Word: skillfulness
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...sometimes strange, and always evocative. One reads, for instance, of women in a posh St. Petersburg café who “hold their mugs of coffee the wrong way round and never by the handles, the greater to emphasize their empathies.” Docx’s skill for characterization is most clear in his slowly unfolding portrait of the father of the Glover family. The captivating Nicholas Glover is an ever-mounting pile of sometimes contradictory traits that Docx effortlessly weaves into a complex and wonderful character. At times utterly heartless, at times dedicated and loving, Nicholas...
...energy to perform the duties of the position with true distinction, and that he will find a way to balance his new responsibilities with his ongoing plans for teaching and research,” Smith wrote in an e-mail. “He has already demonstrated this skill in his performance as department chair...
...Harvard history, but was one of the great wide receivers in Ivy League history. [Brown] brought a toughness and resilience and great camaraderie to his team, and Ryan was a terrific player, leader and captain for us.”All three athletes will continue to bring their skill and intensity to the Panthers until the early part of the summer, when their season ends. After that their futures are unknown. Each has a one-year contract and whether this year of playing leads to other post-collegiate football opportunities or simply postpones re-entry into the working world waits...
...every European tradition. Although some first-generation immigrants may accuse him of polluting Ethiopian culture, Astatke deliberately avoids isolating the Ethiopian elements as museum pieces, frozen in their “purest” state and viewed through a glass barrier. The bulk of his contribution lies in his skill at weaving distinct musical elements from each tradition into a coherent whole. Jazz, a mélange of musical techniques even in its purest state, immediately lends itself to this approach. Astatke’s Ethio-Jazz perfectly illustrates the cultural syntheses that have defined the Diaspora of the second...
Waiting for the President There's the rub. If he is to fulfill his ambitious agenda, Brown will have to master the one skill he has never perfected: the ability to communicate and persuade. In his defense, he can claim bad luck: he followed into office Tony Blair, at his best one of the most pitch-perfect masters of the black arts of political persuasion ever seen. But after a rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown...