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"Victoria" is skillfully put together and skillfully danced, but it's hard to see the point.
But it needs to be challenged more skillfully and tactfully.
Ms. Jensen's transcription of "The Holy Presence" was skillfully wrought.
Several journalists have skillfully reported on the tech worker actions.
We obtained photos that suggest the bomb was skillfully constructed.
That means anyone deploying a changeup skillfully has an advantage.
He skillfully used Trump's own words to explain this action.
Connie Bischoff, Miami Beautifully presented, skillfully written and completely bonkers.
Raffel's response when contacted for this story — focusing on how he skillfully influences pieces about Kushner and Ivanka Trump — offers a case study in how he skillfully influences pieces about Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Based on Brierley's true story, Lion is Oscar bait done skillfully.
Based on Brierley's true story, Lion is Oscar bait done skillfully.
Stern skillfully negotiated a cease-fire on his show Monday morning.
That ability to adapt in real time to a task skillfully.
You don't actually need more if you tie these together skillfully.
Adventure Time's penchant for experimentation was both admirable and skillfully executed.
Instead it skillfully weaves commentary on sexism throughout the entire experience.
Your impatience with Congress can now be applied to them skillfully.
Mr. Soluri's skillfully scored music was energetically conducted by Mr. Deaton.
De Burca and Wagner skillfully avoid academic references and ironic distance.
The Democrat Danny O'Connor's campaign has skillfully played to this divide.
Reign skillfully adapted them into signifiers of trashy kitsch in 2013.
And they're doing it aggressively and skillfully and with great intelligence.
His government has often skillfully played its backers against one another.
Well if this is a pardons strategy it is skillfully disguised.
There are many journalists who respect evidence and deploy it skillfully.
It's an open secret that Nori's clothing is skillfully and precisely tailored.
Remnick skillfully tried to find ways to crack open and challenge Comey.
No major phone manufacturer has skinned Android this well or this skillfully.
Passmore's artwork skillfully balances the wry comedy with the escalating scary moments.
Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors.
Restall skillfully describes a subtler story of relationships both loving and coercive.
Luxenberg skillfully works the military and the political background into his narrative.
Rather, China will win because it is playing this game more skillfully.
Then he slid in forceps skillfully, not a scratch on her temples.
"Some of it is being done, but not skillfully enough," he said.
Not because they weren't skillfully made, but because they missed the point.
Townshend's music skillfully evokes the alienation common throughout the difficult sojourn to adulthood.
To play this great big game of pretend you so skillfully set up.
It's very easy to whip up opposition, as the Republicans so skillfully did.
This is what Halt and Catch Fire does so skillfully at its best.
During the primary, Ted Cruz's daughter skillfully avoided her father's very awkward kiss.
Ms. Law's script skillfully weaves in the notable biographical details through his monologues.
They skillfully deflected others, or declined to respond, they said, for legal reasons.
But Mr. Carranza was credited with skillfully steering the district through the crisis.
Skillfully, Homer seizes on every little story to spark something in the group.
Some also doubt, with reason, their party's capacity for handling the matter skillfully.
Skillfully edited clips raise hopes that the new shows will not be stinkers.
The pilot, Major Otis Bryan, skillfully did just what he said he could.
If it is a revolution, it is one that he has skillfully monetized.
Warren has a theory of the case and is prosecuting it very skillfully.
Reflect on how you could skillfully respond to what is making you angry.
Ronald Reagan did that very skillfully, whatever one may think of his vision.
She did not skillfully skirt society's rules to achieve material wealth or comfort.
Still, some of the biographies are more complete and more skillfully done than others.
And it was done so skillfully that not a drop of oil was spilled.
Yet its self-referential, looped-back quality is both thematically appropriate and skillfully achieved.
Boxing: one person fights more skillfully, or perhaps simply punches harder, than the other.
I remember my mother's hands so skillfully weaving the strands of my hair together.
Or perhaps Donald Trump, Jr., who skillfully tried to make this all about him.
Skillfully composed, Khan's works seamlessly balance Desi culture with that of classic American iconography.
This skillfully written murder mystery centers on an ambitious teenage gymnast and her family.
The fact that I can skillfully speak English doesn't mean I know its grammar.
She deflected skillfully and let us out at the doors to the Mariposa Saloon.
Out of a host of complex, skillfully realized characters, Badal stands out in particular.
He had skillfully navigated the challenges of translating English to Spanish, inches to meters.
Warren skillfully hewed to a moderate course while still sounding like a solid progressive.
This all just needs to be imaginatively and skillfully translated into more exhibitionary formats.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Roberts skillfully parried questions and was confirmed 78-22.
Mr. Roumain skillfully folds gospel, funk, jazz and contemporary classical idioms into the score.
Each nugget disperses on contact with your tongue, like the most skillfully formed nigiri.
The paradoxes that existed for both the slavers and the enslaved are skillfully examined.
No matter how skillfully a director translates live performance, something is lost in translation.
They are boxing connoisseurs skillfully pursuing a parallel craft that replaces conflict with camaraderie.
It's pretty crafty, and I'm impressed with how skillfully the show pulls it off.
In another video, two women danced along skillfully to "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.
Gorsuch, like Roberts, like any other judge, will have to skillfully navigate around Trump's comments.
This lesson is embedded in the score through specific musical motifs skillfully deployed by Puccini.
"It's the same old bootstraps story, an American dream artfully told, skillfully sold," she wrote.
Chazelle skillfully limits his space scenes to what the astronauts are experiencing in real-time.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons has taken great care to manage that quite skillfully.
And in each of them are throngs of Quiteños skillfully handling the lettuce-filled wrap.
The raw diplomatic material is there; the United States must work to skillfully exploit it.
Nonetheless, the images skillfully exploit photography's ability to freeze time to create a photo narrative.
His decorative style — restoring inherent European elegance while skillfully incorporating Californian comfort — attracted a following.
In more recent years, the Douro has turned energetically and skillfully to making table wines.
Twelve of Cornell's boxes accompany Gris's collage, skillfully arranged to reveal the adorned verso sides.
Lam had the opportunity to salvage her legacy by skillfully responding to the viral outbreak.
The catchers seek one another's input during games, and the pitchers skillfully follow their advice.
She has rendered the palette so skillfully you almost feel that you can touch it.
Some works were abstract, some skillfully done tributes to favorite cartoon characters, bands or movies.
Appropriately, a whistle-blower named Gabriel Thompson, played skillfully by Brent Sexton, takes center stage.
It took Brown about six months of training on simulators to operate the laparoscopic robot skillfully.
Wennmachers' ability to advocate skillfully for herself and others had begun much earlier in her life.
You can catch Jones maneuvering turns a little more skillfully in Inferno, out on October 28.
The secret of Sunny's continued success is how skillfully it's leaned into both of those qualities.
When magicians skillfully trick audiences by way of masterful dexterity, it's called a sleight of hand.
Yet they skillfully identified the fault lines and continue to deftly employ them to their advantage.
Cruz skillfully turned a question about a financial reporting omission to a swipe at the media.
The grassroots discontent that Obama had harnessed so skillfully in 2008 now belonged to the right.
Presumably they come, as I now will, because the food is bright, fresh and skillfully prepared.
There are a lot of spinning plates, and Mbue balances them skillfully, keeping ­everything in motion.
As skillfully intricate as these crosses are, I think we'll all have chemistry with this puzzle.
In much of the work on display, Abercrombie skillfully depicts the paperwork of our transactional world.
Cleopatra and Elizabeth I both skillfully managed their image to curry favor and win greater power.
If it's done skillfully, where everything cooks just right, you get a real sense of occasion.
Over decades she has skillfully created a brand, and her constituency fondly follows her every move.
Gina says she balked at first, but Pierce skillfully shamed her into turning over the money.
Through these seemingly dry details, however, Sedaris skillfully calls attention to the absurdity in daily life.
A move to cut down on soybean use in China would need to be skillfully managed.
Dulac skillfully deploys the film's technical possibilities, such as speeding up the frame, or multiplying images.
The creative team is packed with veteran talent, resulting in an exceptionally slick and skillfully assembled musical.
She skillfully shows readers the complex moral ambiguity of good-natured white people during both time periods.
If they hadn't been able to get her breathing again, so skillfully, that would have been it.
How does one skillfully create a two-second loop that signifies who they are as a person?
" The dream appears as either fantasy or revelation, and ­Gottlieb skillfully tells "both sides of the story.
The story lands like a skillfully flown helicopter in an open field -- unavoidable and with admirable grace.
But my job is to condense and capture the essence of an event as skillfully as possible.
But, as the episodes glide by, the series hits a satisfying groove, skillfully mixing light and heavy.
These Olympics offer an opening — if handled skillfully and strategically by South Korea and the United States.
Nothing about the show rewrites the rulebook, but it's so skillfully observed that you likely won't care.
Detroit skillfully spreads its critique across a whole set of institutional rails on which injustice can run.
Ms. Wallenda lowered herself and sat carefully on the wire as her brother skillfully stepped over her.
And, let's face it; nothing says Muay Thai more than the skillfully pointed tip of an elbow.
Ms. Snider skillfully draws a wide arc, with throbbing brass accents and slashing chords driving up tension.
No matter how skillfully produced, a Cameo cannot be mistaken for a genuine message from a celebrity.
"Orban has quietly and skillfully, with velvet gloves, strangled the life out of democracy," Mr. Diamond said.
Florestan's aria, too, disappoints after a skillfully broody orchestral introduction darkened by the veiled sound of horns.
What Sanders and Warren have done, skillfully, is to frame this as a difference in ideal policies.
The meal was quick, simple, but skillfully executed, and it made an outsize impression on the chef.
Watch host Jimmy Kimmel, Guillermo and (a little more skillfully) Momoa take their shots at the target.
It is so rich in ingredients and skillfully blended that guessing the exact recipe would be hopeless.
Logan skillfully draws on a cinematic language that's half post-apocalyptic, half classic Western, to great effect.
"Therefore I conclude that skillfully crafted fermentation is not only good for the body, but also the soul."
The Hate U Give is a skillfully constructed film in many ways, with deft performances throughout the cast.
Where the comics move at a breakneck pace, Blackman slows things down to skillfully flesh the story out.
This is a loving and skillfully rendered portrait of an important and oddly charming part of New York.
It's an obsession-worthy delight that will have you eating out of its skillfully misleading hand in minutes.
To obtain the celebrated 'domed' shape, the brushmakers then skillfully twist and roll the hairs between their fingers.
She also shared a clip of 13-year-old son Cruz skillfully playing a song on the piano.
Director Foster skillfully widens the scope of this tense situation without losing suspense (or, just as importantly, humor).
Using a magnifying scope, artist Shaun Hughes managed to skillfully turn Lincoln's head into a remarkably detailed skull.
Jim Risch skillfully probed Comey over his statement that Trump said he hoped he could let Flynn go.
The 34-year-old actor shared a hilarious video of one of his twins skillfully scaling the refrigerator.
The author, a well-known journalist critical of the current Turkish government, moves skillfully between history and fiction.
The fact that scientists skillfully practice a "method" doesn't mean that they can articulate what that method is.
He's not the spitting image of Elvis, but he skillfully captures the singer's bloated charisma and his insecurity.
She skillfully pitted blender brands Vitamix, NutriBullet, and Blendtec against each other in the battle for best product.
His rapid-fire verse during "Believer," which I associate as the patron song of "Riverdale," was skillfully delivered.
"Don't Think Twice" skillfully compresses character sketches of all six members, with some receiving more attention than others.
A reader can only applaud the author who has so skillfully preserved them in such loving, precise detail.
I, Tonya skillfully conjures the thrill of that moment both to the audience and, more importantly, to Tonya.
Kirsten Dunst skillfully hid a case of nerves while receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And yet, it is also satisfying to witness Benz skillfully connecting a troubled history to its corresponding present.
And this might be tiresome if the digressions weren't so good, so fully realized and meticulously, skillfully rendered.
Those are some heavy hills to fight and die on, but the series tackles them skillfully and enjoyably.
The slow second movement, a Siciliana in the form of a double canon, unfolds in skillfully written counterpoint.
The plot, narrated by Tremayne in the first person, is intricate, even byzantine, with skillfully folded-in flashbacks.
We feel ourselves skillfully maneuvered from this point to that rather than swept up by the novel's momentum.
But Stone skillfully carries through on this captivating tale's promise to treat a host of serious topics seriously.
Ms. Wong cooks skillfully, with an appreciation for nuance, and she doesn't abuse her freedom by innovating pointlessly.
These skillfully and elaborately designed cards were distributed by merchants to their customers in the late 19th century.
Hundreds of police skillfully and sometimes forcefully controlled and maneuvered these groups to ensure that they never met.
John Yau, for example, skillfully made the case for the honesty of the work and its lack of sentimentality.
Wennmachers was direct; Marooney could help someone come to an idea so skillfully they'd believe it was their own.
But at some point, you realize that it's been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts.
To my mind, this was so skillfully done, covered with genuinely funny jokes, that it didn't feel like exposition.
Either way, the man who skillfully plays Derek Hale is a dream-worthy pick bring Boyce Fox to life.
The music, mostly for a chorus of female voices, skillfully blends busy counterpoint and evocations of ethnic folk music.
Both sides are fearful of Russian aggression, yet Russia skillfully manipulates political cleavages inside the country to its advantage.
This kind of thing would make "Reputation" feel generic and disembodied if its sound were not so skillfully executed.
China has skillfully deployed investments to win over countries from Africa to Latin America, broadening its network of influence.
When the Big One arrives, the tech companies will be vulnerable to the regulation that they have skillfully avoided.
Of course, the animations were skillfully done; they exploited sexual geometries that would have made Marquis De Sade flinch.
Mr. Trump prevailed by channeling Republican anger most skillfully — against foes inside the party, like Mr. Cruz, and out.
The New York Police Department took her complaint seriously and skillfully caught Mr. Weinstein on audiotape acknowledging the act.
That it ties those two stories together as skillfully as it does in the end feels like a miracle.
It had been stolen, replaced with a skillfully crafted forgery and sold in 2004 to an actuary from Atlanta.
He skillfully weaves scientific findings with stories of people, events, and the natural world, using clever analogies and metaphors.
He had evidently prepared an indictment, thin in specifics but skillfully delivered in front of a sympathetic studio audience.
Her powerhouse voice and ability to skillfully navigate complex emotional terrain make her music nearly universal in its appeal.
The contestants must skillfully execute all five elements of Vogue Femme: hands, catwalk, floor performance, spins/dips and duckwalking.
Those forces are part of the weaponization of the internet used so skillfully by Russian operatives and their protégés.
