the well-heeled family is called the D'Ysquiths.
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And while the battles were stripped of the rawness you might see in, you know, an actual dance battle, they were skillful and sexy.
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A Thai soldier is getting his 15 minutes of fame, thanks to his skillful and successful resuscitation of a little puppy that nearly drowned.
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But it does suggest that any edge a skillful finisher might have is too small to be detected, given how infrequently penalty kicks occur.
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A skillful cybercriminal can glean a lot of information about you, and possibly copies of important documents, from the simple circuitry of your printer.
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My LA is all over the place, full of skillful selectors and scratch veterans alike, but mostly audiences who are eager for the unknown.
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Cynthia Nadelman details the life and avid collecting instincts of her grandmother, Viola, as well as her skillful multitasking, which so benefited the museum.
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And it's surprisingly watchable — the humor isn't too broad or saccharine, and the central performers are skillful enough to make the emotions feel real.
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Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona, addresses this multidimensionality in "Round," the most sophisticated work by this skillful choreographer I've seen to date.
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While Biden is all about the promise of being electable, much of Harris' buzz remains the fact she is a smart and skillful politician.
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The dancers looked skillful and exuberant; it's not their fault that I find Ms. Lovette's view of the sexes sweetly busy and prettily conventional.
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But he is also a skillful maker of objects, fashioning sculpture out of old paintings or furniture, basketballs, kitchen appliances, food, junk or weapons.
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The mix of utility and skillful crafting which Saarinen advocated is displayed in a group of chairs representing a pivotal point in modern design.
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First, as an extraordinarily skillful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacist rule of Rhodesia's Ian Smith.
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The footage thus grants the illusion of effortlessly skillful play, as opposed to real-life scenarios where misclicks and premature shots mar the experience.
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It's "deadly" because even a talented squad will have a tough time advancing to the next stage when facing so many similarly skillful competitors.
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Finally, commit to taking whatever skillful action is needed without doing any harm — whether it's a walk, a nap or a direct, difficult conversation.
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MIAMI — Alexei Ratmansky's latest ballet, "The Fairy's Kiss," feels like skillful, page-turning prose that opens in each scene into different forms of poetry.
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Although skillful in small groups, Mr. Chan is a quiet businessman with limited experience in addressing crowds and the broader public — skills needed now.
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"Barnes has a skillful command of tone and its moral implications, when he chooses to exert it," wrote our reviewer about this "pessimistic" novel.
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He relied on skillful body control as he twisted toward the ball and got two feet in bounds just inside the front-right pylon.
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Minnesota scored the final two goals of the second period thanks to a soft pass from Mats Zuccarello and a skillful shot by Parise.
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Self, Made Skillful adaptations of (still more) personal narratives, which provide rich source material for filmmakers, can link the two types of storytelling inextricably.
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It is a clue as well of the skillful exploitation of nationalist impulses by Hungary's leader, Viktor Orban, to cement his increasingly autocratic rule.
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The final pages of "The Lost Man" are somewhat predictable, but Harper is skillful enough, a prickly, smart, effective storyteller, that it doesn't matter.
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Both sides can see that the other is equally entitled to succeed, and that the right result is victory for the more skillful team.
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For 20 years, Spain's national soccer team was the same thing: a superbly skillful and talented team that won nothing after the 29 Euro.
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Skillful and sophisticated walking styles—as opposed to basic locomotion techniques such as rolling, dragging forward, slithering, or hopping— likely facilitated this important evolutionary transition.
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Skillful, fast and comfortable shooting with either foot, Pulisic can operate in the center of the field or on either wing in an advanced position.
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Categorized under the Vimeo blog addressing superior After Effects use, "On My Way" is a skillful and calibrated use of the motion graphics and animation.
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When professional politicians are reasonably enlightened and skillful and the rules and political culture let them do their job, democracy will usually work pretty well.
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Witty, sassy, and adaptable, as BB-8 you are your friend's secret weapon, getting people out of tricky situations with your quick-thinking, skillful nature.
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This much-lauded British painter became known for skillful, ambitiously scaled paintings of mostly female nudes since emerging from graduate school around 2925 years ago.
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A skillful defense lawyer like Mr. Brafman will use the detective's mistake to make jurors wonder what else the police might have kept from prosecutors.
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His parents said they trusted that their son was both athletic and skillful enough to make big air not as perilous as it might seem.
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Ready Player One can be a lot of fun, especially since its world building is skillful — and it has a lot of worlds to build.
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Some work in single communities, while others have national reach, like TechHire, Skillful, Per Scholas and Year Up, the program that Ms. Ball went through.
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While she could ride a horse, she wasn't skillful enough to do stunts — though "you do everything — if you want to work," Ms. McKenzie said.
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He is considered intelligent, though he is perceived to be more of a skillful manager and executor of Mr. Kaczynski's will than a charismatic leader.
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It was accompanied by a skillful deployment of strategic communications that highlighted the long history of Communist China's cheating and violations of international trade norms.
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He said that Republicans "won the right" to make changes to the law, but he cautioned that it should be done in a "skillful" way.
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In reality, however, this global leader and head of state has navigated the often turbulent waters of many decades with a skillful sense of adaptability.
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Douglass, who was described as an adviser to President Lincoln, a skillful writer and orator and an activist for abolition and women's suffrage, died suddenly.
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McGregor, who possesses no shortage of charisma, is barely given anything to play, though he provides a skillful suggestion of the young Alec Guinness' vocal quality.
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As the NYT put it, Brafman is "known for his disarming sense of humor, quick wit and skillful cross-examinations" and was considered a formidable opponent.
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One study from a team of psychologists tested how skillful sophisticated machine learning was at predicting individuals' romantic desire for one another — and the machines failed.
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I work mainly in correctional settings, and very skillful individuals may deceive some clinicians for a while, but eventually the patterns either fit or do not.
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It's only through the skillful work of the veterinary team that he eventually pulls through — although not before the team realizes that Phil is actually Philomena.
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The small, skillful core cast has dealt with PTSD and loss, and the writers stretch their creativity in bringing in virus survivors from space or sea.
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Every morning, he arrives at dawn to prepare his dough, blending chickpeas and fava beans with a skillful mixture of spices, and a few small secrets.
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Through some skillful Photoshops, elaborate planning, and careful posing, influencers almost manage to convince their followers that they're really traveling to places like Italy and Japan.
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More successful was Kyle Abraham's "Chapter Song," a skillful series of vignettes set to Philip Glass ("Einstein on the Beach"), Kendrick Lamar, Barbra Streisand and others.
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Local commercial flights were canceled, and the only way to get to Cold Bay from King Cove was a charter flight with a skillful local pilot.
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They may also be some of the best, if your idea of skillful driving is expansive enough to include the lawlessness and daredevilry that Dhaka demands.
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She has been a skillful tactician at delving into any issue with a pragmatic and reasonable eye, always ready with sound advice and a good word.
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Ms. Zhu brought along a pair of chefs whose skillful manipulation of bubbling oil, steam and smoking-hot woks is evident in almost everything they cook.
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Profanity, in Bergen's skillful presentation, also illustrates how our brains edit speech, where we learn grammar and why words that mean similar things sometimes sound alike.
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But they are also, like Forrest Tucker, gracious and skillful enough to make it feel like they're doing you a kindness when they take your money.
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Andrew Prokop: Cruz is a far more skillful politician, with access to a ton more money, than any of the doomed outsiders in '08 and '12.
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Mr. Hough, a suave and skillful pianist, recently released an attractive new recording of Debussy, on the Hyperion label, that is more than worth checking out.
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President Clinton's determination to end the war, backed by airstrikes and skillful diplomacy, led to the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the fighting in Bosnia.
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In February he helped start a project called the Skillful State Network, a bipartisan collaboration with 20 other governors intended to transform the American labor market.
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A fable about a stuffed animal that comes to life risks being a tedious cliché, but in Liniers's skillful hands, "Good Night, Planet" is anything but.
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As creative, skillful, and dedicated as most faculty are, a good deal of the responsibility for getting the most from these courses rests with the student.
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That's a delicate diplomatic endeavor that requires skillful soft power to convince the rest of the world to take on aggressive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.
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But because we should hope that every film is as attentive in its world-building and skillful at keeping an audience's attention as "Mission: Impossible" was.
