Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brothers' vogue outfits and the Duchesses' colorful dresses served a dual purpose. Jane Yeh's costumes added an attractive touch to the actors' appearances and also reflected the emotional status of the characters. Bosola's garments, in particular, epitomized Yeh's skill--each of the outfits fit a certain mood and function: deceiver, spy and murderer...
Relations with the federal government now require consummate skill. Badly needed funding must be preserved, and a Harvard president has to be a master of defense to fend off probes and investigations emanating from a sometimes-hostile White House...
...which the pitcher answers two terrible questions. The first is asked by the teammate's small son, who looks at the casket and says, "Is my daddy in there?" The second is the query of a friendly sportswriter who asks whether the pitcher realizes he may never recapture his skill. "Yes" is the bitter double answer. Smoke, indeed, from a fireballing phenom...
They also praise his skill at administration. While provost, Rudenstine was in charge of academic development and budget recommendations, as well as long-range financial planning...
Yeltsin's rapport with audiences is as instinctive with socialites in Chicago as it is with construction workers in his native Sverdlovsk. That remarkable skill constitutes a breakthrough in an unwritten, decades-old rule of Soviet politics that inhibits leaders from relating emotionally with their audiences. If a speaker connects, after all, the implication is that the views of the audience count, that persuasion is involved, that the audience, heaven forbid, actually has something to communicate back to the stage. Yeltsin has tapped the desperate yearning of Russians to be taken seriously by their leaders, to be spoken to rather...