The book skillfully deals with generational conflict and what it means to be a young black man in America.
It's where Austen figures out all the skills she's about to deploy so skillfully over the course of her career.
"Obviously, this has been a tough week at CBS," he began, before skillfully engaging in 25 minutes of benevolent stonewalling.
Godfrey's ability to toggle from prose in one book to verse in another as skillfully as he does is rare.
The clothes were concise — 20 looks that hit the sweet spot of quality and quantity — and clean, though skillfully layered.
Anonymous threats of sexual violence weren't so much lobbed in your direction as skillfully targeted at you and your platforms.
Last week during the Thanksgiving holiday I skillfully avoided conversations about politics (for the most part) and talked tech instead.
The goal is not to stop these thoughts but rather to be aware of them and act on them skillfully.
There's skillfully creating tension by putting beloved characters at risk, and then there's whatever the writers are doing this season.
Elmi skillfully cracks them open, then pops them in the pressure cooker along with shallots, fennel, kombu, and corn husks.
"If I could make a wish I would appoint a person who can skillfully draw these threads together," he said.
The Pompeii-born designer's already ornate and skillfully tailored dresses lend themselves nicely to the French notion of haute couture.
Most of the article was an oral history based on interviews that she skillfully pieced together for a mosaiclike remembrance.
A lot of this ensemble choreography has an aggressive tone, and there's a shallow exhibitionism in the skillfully shifting formations.
The choreography is lively yet frantic and oddly twitchy, skillfully showing off the incredible dancers but encouraging them to excess.
Spears frequently shares clips of the two in the gym, which shows them even skillfully using each other as props.
"It's a fine motor skill," and taking time to skillfully perfect the art has positive effects on students' cognitive development.
Still, Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others, and her depiction of aging is viscerally affecting.
Shaw skillfully applies lessons from the comics medium, moderating the level of detail in the animation to captivate his audience.
The video skillfully breaks down sequences and focuses on expressions or gestures that might be missed in a live performance.
Cranston says he's onboard with the decision, as he's sure that Gilligan and his crew would handle the cameo skillfully.
The explosion first blew up in 2009, skillfully promoted online by a team of competitive barbecuers in Kansas City (website: BBQAddicts.com).
It's more like an enabler, allowing the actors (sober and drunk) to take all sorts of liberties with Shakespeare, but skillfully.
Woven skillfully into its fabric are the authentic records of what is perhaps the single best-documented period in ancient history.
Her path 35 years ago demonstrates how a long-odds nominee gets skillfully positioned to enjoy the luck of presidential selection.
He skillfully hid very poignant moments throughout that kind of touch base on the rites of passage that we formally discussed.
Their occupants spared no expense, however, ordering artisans to create lacquered tableware, skillfully woven silk textiles, furnishings that boast intricate metalwork.
You may think you're a speed demon now, but your ability to drive as skillfully goes down sharply as you age.
But if you know what you're looking for, if you know how skillfully each player is playing, it's a mesmerizing thing.
He understands the media better than the media itself, and he exploits the incentive structure as skillfully as anyone I've seen.
In skillfully insisting that we consider the ramifications of drone strikes, Eye in the Sky adds valuable context to ongoing events.
Traister is certainly not the first writer to delve into these questions, but she skillfully advances the conversation with this book.
Although Mr. Foster bears some physical resemblance to Armstrong, the air of imperial invincibility that Armstrong projected so skillfully is missing.
It is clear that Logan reveres the profound importance of this tree and skillfully combines the science with a poetic fervor.
But the Saudis, in Musk's retelling, have figured out how to patiently, skillfully work one of Silicon Valley's most headstrong CEOs.
Analysts say Ms. Tsai skillfully used Mr. Xi's speech to equate the 1992 Consensus with Beijing's "one country, two systems" formula.
There was a circus double, Alexander Weibel Weibel, for the role of Gandhi, skillfully sung by the tenor Leif Aruhn-Solen.
The pleasure of "The Country Life" derives from how skillfully Cusk draws us into "the solipsistic cabbage patch" of Stella's consciousness.
The two bleed into each other so skillfully that you'll almost miss where the romance begins and the love story ends.
Today's puzzle is a classic Sunday, a very clear concept, skillfully presented, with enough fresh cluing to send us tootling through.
The big tech companies skillfully move into new markets with lower prices and more money for marketing than their new competitors.
The charismatic Mr. Mendoza, 54, skillfully combined egalitarianism on the shop floor with a detached elitism in his own social milieu.
This is a message skillfully tailored for young radicals, since for them American hostility is a stamp of a group's credibility.
The skillfully curated exhibitions can contain installation works, wall-size photographic prints, sprawling sculptural textile pieces or imaginary, computer-rendered landscapes.
As he skillfully played with the Stig in his fingers, Sam listed off a series of reasons he continues to vape.
The director Tom Ford handles the story's complex form skillfully, but he never manages to give the whole thing persuasive life.
There's still a lot to learn about how birds fly, like how they so skillfully navigate turbulence and changing wind patterns.
But Trachtenberg skillfully and subtly builds out the horrors of both the bunker and whatever is happening in the outside world.
Throughout the show's pilot music is used skillfully, foreshadowing and divulging the intentions of characters for the remainder of the series.
So it's important that filmmakers keep skillfully re-narrating history, crafting stories out of events and helping us see meaning in them.
Emoji can skillfully convey the resultant mixture of sadness and anger from coping with stalled requests, spinning dials and other website woes.
As with seemingly everything they do, fans praised the boy band for their natural live singing abilities, especially their skillfully-timed harmonizations.
We can use fear skillfully by redirecting its energy and our attention toward more wholesome virtues, like courage and kindness, Lesage explains.
Sady Paulson bobs her head skillfully from side-to-side, gently hitting the red and yellow buttons fixed to her wheelchair's headrest.
In the end, the driver managed to skillfully maneuver the bus out of the situation and return his passengers to dry land.
Once Islamists had skillfully mobilized the poor and gained enough political control, they began attacking the secular and democratic underpinnings of society.
Their discussion serves mostly as a staging ground, a way for the movie to plant its stakes so it can skillfully pivot.
In comics, great scares often rely on alarming panel transitions or page break cliffhangers, and the book skillfully utilizes these as well.
" Ms. O'Sullivan also has a playful side, skillfully wolf whistling and at one point leading the audience in a chorus of "meows.
His party's campaign operatives skillfully rose to the challenge of containing the brush fire of Democratic resistance and demoralized the president's opposition.
Moshfegh skillfully explores "a woman's relationship to her body: the disconnection, the cultural claims, the male prerogative," our reviewer, Lily King, said.
He built Foxconn and amassed a personal fortune of $7 billion by skillfully straddling the gap between China and the United States.
"Doesn't matter," said former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who in 2016 skillfully used left-wing anger at Hillary Clinton to help Republicans.
But Mr. Oliver hasn't changed his methodical, slow-burning attacks, usually spending each episode skillfully dissecting one topic with plenty of zingers.
She skillfully captures the complex nature of domestic violence and the imbalance of power between those giving help and those seeking it.
Stillpass skillfully guided the ambulance away from a 15-foot drop into a small ravine on the left side of the road.
He'd been shot by an enemy sniper, and the medical staff swarmed around his body, working frantically, skillfully, but it wasn't enough.
Interweaving her own experience as a student of Bishop's in the 1970s, Marshall skillfully discerns echoes between Bishop's public and private writing.
Over the years, Iran has skillfully bid for the sympathies of believers across the Islamic world — especially, but not exclusively, among Shiites.
This book's real strength is not in its plot or its few illustrations, though, but in the feeling it evokes so skillfully.
But they are not, as Trump has so skillfully argued, existential problems that are the root cause of his supporters' every trouble.
He seemed to regard his experience with a combination of guilt about having spread falsehoods and pride at doing it so skillfully.
Based around the conceit that each episode takes place inside a different "number 9," the show skillfully combines horror with humor seamlessly.
In a telephone interview, Commissioner Rob Manfred credited agents for skillfully using leverage but emphasized the "disproportionately pro-player" aspect of the clause.
On Monday, the former Spice Girls member shared an Instagram video of her 13-year-old son Cruz skillfully belting out a tune.
Though Erdogan would never have wished for such a tragedy, Western diplomats say he has thus far he has managed the situation skillfully.
He turned it around, becoming known as "the Great Communicator," skillfully, forcefully but eloquently demanding that the Soviets be true to human rights.
Layered on top of this, India boasts tremendous ethnic and religious diversity, which politicians can skillfully manipulate to slice and dice the electorate.
The movie, at long last, gives Deadwood a planned ending, one that skillfully caps off the legacy of this wholly unusual, splendid show.
These may seem like minor steps now, but if not skillfully managed, Trump's follies could lead to a serious backlash against American power.
Instead of backing down, she skillfully turned the negative publicity from the hearings into a successful membership drive that grew the Klan exponentially.
It takes so much more work than that, of course, but it really looks like a person is just (skillfully) playing with mud.
Producers Nick Patrick and Don Reedman seamlessly weaved this instrumental embroidery into the familiar tracks, skillfully enhancing the Beach Boys' trademark vocal blend.
The devil is in the details: the lease is 207 pages long, and the nickel-and-diming is both skillfully done and shameless.
"If skillfully played, his stock will rise," Randall Dunning, a Texas delegate who has misgivings about Trump, said the day before he spoke.
The answer is that, no matter how skillfully hospital chains team up, they will never reach the consolidation level of the insurance industry.
Today, he's a Mos investor and board member and it was his introductions that helped Yahyaoui quickly and skillfully close her seed round.
For example, the "Fast and Furious" movies are about driving daringly and skillfully in order to save individual people and also the world.
The uninhibited capitalization, if done skillfully, can be quite charming, but the habit also has the potential to be Incredibly Irritating at times.
But if a well-constructed, skillfully drawn setting was the extent of its genius, Watchmen would not have the place it does today.
Broner was warned repeatedly and eventually penalized, whereas Brook skillfully tangled his arms with Porter's whenever he felt the need for a breather.
Sallin skillfully shows this horrific fantasy as disturbingly close to reality, lending Giger's work a relevance that its gruesome nature might otherwise overshadow.
Houston's 10-7 lead didn't last long, though, as the Colts skillfully used their three timeouts while covering 58 yards over 10 plays.
Still, despite Mr. Murphy's skillfully managed campaign and ambitious agenda, it remains to be seen whether he can deliver on his many promises.
It is a detailed account, lovingly rendered in Kukuk's occasionally awkward but enthusiastic artwork, and skillfully told in Rappaport's clear and accessible prose.
"They have managed very skillfully to transform themselves into a variant of the Social Democratic party, just with more nationalist ambitions," she said.
The Internet Research Agency skillfully exploited Twitter and Facebook with anonymous accounts and bots that spread immense volumes of disinformation, slander and abuse.
He knows how to push a Republican president's priorities past bureaucratic intransigence, as he skillfully did for Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes.
His scenes with Mr. Beck bat around a few ideas about class and wealth, while Ms. Moggie skillfully alternates between fatigue and sass.
Key leadership skills Shontell: And so one thing that you've done incredibly skillfully is build your brand personally along with the magazine's brand.
It's also a showcase for Jeremy Strong, who proves himself an actor to watch with how skillfully he carries the story's main thread.
In the meantime, though, it's impossible to ignore how skillfully Guadagnino dove into the material and came up with something all his own.
The show, which recreates the tumultuous early reign of Queen Elizabeth II (skillfully played by Claire Foy), features — not surprisingly— exquisite costumes and sets.
They're generous and skillfully cooked, but they're often upstaged by the appetizers and pastas and occasionally by the vegetables they share their plates with.
His music skillfully mimics Arrival's dilemma, constantly oscillating between fear and curiosity, violence and trust—often embodying two opposing emotions at the same time.
Medical staff have claimed that she walked outside her eight-by-twelve-foot room and practiced yoga quite skillfully for four hours a day.
It skillfully used prison 'networking' By now, many of its top leaders were former inmates at US-administered prisons in Iraq during the insurgency.
Aster plants eerie symbols and glyphs — which, despite their beauty and color, telegraph a deep sense of unease — skillfully captured by cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski.
The Orioles never got a runner into scoring position as Kluber (6-2) did not walk anyone and mixed his pitches and locations skillfully.
While kids have the fertile beginnings, becoming a scientist requires that they learn and skillfully practice many abstract skills that are far from intuitive.
But despite its ambient tenor and skillfully developed narrative, it too presents a divergence from the creative partnership Wiltzie and O'Halloran first embarked upon.
Their stage presence had been honed to perfection through nearly 15 years of shows, and their truncated setlist was skillfully crafted for maximum impact.
But the carefully planned attack -- which Bush had been telegraphing for days -- backfired when Rubio skillfully deflected, saying Bush never took issue with Sen.
It is being skillfully employed in American society as demonstrated by racial animosity, class warfare, gender warfare, sexual preference warfare, age warfare and more.
While this is well-trodden fictional territory, Warren's ruminative exploration of a fragile, often toxic relationship is handled so skillfully it feels entirely fresh.
The work, which had its New York premiere on Thursday as part of the American Dance Institute's season at the Kitchen, is skillfully made.
"Hooligan Sparrow," which Ms. Wang also shot and skillfully edited, has the pulse of a mainstream thriller but without the pacifying polish and tidiness.
When you learn to understand that, you can forge deeper, lasting friendships — and skillfully destroy an ex-boyfriend in battle if you need to.
Tehran has skillfully manipulated Iraqi politics in its favour in the past, and may try to undermine Sadr' attempts to shape a new government.
Maintaining an unrelentingly gleeful grip on the film's tone, Mr. Sigurdsson skillfully whips absurdist comedy and chilling tragedy into a froth of surging hostilities.
And it's impressive: the teenage artist not only skillfully edits Schongauer's midair tangle of demons-and-saint, but sets it against an invented seascape.
He skillfully conveys the cruel, mocking tone that the SS officers and guards often used with prisoners as a way of reinforcing their power.
"The Old Drift" is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism.
But he skillfully manages to brush aside the subject and moves onto his first encounter with Bernard Mauchamp, the renown French entomologist and geneticist.
Her producer, Larry Fessenden ("Wendigo"), is an old hand at indie horror, and Ms. Asensio has skillfully rendered a fate that is horrible indeed.
Riley skillfully fuels Suzy's desire for self-determination with the indignities heaped upon her and her fellow stews — weigh-ins, height requirements, makeup checks.
As they do, Rifkind draws skillfully from multiple sources, expanding her sympathies to include them all — wives and lovers, too — in her melancholy narrative.