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" Mr. Brown mostly avoids this, which owes to his expertise, his charisma, his skillful improvisations and what Mr. Nyman calls an "extraordinary sideways way of thinking.
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" Mr. Brown mostly avoids this, which owes to his expertise, his charisma, his skillful improvisations and what Mr. Nyman calls an "extraordinary sideways way of thinking.
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There are the two dopey-eyed fish, hovering in the image's foreground, that seem to be part of another narrative, married here by Antonov's skillful angling.
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She was the celebrity, but he was a skillful co-star, charming the politicians his wife covered as well as the waiters who poured their drinks.
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His excellent vision, acute eye for a pass, and skillful feet have seen him slot straight into the Barca starting XI following his move from Ajax.
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It has won enthusiastic reviews for its skillful evocation of Canadian goodness – a "portrait of heroic hospitality under extraordinary pressure," said Ben Brantley in The Times.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — This is Grant Thackray's third grid for us, and I continue to appreciate his quirkiness and extremely skillful integration of natural-sounding long entries.
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The most skillful practitioners of this art are able to push their preferred message or gloss on events to reporters without relying on obvious, provable lies.
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The most skillful of them move out of their city groups to compete in state, then regional tournaments, culminating in the annual US National Yo-Yo Contest.
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This kind of "social capital" can matter more to the advancement of managers than exhibiting the skillful performance of tasks in the workplace, as another study found.
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YouTube team Turtle Cameron recorded a very skillful track imagining the musical's electrifying opening number in the world of Gotham City — and it's a surprisingly natural fit.
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Though I didn't think he had been skillful about it, he had made an attempt to engage with taking our couple-form out of the private sphere.
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In skillful fashion, he persuaded investors Kevin O'Leary and Lori Greiner to take a 3 percent equity stake — far lower than their original offer of 12 percent.
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"It is a powerful and skillful way to get people, particularly younger people, to engage with the ethical issues surrounding the end of one's life," Grieve said.
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Mr. Franklin does a skillful slow burn as a perplexed, honorable man who would surely do the right thing if he could figure out what it was.
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Through the application of these skillful means, I learned not to be incapacitated by the suffering, but allow it to become the ground of compassion within me.
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There was profanity, but to focus on that is to lose sight of the skillful movement of his language: acknowledging the situation, assigning blame, and meting punishment.
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Skillful and experienced names like Luis Montes, Hernan Dario Burbano and Hernandez have all failed to create very much in the attack during the past few weeks.
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My cousins were concerned, but not greatly; maybe we had all grown a little blasé after witnessing Jianguo's skillful dealings with the police for so many years.
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First, they will need to be skillful in how they characterize evidence of Russian and Chinese government involvement in cyber attacks directed at the U.S. election process.
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Songwriters like Ms. McKenna are seasoned, skillful navigators of the intersections between the personal and the generalized, the heartfelt and the crafty, the everyday and the idealized.
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He taught himself woodcarving, becoming so skillful that when some of Gibbons's 300-year-old carvings were destroyed by fire, Mr. Esterly was summoned to recreate them.
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An energetic and skillful box-to-box player, Sankhon goes by the nickname Zidane, after the former French World Cup winning star, and was Guinea's captain here.
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A brute-force approach would involve testing 5,040 permutation strings of seven letters against a word list, so I figured a bit of skillful coding was involved.
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A skillful, smooth-skating Swede, he is a member of a select group of players who have won a Stanley Cup, a world championship and Olympic gold.
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Likewise, if a group is seen as ambitious, intelligent and skillful, it is considered competent; if it is seen as lacking those qualities, it is considered incompetent.
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The best recent examples, "Is Fall Dead?" and "Wild Horses and the Inmates Who 'Gentle' Them," demonstrate a skillful handling of the relationship between images and words.
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The author of numerous novels, short stories and works of nonfiction, now approaching 80, she remains a forensically skillful examiner of her characters' motives, thoughts and behavior.
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When parents want their kids to follow an order, and their efforts at skillful communication aren't working, they often "put their foot down" to enforce a solution.
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In Olmo, the Bundesliga leader acquired a skillful, smart, and versatile attacker, who may be the man to help the team win its first ever German title.
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And I cherished the thought that grand historical and political narratives might falter, just slightly, in the face of skillful interactions with things that are not us.
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Singer-songwriter Kina Grannis joined YouTuber Kurt Hugo Schneider for a skillful cover of Sia's "Cheap Thrills" played exclusively using Grannis' voice and a single standard bicycle.
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The Cavaliers have gotten by with some skillful, clever players who might suffice against the rest of the conference, but they were woefully outsized on Saturday night.
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In addition, it has been rather skillful at using the threat of U.S. financial sanctions or aid reductions to send a chill through North Korea's trade partners.
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Pacy, direct, skillful, accurate, and strong, Sadio Mane is a defender's nightmare and one that may be about to fire Liverpool to its first Premier League title.
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I also found some little spots of skillful misdirection, like the cluing for SODA, ANTE and VIA, and I liked the use of both CLAMMY and EELY.
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Early in his tenure at Pimco, Mr. Gross was known as a skillful bond trader who pioneered the use of mathematical models to eke out steady profits.
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It has been a high point for me creatively to be led by Reed Morano's skillful and intuitively transportive direction, while acting alongside the utterly brilliant Elisabeth Moss.
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The investment firm says that after years of inflows into passively managed funds, the current investment environment seems conducive for "skillful stock pickers" to generate above-average returns.
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After two sequels, the title now lands on NBC as a series, albeit one that basically just appropriated the name, with nothing particularly special or skillful about it.
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That's a subject for another post, but here's a spoiler: The answer won't be found in clever arguments or skillful persuasion, but in money, power, and material interests.
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At the first college basketball game of the season, Columbia forward Jeff Coby unleashed several skillful dunks, much to the delight of an audience composed mostly of schoolchildren.
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The country has moved past its Caitlyn Jenner fascination and made room in their hearts for far more skillful activists like Jazz Jennings, Raquel Willis, and Laverne Cox.
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It is understood in the theater as an alternative to the practice of acting technique, or what one might call the skillful application of illusory gestures thoughtfully applied.
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There's also skillful staging of the light and shadow effects, leaving you with the near-constant sensation that threats are moving around at the periphery of your vision.
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The skillful dialogue is peppered with reminders of everything we, the average audience, need to know to get us up to speed and keep us up to speed.
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Now in its complete form, Easy is one of the most skillful displays of character creation ever rendered, certainly on Netflix and quite possibly on television at large.
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But the fear around his Presidency has nothing to do with his skillful use of intimidation, and everything to do with the dangerous consequences of his erratic behavior.
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In response to his skillful turnaround, the firm declared Traore was in breach of his contract and that his holdings were both void and canceled, the FT reported.
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The actual voice heard in the film is a composite of Ms. Frot's and another voice dubbed and sometimes electronically altered; Ms. Frot does some skillful lip-syncing.
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But Mr. Talabani, through skillful bridge-building, used his tenure in office, from 2005 to 2012, to act as a chief executive with a broad and powerful portfolio.
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The performers — Aiesha Dukes, Mitchel Kawash, Richard Spitaletta and Mia Weinberger — are fine singers and fizzy delights, with Mr. Spitaletta and Ms. Weinberger emerging as particularly skillful impersonators.
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But he is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him.
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"He is also a skillful expert in communications issues central to NTIA's mission of ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for innovation and economic growth," Pai said.
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Under their skillful leadership, the congressional committees heard testimony that pieced together a complicated story and made it clear why the individual revelations added up to something bigger.
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The main character of the story is Geralt of Rivia, a skillful monster-hunter who finds himself an outcast as a consequence of his particular line of work.
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She began pitching running publications and working as a freelance writer, and her skillful use of social media attracted major athletic companies to use her as a consultant.
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Some of the paintings also reiterate the blackout bars used to redact information in the displayed reports — a skillful device that makes them visually resonant with the texts.
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Senate probe into election hacking to review possible links between Russia, campaigns But if Trump proves skillful at handling the presidency, it's possible his approval rating could quickly rise.
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Watching The Tale a second time, the scene that stuck in my head wasn't one from the horror show that is Bill's skillful seduction of a lonely, vulnerable adolescent.
