But these brilliant victories over greatly superior forces owed little to skilful generalship. |
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His narratives usually lend themselves to rich allegorical readings, and Tsui can be a very skilful allegorist when he wants to be. |
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He was also a renowned and skilful dog trainer and was never without a good working dog. |
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The craft-work too was beautiful and went to show how beauty can be created by skilful hands and patience. |
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A Turkish study reported that traditional bone-setters who are skilful in their job are very successful in their society. |
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There's no point in being the most skilful player, if you can't keep yourself on the field of play. |
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In spite of my most skilful wielding of cutlery, I had to have recourse to the finger bowl that had been brought along with the main course. |
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Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense. |
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The show has transfixed practically every TV-watcher since it was first broadcast thanks to Tarrant's skilful helmsmanship. |
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The skilful use of obligato, the counter melody flowing around the main melody, is an unfailing attraction of his music. |
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It was a very good game of camogie with both teams having a number of very skilful players. |
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Don't doubt this steely determined and highly skilful County Manager for even one fleeting moment. |
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The propagandists were often as skilful and as devious as the great Prussian Junker himself. |
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It is so rewarding to experience theatre that is serious, thought provoking, skilful and local. |
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The elegant composition of the park is a skilful harmony between French and English styles. |
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He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation. |
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Each of the players was a skilful soloist, and they each gracefully merged their individual talents to create tight flowing ensembles. |
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Both are very skilful indeed at reaching out to other people who resent cleverness and learning. |
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Georgi's brilliant interpretative finesse in skilful performance is a delight throughout. |
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Mr McGuinness is, like Mr Blair, a skilful, broad-brush populist with Mandela dreams. |
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After a skilful contest, Miss Harcourt was declared the successful Archer, having the most centrical arrow of the whole. |
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She was resourceful, industrious and an extremely skilful and creative cook and homemaker. |
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Irresistible rhythms, glorious colour and costumes, and oodles of talent melded with skilful direction into a whammy of a production! |
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He was often fingered as the source of government leaks and is skilful in the art of invisibility in times of trouble. |
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Real fans are tough to please, and undoubtedly demand skilful, attractive football. |
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Does beauty lie in the artist's skilful manipulation of materials, or ideas? |
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It is the skilful manipulation of this single stitch that lends an interesting and characteristic dimension to the needlework. |
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Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football. |
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He's wonderfully memorable and skilful of course and I have a high regard for him but no real fondness, if you see what I mean. |
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A skilful patient mender will repair the cloth so that you simply cannot see where the hole was. |
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That said, you've got to admire the people who are skilful enough to transform their homes without the help of tradespeople. |
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The action was fast moving and skilful, enterprising and well judged and both sides produced two tries and two penalty kicks. |
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The specialized art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing, requiring agility and skilful control of the body. |
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Brocklebank is big, strong, experienced and skilful, so his success was not unexpected. |
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There are not enough skilful, experienced cyclists on Britain's roads, however. |
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They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side. |
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Thousands of visitors craned their necks skywards to watch skilful displays by the owners of the painstakingly-built giant model aircraft. |
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He said that I was one of the most skilful scrum-halves but I would get outplayed by my opposite number who had less ability. |
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When accompanied by skilful means and insight and adopted by Bodhisattvas, however, it is said to be supermundane as it then leads to liberation. |
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During his playing days Jim would always be remembered as a classy, skilful, intelligent player. |
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The public are seeing some very skilful engineering to directly drill under the beck and feed the cables through. |
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The game, the fastest and most skilful field game on the planet, requires such devotion. |
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The contrast between skilful actors and their overwhelmed co-stars hurts the overall experience. |
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She is a skilful costumier, but she has had to develop new skills when dealing with actors, designers and directors. |
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Regular practice makes them so skilful that they can control their horses at a full gallop, even on a steep slope. |
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The robust and skilful footballer retired at the age of 30 and concentrated on his day job. |