They were quarried and skillfully carved out of a porous volcanic rock called toba, beginning around A.D. 1000, to serve as sacred ancestral totems.
This type of database enables algorithms (like the ones Facebook and Instagram thrive on) to run on today's biggest and most skillfully-developed apps.
President Trump has skillfully maneuvered Pyongyang and its senior partner, Beijing, into far weaker positions than virtually the entire foreign policy establishment thought possible.
Australian shepherds can keep a flock of sheep together as skillfully as a nursery school teacher with a playground full of 3-year-olds.
On one hand, when handled skillfully and tactfully, customer service via social media can produce positive PR and create fervent brand loyalty that's infectious.
I first noticed just how skillfully Lee had translated his style to television somewhere around the series' fourth or fifth episode (out of 10).
Fellow refugees learned basic physiology and practiced medical skills, growing the ranks of people able to provide acute treatment and skillfully assist women in childbirth.
Unlike on a cloudy day, this loss will cause a rapid decline and rebound of solar power that grid operators will have to skillfully manage.
Over their 20-year existence, members have spread out around the country, making survival a challenge, but the group has weathered those challenges pretty skillfully.
Bigg founded and skillfully ran a complex agency for more than 20 years; this year, CRA's budget was over a million dollars, Doe-Simkins said.
Shamsuddin Abdul-Hamid also skillfully handles a range of feelings as Oshoosi, a man who is angry at the past yet hopeful for the future.
They skillfully mix 70's soft-rock and 80's synthpop influence but with a modern flavour, resulting in a very contagious and inspired sound.
On top of that, she has also skillfully directed episodes of the show, which means she is making her mark in more ways than one.
Skillfully requesting and directing supporting Marine artillery fire on the enemy positions, First Lieutenant Mueller ensured that fire superiority was gained over the hostile unit.
Clinton struck a populist tone as she sought to channel the anger of voters against big banks and corporations, which Sanders has so skillfully harnessed.
But they may better explain how, given the raw data and tools, it managed to so skillfully execute its efforts on social media and elsewhere.
In theory at least, Trump had the potential to be a Republican Bill Clinton, skillfully triangulating between the two parties to create unexpected policy victories.
Mr. Macron's main political challengers, the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, have for years skillfully used immigration in their political ascent.
He built a factory and a farm and did skillfully arrangeth the people therein so that it seemed that they were looking up at him.
As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, he had skillfully tended to the needs of his district by getting funding for projects back home.
Refraining from any use of contemporary voiceover, the documentary skillfully employs a host of pointed juxtapositions to draw out the contradictions marking its time period.
The result is a "sex scene" more hinted at than skillfully shot with quick cuts and brief caresses set to a romantic cello-heavy track.
We hoped the operation would relieve the searing pain that had brought him to the hospital The surgeon skillfully navigated his way through the procedure.
Sanders benefitted at an earlier point in the campaign from doing it skillfully, but during a critical period, he didn't do a very good job.
But there is still a story to tell about the suburbs — one that inverts the American dream — and Gone Girl picks up on that skillfully.
It's a world you've known and loved for years, skillfully brought to life from the latest minds to be given the keys to the city.
But so did Haden, who skied above them to grab it and skillfully landed both feet in bounds as Gronkowski crushed him in the ribs.
He has created his own world and his own design language so skillfully and so completely that he seems doomed to be left to it.
To avoid routine checks, the sailors skillfully navigate what is known as the "contiguous zone," the continuous maritime area extending beyond any country's territorial waters.
Our 2020 presidential candidates can learn from his example of knowing how to navigate significant snowfalls and skillfully manage a mountain of older adult workers.
Skillfully translated by Sondra Silverston, "Waking Lions" is a sophisticated and darkly ambitious novel, revealing an aspect of Israeli life rarely seen in its literature.
But his work burst with generous humanity and possessed a sure grasp on the power of intimacy — something these productions skillfully bring to the fore.
But she does it so skillfully, with such intelligence, that all you can feel as you read is delight at having been fooled so well.
In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom "parent" is both verb and competitive sport.
In the small, skillfully curated and interpreted Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, one of many such brilliant treasures can be seen.
In "Miracle Cure," Rosen skillfully blends scientific, political and economic history to trace the development of antibiotics and how they underwrote the modern pharmaceutical trade.
So instead, I've compiled a list of common missteps people make when discussing #MeToo, followed by how these TV shows have skillfully avoided said missteps.
If after that you're not taken with how skillfully Lin-Manuel Miranda compresses 30 years of history, sell the thing—it does hog shelf space.
Ultimately, they're trying to figure out how birds are able to skillfully navigate complex conditions, and stay on course even when the skies get choppy.
AAA or indie, mobile or console, games teach players a system, and reward them fairly for obeying it, especially if they do so diligently and skillfully.
"He was the architect of the world order," said Medvedev of Kohl, who skillfully negotiated reunification with communist East Germany with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Puddicombe and Pierson, who practice meditation regularly, say it has helped them make business decisions more skillfully by teaching them how to take a step back.
CNN called her the true winner of the debate, saying that she pressed the candidates for firm answers and praising her for skillfully steering the conversation.
She skillfully reframes mundane moments as what they really are: shared experiences that we all go through, like trying to find a matching pair of socks.
In the same way that the hospital gaslights Sawyer, Unsane skillfully undermines the audience's confidence in its own main character, whose eyes we're seeing everything through.
"It (the criticism) is from those who have skillfully picked out some of my tweets and maliciously interpreted them and it is a misunderstanding," he said.
Thanksgiving is serious stuff and if you're unable to skillfully avoid your family member's calls, there's a good chance you'll be joining them for the holiday.
Monocle hasn't just given globalized capitalism a hip aesthetic; it has also operated skillfully as a business in the many markets it both covers and covets.
Whether the child is parading with elephants or swimming among jellyfish, each failed attempt to fit in exudes a Chaplinesque charm, skillfully blending slapstick and melancholy.
This review, written by a student for our 2018 Review Contest, is a different kind of example of how writers can skillfully take audience into account.
Thanks to his editor, Domingo González, Mr. de la Iglesia skillfully keeps these many balls in the air, a palpable affection for his players seeping through.
In this process, Carter Page may have become George Caplan — a fictitious agent skillfully created in someone's imagination to set a trap to catch a spy.
He was now campaigning in Wisconsin, where anti-Trump forces were mounting a fierce and skillfully coordinated effort to deny him the nomination at the convention.
Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) updated this beautifully in her watercolors, depicting and disrupting illusionistic space so skillfully her works look almost like photographs or computer renderings.
O'Neill skillfully held his troops in line until sufficient evidence and public sentiment had built to support a final push for the committee's formal impeachment proceedings.
Even the R&B overlap is represented, with cuts like Jhay Cortez and Darell's "Se Supone" skillfully balancing that accessible part of the trap pop equation.
Stedman Jones has a keen grasp of intellectual history, and skillfully conveys the various themes in philosophy and economics from which Marx forged his own ideas.
The new nation, an idea still in progress, would inevitably call for reassessment, flexibility and innovation, and Feldman skillfully navigates the zigzag path of Madison's recalibrations.
But later, as the leading Republican drafter of partisan maps, he became their advocate, educating party activists in the art and importance of skillfully drawn boundaries.
But then I see someone like that and I'm like "daaaaang"—there's a way of making words come out of your mouth so fast and skillfully.
She skillfully wields the matter-of-fact language of newspapers, freeing it from specificity and opening it up to new interpretations that we must forge ourselves.
The composer Vivian Fine wrote acclaimed dance scores for Martha Graham and José Limón; brash, skillfully constructed orchestral pieces; and a raft of unusual chamber works.
It was Wenger who, through recruiting so skillfully in France, forced the rest of the country to realize that simply hiring locals was an active disadvantage.
Social media and online videos are powerful recruiting tools that the Islamic State has exploited skillfully and aimed at young people like him and his friends.
Like much autofiction, this slim novel, skillfully translated by Hahn, is preoccupied with the act of narration: how, even whether, to write about those we know.
Mr. Rouhani skillfully avoided making remarks about the opposition leaders under house arrest, something that could technically get him disqualified by a council overseeing the elections.
Beneath the zingers and the poolside muumuus, the show's stark theme is how skillfully patriarchy screws with women's heads—mostly by building a home in there.
"Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies," Ramona Ausubel writes in her review.
But what I continue to be impressed by is just how skillfully the series is using very brief moments and choices to shade in these characters.
Erin Shirreff's work skillfully combines the principles of analogue and digital processes to examine how our perception of objects is mediated by still and moving images.
Check out the clip -- Ronnie skillfully sidesteps the question at first, but eventually tells us there is ONE Broncos QB he'd like to score the game winner!
The mugs, tumblers, gift sets, and even a few caffeine-themed accessories ahead are skillfully crafted to appeal to hearts across the nation (no matter how jaded).
Joshua Matz—the attorney who wrote the brief in cooperation with scholars Corey Brettschneider, Micah Schwartzman and Nelson Tebbe—has crafted a persuasive and skillfully targeted argument.
The episode skillfully blends real-world fears — the specter of white nationalism is invoked more than once — with the comic book trappings of the show's source material.
The cruelness Ms Harding endures is fodder for both pain and humour, and the film-makers manage to skillfully navigate the pitfalls of this traumatic subject matter.
The Kardashian-Jenner matriarch has skillfully brought her entire family to prominence through TV by turning all potential scandals into opportunity and cashing in on that success.
President Trump skillfully identified a genuine problem and tapped into an anger for those who see trade deals as the cause of shuttered factories and de-industrialization.
Lalani's tale is a lyrical lullaby, a homage to Filipino folklore, and a skillfully made story that reminds us that even the ordinary can do extraordinary things.
The Watergate investigations skillfully removed Nixon from office with bipartisan support and made a real effort to reform a presidential campaign process seen as drowning in money.
Patchett also skillfully illustrates the way that seemingly minor, even arbitrary deci­sions can have long-lasting conse­quences and the way that we often fear the wrong things.
Who more than Romney, who lost to Obama in a race most Republicans expected to win, embodies the lack of "winning" that Trump has so skillfully attacked?
He performs the kill test—or as fellow judge Dave Baker calls it, "Dougie's dance of death"—using the contestants' weapons to skillfully murder a ballistics dummy.
But all the small secrets — from misremembered slights to misplaced bedsheets — are uncovered patiently, skillfully, precisely, in service of the novel's central mystery: How do you love?
Over the course of the episode, Angela will figure out how to navigate the twin identities of herself and her mother's daughter, sometimes skillfully and sometimes clumsily.
" He added that guilty clerics had proved "capable of skillfully covering their tracks" and that "the greater scandal in this matter is that of cloaking the truth.
Matt Bevin skillfully worked the room at the old courthouse building here in Harlan, one more town-hall meeting in the long campaign toward next year's election.
The shutdown of 2013 and another in 1995 featured a deft Democratic politician in the White House who skillfully directed voter anger to the Republicans in Congress.
Melchor has an exceptional gift for ventriloquism, as does her translator, Sophie Hughes, who skillfully meets the challenge posed by a novel so rich in idiosyncratic voices.
She then dwelled on a description of how she would pull back differently, and more skillfully, than Mr. Trump's rapid and chaotic retreat in the past week.
Many people exhibit deficits in alignment, joint mobility, strength, balance, muscle length, endurance and power that make it difficult to run skillfully without the risk of injury.
Ash Carter, a writer and editor, and Sam Kashner, the author or co-author of several books, have skillfully handled things in 14 chapters and a coda.
His railing against "left-wing opposition groups," and his charges that the attacks on him were "revenge on behalf of the Clintons," skillfully rallied the Republican base.
Barbee skillfully addresses the complicated social issues around racism and single parenthood, but she brings in plenty of humor to keep the story from getting too heavy.
Harding skillfully evokes the bifurcated existence of the diaspora community, seeking to build new lives yet drawn back psychologically to their homeland and shadowed by its conflicts.
Directed by Jay Stull, and presented by the Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, "Utility" is a skillfully constructed, beautifully acted domestic drama about struggling simply to make do.
The president especially continues to be erratic, petty, and politically dim-witted; he's more likely to throw major wrenches in his own agenda than skillfully shepherd it along.
KERNEN: THAT MUST BE IT. BECAUSE HE WALKED A LINE AT CERTAIN TIMES WHERE – I MEAN, SKILLFULLY NAVIGATING – RYAN: BUT THE POINT IS, REINCE IS A REAL CONSERVATIVE.
In Sherbet Land, power slides were navigated and planned so skillfully that the players seemed at constant risk of overshooting, banging against walls – but the winner never did.
The increasingly complex rhythms and added melodic guitar work cradled Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard's dueling vocals to create cutting harmonies amidst a flurry of skillfully controlled discord.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine has always managed to skillfully tackle sensitive topics, and the NBC comedy's #MeToo episode "He Said, She Said" that aired Thursday night was no exception.
Google's cloud-based free media-storage system runs on any platform and skillfully saves and organizes high-resolution photos and video (not full) from mobile and fixed devices.
The film, which starred Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger, skillfully juggled corruption, intrigue and murder among cops and Hollywood figures in 1950s Los Angeles.
It charmingly and skillfully introduces Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and has no less than four fighting female characters, none of whom functions as a love interest (because that's Bucky!).
The Emmy Award-winning actor, who skillfully portrayed the series' lead, Sheldon Cooper, penned an emotional goodbye letter to the show that brought his career into the spotlight.
I finished the Pollock/de Kooning chapter with no real sense of how their combustible friendship, skillfully parsed by Smee, had any specific bearing on each one's painting.
The beans would have been creamier with a few more minutes in the oven, but on the whole, I couldn't get over how skillfully done it all was.
An island is like a ship — the limited space compresses social relations so as to magnify their friction, and Keneally skillfully manages the tension while approaching his catastrophe.
If the Trump administration's negotiators skillfully cooperate with Mexico and Canada, they could exert combined leverage to strike a better North American energy deal vis-a-vis China.
The direction of the first two episodes occupies an uneasy middle ground between epic spectacle and close-up intimacy that I rather wish had been more skillfully navigated.
The baby who skillfully steals the Hawaiian King Rolls from the top of the fridge and blames it on the dog somehow turned me into a weeping mess.
The documentary follows a local journalist who skillfully shows how the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United and subsequent decisions created a crisis of dark money spending in Montana.
Her testimony skillfully outlined why Sondland's behavior was so inappropriate: It perverted foreign policy by constructing a separate diplomatic architecture to serve the ends of Trump's reelection campaign.
You could tour the city's proudest French restaurants without coming across a more skillfully done puff pastry crust, notched like a pinwheel and baked to a deep mahogany.
