Word: skillfull
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Even more important, the U.S. must convince Britain, France and Germany that it will use its nuclear deterrent in designated situations on which all four have agreed and that it will abide by its commitments through thick and thin. To achieve this aim, close and skillful consultation between the allied...
Unfortunately, none of the characters and none of their predicaments ever approach anything real; the only reality in this witty, bitter novel is the author's dislike of the South. But Willingham is a skillful as well as a bitter man, and for a while he makes that reality...
Perhaps. But more likely, science fiction is suffering from exhaustion of the accessible pay dirt. Its classics, such as Conan Doyle's Lost World, H. G. Wells's Time Machine, were skillful storytelling based on knowledge of the science of their time. In those days, almost any educated...
Sure-footed as mountain goats, and skillful as surgeons with their curved knives, the guerrillas take few prisoners. Occasionally they slice off ears, noses or lips and send them back to the rebels as a gory reminder that the war is not over. But the royalists stay away from the...
He has a face like a bloodhound that has just eaten an escaped convict, an image that was once permitted on movie screens only if the dog died in the end. But movies are artier than ever, and the rough features of Anthony Quinn, which have long hidden a consummately...