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Still, seeing a genre movie that addresses class, generational conflict, and small town quirkiness with this much skillful grounding makes it harder to excuse Riverdale's shaky sense of character.
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But it still provides lively diversions for those in search of yesteryear's delights, particularly the skillful pastiche songs by Jim Wise (music) and George Haimsohn and Robin Miller (lyrics).
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Boxer also revealed Fiorina's many vulnerabilities with a skillful campaign that cast Fiorina as a heartless CEO who took corporate perks while laying off tens of thousands of workers.
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She was an effective legislator during her four years as speaker, and in the minority she's done a skillful job of holding her caucus together in opposition to Trump.
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Though the study authors' view on the challenge of unmasking such skillful sock puppets is they are likely underestimating the presence of hostile foreign agents, rather than overblowing it.
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Both times felt hard-earned — rewarding patience, stealth, calculated and skillful fighting, and a dose of good luck in ways that felt much different from the standard game modes.
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After two months, it finally found that formula, with the PAX final featuring a staggeringly impressive and eye-popping blend of skillful strategizing, serendipitous happenstance, and nail-biting bouts.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I'm convinced that one really only needs one of three things to make a good painting: compelling content, skillful facture, or formal innovation.
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In California, even then a liberally-inclined state, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article praising a young boxer, Miss Cecil Richards, as both a skillful and ladylike fighter.
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These individuals, many of whom proudly identify as trolls themselves, have developed a strong affinity for Trump, whom they characterize as one of the most skillful trolls in existence.
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Purists value sign-painting as a skillful craft that displays precision and a mastery of letters; while CASH4 respects that tradition, the content defines how he uses his medium.
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"That's life," he said, expressing a steady loyalty to the ministry while criticizing people like Dr. Portugalov who, he said, corrupted sports and shifted focus away from skillful coaching.
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The camera is highly mobile and the director makes skillful use of long takes — although portions of the brilliantly extended, existential battle sequences are filmed with a fixed camera.
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But drawing was an obsession, as indicated at Werner by a skillful portrait from his teenage years of the French poet Lamartine, lavishly attired and brooding beside a bush.
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For example, a skillful science teacher in a high-poverty-district high school offered a course in which her students designed, researched, carried out and wrote up original experiments.
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The 2010 movie "Ip Man," starring the charismatic and ferociously skillful Donnie Yen, put a little spring in the step of the martial arts picture, both artistically and commercially.
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"Through the remarkably skillful use of intimate diaries as well as public documents, some newly released, Larson has transformed the well-known record," Candice Millard writes in her review.
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Just 38, Mr. Singh is known for his taste in clothing (which he discussed earlier this year with GQ magazine), charismatic campaign style and skillful use of social media.
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These accounts illuminate how lawyers, as well as authors, must be skillful narrative crafters, pruning and stretching the unruly features of real life to fit the law's Procrustean parameters.
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"The Kremlin has been so skillful in getting the president of the United States to cooperate in an unusual way," said Maxim Trudolyubov, a Russian political analyst and columnist.
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A user as skillful as Giulianotti creates the illusion of having three operative hands; surgeons who regularly use the da Vinci often report experiencing a heightened sense of control.
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The book, by former CNN anchor Isha Sesay, is a skillful account of the 276 girls abducted from Chibok in Nigeria, which launched the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.
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Tom Carper, a fixture in Delaware politics whose legacy and skillful approach to retail politics made it hard for an insurgent candidate to have a strong shot at unseating him.
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I am of that generation where we had to make our own experiences, climb trees, fall, wipe ourselves off and climb back up again until it became skillful and effortless.
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But Bush, aided by a skillful post-debate communications strategy to shape media coverage, emerged from their three encounters on the right side of a contrast between likability and arrogance.
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"Nathan is an extremely talented and technically skillful designer who has a great gift surrounding himself with young, emerging talent," said founder Diane von Furstenberg in a statement to BOF.
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Trump needs to understand that a willful and skillful mediator is critical, but much more important are partners willing to make decisions that allow a third party to bridge gaps.
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Music has always flirted with synthesis, but today that feels especially prescient on the internet, where a skillful song cannot thrive alone—it must find its moment among the collective.
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It took some real reporting to flesh out the details of Mr. Trump's other business practices, but we're talking about ordinary if skillful journalistic legwork, not revelations from Deep Throat.
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A skillful installation sensitizes you to myriad variations in the character of works that only at first glance appear not to differ much except in size, from minuscule to monumental.
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He is a prolific contemporary-media polymath, a magazine contributor and a skillful tweeter, a writer of fiction and a collaborator with performers like Questlove, Brian Wilson and George Clinton.
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At the extremes, JFK's skillful management of the missile crisis produced a peaceful resolution, Soviet capitulation, an improved period in U.S.-Soviet relations and enhanced political standing for the president.
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That heightens the focus on Underwood's wife, Claire (Wright), who brings a bit more subtlety to the process of governing but proves no less skillful at manipulating those around her.
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Bryant, who is known for his skillful use of social media to connect with fans directly, told the Journal that he believes he has a flair for identifying promising entrepreneurs.
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Still, the way the show (which does substantially moderate Orth's judgmental tone) draws important parallels between Cunanan's simultaneous romances without smacking us in the face with them is really skillful.
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According to the historian Landon R. Y. Storrs, of the University of Iowa, that effort shifted power from lawmakers to career civil servants, who were often more educated and skillful.
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Pelosi in particular has drawn praise since the mid-term election for her skillful maneuvering to secure the House speakership and her aggressive jousting with Trump during the government shutdown.
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Mr. Brafman, a former Manhattan prosecutor, is regarded as one of the best trial lawyers in the city, known for a disarming sense of humor and wickedly skillful cross-examinations.
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Yet Henze's score, written when European contemporary music was dominated by complex atonal styles, stands out for the skillful way he melds modernist elements with vestiges of Mahler and Strauss.
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All the President's Men is a tribute to the ongoing relevance of the Fourth Estate, yes, but beyond that, it's also a top-notch thriller, thanks to Pakula's skillful direction.
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Popova's more skillful 21924 works contain familiar Cubist subjects (still lifes, signage, guitars and other musical instruments), but she also painted several "Traveling Women," implying, for me, an autobiographical reading.
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But Democrats actually picked up four seats and have held on to them since — a windfall that some attribute to the party's skillful, if deceptive, gaming of the new rules.
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Skillful helps provide marketable skills for job seekers without college degrees and connects them with employers in need of middle-skilled workers in information technology, advanced manufacturing and health care.
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How we use our attention is central to our emotional well-being, and many mind-body programs are based on training our minds to be more skillful in this way.
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Much of what seems, at first, to be merely skillful ornament — descriptions of desolate barns and scouring winds — turns out to be at the very center of the story itself.
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Blending drama, action, humor, Pia Guerra's skillful art, and Vaughan's trademark penchant for "Did you know this interesting factoid?" asides, it's served as a template for many subsequent comic hits.
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American Vandal's commitment to farce, talented cast, and skillful writing result in a richly imagined world full of people who feel more real than your own former classmates (sorry not sorry).
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You can be fit in different ways -- you can be strong like a weightlifter, run fast like a sprinter, be flexible like a gymnast or be skillful like a tennis player.
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It's a nerve-wracking sequence, combining skillful cross-cutting, effects, and the work of choreographer Damien Jalet to create a few minutes that are hard to shake as the film continues.
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The creatives Tarrant tapped were asked to come up with an idea for a painting, provide reference images or instructions, and a skillful artist from the village would execute the piece.
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But Kraninger's skillful handling of sometimes personal attacks tipped the odds of being confirmed in her favor, said Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Washington-based Compass Point Research & Trading.
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And far from being the skillful and willful negotiator we were promised, Mr. Trump seems to be stumbling about without much of a coherent policy, let alone a single negotiating success.
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Missing, however, is his typically skillful manipulation of tension, partly because his tone veers so often from jokey to reverential, from winking at the western to making a sacrament of it.
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All told, this well-written, well-produced, image-heavy book does a skillful job of conveying the way Duchamp's sexual passions were tied to his marginal but reoccurring art-related activities.
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And no matter how well educated and skillful the child might become, they will never achieve their dreams because they won't be the child of someone who is rich and powerful.