She is poised as she pushes herself, with a long oar, skillfully through the water; the look on her face exudes deep stoicism as she undergoes her task.
At times she shifts skillfully from first- to second-person narration as if to implore the reader to understand that there is no protection, nor order, nor safety.
But by ignoring traditional narrative structure, jumping back and forward in time, subject and thought, Sardy skillfully reflects the "narrative crisis" that occurs in people with mental illness.
As with his earlier books, Federle skillfully pivots between the comedic commentary and the moving introspection of a boy trying to find his place in a homophobic world.
McCormick lovingly, skillfully, shows us, tracking them from Armenia to Europe to America, while they all grapple with the permanence of their actions on themselves and each other.
At this, too, Sasai excelled, announcing his discoveries in major journals such as Nature and Cell, and keeping the center's laboratories well funded by skillfully marketing their achievements.
The rare bit of criticism hints at how skillfully O'Brien has managed to maneuver in Trump's world while maintaining a traditionally conservative viewpoint on matters of foreign policy.
Still, all of the stores are skillfully merchandised, and the sales associates are as knowledgeable and attentive as anyone working at Bergdorf Goodman or Barney's — and noticeably friendlier.
Knocked Loose skillfully blends the weaponry of metal and hardcore into a single Molotov cocktail, injecting new life into a genre that was previously a dirty word: metalcore.
You'll want, too, to dip into David Sax's "The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter," skillfully reviewed this week in The Times by Michiko Kakutani.
A professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, Aslan wields words skillfully and speaks elegantly; his ideas are perfectly suited for the internet-video age.
Skillfully separating the man from the myth, Professor Silverman provided a stirring account of Mather's world and a convincing portrait of an often repellent but always fascinating figure.
A Dutch artist, Edwin van den Dikkenberg, who has made that portrait in oil, has skillfully apprehended Obama's combination of scholarly aloofness, confidence, and openness to being charmed.
They were distributed by merchants to their customers to promote their products, and many of the most elaborately and skillfully designed ones were those from the pharmaceutical industry.
As for "fashwave" that's a relatively new genre term and out of curiosity we did check out CyberNazi's music and found it to be well composed and skillfully produced.
It was glorious, compelling writing that was skillfully interwoven into the acts of raiding pirate bases, looting science labs, and generally kicking some wrongdoer's butt in a righteous fashion.
The report noted that companies are avoiding mistakes by being more rigorous and strategic in how they approach foreign acquisitions as well as more skillfully dealing with cultural issues.
Tyra Hunt, a senior at East Kentwood High School in Michigan, got creative when taking her school ID picture this year by skillfully recreating her hilarious kindergarten school photo.
Mr. Trump has emerged as the presumptive Republican nominee by skillfully appealing to an angry and alienated conservative base that is driven in part by racial and ethnic fears.
She explained that this works in helping you quickly and effectively master a language because you must first practice speaking in order to skillfully gain command over a language.
In St. Louis, getting a sizable crowd to come out month after month to listen to some beats—skillfully constructed beats, certainly, but still, just beats—is pretty impressive.
No child can have equal access to education, nor any worker equal access to a job, without access to the internet and the digital training to use it skillfully.
He skillfully uses the small, finite story of the Y-12 protest to explore our national identity as a people whose culture is now intimately connected with things nuclear.
But Roberts's path to the top was filled with obstacles that might have sunk other teams, and he guided his group skillfully in his first year as a manager.
Grechen Shirley and her husband came to the hearing with their two young children, who skillfully demonstrated why child care could be so important during an all-consuming campaign.
In their place was a new machinery that the company's activists on the left had built up, one that skillfully leveraged media attention and drew on traditional organizing tactics.
But, in a skillfully turned plot, the actress, having spurned the rapacious minister, is threatened by the Stasi and begins informing on the playwright, betraying what Wiesler has withheld.
Fluidly capturing the trajectory of a ruinous obsession, the writer and director, Sara Colangelo, skillfully fudges the line between mentoring and manipulation, and between nurturing talent and appropriating it.
But the choreographer, Veronica Cendoya, skillfully utilized the familiar themes of soccer — the aggression, the melodramatic injuries, the hysterical glee and moribund despair — to create an amusing, inventive piece.
Chariandy handles this skillfully, by traveling at once inward, into the intimate lives of his characters, and outward, connecting the diasporic community to a wider world of postcolonial migration.
Meals were traditional and skillfully prepared Brazilian cuisine, including, most deliciously, tapioca crepes, tropical fruits and bracing coffee for breakfast and a different homemade dessert every lunch and dinner.
Listen and notice how they entertain, inform and use their limited time skillfully: These podcasts pulled us in right from the start and kept our attention to the end.
That appeared to be an effort to mollify Republican critics of the deal, which President Trump has called a "disaster" and said he would have negotiated far more skillfully.
Aboubakar controlled the ball on his chest in the box, skillfully flicked it over defender Ali Gabr's head, and then fired it into the far corner of the net.
I am immensely grateful to the Members and staff of the three Committees, who have worked long nights as a team for months, doing their work selflessly and skillfully.
" The two exhibitions, taken together, provided a glimpse into "the fragility of democratic structures, and how skillfully memory-history can be distorted to drive a destructive course of action.
Click here to view original GIFIf you saw that video of a robot skillfully opening a door yesterday, you might think that the robot uprising is just around the corner.
Courtney Vance, who skillfully plays the late Johnnie Cochran in the FX show, recalled how he was in Toronto making a TV movie with Tony Goldwyn when O.J. was acquitted.
It skillfully weds spectacle to intimacy, and it tells a story about what happens when you talk to God about your pain and realize he'd rather talk about anything else.
A new exhibition at a Silicon Valley museum skillfully explains the technically and ethically complicated field of bio-engineering to adults—as well as the next generation of gene-editors.
Hillz would lay out a PowerPoint-by-point case on why Bernie was wrong - and then Bernie would skillfully change the subject, making it difficult to land an effective punch.
"All of America has seen how powerful your voice is, how skillfully you use tools of communication, and how much sway you have over your many supporters," the letter says.
While a few friends were on a fishing trip in Brazil, rather than having to skillfully lure the fish with rods and hooks, one eagerly swam up to their boat.
"You wanna make sure you wear condoms because there's people out here who will try to set you up on purpose," Deja Renee says while skillfully filling in her brows.
The IMF, which is currently supporting Kiev with a $17.5 billion bailout package, had recently praised Gontareva and her team for "skillfully" managing monetary policy throughout a "very challenging period".
"This Time" is a skillfully constructed, beautifully acted play about one woman's quest for liberation at a time and in a place where that struggle could not have been easy.
He played the piano more skillfully than before, had a drink every evening in the Cock and Lion, read Mauriac in French, and was promoted at Forrester and Bright. Mrs.
Like a lot of Tarzan stories, this one teems with striking flora and fauna, much of it skillfully computer generated, some of it captured on location in green, green Gabon.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is an absurd game, but like its predecessor, The New Order, it skillfully navigates being touching, upsetting, subversive, and hilarious, depending on what's most appropriate.
In fragmented representations of indoor spaces and bowls of pears, Gordon has skillfully used computer technology to create a contemporary rejigging of a classic component of art-school painting class.
"Nick is deeply committed to the counterterrorism mission and has skillfully guided the nation through an evolving and complex terrorism threat environment," Coats said in a statement announcing Rasmussen's retirement.
What is perhaps most extraordinary about Dr. King and photography is not how the medium defined him, but how skillfully he used it to define the story of civil rights.
The potential holdout senators were able to wring out concessions as leaders scrambled to push the legislation to approval, an outcome Mr. McConnell attributed to their skillfully using their leverage.
Schreber documented the first and second breakdowns in his book, "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness," but he never recovered from the final one — the premise of Pheby's skillfully rich novel.
Brusatte skillfully brings dead dino bones to life as he shares — no, gushes about — his personal journey as a young fossil hunter and the people he's met along the way.
The dispatches of the subtitle really come straight from the people on the front lines of this drowning, much as Svetlana Alexievich skillfully accomplished in her Nobel Prize-winning reportage.
The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing — although a melodramatic twist that comes at the very end of the evening somewhat undercuts the play's credibility.
His "Mahabharata — Nalacharitam," focused on the story of the princess Damayanti and King Nala and here revived at the Grande Halle de La Villette, skillfully incorporates a range of influences.
"Scarlet Mimic is likely a well-funded and skillfully resourced cyber adversary," security researchers at Palo Alto Networks, who have been tracking the group for seven months, said this week.
Rian Johnson's skillfully executed whodunit is filled with wonderful acting, production design, costuming (I ran out and bought three sweaters after watching it), but the biggest thing is the writing.
If you've ever attended a circus, you'll know that it's always entertaining to watch performers place multiple plates on the tip of a long pole and skillfully keep them balanced.
It's a brisk, efficient piece of storytelling with a skillfully modulated sense of vertigo as Margot begins to realize she knows next to nothing about the man she is dating.
Even if "Jump In" had been executed more skillfully, it was always going to close with a Pepsi logo, a gesture that immediately undermines any attempt at serious sociocultural point.
Paintings by Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582–1622) and Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1651) at the show's beginning are better composed, more skillfully rendered, and exhibit a greater sense of light's wholeness.
Myanmar pilot Captain Myat Moe Aung skillfully landed his plane without its front wheels Sunday after the aircraft's landing gear failed, saving his passengers and crew from a potential aircraft tragedy.
A famous line: Why it matters: By skillfully skewering religion, ethnic groups, celebrities and other targets while pushing the bounds of decency, "South Park" has largely obliterated TV's last remaining taboos.
The top US diplomat in charge of North Korea policy, Joseph Yun, had been skillfully talking to the North Koreans for the past year until he abruptly retired in late February.
Cecconi's images skillfully delineate the intersection of two very pressing narratives: people struggling to survive with few precious resources, and the 'impact of the refugee crisis on an already beleaguered ecosystem.
Merkel skillfully steered a path between infuriated Greek public opinion and those in her own administration, including her own finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, who was ready to show Greece the exit.
The focus on these two series skillfully circumvents Manzoni's image as a prankster who signed the nude bodies of models, transforming them into works of art, and canned his own shit.
The results of this relationship can be devastating—but they can also be strikingly beautiful, as German artist Diane Scherer skillfully proves with her low-relief sculptures made from plant roots.
TMZ has the audio of Pete Davidson skillfully handling a heckler who tried to jab at the comedian's personal life by yelling out Mac Miller's name at a highly inappropriate time.
It's strange and riveting, a slow-burning mystery unraveled skillfully by host Brian Reed and anchored by the man who sparked the investigation into his small Alabama town, John B. McLemore.
Hunting is the C-story, tomb raiding is the B-story, and the A-story is shooting fools in the face — and it's a skillfully penned, award-winning story at that.
In his new book, Daniel Koretz, an eminent testing expert at Harvard University, has skillfully dissected the multiple negative consequences of the education reforms of the 20153s, most of them unintended.
Philbrick skillfully depicts the sheer banality of Arnold's greed and self-interest, revealing the roots of his downfall: one part psychology and one part sensibility to at least three parts circumstance.
Actual settings of "Hallelujah," by Handel, Bach, Johann Schein, Mozart and Mussorgsky are skillfully folded into the score by Mr. Eotvos, who integrates the borrowings into his own atmospheric, modernist language.
As the videographer skillfully maneuvers his iPhone 5S or whatever people were using for cameras in 2013, we get a better look at what this beautiful slime boy is up to.
Skalso preserved and exposed as much of the original concrete structure as possible, connecting a series of high-ceilinged, lavishly spare, skillfully lit rooms with a spiral, matte-black steel staircase.
" Set in the late 19th century and skillfully translated by David Brookshaw, this is the first novel of a trilogy about the last days of the "so-called State of Gaza.
Another dog owner posed as the Madonna in the Master of St. Cecilia's "Madonna and Child" (21893–21769), while her pet skillfully reenacted the pose and gaze of the infant Jesus.
At similar sets in recent months, Mr. Hebden has skillfully blended vintage soul and disco selections (and much more) with the forward-thinking electronic music that he is best known for.
Judging from the first two episodes, this is a skillfully acted, richly detailed historical show that would not be out of place on PBS or a high-end pay-cable outlet.
As Tad Devine, one of Gore's top strategists, told me earlier this year, Bush skillfully found ways to tap the unease over Clinton's behavior without directly embracing the unpopular impeachment itself.
Brody Jenner has zero doubt Kim Kardashian will one day be a great lawyer who skillfully represents her clients in court -- he just doesn't want to be one of those clients.
Don't blame Mr. Owen, who works skillfully and, well, manfully at becoming a wimp in a part memorably originated by John Lithgow (and played by Jeremy Irons in the 1993 film).
Each scene has its own specific energy and tone, conjured by a happy congruence of skillfully vivid acting, naturalistic conversations and a cinematographer, Wyatt Garfield, with a clear grasp of mood.
The latter usually indicates lack of skill — so does Richter's skillfully painted rendering of blurriness solicit our praise, or is it an ironic commentary on the idea of skill in painting?
Clinton excels, to more skillfully marginalize Mr. Sanders over his Senate votes in support of the gun industry and the enormous costs and likely tax increases tied to his big-government agenda.
Despite Noah's knack for comedic delivery, skillfully shown throughout his book, his story of growing up with a Black mother and Swiss father in South Africa during Apartheid is no laughing matter.
The Democratic nominee never encounters a reception like this; even at the Democratic convention, in Philadelphia, the crowd had to be skillfully worked up to achieve anything like this pitch of enthusiasm.
Click here to view original GIFThe talented pilots and cinematographers of France's BigFly skillfully piloted a camera-equipped drone through the sanctuary of the 137-year-old Église Saint-Louis de Paimbœuf.
Tenet was a Senate staffer who joined Bill Clinton's National Security Council team, skillfully navigating an ascent that saw him rise to become CIA director under both Clinton and George W. Bush.
Kasi Lemmons, in a superb directorial debut, skillfully weaves together themes of community discord, family secrets, and a touch of magical realism, centered on the coming of age of two young girls.
In the film (and in real life), the crew of US Airways Flight 28500 skillfully handled the unusual emergency situation after a flock of Canada geese disabled both of the plane's engines.
She's a pro at skillfully shutting down tasteless interview questions, as she did when Matt Lauer opened with a weirdly slut-shamey reference to an upskirt paparazzi photo of her in 2012.
The jury thought the use of illustration in "I Miss My Grandpa" was particularly strong — a variety of visual styles are skillfully dispatched to deftly explore the idea of ancestry and absence.