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Unlike Thatcher, he had been skilful at PMQ while opposition leader, and he carried it over into his own government. |
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They enjoy a spate of possession down the right wing starring an amazing cameo from Mills and his absurd mix of skilful jinks and hopeless close control. |
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Using a skilful flick of her thumb she looped the flex into the nock on the end of the bow, then released the bent shape so it jumped out of the ground. |
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It was a skilful piece of work, a series of invariably thin stories skating along on the bankable watchability of a talented ensemble cast doing it by the numbers. |
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The pupil leaving such a school would be a skilful handicraftswoman. |
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She was skilful and fast but he had the advantage of physical strength. |
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The most vivid memories of this quarter final will not be of the skilful play of Lismore but the five minutes of first-half madness when the game erupted into violence. |
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Women are expected to be skilful homemakers, not professionals. |
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By optimizing our health through the skilful use of food, exercise and thinking, we balance and support the three vital energy forces, or doshas, of Vata, Pitta and Kapha. |
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It is a tribute to the fierce talent of Diamond, and the skilful compiling of Dominic Lawson, that in every other syllable of this book the man feels most incredibly alive. |
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Equally skilful is the progress of Waverley from his woolly-minded ignorance at the opening to the knowledge of the world he acquires from experience. |
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He's very skilful, he has the build, the aggression and determination. |
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Although more a work of low relief, it shares with Apollo and Marpessa the creation of depth on a shallow surface by skilful manipulation of planes. |
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He was a skilful politician, but he was not an adventurer or a visionary. |
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Also had a couple of storming, skilful bursts up the park, although his penchant for play-acting rankled throughout and eventually earned him a booking. |
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Since his death an attempt has been made to minimise his importance and even to deny that he is a real poet and to describe him as a mere virtuoso and skilful metricist. |
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He was a crabbedly honest old fellow, and a very skilful hunter. |
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Unlike many other celebrity writers, however, she is skilful at creating characters and forging a convincing emotional core at the centre of her novels. |
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A short time before his death he dressed himself in that funebrial habit, and shutting his eyes like a departed person, was drawn in that attitude by a skilful painter. |
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His prowess as a skilful debater in Parliament is also well known. |
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A skilful pianist, he played Beethoven at boozeroos solely for the satisfaction of hearing The Herd denounce him and clamour for the current top tune of the Hit Parade. |
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Landscape backgrounds for various types of painting became increasingly prominent and skilful during the 15th century. |
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Their best player was Jahic he is skilful, quite pacy, and overall will be a threat to us. |
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England's young team are more than skilful enough to beat PNG but they will have to match their tenacity and pride in their jersey. |
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Edward's determination, military experience and skilful naval manoeuvres ended what was to him rebellion. |
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Instead, Churchill used his skilful rhetoric to harden public opinion against capitulation and to prepare the British for a long war. |
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The complexities of the swift-moving Allegro scherzando finale were handled with apparent ease, and included a skilful cadenza. |
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Crowds want to see off-loads and skilful running rugby, not interminable re-set scrums. |
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The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl. |
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But times have changed and thanks to skilful hybridisation, cymbidiums have become popular houseplants. |
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On the desk lay the final version of the Birth Control speech, mastered and canalized by the skilful Maisie. |
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Under Grindal, a talented and skilful tutor, she also progressed in French and Greek. |
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The band rounded out by bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffin is an energetic, skilful, tradition-celebrating outfit. |
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He then takes one of the rods out of the fire, and resting it on the anvil, draws out the nail by a few skilful blows, and cuts it off from the rod by means of a hack-iron. |
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The crisis had significantly damaged the credibility of the King and of the Whig Party, but Walpole defended both with skilful oratory in the House of Commons. |
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Inspired by their backgrounds in Celtic folk traditions, Lucy's intricate vocal style is accompanied by skilful playing on guitar, ukulele and Appalachian dulcimer. |
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Drawn from the Basuto tribe of southern Africa, their players were athletic and strong but not particularly skilful and so didn't win any of their 36 games. |
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He has a great future ahead of him and will undoubtable learn a huge amount from playing with such an experienced and skilful spinner in Jeetan Patel. |
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Thomas was indulged by his mother and enjoyed being mollycoddled, a trait he carried into adulthood, and he was skilful in gaining attention and sympathy. |
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