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Perhaps they remain too elusive, as do Mr. de Waal's sets, which initially suggest portals or gateways, but acquire little resonance through use or the otherwise skillful lighting by Lucy Carter.
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The fact that Bertolucci is able to deploy such a skillful tapestry of cinematic and artistic techniques in order to tell that story just makes its political message that much darker.
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Reagan won the respect of the world through his skillful use of soft power as a tool to complement our nation's military strength, but Trump has shown no regard for diplomacy.
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The museum is open to the public from April through early January, and it is a delightful place to marvel at what sand can do in the hands of skillful artisans.
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The game is a skillful revision and extension of a beloved 1997 release called Harvest Moon, and both nostalgic gamers and their offspring have greeted it as an instant old friend.
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"He is skillful as a businessman, he could show that also running the state," Karina Brtinska, 63, said after meeting Babis at a campaign stop at the main square in Varnsdorf.
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The choreography is balletic and skillful but unmemorable, even in a final section that has Nureyev as a tormented Pierrot Lunaire (one of his favorite roles), aware that he is dying.
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Our adversaries are all experienced, hardened leaders who have emerged out of Darwinian power struggles, far more fierce and serious and politically skillful than all the presidential candidates except, perhaps, Trump.
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"Kerri blew all of our minds with [her] continued creative input as well as her skillful navigation of the extremely tricky Italian repertoire we chose to lean on," he told me.
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Of course, he's put in endless hours of riding time while creating the Bolt, and for every one of my abrupt stops, he pulled off what seemed like dozens of skillful pirouettes.
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Zoe Baird is working very hard on this thing called Skillful, and she's working with Governor Hickenlooper in Colorado, to try to come up with a way to retrain especially displaced workers.
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His works echo the playful tone set by Cholnoky in the first gallery, with the skillful layering of detritus into strong, formal compositions uniting these artists' two very different bodies of work.
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"And the second is I'm exhilarated, because it not only is a skillful record, but also it's something that I invented and now it's out there and other people can challenge it."
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Starting off with the undeniable modern classic "Roots of the Mountain" from 2012's Riitiir, the band was in fine form, delivering a balance of urgent aggression and skillful melody and depth.
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We're not saying it should've gone on forever, but we've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle, one in which Vandal drops every year or so and provides skillful, humorous escape and entertainment.
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In those games, the Warriors instead adopted the persona of Draymond Green, a skillful player whose game nevertheless feels like the product of pure will: lunge and hurtle and dive and bang.
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That and skillful diplomacy at the United Nations have resulted in a substantial escalation of sanctions on North Korea which, if implemented properly, will apply veritable economic pressure on the Kim regime.
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Even his supporters would concede Trump has never made much attempt to reach out beyond his own base, proving more skillful at exploiting societal divisions for political gain than bringing people together.
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Trump is a political amateur, who still as president seems uninterested in developing the skills of a good politician, whereas Wilders is a professional politician, and a very skillful one at that.
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Pearson, who was acquired from Los Angeles in a trade last month, boosted the lead to 3-1 at 8:29 of the second with a skillful goal against his former club.
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Whereas Hobsbawm's autobiography, "Interesting Times," elided the personal, Evans's skillful portrait adds rich nuance to the story of how Hobsbawm's politics informed his sprawling social histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Smith is skillful and sensitive in teasing apart the complexities of Follett's life — this tension between freedom and the longing for love — but her insight falters somewhat in the book's memoir sections.
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It was a skillful rhetoric move: one that conveyed Trump's support for the evangelical agenda even as it cemented the role of Pence — a more natural evangelical mouthpiece — in shaping Trump's decision.
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What looks like a magical display of sorcery is really the skillful work of programing, design, and engineering to marry the potential for technology and nature to coincide in harmonious new ways.
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With this skillful address, he achieved his political goals and articulated an important new vision for the country, palpably different from the one Franklin D. Roosevelt had unveiled at Chicago in 1932.
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Certainly the cooking is more steadily skillful and more varied than it was around the time of its last Times review, a dozen years ago, when Frank Bruni gave it one star.
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As a martial artist, Mr. Uwais appears quite skillful even when handcuffed to the loosed siding of an operating-room bed, but the cutting is so quick that it's tough to say.
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A skillful baseball player, Mr. Campanella was offered a contract by a low-level New York Giants minor-league team in Georgia, but turned it down, preferring to pursue an acting career.
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And she stuck to the same speech in the New Hampshire debate Friday night, while Amy Klobuchar, who had come in fifth in Iowa, flung skillful attacks at rivals on both sides.
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Through clever writing, dreamy visual language, and fine-tuned attention to detail at every stage of production, Weber made films that remain compelling today in their skillful championing of the greater good.
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One of the pleasures of previous seasons of House of Cards was watching people who were extremely good at their jobs enact their agendas through the skillful application of force and finesse.
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The myth of the masses of skillful shooters is also central to Trump's much-repeated claim that terrorists would be deterred if they thought they were going to run into an armed citizenry.
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And while we have little information about how skillful he'd be at running the Treasury Department bureaucracy, the information we do have suggests he's hardly an edgy outsider ready to shake things up.
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This skillful demonstration of the disease known as being alive, as diagnosed by a master playwright, is one I would recommend to any actor, student of literature or fan of tragedy and comedy.
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It allows for people in just such a dilemma to find caring and skillful medical practitioners who can effectively relieve the kind of suffering that Ms. Lyall describes, legally and without moral judgment.
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Building courage and confidence as well as mobility and goal-setting, the girls learn to become skillful skaters — and the short, which runs nearly 40 minutes, shows how powerful those lessons can be.
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The fact that the second summit ended without agreement should be taken not as proof that diplomacy is hopeless, but as evidence that peace is a process requiring skillful preparation and sustained commitment.
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In war games — essentially online simulations — held before the attack on the Saudi oil fields, officials have tried to figure out how Iran's increasingly skillful "cyber corps" would respond to an American cyberattack.
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Beating the fuck out of these women, and then not proclaiming that he or she used to be a man ... if you ever watch the fights, she wasn't winning because she was skillful.
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In "Skillful Coping: Essays on the Everyday Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action" (2014), an essay collection edited by Professor Wrathall, he employed the insights of phenomenology to explore nonreflexive action and ethics.
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"Watchmen" is a compelling story, but the essence of the series is its critical eye — Moore and Gibbons's attempt to show us something about our world through skillful deconstruction of a fictional one.
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In the past, the Kremlin has been highly skillful at channeling the energy of young Russians away from opposition political activism into a pro-Putin youth movement called Nashi and other patriotic ventures.
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Malingering, on the other hand, is characterized by "skillful planning" to feign illness in order to gain a tangible advantage rather than an emotional one, and is not considered a mental illness, Feldman said.
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They're going to have to get the best and the brightest and the most experienced and the most skillful, and assemble an absolutely first-rate team of lawyers to conduct defense on multiple fronts.
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Two years later, the Arab Spring protests showed the true power of these mediums, as protest movements that made skillful use of social media for coordination and messaging toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.
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I see a difference between the most skillful dancer incorporating voguing into his or her routine and the people that I know in the Kiki scene that are expressing the struggles of their life.
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It was a Ligeti hallmark to explore unusual instrumental textures, as Mr. Lunsqui does here, and as Unsuk Chin does in her riotously colorful quintet, "Fantaisie mécanique," led by the skillful conductor David Fulmer.
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But less appreciated, though no less vital, was the nuanced and skillful way the show handled religion, treating questions of faith and doubt with as much gravity as more concrete questions of romantic attachment.
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Opinion Columnist In amoral political terms, Senate Republicans have been skillful in handling Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school.
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Skillful editing of old interviews makes it difficult to keep track of who agreed to participate (and some songs, such as "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," are noticeable by their absence).
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Last summer, at an international event in Chicago, Boye Brogeland, a Norwegian player, became convinced that Fisher and Schwartz had made prescient bids and plays that they couldn't have found with skillful sleuthing alone.
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Libertarian ideas on social policy appeal to Democrats, while libertarian ideas on economic policy appeal to Republicans, so a skillful pitch on those ideas might win over Representatives dissatisfied with their own party's candidates.
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Pence's skillful performance was, in part, a product of the five years he spent as a radio talk show host, a job that put a premium on maintaining a clear and conversational tone and timing.