In Mimycri's Berlin workshop, Ali carefully measures out a large piece of rubber on a workbench before cutting it precisely to size and skillfully using a sewing machine to craft a bag.
In her launch, Harris attempted to skillfully lean into her record as prosecutor under the frame that she has only represented "the people" in her career as a prosecutor and attorney general.
"It is clear to everyone that the chancellor is going into a last term," he told Deutschlandfunk radio, adding that she would "skillfully set in motion the succession in these four years".
It's a tense and skillfully filmed scene, but for a show that presumes to explore the moral complexities of American governance, it takes a pretty conventional approach to some of its portrayals.
But it also skillfully embraces both the absurdity of its premise and the inherent drama of the soap opera genre, and the result is just self-aware enough to be truly juicy.
The work of multiple journalists and filmmakers is skillfully blended together into one coherent narrative, to the point where even abrupt transitions from black-and-white to color and back flow smoothly.
We need a fully staffed diplomatic corps that can skillfully promote American interests abroad, without mucking around in the domestic politics of other countries where our vital interests aren't clearly in play.
Zan (Freddie Kuguru), a monstrous, racially ambiguous hip-hop entrepreneur with a malevolent Bugs Bunny intensity, skillfully inserts himself into a casual conversation as if he were already part of the crew.
Ayatollah Khamenei, who has skillfully played all Iranian factions, would never go as far as to completely isolate Mr. Rafsanjani, even when he supported protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Throughout the first two years of the Trump presidency, Republican leaders in Congress skillfully used a variety of tactics to minimize the president's influence and maximize their own control over public policy.
Cassara provides his characters with detailed backstories as he skillfully portrays the harrowing effects of AIDS on a community that was systematically dismissed and under-served by the city of New York.
Federal judges are legal geniuses, not medical experts; they rely on the evidence and information put in front of them, an issue-framing process the league's white-shoe lawyers have skillfully manipulated.
Most recently, someone very skillfully photoshopped pictures of the president's bewilderingly long ties, deftly extending his sartorial faux-pas so that it dominates entire scenes, becoming the proverbial elephant in the room.
No queen in the history of drag has so skillfully turned the art form into an industrious and lucrative endeavor, a testament to his ambition as much as it is to his talent.
It also diminishes the way that some art is so of its era that its greatest asset is the way it so skillfully captures a time and place that it gets stuck there.
It's not that the book stops to give you pop quizzes; it's that deep, soulful, perspective-shifting information from the world of trees is woven skillfully into the narrative like a bespoke rug.
This is immensely tricky—it requires the actors to avoid treating the couple as simpletons or saints—and yet the duo skillfully suggests the Lovings' inability to fully appreciate what's happening to them.
To take in the full scope of this sweeping exhibition is to apprehend the fragility of democratic structures, and how skillfully memory-history can be distorted to drive a destructive course of action.
Sanctions evasion To pay for these programs, Pyongyang has skillfully evaded UN restrictions in order to earn cash, according to a recent report from the United Nations Panel of Experts on North Korea.
The best-selling cookbook author recently declared the Cuisinart Snow Cone Maker a summer must-have on Twitter, along with an adorable video of her 3-year-old daughter Luna skillfully crushing ice.
They have skillfully seized the high ground, won the battle of ideas with voters who mostly blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown and maintained Democratic unity while Republicans remain divided and defensive.
Most important, he devised a mode of resistance that skillfully infused mass politics with a moral imperative—to end the vicious cycle of violent antagonism and to prepare the ground for mutual toleration.
Fortunately, in Normaltown, USA, outside of D.C., the true, crass, naked partisan reality of the Senate, which the members themselves so skillfully revealed in high def last week, is seen with crystal clarity.
The show, a Repertorio Español production, has parallel narratives set in the 1950s, skillfully evoked in Susan Zeeman Rogers's set design; period mambo from Pérez Prado and others; and especially Leni Mendez's costumes.
Led by President Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank has just skillfully engineered a broad acceptance January is the right time to slash its monthly asset purchases by half to 30 billion euros.
" He said the two churches needed to "help one another" beat back the tide of secularism and "a growing sense of fear that, often skillfully stoked, leads to attitudes of rejection and hate.
It's been three years since beloved internet mashup artist Neil Cicierega released Mouth Sounds and Mouth Silence, a pair of excellent albums that skillfully remixed beloved '90s anthems and became cult hits online.
Kihss was taking Caldwell's eyewitness account on the phone, skillfully weaving into the story all the vital information he had assembled in the few minutes before Sitton switched Caldwell's second call to him.
Mediterranean's Sydney-born Hannah (whose exasperated honays —"honey" in Australian — are deeply communicative) skillfully handles these tantrum-throwing male chefs, who tend to take out insecurities about their food on the chief stew.
They skillfully rebut the common accusations of McCarthyism, and recount the effects Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" had on them (none defend Stalin or renounce their belief in socialism as a vehicle for equality and democracy).
The American people have placed their trust in their elected leaders to skillfully engage one another and our allies to resolve problems that have a direct impact on our national security and economic prosperity.
One of the Buddha's most poignant maxims for living a good life was to realize that life will never be easy, but you have the choice to respond to it either skillfully or unskillfully.
As the first woman to head the agency, she led skillfully through a transition and put her [own] stamp on the Commission, including through her steadfast leadership in telehealth, media diversity, and digital inclusion.
Still, the mayor-in-waiting campaigned skillfully and offered an attractive alternative at a time when Erdogan's economic magic dust appears to have run out and his nationalist appeal is grating on some voters.
The reality is that the far-right of the Republican Congress has very skillfully shifted the debate away from how much we fund LWCF land acquisition to whether or not we reauthorize the law.
All future presidents would be wise to remember this timeless lesson that is essential to preserve, protect and defend our democratic life that George Herbert Walker Bush learned so well and practiced so skillfully.
According to the listing, the skillfully shaped sandcastle is located at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and available for $29 per night in homage to the29th Annual Coney Island Beach Sand Sculpture Competition.
El Rashidi portrays the city and its inhabitants with an enviable eye for detail, accurately illustrating the colorful culture and skillfully using the city's progression over the decades to mirror the country's political history.
A former ballet student, Wilson skillfully details the world of her teenage dancer: the "spiderweb-thin" nylon hairnets; the salmon pink tights under Fiorucci jeans; the grimy Capezio slippers carefully cracked at the arches.
In an interview with Coast Guard investigators after Melendez was killed, Maubert-Cayla said he hired Alvarez as his captain after watching him pilot a "large yacht skillfully on one occasion," the complaint states.
" The camp promises a vision of wholesome sisterhood that seems unaware of the complexities of young girls' lives, a vision Kim Fu skillfully complicates in her new novel, "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore.
Skillfully, Mr. Harbour responds to the score's rhythms and changing moods, pouring out steps and quirky details, yet both the dance and the dancers seem behind the music, rather than on top of it.
So, the claim goes, a higher-end whiskey might lead to less of a hangover than a lower-end one, or even cheap, clear vodka, because it is more skillfully made with purer ingredients.
In a book that skillfully combines culinary history with reports from some of the city's most tasteful arrondissements, he adopts the conceit of a historian's walking tour, conflating past with present in gorgeous style.
Pete Buttigieg — who finished in the top two with Bernie Sanders — is, for now, the leading moderate candidate; his biggest weakness, his political inexperience, is something Klobuchar has repeatedly and skillfully criticized in debates.
"Still Life With Tornado" is a moving, unapologetically strange, skillfully constructed novel about how sometimes the most broken home on the block is the one where the parents are still pretending their marriage works.
At that point Cruz could have an ace in the hole, since he has moved in skillfully behind the primaries that have already been held to get as many second ballot delegates as possible.
As someone who plays guitar more enthusiastically than skillfully for soul-restorative purposes, who regards his record collection as an encyclopedia of moods and who has songs constantly running through his head, I relate.
This intricate physics playground is enough to catch my interest, but it's the opening moments that so skillfully establish a set of stakes and emotional investment that earned it a spot on my list.
The second, skillfully woven through the first, deals with Isaac as a grown-up, and the arrival of Isabel — although, as we later discover, she isn't as new to the story as we think.
The writer-director Kent Jones skillfully portrays Diane's gradual awakening to her burnout and inability to forgive herself for past mistakes through journal entries and some dream sequences that look like abstract acid trips.
They didn't quite succeed, but they didn't quite fail, either, and Jess skillfully builds this ambiguity into an arrangement of verse and prose that feels anything but ambiguous in its measure of these performers.
"It is clear to everyone that the chancellor is going into a last term," European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Deutschlandfunk radio, adding that she would "skillfully set in motion the succession in these four years".
The drama of the scene is highlighted in textbooks, and presumably often classrooms, in formal terms with discussions of how the artist used rapid brushstrokes, brilliant washes of color, subtle shading, and skillfully rendered foreshortening.
I skillfully do my best to avoid any and all consumption of them, but when my fave John Krasinski decided he just had to make A Quiet Place, I had no choice but to cave.
With her classic song "Fantasy" playing on the P.A. system, the employee handed the songstress the mic and she skillfully belted out an "Oh yeah!" before passing the mic off in a rather awkward exchange.
Rather, it's just a sincere reflection of the chefs, much like their menu: no-fuss food that's skillfully made, from traditional Dutch to eclectic dishes like baba au rhum and Pavlova inspired by their travels.
Jake Tapper of CNN grilled Trump about his bigotry regarding the all-American judge of Mexican descent so skillfully and persistently that Trump wound up making several more mistakes, and now avoids the subject entirely.
So for President Obama's 22016th birthday on Thursday, Biden tweeted a photo of a skillfully woven friendship bracelet — a gift any camper knows is reserved for best friends only and not to be taken lightly.
Using tactics that owe a little to church revivals and a lot to insult comedy, Trump skillfully directs his audience's excitement (toward himself) and their resentment (often toward the members of the media in attendance).
To say that Missouri is a solidly Republican state would be missing the point: It is a fiercely independent political landscape that McCaskill, a fiercely independent Democrat, has navigated skillfully for the past two decades.
The Trump moment is a product both of inexorable tectonic shifts and of officials who failed to reckon with them, and if we want to deal with this moment skillfully we need to understand both.
Meanwhile, the AfD has transformed itself from a simple Euro-sceptic party to one that skillfully foments fears of foreigners and infiltration from abroad, a dynamic that has become familiar across much of the West.
No matter how skillfully the show plays out the political tensions within Westeros this season, viewers are going to be hyperaware of what the ending will probably look like when all is said and done.
This film skillfully challenges our expectations by unfolding Snowman's abilities one at a time: In summer he is a swimming water taxi for a passel of deLeyer children; in winter he pulls them on skis.
Bigg Tank follows with a heavy bass number that reverberates through the venue, and Blaze Luminous responds with a more melodic opening than his competitor before skillfully twisting the beat into an entirely new rhythm.
"China's security concerns are actually aimed at its own nationals, and military diplomacy is skillfully used to protect them and their interests," the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, or Clingendael, said in a recent report.
His later, skittish, tartly modernist scores skillfully combine neo-Classical structures with a vigorous but free use of 12-tone techniques, as in the final movement of his 1962 Symphony, generally considered Fine's major statement.
In the 12 wide-ranging stories of her latest collection, "Days of Awe," A. M. Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies.
Her chief asset, she says, is her immunity to the hairy-chested Hemingway legend; instead, she focuses on "what formed this remarkably complex man and brilliant writer," skillfully covering an enormous range of rich material.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A music festival organizer helped make the Texas capital of Austin a little bit funkier this week by putting up a skillfully crafted sign that dubbed a downtown road David Bowie Street.
The elegant stacks, skillfully balanced without wires or adhesives, have amazed and bewildered hikers and cyclists since late July, when they began appearing south of the bridge, beside the Hudson River Greenway in Washington Heights.
Saudi Arabia is at best an unreliable ally in a sometimes hot and sometimes cold war against Iran, and at worst an enemy that has skillfully concealed itself and earned the trust of U.S. policymakers.
And Tehran skillfully orchestrated Soleimani's funeral rites to foster an impression of unity, weeks after unleashing a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests amid economic blight brought on by Trump's devastating package of economic sanctions.
The book relies not on plot or character development but on a series of skillfully rendered passages to propel the story as it swings back and forth through time, though not necessarily with perfect rhythm.
In her most skillfully frank special yet, Amy Schumer, who shot Netflix's "Growing" while pregnant, finds jokes from avoiding sex with her husband as easily as she once did from having sex with single men.
The timing roughly coincides with the arrival of telemarketing and offshore customer service centers in Montego Bay, where companies trained a portion of the populace in how to skillfully interact on the phone with Americans.
By skillfully weaving well-worn (and well-loved) sci-fi settings through the game's core, RimWorld counts on the player's familiarity with similar stories to be a point of reference in a world of immense possibilities.
Michael D. Edmonson, superintendent of Louisiana State Police, said the gunman, Gavin Long, a former Marine from Kansas City, Missouri, was skilled in his handling of the assault rifle and moved skillfully to repeatedly ambush officers.
He found more participants to interview and was further surprised to learn that, like Alexis McCall and her husband, many of these couples had quite extraordinary levels of commitment, showed deep mutual respect, and communicated skillfully.
The common thread in all of these lessons is that you need to have strong, inspiring leaders who come from the local market and have the vision and desire to scale their platforms responsibly and skillfully.
Watching both of these men dance — especially the first, with his loose braids falling into his face and his powerful hip thrusts skillfully timed to the beat, his crotch suggestively offered to any watcher — I'm embarrassed.
You can experience ASMR getting a haircut, being treated by a doctor, watching someone paint skillfully, hearing someone whisper, or listening to crinkling sounds — the triggers are endless and vary from person to person, he says.
Like Dorothy and her suffer no fools approach to Stan's hijinks/Blanche's delusions/Rose's non sequiturs/Sophia's trickery, secretarybirds quietly and carefully stalk their prey and then skillfully and aggressively, well, uh, stomp them to death.
The effect of this on him was palpable and immediate, and she felt as if she were petting a large, skittish animal, like a horse or a bear, skillfully coaxing it to eat from her hand.
In one study Fernyhough cites, a researcher at the University of Southern California found a correlation between how skillfully student participants wrote and the extent to which they listened to an inner voice while doing so.
Like forensic detectives, climate scientists have developed a new array of tools in recent decades designed to skillfully calculate what the fingerprints of these changes look like, and more important, how they differ from one another.
He has skillfully presented his assertive foreign and security policies — an expression of his revisionism — as Japan's readiness to play a fuller role in assisting the mainstay of the international order that is the United States.
A person who is able to skillfully express himself or herself as an orator, especially early in life, is more likely to foster better friendships and relationships and build a larger network of collaborators, he says.
