Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ride down the other side more than justifies the climb. Stone's skill at contriving apocalyptic conclusions was visible in his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors (1967), and he maintained this standard for more than three decades. Not even his dedicated readers will be able to foresee the twists and impact of this new novel. Damascus Gate is a transcendent thriller...
...skill-free children are overwhelmed by information even without the Internet. The glossy magazines and hundred-odd cable channels, the videotapes and computer CDs in most libraries and many homes--they need more information? It's as if the Administration were announcing that every child must have the fanciest scuba gear on the market--but these kids don't know how to swim, and fitting them out with scuba gear isn't just useless, it's irresponsible; they'll drown...
McCarthy's abundant literary skill barely keeps him on top of his material. It can be a spellbinding ride. He is a virtuoso of the lyric description and the free-range sentence, as well as a connoisseur of cantinas and ranch kitchens. A lot of whiskey and coffee goes down and many wooden matches are ignited by horny thumbnails before John Grady Cole and a Mexican pimp named Eduardo square off with knives over the fate of Magdalena...
Although Kavanagh's ability to portray the samesubject from many perspectives is practicedthroughout the book, as each characters react tothe weather, the turn of the sea and the creakingiceberg in a different way, his skill is mosthoned in his discussion of the novel's mostpervasive subject; the Roman Catholic Church...
...This is a time to use the great skill of the business, which is making things that should be important to the people interesting," he said...