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She herself has done a skillful job as Aimee's assistant partly because she's so good at cutting ties, so good at leaving people alone—not least Tracey, who has not failed to notice her abandonment.
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Ole spoke with O'Neill with the permission of his mother, Anna, the Evening Standard reports, and the boy said Messi was "skillful" and then "acted like a normal dad" when they played in the water.
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As this more skillful schemer, who shot her lover but manages to sweet-talk her husband into coming to her defense, Ms. Asami puts on and removes her facade of innocence with bright comic ingenuity.
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She's shooting her allies, but this is the kind of choice I have to make as the all-seeing, all-skillful eye in the sky that controls the destinies of the people in this timeline.
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You see, Roosh has turned himself from a fixture of the obscure online "pickup artist" community into a worldwide news item through no more than skillful public relations and a tightly-controlled a media narrative.
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It was classic Barbara Pierce Bush: politically skillful, balanced — and good for her husband, for she presented herself as at once reasonable and reasonably conservative, which was the essence of Mr. Bush's own political persona.
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" Moreover, Mr. Sale wrote, Mr. Booth's style, "with a flint-sharp mind, a skillful tongue and years of infighting experience in political groups, was abrasive to the younger and less sophisticated people around the office.
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Securities revenue, plus what Vanguard called "skillful portfolio management," has enabled that index fund to beat the index it tracks over the past few years, said Rich Powers, who leads Vanguard's exchange-traded fund operation.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Embraces Shadowy Plots, Eroding Trust" (news analysis, front page, May 29): Donald Trump is an inept president, but he continues to demonstrate that he is a skillful con man.
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His "Sea of Sorrows" choreography is a skillful imitation of the idiom widely established by Jiri Kyliàn: There's little human individuality, since everyone onstage is homogenized by the same emotion — in this case, inexplicable grief.
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Readers of presidential biography will know these stories, but newcomers may not — and in any case Goodwin is telling them not for their own sake but to establish certain key ingredients of skillful democratic leadership.
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" William F. Buckley Jr., writing in National Review, put it more simply: "He is probably the most skillful writer in America — I mean by that he can do more things with words than anyone else.
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Hyani told The Guardian that "in Morocco, when you present people with a fancy new idea, they tend to agree with it," though he added that the phenomenon was due in part to skillful propaganda.
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"Kim's skillful diplomacy, as well as an uptick in US-China and US-Russia tensions in other areas, is dampening appetites for playing tough with Kim, " according to a note by political consultancy Eurasia Group.
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Box and the prosecution aren't considering other suspects, obviously, but the lawyer has to—hence his skillful shaking-down of Andrea's drug dealers and his zeroing in on a mysterious bystander named, um, Duane Reade.
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The bad things that happen in the movie are mostly because of one incredibly rich man, who sits out most of the film and is really skillful at duping everyone from TV hosts to co-workers.
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Photo courtesy of the author That afternoon, she delivered the first real jolt of energy to FORM, drawing from her acclaimed solo albums Goldenheart and Blackheart to deliver a skillful, physical set that filled the space.
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Is Paul (who denies all the accusations) the architect of some decades-long political scheme, or is just a skillful swindler, fooling me into reading my life as a fascinating story instead of a long dupe?
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The beauty in his GIFs is that though your rational brain knows they'll loop forever and ever, utterly unchanging, his skillful animation imbues your irrational brain with an impossible-to-shake confidence that they will change.
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But for our money, the most egregious oversight is a lack of recognition for Justina Machado, who anchors the series with the kind of skillful, openhearted performance that by all rights should earn her endless praise.
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Knife SkillsDirector: Thomas LennonThe Gist: In a matter of six weeks, the Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland aims to train newly released prisoners into becoming skillful cooks so they can work in institution's French restaurant.
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LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - England's new vision coach believes modern rugby players spend so much time looking at smartphones they are less skillful and not as aware of what is happening on the pitch around them.
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But Lagarde was praised for winning U.S. Congress approval of a landmark reform program that shifted more voting power to China and other key emerging market countries and has generally been considered a skillful, charming negotiator.
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Mayweather is widely regarded as one of the best defensive fighters ever, and prides himself on his ability to evade punishment with his skillful movement about the ring while making adjustments against opponents on the fly.
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Theater | Westchester For a charming play rich with positive sentiment, Mark St. Germain's "Dancing Lessons," now getting a funny and skillful production at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, is driven by some pretty downcast dynamics.
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Barcelona, who have won the Champions League four times in the past decade, have produced an array of skillful players from their academy who grew up playing possession-based soccer that the first team still practices.
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Thanks not just to his clever lyrics but also to the group's tight harmonies, skillful scat singing and polished showmanship, it became one of the biggest jazz success stories of the late 270s and early '21986s.
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The country obsesses over the fate and form of the skillful forward, and his every move is scrutinized in the news media, but not a single second of live domestic soccer from France is currently available.
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Their message on "Come to the Dance" is simple—don't bother going to a rave if you're just gonna stand there—but their approach is skillful, utilizing total directness to create a sense of uncontainable energy.
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In the skillful way that he has harmonized the various voices, past and present, Alter proves to be another Arranger, practicing the composite art that he believes has long been the life-breath of this text.
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It should come as no surprise that Gamble is so skillful at handling millennial fears given her work as a showrunner for "The Magicians," a dark, grown-up show about students at a university of magic.
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More to the point, it's a style that deprives Baker of his strengths, which include storytelling — he's wonderful at smuggling narrative into what look like meditative poems — and the skillful collocation of lines, sentences and stanzas.
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Once I'm clued in, I can actually let myself be spirited away, as the directors and screenwriters intended, enjoying the things I'm normally too wired to enjoy: the sweeping landscape shots, skillful cinematography, meticulous wardrobe choices.
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Fracassi's work has many virtues: He builds his horrific tales slowly and carefully, with some attention to the nuances of character; his powers of description are formidable; and he's especially skillful at creating, and sustaining, suspense.
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Mr. Guaidó's attempts to unseat Mr. Maduro this year through mass protests, military defections, American sanctions and mediated talks have run up against the government's brutal repression and skillful political maneuvering, resulting in a tense impasse.
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Being the skillful politician that he is, Trump will also find it highly useful to keep setting Powell up as the fall guy to take the blame for any faltering in the U.S. economy next year.
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Both princes, who were then 12 and 15, have said that their mother's death made them wary of the news media, though the royal family has generally been skillful in getting favorable coverage and suppressing scandal.
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"The earliest models were so skillful because the fundamental science behind the greenhouse effect and global warming is well established and fairly straightforward," said Henri Drake, a Ph.D. candidate researching ocean circulations and climate at MIT.
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From her skillful strikes and powerful air throws to her infamous Spinning Bird Kick, Chun-Li's offensive capabilities proved she was a woman who could finally fight on an equal playing field with her male counterparts.
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Burns and Novick are masters of this documentary genre — call it "PBS Standard"— and The Vietnam War is as skillful a showcase of it as one can find, likely to go on to become a canonical example.
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Maybe. But it's naive to think the recent sparring with the president, in which Brzezinksi came off as unfazed (not to mention more skillful at Twitter shade) in comparison to Trump's jagoff routine, didn't grease the wheels.
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This bombing shocked people and created a lot of fear in LA. Kurbegovic also did something which a number of terrorist groups have also done, which is be very skillful in utilizing the media to his advantage.
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They were cast from the hands of actual Jamaican midwives, whose skillful intervention at the very start of a new life's journey represents a first point of contact, physical and spiritual, between members of the human family.
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In her final year of high school, Keenan sends herself to Spain and finds herself sharing a flat with John, the first man who will give her what she needs: a skillful, righteous, and thoroughly satisfactory spanking.
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Set in the Tuscan countryside during the summer of 19873, with the American forces advancing and the Germans in retreat, "Night of the Shooting Stars" is an unpredictable, often comic blend of sentimental naturalism and skillful hyperbole.
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There is a risk, of course, that you end up with "brilliant jerks" through this method of hiring — people who might be highly specialized and skillful but lack soft skills that make them easy to work with.
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Mr. da Silva, a skillful politician who endeared himself to both rich and poor, presided over heady economic growth and a generous expansion of social welfare benefits that helped lift millions of Brazilians out of abject poverty.
