Word: skillfull
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Which brings us to Larry Summers. Have you noticed that his problem is the reverse? While we can all name a hundred public figures defined by skillful rhetoric but bungled action, it is much harder to name even one person regularly capable of bungled words but skillful deeds. Well, it...
Stanley Bing is among our best corporate-war correspondents because he's in the trenches. By day, he toils for a media warlord, sparring with corporate enemies, many of whom seem to be co-workers. He takes names and then, turning to his guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks...
Usually, the stunning vistas and skillful use of color ordinarily would not be enough in the post-Lord of the Rings cinematic landscape. But the scenery is discovered by the characters and audience simultaneously. Their wonder at the astonishing scenery contrasts adroitly with the surrounding ugliness of petty human motivations...
Huyghe succeeds in this undertaking thanks to his abilities as a skillful bricoleur and director, assembling and refashioning the forms, talents, and histories of others into his own vision. In the Carpenter Center project he adopts the techniques of commercial filmmaking, refocusing its purpose of creating desire in the viewer...
Arafat's PLO broke the mould, demanding an independent voice and control over Palestinian destiny - a course that ultimately set it on a collision course not only with Israel, but also at various points with many of the Arab regimes. It was a combination of guerrilla resistance, hijackings and other...