On "Prometheus Unbound," we hear how skillfully Shorter marshals a string section; he uses the orchestra not only to add strength and harmonic layers, but also to give his wide, intervallic leaps a new dynamic momentum.
Considered the finest painter in Valencia of the 252th century, his "Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Santiago" reveals how subtly and skillfully he blended Italian concepts of courtly portraiture with sumptuous surface detail.
An instrumental part of the maximum pressure campaign was to be implemented at the U.N. and was skillfully put into practice by Haley, especially in her negotiations with historic U.S. foes and Council allies China and Russia.
Washington (CNN)Willfully or skillfully, Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are avoiding answering key questions on the details of how their agencies will run, sticking to big-picture ideas instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of policy.
Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)You can also let Vector go off and explore its surroundings, which it's now able to do more skillfully, avoiding obstacles and even moving objects out of its way as it rolls along.
By skillfully framing the narrative from deep within its main character's viewpoint, the film creates a visceral experience of the way economical hierarchies and unequal gender relationships can fuel obsessive male entitlement — and ultimately, perhaps, even violence.
The miniseries, which was adapted by filmmaker Sarah Polley, skillfully interweaves the three temporalities, underlining how women are taught to tell the stories of themselves and their trauma in ways that both titillate and exonerate the listener.
It's a simple tale with a happy ending, but in "Homewreckers," his new book about the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Glantz skillfully tells a bigger story about American housing that's tortuous, confounding and ultimately enraging.
The show skillfully uses the impending homicide — alluded to through a series of flash forwards — to spelunk through the show's small-town setting of Monterey, California, and tell stories that go beyond someone murdering another human being.
But it never finds a way to skillfully bring Ruth back into the story, stranding her in a go-nowhere love triangle plot where one point of the triangle is played by her boss, Sam (Marc Maron).
She's raw and intense, skillfully depicting the anger, vulnerability, and confusion of a young woman who has been repeatedly told that she's worthless unless she's desired, but who is reviled when she takes ownership of that sexuality.
But waning growth deprives Trump of the argument President Clinton used so skillfully during his impeachment ordeal — namely, while his congressional opponents fixated on persecuting him, the president was hard at work successfully promoting prosperity for everyone.
Using the graphically enhanced "BFG" version of 2004's Doom 3, the mod from "Codes4Fun" skillfully ports to game to the HTC Vive, generally making it look as though it was designed for the platform all along.
Meanwhile "God Save The Jungle" skillfully weaves Guns n Roses lyrics into a new protectionist national anthem of shame, where he purrs like Eartha Kitt over exquisite latin rhythms and sings about the plight of child refugees.
Guinness is often disregarded because of its ubiquity, but if on draft and poured skillfully by a good bartender, it is thick and toasty, yet light and graceful, and not, as many people believe, high in alcohol.
Her lyrics often sound like a one-sided conversation; she skillfully avoids the obvious, unnatural second person favored by moody writing students while evoking a definite narrative that nevertheless leaves the listener wondering who she's talking to.
Ehrman, who considers himself a historian but has done extensive work in textual criticism, has managed to achieve his remarkable renown by writing a string of best sellers that skillfully mine and simplify his more scholarly work.
George Wallace's third-party campaign for president in 1968 was built on a similar foundation of white racism and anti-government rage, skillfully exploiting the fears and hatreds of Americans who despised the upheavals of the 1960s.
Lewis is particularly good at showing how Willkie's implausible victory at the 1940 convention, often described as "the miracle of Philadelphia," was in fact a carefully planned and skillfully organized stealth offensive by his well-connected supporters.
As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un skillfully maneuvers to split Washington and Seoul, and plays out an intricate strategic dance that could draw in crucial powers Russia and China, Trump has little option but to watch.
Ms. Laracey also danced Friday's "Infernal" with the redoubtable Mr. Ramasar — skillfully, both; but Saturday's cast was more arresting because it gave us the chance to know more of two appealing corps dancers, Unity Phelan and Preston Chamblee.
And I&aposve always said that I respect Theresa May, the Prime Minister and her ability to navigate this very treacherous water and with all the disparate points of view and I think she&aposs done it skillfully.
A huge congratulations to Nick, for skillfully avoiding some sex drama, and a big "you asked for it" to the Bachelor producers, who I'm guessing are now thinking twice about the wisdom of creating this smooth-talkin' monster.
Further, the U.S. has skillfully engaged a cross-regional coalition at the Council to establish an international watchdog on the rights to the freedom of assembly and association, the first such fundamental freedoms-focused mandate in seventeen years.
The combined moves were a bid by Mr. Macron to wrest the issue from his main political challengers, the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen, which for years has skillfully used immigration in its political ascent.
Such evocative visuals, as well as Theresa Squire's insightful costumes, Stowe Nelson's apt sound design and Daniel Kluger's music for piano and percussion, are additional components that helpfully support the play, which is skillfully directed by Lisa Rothe.
Much of the scene feels like it was shot in one take, even though it doesn't quite claim as much; rather, it skillfully uses actions to mask its cuts without changing the shots' point of view too much.
"Nick is deeply committed to the counterterrorism mission and has skillfully guided the nation through an evolving and complex terrorism threat environment," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the departure.
This is partly because of skillfully applied measures of repression by the military-led government, including the disappearances and apparent killings of at least eight leading opposition figures, and surveillance of others the police feel might cause trouble.
All I recall of the radio show was the packed house, the man who came on stage and skillfully warmed up the audience, and the actor who dropped each page on the floor as he finished reading it.
Top GOP senators have warned Trump that a replacement likely could not be confirmed this year, and they have sought to make the case to the president that Barr is skillfully implementing his priorities at the Justice Department.
Of all of the movies in this category, The Breadwinner is the one that will have the most to reward both children and adults, and its ending brings the movie's many threads together so skillfully that it's breathtaking.
In the below clip from the series, which is not currently available on streaming platforms, Katz skillfully breaks down how media representations of men and violence leave men little room to develop or embrace their complex inner emotional lives.
With just six installments of Thrones left to fuel our Bran hatred, there's no better time to pull out all the stops and once again skillfully dunk on Bran like the Three-Eyed Pain in the Ass he is.
And Democratic strategists have warned that its constant barrage of ads on Facebook and Google have skillfully combined messaging around key issues like immigration while also building out the campaign's massive trove of data on potential supporters and donors.
He skillfully pushed through brush and up the rocky terrain, pointing out the different landmarks — an old game trail, the way wagons used to make their way to the valley — in the sprawling reds and grays of the canyon.
It's not just about acceptance: it's about loving who you are and being loved, feeling so comfortable with yourself that you skillfully conduct the sophisticated game of attraction, going beyond convention, sizes, categories, and measurements imposed by modern society.
But no matter how many people claim to be cool with the new show, or how skillfully the writers wove Roseanne's death into the plot, The Conners feels like a misplaced attempt to continue the franchise no matter what.
" The Return by Hisham Matar The former president calls Matar's work, "A beautifully-written memoir that skillfully balances a graceful guide through Libya's recent history with the author's dogged quest to find his father who disappeared in Gaddafi's prisons.
Soon-Shiong, who has a reputation in the industry as a brash showman, has used skillfully produced videos in the past to promote patient success stories and convey his unshakable optimism that he is on track to vanquish cancer.
What's impressive, however, is how skillfully Baran and APM have pivoted the whole story to be about how law enforcement missed the murderer sitting right in front of them, who had sexually assaulted numerous other boys and abducted another.
Cai, 39, learned the trade almost a decade ago, and skillfully demonstrated the craft, nailing the white cotton fabric to the sole, which is formed from 35 layers of cotton interwoven with hemp thread in a criss-cross fashion.
They argue that Mr. Putin has played his hand skillfully, stringing along Secretary of State John Kerry in a yearlong negotiation over cease-fires and political transitions in Syria, all the while bolstering their proxy, President Bashar al-Assad.
The nation's opposition parties have a long fractured history — one that Mr. Mugabe has skillfully exploited — but opposition officials say that the two leaders' rapprochement could be a step toward a more formal union ahead of the 2018 elections.
We've also seen a cinematic resurgence of the mesmerizing spectacle of physical work: A recent viral video of a guy skillfully painting a parking spot for those with disabilities recalls a Lumière film showing workers tearing down a wall.
" The ordinary, seen through Victor's eyes, has a special gleam; after a skillfully described but prosaic urban scene, we get: "What I'd just seen and heard had been great — the gulls, the cats, the girl, her knees, the shout.
I've been thinking about how skillfully Search Party balances the more stereotypical characters of Portia and Elliott against the more grounded portrayals of Drew and Dory, and I'm trying to figure out why it succeeds when it probably shouldn't.
The Trump administration will also need to address the divisions among its partners in the region, where Mr. Trump's inconsistency has weakened his hand in negotiations and allowed our Asian partners to more skillfully maneuver toward their own goals.
And the show's organizers — Alisa LaGamma, curator in charge of the department of arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas; associate curator Yaëlle Biro; and research associate Hakimah Abdul-Fattah — have skillfully shaped that wonder into a linear narrative.
From the perspective of Buddhist teaching, this is a moment in our nation's history that asks us to be mindful, to be compassionate, and to act skillfully for the well-being of all Americans and those within our midst.
Jackson skillfully parodies gospel music—further sharpening his critique of the religion of Usher's parents—and Owens rolls with the musical shifts, channelling mock fire as easily as he earlier rendered high swoops and trembling low notes like Phair's.
It's fitfully interesting, but I don't know that we really need to dig into why the Wizard hates the Wicked Witch of the West beyond "she's wicked" — especially when Wicked has already skillfully flipped the script on that particular question.
"Not gonna lie this was a doozy," Chip writes of the slow-motion video in which he skillfully tosses a hammer into the air, watches it do two full rotations and catches it effortlessly in the loop of his tool belt.
Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeA dispute over an HTC smartphone ad took a surprisingly theoretical turn recently, with a British ad watchdog forced to decide whether consumers could dive while taking selfies as skillfully as Olympic medalist Tom Daley.
Slack beat out tons of messaging apps on its way to the New York Stock Exchange, skillfully incorporating features that are fun (unlimited custom emoji reactions to messages) alongside those that are simply necessary (records retention features for large corporations).
A decentralized, leaderless activist group with no record of lethal violence in this country, antifa has been skillfully transmogrified by the conservative media into one of the gravest threats facing Americans in 229 — the rampant id of an already irrational left.
COMMENTARY Moscow is skillfully exploiting Western leaders' divisions and disagreements on issues ranging from the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear accord, to the Nord Stream-2 gas project and U.S. tariff plans, writes Ukrainian economist and former parliamentarian Igor Kryvetskyi.
First to hold regular news conferences Oh, the drama that surrounds a presidential news conference today: Your TV show may be interrupted, only so you can see the American leader skillfully craft answers to reporters' questions, or just dodge them altogether.
Lithgow is far too tall for the role, but he skillfully turns that loftiness to his advantage—bending to a near-stoop, as if bowing not only to his sovereign, whom he reveres, but to the gravitational summons of time.
During the peace talks held in Kuwait, lasting about 115 days, the solution was within reach and U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed managed skillfully to come up with a plan that addressed the issues and concerns of all parties.
Even without bruising or bleeding or further violence, sex without consent is still rape; Ms. Davies skillfully suggests that a desire to weight such assaults differently does harm, so much so that some victims may blame themselves for their own violation.
The violent thunderstorms and frequent tornadoes (there were 1,259 in 2015) that routinely thrash the Great Plains and Midwest — killing more than 100 people each year over the last decade — could be predicted far more skillfully with high-resolution ensemble forecasts.
On "How I Met My Ex," he skillfully tells the titular story over seven minutes, with no backing track except the dark, foreboding tinkling of black and white ivory, each chord impressing the intensity of the situation upon the listener.
There's just a whole lot more movement on For Those of You than you might expect from an ambient record, from spectrally swelling synthesizers and gently sequenced electronics, to pieces that sound like sleepwalking club tracks with the drums skillfully excised.
The different seasons of the year and the different experiences of restraint and freedom within them are skillfully sketched in Marcus Doshi's lighting, Justin Ellington's music and Emily Rebholz's costumes, which go from tails and evening gowns to hayseed overalls.
In my career as the president of two state universities and a consultant to nearly 50 higher-education institutions, I've observed dozens of college presidents skillfully co-opt their governing boards into approving costly projects that make schools look more attractive.
"This film," Mr. Weinstein told Variety in February, is about "what can happen when our addiction to phones and social media reveals our deepest secrets rather than letting people hide behind the public profiles they so skillfully create for themselves."
The sautéed skate splashed with Manzanilla could not be fresher or more skillfully browned, but do the garlic chips and sliced dried chiles on top make this version of a well-known standard one I'll remember a month from now?
As consumers and citizens, we need companies to succeed because they provide the best products and services — not because they dump the most pollution in our water, most skillfully exploit our personal information, or are the best at avoiding pension obligations.
Bilott skillfully tells the story of his epic battle with DuPont and its lawyers in "Exposure," which lands in bookstores just ahead of a new movie, "Dark Waters," starring Mark Ruffalo as Bilott and Anne Hathaway as his put-upon wife.
And while they make it difficult politically for Mr. Trump to justify scrapping the agreement, which he has called a "terrible deal" that he would have negotiated more skillfully, it does not preclude his own finding that Iran is in violation.
Like Fawkes, Levy skillfully incorporates examples of her subject's writings into the text, from a column in her eighth-grade school paper on the United Nations Charter to an article in her synagogue's newsletter about building community after the Holocaust.
Mr. Trueba skillfully blends genuine and mock period footage to conjure the era, while Mandy Patinkin, as a blacklisted screenwriter; Cary Elwes, as a loutish American leading man; and Clive Revill, sending up John Ford, ably help represent the Hollywood contingent.
" Though Antifa "has no record of lethal violence in this country," Bernstein said the group "has been skillfully transmogrified by the conservative media into one of the gravest threats facing Americans in 2019—the rampant id of an already irrational left.
Mohammed bin Salman may be able to preside over the murder of a dissident journalist in Turkey with relative ease, but there is little in his conduct of foreign policy hitherto to suggest that he will skillfully deal with the Iranians.
In a tightly constructed 60 minutes, Chase, as the writer and director, skillfully introduces the premise, themes and tone of the show within a largely self-contained story that would be a classic even if HBO had never ordered any more.
Mattis' underlying message was that the techniques authorized for US interrogators, enumerated in an Army Field Manual, are sufficient, but he skillfully analogized those techniques using tough-guy terms — "a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers" — that would appeal to Trump.