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While it is possible that a skillful COS might bring order to the Oval Office -- as Kelly appeared to do early in his 16-month tenure -- he will always be subservient to a President who sows chaos.
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As Oxford University's Andrew Monaghan has pointed out, this scenario casts Putin as both a calculating grandmaster singlehandedly influencing strategic outcomes through "hybrid warfare" and a skillful conductor harmonizing all the elements of government around those pursuits.
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It's a tense scene that makes skillful use of the core cast's natural abilities — they all have great "uh-oh" faces — and cribs liberally from a similarly horrendous letter sent by real-life serial killer Albert Fish.
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Warrell writes in his essay: These watercolor scenes (professionally engraved to reach a wide audience) might appear to be simply skillful, picturesque representations of notable places across Britain, ornamented with the quotidian details of nineteenth-century life.
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The new movie, a skillful blend of nostalgic sentiment and hair-raising effects, with the visual punch of big-screen digital hocus-pocus and the liberties of the R rating, still has the soothing charm of familiarity.
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On McKinley's watch, the Spanish-American War had already been won and American sway broadened around the world through martial aggression and skillful diplomacy, including the Special Relationship with Britain and the Open Door policy toward China.
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Whitford may be the rare case in which some of the justices file in for the oral argument with their minds still not made up, open to a skillful orator or a deft reply to a question.
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It's hard not to like Lucy in the Sky, not because it's especially likable or even skillful, but because Portman is so committed that she sometimes seems capable of making the movie worthwhile by sheer force of will.
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Sure, you may not be facing down Darth Vader, but the constant flurry and shifting strikes that Beat Saber demands turns what could be hapless flailing around into what feels like the skillful swordplay of a fencing master.
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That pivot layers complexity on an initially odious character, and returns to the season's central theme of coming to terms with family strife in a way that feels organic, but is clearly the product of Coker's skillful engineering.
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Markus Rodlauer, deputy director of the IMF's Asia-Pacific department, told a news conference that Chinese authorities have been very "skillful" in navigating a transition away from a hard currency peg to the dollar and avoiding speculative bubbles.
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In fact, you could make the argument that, along with improved nutrition and smarter training, it has contributed to a faster, more skillful game where players can run longer and more often, allowing for a packed competition schedule.
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Of the variety of skillful acts performed by pooches, few have proven to be as lucrative as painting, as witnessed in the artistic careers of rescue pup Arbor, service-dog flunky Dog Vinci, and blind longhaired dachshund Hallie.
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Though far from teflon (her clothing line just got dropped from Nordstrom's because she is her father's daughter), she's been incredibly skillful at avoiding being held accountable for her father's racist and sexist rhetoric and his authoritarian policies.
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"There are dangerous curves ahead in this powerful computer-age drama that combines skillful acting with a series of explosive sexual encounters that push the story inexorably toward its unexpected conclusion," a press release for the film states.
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"Opportunity is being driven by the digital economy," said Zoë Baird, president of the Markle foundation, which recently began a pilot program called Skillful in Colorado to match employers and workers based on skills, rather than simply degrees.
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While Jones concedes rugby in the Northern Hemisphere is slower, he is adamant that his players are not any less skillful or fit, though they are not used to facing all-out attacking rugby on a regular basis.
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Their debut, The Inside Room, was released in 2011, a stirring trifecta of instrumentation courtesy of Walker's vocals and guitar alongside the skillful backbone of bass provided by William Spong and the rich, warm percussion of Christian Leitch.
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I have always appreciated skillful 19th century academic painters, and for this reason I studied (for a short while) at Angel Academy of Art in Italy as well as at Angela Cunningham's Fine Art Studio in North Carolina.
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Her new book, "Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis," chronicles the hilarious escapades of men and women who should have been promptly fired rather than immortalized by this skillful reporter.
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Even the ability to ask that question is a hard-won privilege for the characters in Stephanie Powell Watts's skillful riff on "The Great Gatsby," which revolves around a contemporary black family in a declining North Carolina town.
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Familiarity with the original Cassandra is not required to appreciate this novel, although those who do know the ancient myth will admire Shields's skillful tweaks (reminiscent of Jane Smiley's successful reimagining of King Lear in "A Thousand Acres").
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There, amid a salty ocean breeze and the sound of lapping waves, the children were made to lie down as a priest—with a skillful hand—cut open their chests, reaching in to pull out their still-beating hearts.
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After dividing The Belasco Theater audience on their love or dislike of the Kardashians, Katherine showcases her skillful and hilarious storytelling style with tales about following a man to Japan and meeting her daughter's first celebrity crush, Anna Kendrick.
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Incision was skillful Lane was a certified nurse aide starting July 1, 2010, and her license expired on January 31, 2012, with no history of discipline or board actions, according to records with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.
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Mr. Vyleta, known in Canada and Britain for his atmospheric, well-made thrillers (including "The Quiet Twin" and "The Crooked Maid"), writes with intricacy and imagination and skillful pacing; never once would I have considered putting his book down.
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Amongst that line-up of gleaming faces were the tournament's top scorer — a towering young striker born in Guinea Bissau — and a slight, but skillful, Japanese playmaker, who had been the main provider of goals for his African peer.
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Ms. Iles is one of the most skillful, erudite and ambitious curators in her field, but "Dreamlands" seems confused by her desire to accommodate both a large viewing audience and also to reach a smaller, more informed in crowd.
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It feels very good to pull off (provided you're on the right side of it) but the technique is incredibly overused, and somewhat antithetical to the kind of consistently skillful and active play that Overwatch encourages with other characters.
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With its skillful interweave of political conflict and transition, economic transformation, social upheaval and cultural change, "The Pursuit of Power" bears witness to an old world fading, inside and outside the home, and a new, modern one taking shape.
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Mr. Jiang is a skillful bureaucrat within the Communist Party and has academic training as an economist, but he climbed China's political ladder while steering clear of the party's market reformers and skipping economic conferences with free-market themes.
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They are often led by the skillful net play and serving of McNally, who, playing in her first U.S. Open as a professional, was good enough to take the first set off Serena Williams in a second-round match.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Nediger is a welcome sight on a Sunday, and this puzzle is a typical example of his skillful eye, which focuses on a particular vagary of the English language and teases it into an entertaining theme.
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Any lessons posterity might have derived from this visual corpus misrepresented a Revolution that was far too contentious and rough-edged to be captured by the smooth application of paint to canvas, however skillful the wielder of the brush.
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It is a miracle of Schumer's skillful leadership, the principled unity of Senate Democrats, and the courageous actions of a few Republican senators that every major legislative initiative pushed by Trump and Republicans alone has so far been defeated.
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But over the course of its 14-minute running time, thanks to the constant use of extremely skillful editing, The Was begins to transcend and transform mundane settings until it's awash with flying houses, golden roads, and magnificent explosions.
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However, Nichols and Henry nail the text's comedic aspects — not just because the two men were seasoned comedians, but because their playful sight gags, which rested on skillful editing and direction, are no small feat (some involved crashing aircrafts).
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Now, Crawford's latest solo presentation of new and recent sculptural pieces provides another opportunity to get to know the work of an artist whose emphatically hands-on approach is as echt as the products of his skillful, metal-handling techniques.
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And in doing so, the show can indulge co-creators Bryan Fuller (who also helmed the even more skillful TV adaptation Hannibal) and Michael Green's talents for building on these sorts of pop texts and turning them into modern myths.
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Yes, her breakdown at the end of "Chuckles Bites the Dust" (the most famous Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, which my colleague Alex Abad-Santos wrote about here) is probably her most hilarious, most purely skillful moment in the show's history.
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And I taught techniques for focusing away from emotional sensations in a skillful way, so that people can get some reprieve from the intense emotions that are coming up for so many of us right now, without stuffing or repressing.
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Need To Feel Your Love is technically skillful but still a total adrenaline rush, dotted throughout with hooks aplenty, without losing any of the bite provided by burly, accomplished riffs and the raw, rockstar-wattage power of Tina Halladay's vocal performance.
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"The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties," the profile states.
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"Our studio was founded on the idea that small, skillful teams can accomplish giant things, and I am confident that partnering with Zynga is the right next step in our evolution," Small Giant CEO Timo Soininen said in a statement.
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Storm track forecasts for hurricanes and typhoons remain more skillful than intensity projections, so it's possible that Super Typhoon Maria will remain a powerful Super Typhoon with sustained winds of at least 150 miles per hour all the way to Taiwan.
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In fact, as Justice noted in her brief, the three lawyers whom Judge Shah appointed to serve on the plaintiffs steering committee filed a letter urging Judge Shah to allow Justice to continue her "diligent and skillful" leadership of the case.
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In "Diamonds," Tyler Angle (partnering Ms. Kowroski) and, in "Emeralds," Jared Angle (Tyler's brother) and Ask la Cour nobly demonstrated the skillful chivalry in partnering that lies at the romantic heart of most ballet and particularly of Balanchine dance theater.
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Spanning nearly 40 years of work and sprawling through the Queens Museum, Times Square and the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station, this survey offers a consistent and excellent display from this skillful maker of objects that often highlight social injustice.
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Rustic in appearance, with his wood staff and flowing beard, Chandraswamy proved skillful at winning the trust of international leaders, securing their confidence by rattling off the names of his influential confidants and performing such seemingly supernatural feats as mind reading.
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McConnell, a skillful tactician who was forced two weeks ago to scrub a planned vote on an earlier version opposed by both moderates and hard-line conservatives in his party, has planned for a vote on the retooled bill next week.
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The length and simplicity of the down entries is key here, but the fact that the end result is still challenging, and still feels gratifying to figure out and worthwhile to complete, is really a testament to very skillful construction.
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Whatever one's point of view on Caesar's rise, no one disputes his genius and courage as a general, an orator, a war correspondent and above all a skillful politician who knew how to push every button in the Roman government.
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Despite polls showing that Labour would win a commanding majority and provide him with his own mandate, Mr. Brown waited and suffered from the 2008-9 financial crisis, despite his skillful management of it, and Labour lost the 2010 election.
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And as for the new hero of the left, AOC, she has some decent ideas but lacks the wisdom to implement them, seems to be an immature and rigid ideologue and needs to learn from the Buddhist precept of Skillful Means.
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Throughout the weekend, attendees picked up sticks to play in a tournament of scrimmages in which they took turns officiating under the guidance of combine graduates now working in the N.H.L. The hockey was fast, skillful and mostly whistle-free.
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Part of this has to do with how skillful and fluid a writer she is otherwise — the facts seem to tumble forth, in a way that makes her jokes feel superfluous (when they aren't awful) and strenuous (when they are).
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Yet Paisley responded so well to McGuinness's skillful flattery that they achieved a warmth that charmed those outside Northern Ireland who wanted to believe the irreconcilables had reconciled, though the basic sectarian fault-line in government and Northern Irish politics remained the same.
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"I think there's something almost hypnotic about watching deft hands perform tasks, and although my own hands are clumsy and far from skillful, I wanted to emulate that effect as best I could in hopes of entertaining others," the Food Surgeon said.
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Mueller has also reportedly recruited skillful prosecutors from within the highest levels at DOJ -- including Andrew Weissmann, chief of the Criminal Division's fraud section, who served as former director of the Enron Task Force and general counsel under Mueller at the FBI.
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The EU has proven in this region, through its skillful participation in brokering the JCPOA in the first place and by being recognized by all players as a partner for dialogue, that it can in fact make a difference on the world stage.
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Democrats should have high confidence in a Speaker who has wielded the powers of the House and the principles of true Democrats, from legislation to investigations, in ways that were honorable and skillful and highly effective for House Democrats and all Democrats.
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Despite his skillful wordplay and earnest emotional content, his music seems uninterested in control or catharsis; instead, he probes his circumstances in search of understanding, as if reaching out in a darkened room in hopes of finding a surface, to gain some traction.
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Sentimentality, as Solomon observes, involves in giving oneself over to such manipulation; the criticism of consumers as complicit in this process implies that the emotions felt are not the person's own, real and authentic, but a product of the skillful manipulation of Hollywood.
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After all, I like it when other genres adopt high mobility ( Titanfall 211 remains one of my favorite games of the last few years), and as my love of Getting Over It suggests, it isn't a distaste for a focus on skillful execution.
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Their menu is a skillful and refined homage to the heart-stopping food served at a few old-time places around Les Halles in Paris; it includes snails, brains, tripe, tongue and other things that don't exactly sell themselves in the United States.
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For weeks, the leader of Turkey has been trying to undermine his regional rival, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, with a skillful drip of intelligence leaks linking the prince to a gruesome crime: the killing of a dissident, Jamal Khashoggi.
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Through a skillful campaign of intelligence leaks to the news media, Mr. Erdogan has engineered prominent coverage of the case around the world, and he has sought to engage Western support to curb the Saudi prince, whom he sees as a personal threat.
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Mr. Varadkar campaigned on his government's skillful handling of Brexit, in securing a deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson that avoided a hard border with physical checks between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and on presiding over a period of economic growth.
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Wright points out that there are many ways Aboriginal people have managed fires by using "skillful" burning, like the mosaic cool-fire technique, which uses low-intensity fires to clear underbrush, making future fires less chaotic and giving animals time to get away.
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"Roger has been so skillful over the years at feeding the legend that Mueller believed him, or at least conveniently wanted to," Matt Labash, a conservative who wrote a definitive profile of Mr. Stone for The Weekly Standard in 2007, said on Friday.
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Just before the 2015 edition of San Francisco's Outside Lands music festival, a mysterious Facebook user who went by the name of "Concert Raptor" devised a 20-clue scavenger hunt across the city for any music fans skillful enough to get through it.
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There had been an improbable synergy between the two men: the president who covets power but has little sense or discipline in wielding it, and the legislator who has often seemed to consider the skillful exercise of power an end unto itself.
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Despite Nick being the closer of two brothers to getting a boxing bout in the past, it is worth noting that Ward stated that Nate was the more "skillful" pugilist of the two when he was interviewed shortly ahead of UFC 196.
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Stylistically, Migos are a clear precedent, as definitively trap-identified rappers who combine trap's irresistibly playful goofiness and devotion to the ad-lib with rapid, lucid, patently skillful verses designed as displays of virtuosic technique, especially on their flawless touchstone Culture (2017).
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But Lacie's plateaued around a 4.2, and with some hard work and skillful sucking up to "high-quality people," she just knows she could tip herself into the 4.5 "premium user" range that comes with perks, discounts, and, maybe most importantly, prestige.
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It will arrive after a year in which Drake became the genre's most powerful artist, because of his persistence on the charts even without releasing a traditional album, and his skillful handling of his beef with Meek Mill, the first real assault on his dominance.
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Dawson describes himself as "51 percent songwriter, 49 percent artist," and it shows in his lyrics — the skillful storytelling, rhymes and wordplay that echo the songs of George Strait, Alan Jackson and Johnny Cash that he grew up with in small-town Northern California.
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Near the beginning of the second section, which explores Paul and Susan's uneasy cohabitation, the slip into the second person heralds a nice gearshift into Paul's self-questioning; Barnes has a skillful command of tone and its moral implications, when he chooses to exert it.
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Sometimes in cyber-parlance these are called APTs or "Advanced Persistent Threats"— hackers skillful enough to breach complex systems quietly and stay inside them for a long time, something that is best done with the time and money that only a government's resources can provide.
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As always, Gopnik shows himself to be a skillful manager of complex concepts and nuanced reflection, but, like others who seek to understand the dharma, he would do well to take the advice of Zen teachers past and present: sit down and shut up.
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That in an era where the game is faster and more skillful and better coached than ever before, with results that are driven by elite talent, you think the answer to a terrible season is to just roll up your sleeves and try more?
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Tsireh himself began as a potter while growing up in his San Ildefonso Pueblo, located near Sante Fe. "They were really the leaders, and I think some of the most creative and skillful of the artists — not that everyone else was a follower," Moser said.
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So it came as little surprise when, back in August, a book landed on my desk with the title "Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy," and a cover that made subtle but skillful use of open- and close-parentheses to suggest female genitalia.
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If Pug Henry seemed to show up, unaccountably, at the elbow of every great leader in the war at one historic turning point after another, Mr. Wouk's breathtaking narrative pace, skillful stage management and flair for wide-screen spectacle tended to drown out the criticism.