She's already become a force to be reckoned with on Twitter, skillfully shutting down her many trolls and haters with a charming optimism and clear-eyed view of the realities and foibles of modern culture, buoying her supporters with her signature hashtag, #WeGotThis.
Walsh finds a way to film the conversation to indicate that even if Serena seems like an equal participant in the discussion, she's really, really not — and skillfully conveys the imbalance between them without making too big a deal out of it.
For more than a year, the 34-year-old video creator had been chronicling the 2016 election—and the media that's covered-slash-enabled it—via a series of skillfully edited, sneakily incisive video clips he'd created from his home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
She's carrying armfuls of filched items by the time she rolls up to a five-star hotel, snags a stranger's suitcase, and proceeds to skillfully secure herself a free room to relax in, all worn out from a day of short cons.
A little less skillfully put together — but still immensely revealing — A Gray State is the story of David Crowley, an Iraq and Afghanistan vet who was found mysteriously dead, along with his wife and small daughter, in his Minnesota house in 2015.
Wu, on the other hand, balances the wide-eyed sweetness required for the role with the same sharp wit that she skillfully deploys in ABC's Fresh Off The Boat, giving Rachel more of an edge than one usually expects from an ingenue.
Despite its sometimes more cautionary aspects, Plainview's narrative arc now doubles as a motivational training session, a testament to what you too can achieve with a combination of rugged individualism, a relentlessly competitive nature, and an internal reservoir of skillfully concealed misanthropy.
The actress also says that the greatest thing she's learned on set isn't how to weather the longest of winters or skillfully elude any number of slimy men who want to marry her: It's that heat protectant sprays are a must-have.
It has skillfully harvested unearned Western goodwill and insulated itself from criticism for its aggressive posture toward Taiwan and in the maritime domain, its predatory trade practices, its deplorable human rights abuses, its cyber theft and other violations of international law and norms.
And, yes, there is one Big Event in the play, and the depiction of its aftermath, while skillfully drawn and undeniably affecting, is the most conventional part of "The Wolves," the one point at which you're aware of a playwright's hand at work.
Previously, people have learned to guide a cursor on a screen with their thoughts, monkeys have learned to skillfully use a robotic arm through neural signals and scientists have taught monkeys who were partly paralyzed to use an arm with a bypass system.
It maintains that distinction in part because Blizzard has skillfully adjusted to the needs of a new era, one in which many players don't have the time or desire to put the hours we used to put into the game a decade ago.
He's a charismatic Rhodes scholar out of central casting with a diverse family story — he's Jewish, Italian, and Hispanic, with both undocumented immigrant and refugee sides to his background — that he weaves into ongoing debates more skillfully than any politician since Barack Obama.
The astronauts are friendly, relatable characters in Sean Rubin's jewel-colored, crosshatched artwork, which smooths out narrative shifts with skillfully extended motifs, including aircraft that transform from model airplanes to Air Force fighters to the Apollo 12 rocket as the pages turn.
And of course, there's "Barbie Dreams," a buoyant remake of the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Just Playing (Dreams)," a lewd rundown of his sexual fantasies about female R&B singers that verges on offense but was so skillfully executed it didn't cross the line.
Mr. Kim's image reinvention was skillfully staged with the help of Mr. Moon's government, which made sure every detail of the leaders' April 27 summit meeting was steeped in potent symbols dear to both Koreas: respect, ethnic unity and eventual Korean reunification.
"It's always interesting when an artist builds a vocabulary, a set of tools, and is able to skillfully utilize it," said Larry Ossei-Mensah, who curated "Pitch" with Susan Cross and who is now senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Ms. Moore skillfully reconsiders the idealism of the early African-American settlers through their interactions with the indigenous peoples and braids together intimate story lines centered around universal themes: falling in love, defying familial expectations and the difficulties of doing the right thing.
The plot of this novel has "poor little rich kid" vibes, but there's no denying that Patchett is a master storyteller, making only necessary observations, nailing dialogue, and stoking empathy in her flawed characters, whom she skillfully sticks with as they age.
And the formula to that success, as professional recruiter Wzietek explains in this one-hour deep dive, is made up of preparation, your first impression, and being able to skillfully answer difficult questions your hiring manager is bound to throw at you.
But these approaches, unless handled skillfully, also risk narrowing political debate and undermining internet freedom, as witnessed in Germany, where popular social media companies are now required to take down offending information quickly or risk fines of up to 50 million euros.
Mr. Netanyahu remains highly esteemed by his supporters who, despite his flaws, consider him to be the only Israeli politician with the stature and experience to lead a lonely democracy in a hostile region and represent its interests skillfully on the world stage.
And the movie skillfully weaves a number of genuinely laugh-out-loud scenes into its deadly serious story — like Chris trying to discern whether mac and cheese is a side dish or an entrée — in a way that gives the whole thing humanity.
" Newly revealed Russian ads skillfully divided Americans -  WaPo : "As a group, the ads made visceral appeals to voters upset about illegal immigration, the declining economic fortunes of coal miners, gun ownership, the rising prominence of Muslims in some U.S. communities and many other issues.
There's a little bullet-hell-ness, too, about proceedings, when the main controllable character, the nimble android "24B", is surrounded by enemies raining down projectiles, forcing you to go on the offense with swords, hammers, feet and fists, while also skillfully dodging health-bruising blasts.
And yet the show was joyous and funny and deeply human, perhaps because it was willing to embrace the void, the piece of all of ourselves that will always be missing, no matter how skillfully we lie to ourselves that we've completed the whole.
The show skillfully balances the terror over what he might do to any of his kids or to Rose (all one-season characters who are instantly easy to sympathize with) with a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of how easy it is to become lost in grief.
During his reign, he skillfully charted a course that put the monarchy at the center of Thai society, acting as a force for community and tradition even as the country lurched between political crises and more than a dozen military coups, both attempted and successful.
To use what, under the circumstances, is a far too convenient metaphor, Bay is interested in accelerating from zero to 100 as quickly as possible and then maintaining speed, rather than skillfully shifting gears and adjusting speeds based on curves, hills and road conditions.
And it lasted quite a long time, in part because it skillfully fused the racism of the segregation academies issue — private, overwhelmingly white religious schools in the South created in response to desegregation — with the religiosity of school prayer and the gender politics of abortion.
Defenders of white supremacy have repressed reports of it consistently and skillfully with time-worn tactics: They assert the culpability of the victim and reasonableness of the attacker, and they back that up by intimidating victims or witnesses who give evidence of white violence.
Also in the mix are Tommy's landlord, his Uncle Maurice (Tuck Milligan) and Kenneth, a menacing visitor who turns out to be Aimee's boyfriend and probable pimp (a truly scary Rob DiSario, who skillfully instills terror with a nearly clenching fist and crazily blinking eyes).
Thus it is a one-way street: African-Americans should never bother as a group to request that Mr. Obama be held accountable as a black man, yet the Obama administration has from the start skillfully exploited the always strong support for the president.
But it does star one of them, Rishi Kapoor (son of Raj, father of Ranbir), who heavily (and skillfully) made up plays Dadu, the about-to-be-90 paterfamilias of a clan made unhappy by the usual secrets and lies and long-cherished grudges.
Guest star Matthew Rhys plays him with an ominous hint of a Cheshire Cat grin; the effect allows "American Bitch" to skillfully depict the inherent power imbalance between an established older man and an ambitious young woman around whom he can spin a convincing web.
Fresh off "Psycho," Anthony Perkins gives another skillfully squirrelly performance as the persecuted (and prosecuted) Josef K. Film Forum is showing the movie as part of a weeklong homage to Jeanne Moreau, who died in July and who plays one of Josef K.'s neighbors.
In addition to bringing to life characters through whom she skillfully discussed the themes of racism, slavery, violence, and class, her work challenged white people to confront their history of violence against Black communities, and amplified Black people's fight for their existence and dignity.
The first scene in Honey Boy rapidly and skillfully illustrates how growing up on a movie set, living your life in public, means you start to meld fiction and reality; with Honey Boy, LaBeouf plays that mushy sense of reality to his full advantage.
The highlight of Coates's writing in Black Panther isn't the way he skillfully laces the comic with broader political themes about power (though he's very good at that); instead, it's his ability to give the book's intimate character relationships a sense of humanity and dignity.
The California lawmaker has skillfully navigated fraught political waters over the past few years to reclaim the gavel, and her return to power says something about her ability to run her caucus and her staying power during a time when speakers' tenures are often limited.
Then there were the Kabbalistic drawings of Mitya Zilberstein and his found objects that helped make sense of his narrative — he is fundamentally a graphic storyteller — next to the watercolors of Matvey Segal, full of anthropomorphisms and historical characters, overlapping in time and very skillfully executed.
The emergence of ISIS has seen its message resonate in the United States over the past two years, partly because it has so skillfully exploited social media to spread its propaganda and create a virtual community of like-minded followers who constantly interact and reinforce each other.
This group of tech-savvy influencers suddenly became villains, but then they skillfully pivoted and used the media attention to their advantage by attracting even more viewers to their daily video blogs — a formula they will likely continue to use because all press is good press.
In one sequence of archive footage, Rocky skillfully lands a hot air balloon that has frozen in the stratosphere—just one instance of him casually avoiding certain death—not to mention a phenomenally bad-ass move that anyone's child would struggle to escape the shadow of.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which was eventually renewed at NBC, boasts a diverse cast and skillfully tackles social issues – but above all, it is a show about characters you grow to truly care about and for whom you want nothing but the same happiness they bring you.
Chatterjee and Khalil (the comics artist goes by his first name) summon a variety of narrative, journalistic, and artistic tools and use them throughout the book to skillfully build their case that the whistleblowers who have revealed all this information to serve the public interest are heroes.
I feel confident that he'd be able to return the favor, given that he can pinpoint the exact moment at a party when I've had too much alcohol or too many interactions with other people and then skillfully extract me from the situation before anything untoward happens.
While Mehta presumably admired Jobs from afar, he had some actual interaction with Bezos: Prior to founding his company, Mehta worked as a supply chain engineer for Amazon, where he spent a few years observing Bezos' leadership style and watching the billionaire skillfully guide his 341,000 employees.
Throughout the process, Amazon skillfully obtained free data from cities across North America, including proprietary information about real estate sites under development, details about their talent pool, local labor cost and what incentives cities and states were willing to pony up to bring the company to town.
While George Herbert Walker Bush was the leader of the free world, steering international politics skillfully as the Berlin Wall tumbled down, Barbara Bush was making the world a better place by championing the great cause of literacy, which benefitted so many children and adults too.
Most of the good Times puzzles use modern slang, terms from antiquity, and everything in between; the best do it so skillfully that solvers of all linguistic interests can find a clue or two for their genre of choice, as well as pick up some terms.
The book was prescient, for it is exactly that sense of aggrieved, wounded ethnic or national pride that has been cultivated so skillfully by politicians who have emerged in recent years, from Viktor Orban in Budapest to Vladimir Putin in Moscow to Donald Trump in Washington.
Throughout, Standefer subscribes to what she calls an "unkempt, almost Gertrude Jekyll-ish approach," referencing the doyenne of British Arts and Crafts landscape design; her goal is to encourage nature to acquiesce into a series of seemingly organic vignettes that have, in fact, been skillfully engineered.
But with his first credited directorial outing, the black-and-white "Black Sunday" (July 16 and 23), from 1960, he skillfully honored old-school horror conventions — witches at the stake, spooky paintings, disturbed graves — and wisely cast the gimlet-eyed British actress Barbara Steele in two roles.
Nearly all observers—journalists, politicians, even those in Yanukovych's immediate entourage—assumed that Yanukovych, after years of skillfully playing the West and Russia off one another, buying time and extracting favors from each side, would sign a long-awaited trade-association agreement with the European Union.
But in addition to depicting the musical transformation of a generational talent, it also skillfully explores the vicious cycle of poverty and the hardships of escaping it; Kim Basinger turns in a poignant performance as a mother pushed to the brink by bad luck and pernicious influences.
So it's good that her second album moderates that deep, accomplished sandblast a little—so subtly that no non-Mauritanian will notice without direct comparison and so skillfully that folkies manque still hoping she's Oumou Sangare will keep listening to her praise of a God they don't believe in.
By the time Chesney is shouting and pounding on the table between the two men to extract viable intelligence (the phone number of an al-Qaeda higher-up), the scene has spiraled in on itself so skillfully that the audience has been manipulated just as much as the suspect.
By invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and conducting drone strikes and special forces raids in seven Muslim-majority countries — killing individuals we labeled "terrorists" but also civilians — the United States has provided fodder that al Qaeda splinter-groups such as ISIL have used skillfully to recruit and motivate payback.
He was seen as a leader who skillfully charted a course that put the monarchy at the center of Thai society, acting as a force for community and tradition even as the country lurched between political crises and more than a dozen military coups, both attempted and successful.
So skillfully has his company licensed and diversified the globally recognizable Armani name that the designer, still going strong in his 80s, can afford to present runway shows that are not only substantially devoted to real apparel but that are also designed with men in mind and not boys.
A leg, perfectly cooked and sweetened by a maple jus, was very good, but the high point was a very thin and hearty rye cracker spread with squab liver, cherries and pickled ramps; the fruit's bright notes were played off against earthier ones so skillfully they almost shimmered.
The Lebanese author Charif Majdalani's madcap novel "Moving the Palace" skillfully operates on several levels: as a foray into historical wrongs committed by foreign colonizers in the Middle East; as a desert fairy tale; and as a cacophony of jokes, most frequently made at the expense of the British.
To that extent it's skillfully assembled, consisting largely of new characters, layering on rivalries, warring factions and EZ's history, raising the question how and why a seemingly straight-laced kid -- shown in flashback visiting his girlfriend during "a break before finals" --wound up in this grim, gruesome life.
Skillfully using carrots and sticks, Democrats seldom tolerate defections on major pieces of legislation, and it doesn't matter how much the most moderate members of their caucus squawk about it; it's time for Republicans to start whipping their own renegades into line with a similar force and focus.
Fresh off "Psycho," Anthony Perkins gives another skillfully squirrelly performance as the persecuted (and prosecuted) Josef K. Film Forum is showing the movie as part of a weeklong homage, Friday through Thursday, to Jeanne Moreau, who died in July and who plays one of Josef K.'s neighbors.
It's a challenge to build a story around a protagonist who can't speak, and Wegelius does this skillfully, emphasizing qualities that make us human — though not everyone demonstrates them — and that are possessed by Sally Jones, "a very good and fine person," as the Chief aptly puts it.
There's a lot going on in this very skillfully constructed novel: the mystery behind the missing girl, the back story of Marnie's family, the fraught dynamic between Matt and Marnie (does he really like her or is he just using her?), the punishing class divisions of a small town.
" A spokesperson for the NWS told The Hill that leadership "stands with the entire National Weather Service workforce and will continue to uphold the scientific integrity of the forecast process as it was skillfully applied by all NWS offices last week to ensure public safety, first and foremost.
The dramatic encounter was skillfully painted in 1932 by artist Else Bostelmann, and it was apparently far from fiction, as it was witnessed that year by American naturalist William Beebe as he was crammed inside that metal pod at a depth of 2,100 feet in the waters of Bermuda.
For one thing, I think it eventually has to start stumbling into some kind of religious territory — something it's largely managed to evade for three seasons, and skillfully so, by focusing on moral philosophy to the exclusion of things like, say, origins and the end of the world.
Using everyday materials in unconventional ways and radically reimagining everyday objects, these artists have trained silkworms to spin over metal chains, created drawings with exploded fireworks, arranged cigarettes into the form of a tiger-skin rug, and even skillfully molded porcelain into what appears to be thin sheets of paper.
That movie manages, quite skillfully, to have its cake and eat it too by introducing a group of hip women friends, having them be gruesomely murdered by a misogynistic serial killer named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), and then introducing another group of hip women friends to stomp him to death.
These were "Made right here!" by a certified Whole Foods citrus artisan who spent an afternoon skillfully plying the knob atop each mandarin until it broke free in a delicate spray of oil, tenderly unfurling both pith and peel from the segments beneath without releasing the sweet juice encased within.
And it's managed this rise in its fortunes despite the fact that its storytelling is frequently completely ridiculous, often predicated on its characters hiding incredibly elaborate strategic gambits from each other, to the degree that it's hard to imagine how they kept something so skillfully from seemingly everybody they knew.
If you've ever cheered because you've perfectly avoided an unfair, arena-covering attack in a Souls game, then you'll be jumping out of your seat when you skillfully sidestep the titanic lunge of some scaly titan, only to pivot on the spot and crack it right in its ugly, dumbfounded face.
Numerous Greek and Roman authors lay behind Francesco Colonna's erudite erotic novel "Hypnerotomachia Polifili" (Poliphili's Strife with Love in a Dream), whose text and 172 classically inspired, skillfully integrated woodcuts provided artists with a compendium of reference materials for ancient architecture, ruins, statues, inscriptions, hieroglyphs, landscapes, gardens, figures and narrative scenes.
Ms. Heyward skillfully plays both Cece's attraction to Hannibal and her ability to take care of business: When Richie is detained at the office, closing the Nasty Bits deal and snorting coke, she's the only representative of American Century available to fend off the predatory advances of another label's chief.
All of this is presented from a narrative God's-eye view, and Williams so skillfully conceals the sausage-making of reporting that when we're told, for instance, what someone was thinking while urinating in the desert in the middle of the night several years ago, we accept it as truth.
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson ("Room") and adapted by Lucinda Coxon from Sarah Waters's skillfully written Gothic novel, "The Little Stranger" is for much of its running time more interested in the sociological and psychological implications of Faraday's encounter with the Ayreses and their real estate than with any overtly supernatural doings.
The territory couldn't be more delicate, but "Nise: The Heart of Madness," a mesmerizing drama from Brazil, navigates it skillfully to create a portrait of a real-life doctor who found an alternative to some of the more cruel trends in psychiatric treatment in the middle of the last century.
This weightless performance by singers from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama shows how skillfully Elgar creates a play of shifting shadows, like when the tenors darken the sunny harmony on the words "for rain…" with a smooth, opaque sound that casts a momentary chill over the music.
So skillfully were the lines drawn that in 22011—when President Obama carried Pennsylvania by three hundred thousand votes and the state's Democratic congressional candidates collectively outpolled their G.O.P. rivals by nearly a hundred thousand votes—Republicans still won thirteen of Pennsylvania's eighteen seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
For my money (so to speak), Soderbergh's 2001 reboot is the most fun of all of these: It has the thrill of finding out which cool, suave actor will show up next, but it also sails along rhythmically in a way the 1960 film doesn't, skillfully building up tension and excitement.
After all, it was a year ago this month that Tommy Orange's "There, There" -- a searing, insightful, and inspiring collection of a dozen urban Native narratives weaved together so skillfully that the final section demands both reading and re-reading in a single sitting -- exploded onto shelves and into the awards scene.
Think of it like this: skillfully selecting the very best dish on a menu, after choosing amongst the very best restaurants, out of the very best neighborhoods, of the very best town of the very best city… only to have Godzilla appear out of nowhere and stomp and crush it all mid-bite.
Throughout the process, Amazon skillfully obtained data from 238 cities and metro areas in North America for free, including proprietary information about real estate sites under development, details about their talent pool, local labor cost and what incentives cities and states were willing to cough up to bring the company to town.
The beautiful but deadly female assassin, however, is just as much an action-film standard as the crawl through the ventilation shafts, and in a book that spends so much time skillfully dismantling clichés to see what makes them tick, it would have been fun to see this one turned inside out, too.
"There is no question in my mind that if people were to really appreciate how important emotions are, allowed themselves to have emotions, made space for other people to have their emotions and handled those emotions skillfully in the service of making a better world, we would in fact have a better world."
Riding on the economic reforms of her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder, skillfully navigating the 2008 financial crisis, and consistently promoting German business interests, Chancellor Merkel currently represents an export powerhouse with low unemployment and a budget surplus of 36 billion Euros from last year thanks to record tax revenues and an uptick in growth.
Ransome doesn't shy away from the trauma of slavery, but he balances the terror that sits at the core of the story with moments of joy, skillfully painting a subtle smile across the young girl's face when she's given a doll, or the shadows of children running, skipping rope and playing hopscotch.
Wakanda has to be built from the ground up in an incredibly short amount of time, and when you keep that in mind, it's amazing how skillfully Coogler avoids getting mired in too much exposition and crafts his world largely through visual elements like the blocking of his actors, beautiful sets, and exquisite costumes.
That makes him a great fit for genres where a lone wolf shows up in a community and stands on the side of truth and justice — which is why director James Mangold could so skillfully plop him into the middle of a samurai film (in 2013's The Wolverine) and a Western (in Logan).
Throughout the two minute short, we see the roleplaying medic pull off all kinds of amazing feats: skillfully drifting through a hail of bullets, expertly jumping in with a perfectly placed wall to save a teammate, and rolling up in one of the newly added golf carts to ferry players away from the encroaching storm.
See postscripts | I'm saddened to have to mark the death on Saturday of Ralph J. Cicerone, a brilliant atmospheric scientist who skillfully shifted into academic leadership as chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, but really hit his stride through a decade, just ended in June, as president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Shift On Wednesday's episode of CNBC's "Jay Leno's Garage, " Christopher Forsberg, 2016 World Champion of Formula Drift racing, teaches Leno and guest star Tim Allen about drifting, the relatively new but fast-growing sport in which racers intentionally over-steer and lose the traction of their tires while skillfully maintaining control of their vehicles.
Although there was a bit of push-and-pull between her and Mr. Bychkov during the opening Allegro, they eventually settled comfortably into an excellent performance that displayed just how beautifully Ms. Weilerstein can make her instrument sing, and how skillfully this nimble orchestra can deal out dances, fanfares and yearning melodies in quick succession.
" While other revived shows, like "Gilmore Girls," have skillfully made use of the passage of time to tweak their characters, David Crane, one of the creators of "Friends," told me he remains loyal to the motto they pitched to NBC in 1994: "It's that time in your life when your friends are your family.
The film is a skillfully written thriller centering on Jesse's narrative shortly after he escapes from the Neo-Nazis' meth facility... El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie gives Jesse Pinkman the swan song he deserves, with a compelling two-hour story that brings us back into the high-stakes world of drugs and thrilling shootouts.
And off they go, first to the wrong resort, and then to an assortment of colorful characters, including a nervous groom (Nick Flanagan) facing a financial meltdown; the bride's erratic father (David John Phillips); a best man (Nick Thorburn) who covets the bride; and the bride's randy sister (the comedian Jackie Pirico), all skillfully portrayed.
Destiny 603 isn't the only blockbuster game with a humdrum story to achieve mass popularity, but better than most of its genre contemporaries, it skillfully delivers its story — sometimes embracing its complex lore, other times replaying the same blunt instructional dialogue for the 260th time — in service of what actually makes the game fun.
And it's white liberals who will so skillfully disengage from the subject matter so as to see themselves only as spectators and not perpetrators capable of exerting the same macro and micro-aggressions endured by Chris (played by Daniel Kaluuya), at the hands of his white girlfriend's (Rose, played by Allison WIlliams) progressive middle-class family.
Three of the set's films, "David Golder" (22006), skillfully adapted from Irène Némirovsky's precocious best seller; "Poil de Carotte" ("Redhead," 193), a sensitive story of an unloved child; and "La Tête d'Un Homme" ("A Man's Head," 219), an atmospheric policier based on one of Georges Simenon's early Inspector Maigret novels, all starring the protean, unglamorous Harry Baur, are exceptional.
If there's one thing I think is pretty skillfully constructed about "Seeds," it's the way it finds parallels throughout — between the wedding of Nick to Eden and the wedding of Fiona to Kit, clearly, but also in more subtle ways, like how June spirals obviously but Serena spirals so quietly even she's not aware of it.
By inserting a story so skillfully into our digital domains, and keeping us endlessly tethered to that story, " SKAM " may be the future of TV. In April, a few days before the first clip was posted, I met Julie Andem, the Norwegian creator of " SKAM ," at a café in Austin, across the street from her production office.
"He had to navigate some pretty treacherous waters and he did that very skillfully and if the president is looking for someone else to serve the administration that brings some excellent experience under fire, then I think Matt would be somebody that would fit that description," said Ian Prior, who worked with Whitaker as a department spokesman under Sessions.
Dix skillfully attends to the large dog's vigorous musculature and firm posture, sleek hair, firm ears, half-opened jaw, beveled teeth and protruding tongue, and alert orange and brown eye; each canine feature has a counterpoint in Erfurth's human figure — his stooped shoulders, sagging cheek, prominent chin and floppy ears, and mild, uncertain and glazed eyes.
Also on view are works by Oscar Hadwiger (1891–1989), a carpenter, inventor and tool-and-die maker who, in his retirement, skillfully crafted ornate towers, churches and other structures using marquetry (inlaid wood) techniques, and a mixed-media painting, along with drawings in pencil, watercolor and charcoal on paper, by the Alabaman Thornton Dial (1928–2016).
Daniel, where he spent seven years and reached the rank of sous-chef, turns up in the French techniques Mr. Lim leans on, in the crisp presentations that carry an echo of nouvelle cuisine, in the tender braised short rib, in his fondness for foie gras and in his preference for skillfully modulating flavors rather than tossing umami grenades.
No story is as simple as its streamlined version in the pages of a magazine, and though there was little that felt traditionally slick or elided in Levy's essay — it was skillfully and purposefully unvarnished — her memoir opens its camera aperture to show more of the complicated before-and-after around its epicenter: infidelity, alcoholism, ambivalence and estrangement.
Outstanding CEOs Bob Iger at Disney; Katharine Graham, who skillfully ran The Washington Post; and Jeff Bezos, the current owner of that company's legacy newspaper and founder and CEO of Amazon all meet Buffett's practical bottom-line test: They are people any director would like, trust and admire and be happy to have their child marry.
I'm not trying to say that 24 made America torture — or that movies like the Sicario duo have created our current border horrors — but when we know how likely human beings are to believe in a lie, even if they're confronted with the truth, what do we do with the most skillfully crafted, brilliantly presented lies of them all?
Huxtable skillfully weaves together the tales of Wright as a seductive, obsessive young architect in booming late-19th-century Chicago, where he rubbed shoulders with Jane Addams and Daniel Burnham; his scandalous personal behavior and indifference to his small children (he apparently loathed the sound of the word 'papa'); and the debts, broken relationships, tragedy and lasting acclaim that followed.
Its mainstream trap beat is skillfully created by producer Mike WiLL Made It; the lyrics, co-written with Rae Sremmurd's Swae Lee, provide just the right amount of braggadocio, sex, and cute one liners; the looks, styled by Shiona Turini and Marni Senofonte, got the attention of bloggers, and the video direction by Melina Matsoukas delivers just the right artsy-pop-documentary feel.
He's lauded for presiding over one of the greatest periods of progressive reform in U.S. history up to that point and skillfully navigating the nation's involvement in World War I. By articulating principles for peace—his "Fourteen Points"—and advocating a League of Nations after the war, he pressed for a new internationalism and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.
The narratives he frames, the voices of senior officials, the columnists and reporters whose work he skillfully shapes and ventriloquizes, and even the president's own speeches and talking points, are the only dots of color in a much larger vision about who Americans are and where we are going that Rhodes and the president have been formulating together over the past seven years.
The café may be counter service, and open only until 7 P.M. , but the fufu bowl, bolstered by scoops of Senegalese ndambe (a lushly thick stew of sweet potato, black-eyed peas, and okra) and tangy Ivorian attiéké (cassava that has been dried, fermented, and grated, and which resembles couscous), is as skillfully rendered and satisfying as many more formal meals in town.
They keep getting waylaid by a variety of amusing calamities and poignant meetings, and the episode skillfully pivots from the hilarious (Issa trying to wake up her friends after they all fall asleep while waiting for Molly to show up after work, by banging sheet pans together) to the moving (Issa and new love interest Nathan connecting in a broken Ferris wheel car).
And around everyone are clouds of skillfully played family and colleagues: Jill Hennessy as Rohr's wife (long-suffering and at-home), Lauren E. Banks as Ward's wife (equally career-minded but occasionally defensive) and Amanda Clayton as the crew leader's wife (deadly serious); Dean Winters and Gloria Reuben, and Remar and Moriarty, as sets of parents; Sarah Shahi as Ward's investigator.
He also wrote letters, hundreds of them, to all his contacts in the power elite — ministers, courtiers, salon leaders and fellow philosophers, working from the top down and manipulating the media of his day so skillfully that he created a tidal wave of public opinion, which would ultimately lead to the recognition of rights for Protestants in 1787, nine years after he died.
That said, many agreed that Christie's had skillfully handled the Leonardo juggernaut, from the videos featured in its marketing campaign to the auction house's worldwide tour for the painting — which generated lines of viewers who wanted a glimpse — to Wednesday night's sure-handed auctioneering by Jussi Pylkkanen, who calibrated his bid-taking with sips of water and moments of levity.

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