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Knox is so skillful at setting up such questions and at making you realize the possibilities are more complex than you think that when he finally gets around to trying to answer them, his conclusions can't help but be a bit of a letdown.
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Swift was fresh off of her "Reputation" tour when she began filming, and it shows — she gives a self-assured and skillful performance as Bombalurina, a haughty and beautiful ginger cat who sprinkles catnip over the rest of the Jellicles and dances in glittery heels.
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Ms. Lam is loyal to the Chinese Communist Party "but more skillful" politically than Leung Chun-ying, the deeply unpopular incumbent chief executive, said Chan Kin-man, an associate professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who helped organize the 2014 protests.
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"Van Gogh's characteristic refinement — which includes his ability to draw swiftly without sacrificing precision, his profound sense of chiaroscuro and the skillful way he integrated an enormous range of drawing techniques into a compelling whole — is not in evidence in these drawings," the museum's statement reads.
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The insidious notion suggested by this idea—that you could just make better choices and escape your abuse—is that the world is just; that abuse is something that comes to those who have driven themselves into it (or who were not skillful enough to escape it).
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I don't know whether and to what extent Macron realizes that, but I suspect that Germans, and their followers, are making a very serious mistake by humiliating, underestimating and rudely challenging this highly erudite and skillful politician who seems increasingly attracted to concepts of Gaullist statecraft.
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Diners are within poking distance of the chef Haruka Casters' matchbook-size open kitchen and can watch as she prepares a simple but skillful menu of small plates that might include seasonal velouté, onigiri with salmon and trout eggs, and fresh salads dressed in sesame vinaigrette.
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Unlike Wiggins, who plays unsure of when he should be aggressive and when he should placate his more skillful teammates, Porter already understands that Washington can't be its best self unless he punishes the defense whenever it leans too hard towards John Wall and Bradley Beal.
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WASHINGTON — When Syria shipped what it claimed was the last of its chemical weapons out of the country in 2014, John Kerry, the secretary of state at the time, declared that it showed that skillful diplomacy could achieve far more than attacks on a few facilities.
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Through the remarkably skillful use of intimate diaries as well as public documents, some newly released, Larson has transformed the well-known record of 12 turbulent months, stretching from May of 1940 through May of 1941, into a book that is fresh, fast and deeply moving.
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The essay itself is a lovely meditation on the ruined remnants of vacation wonderlands in the Poconos and Catskills, and the exceptionally skillful before-and-after animations of swimming pools, bowling alleys and cocktail lounges left me marveling at what was, and was not, still there.
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Salomé is, in fact, starry-eyed in her worship of Iokanaan's otherworldly physical beauty, but turns into a skillful seductress once Herod, the husband of her mother, Herodias, asks her to dance for him in return of anything she might ask, even half of the kingdom.
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Inspired by his idol Cuauhtémoc Blanco — another diminutive but outrageously skillful player and the star of his favorite team, Club América — Corona was always making a nuisance of himself by incessantly kicking his ball around the house, in the street, or wherever else he found himself.
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Hitman, however, is a series where killing your targets is a combination of careful planning and skillful execution: You've got tools, you've got a target, and you need to figure out a way for the target to end up dead, and preferably it looks like you were never there.
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If you've got the genitalia of a cis woman — meaning a vulva, a vagina, a clitoris, a cervix, and all the rest — you should, according to some experts, be able to "achieve" up to 10 different varieties of sexual release through skillful manipulation of your myriad private parts.
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Joe, meanwhile, is pounding the keys back in their apartment, and somewhere along the way Joan has the bright idea not only of presenting his manuscript to the publisher she works for but also of finding ways to improve it, first by skillful editing and then by wholesale ghostwriting.
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It's an emotion, and to carry it off, you need actors as skillful as the ones here, vibrant people who make you wonder what took TV so long to find them, people who leave you praying that executives and producers continue to trust black storytellers to keep going.
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"My take on the talc ovarian cancer litigation is that it really is skillful and well-funded plaintiffs lawyers who are exaggerating science and taking it out of context to scare people and to frighten the public with the goal of lining their own pockets," Bart Williams said.
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The Rangers signaled that big changes were coming two weeks ago in a letter from the team president, Glen Sather, and General Manager Jeff Gorton, telling fans that the team "may lose some familiar faces, guys we all care about and respect" in order to add young, skillful players.
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Supporters of Trump and the European right-wing nationalists who aim to turn their nations inward and dissolve alliances, trolls sowing cross-border paranoia, even ISIS with its skillful social-media recruiting and propagandizing — all of them have sought in their own ways to split the Zuckerbergian world apart.
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THICK And Other Essays By Tressie McMillan Cottom In "Thick," the sociology professor McMillan Cottom offers profound and expansive cultural commentary, in essays epigraphed by figures ranging from Foucault to Malcolm X to Migos — reflecting the author's skillful interweaving of the academic with the popular, all informed by blackness.
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It's not as skillful as Breaking Bad was in its third season, when it believably got Walter out of the game but illustrated that the impulses that led him to cook drugs were still present within him — but that was probably the best blatant plot stall of recent years.
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"They are certainly skillful at their role, so when they enter into the network, they are quite adept at escalating privilege, moving around inside of the network to try to locate the data that they are after, which is payment card information," said Nart Villeneuve, principal threat intelligence analyst at FireEye.
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" 6 Photos View Slide Show ' For what is probably the most famous dance moment in the show, the wedding scene in which bearded men place bottles on their black hats and link hands, Mr. Shechter has created what he called "a 2.0 version," because, he said, "we're more skillful now.
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In "The Cure at Troy" (1990), a skillful translation and adaptation of Sophocles' play about the wounded Greek archer Philoctetes marooned on Lemnos and brought back to the Trojan War by Odysseus, Heaney found a parable for the need for forgiveness between bitterly opposed factions during the Troubles in Ireland.
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He had tried to have his testicles removed on the NHS (the story ran) but when he was laughed out of his GP's (who suggested psychiatric counseling instead) he placed a personal ad in a gay magazine offering his genitals up for use and abuse in return for their skillful removal.
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This is not to say that Kentucky won't get better as the season progresses, because generally Kentucky always does get better, because no matter your opinion on Calipari's overarching sense of morality, there is little question that he is a skillful recruiter and developer of top-tier, NBA-worthy talent.
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Mr. Trump also lacks the popularity that allowed presidents like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to rally the public behind their proposals and compel Congress to go along with them, and he doesn't seem to understand that their skillful use of the reputable media was an integral part of their success.
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The report helps solve the mystery of why the country's economy appears to have survived, and in some sectors actually grown, as the United States and its allies have talked about their success in choking off oil supplies and cracking down on North Korea's skillful production of counterfeit American currency.
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" In his book, Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties…and How You Can Be, Too, Al Siebert writes, "The best survivors spend almost no time, especially in emergencies, getting upset about what has been lost, or feeling distressed about things going badly….
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Now, that's only useful if the series finds a way to make them all as compelling as they could be — something it hasn't achieved yet (beyond casting incredibly skillful actors playing them) — but it's also not boxed in by source material the way The Walking Dead has been now and then.
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The book is a skillful mix of science, reporting, and personal memoir, drawing not just on 25-plus years of research on addiction and Szalavitz's extensive reporting, but also her own experiences as an addict in her early 20s, when she was shooting heroin and cocaine as many as 40 times a day.
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And while pointing up the built-in unwieldiness of big shows on broad themes, it demonstrates the ways in which skillful curators — in this case, Scott Rothkopf and Dana Miller, working with Mia Curran, Jennie Goldstein and Sasha Nicholas — can organize work in porous modules that have a manageable logic of their own.
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"The West is just a little more skillful at playing the modern game, where perception by the world public opinion and the spin is more important than what is actually going on," Kilimnik wrote to Manafort in a December 2004 memo analyzing Russia's bungled efforts to manipulate political events in former Soviet states.
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"It gives us a chance to actually change the whole landscape of how poker is played so that anybody can really play, it is not about how much money they put in, it is just the most skillful players play against each other to find out who is the best," Barnard said.
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Stepan took a hit from Alexei Emelin in the neutral zone as he poked the puck up to Miller, who went one-on-one with Andrei Markov before skating around the Canadiens' defenseman with a skillful toe drag and cutting into the slot to beat Condon with a backhander through the five-hole.
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