| 单词 | skillfully |
| 例句 | She took no notice, but worked steadily and skillfully to build up the fire and set the pan to heat some water for tea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "If we send you, Tyrion, it will be as if Joffrey went himself. And who better? You wield words as skillfully as Jaime wields a sword." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They look like the heads of mannequins, only more skillfully fashioned, three with mustaches, two bald, one wearing the cap of a soldier. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two more mortals accompany him less skillfully, but more joyfully, on ukuleles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z How skillfully he dried them when the song came to a pause! threw back his mantle, spilt his gout of wine! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Brockway took a shovel and scooped up a load of brown crystals from a pile on the floor, pitching them skillfully into a receptacle on top of the machine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked skillfully with the one hand and put his foot on the coils to hold them as he drew his knots tight. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Laughing madly and yelling strange curses, he swayed to and fro skillfully as horse and wagon clattered off down the road into the night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I could avoid questions as skillfully as she could. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Especially when it was time for the kite-flying contests—where the boys would skillfully try to cut their competitors’ kite strings. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Autolykos’ tall sons took up the wounded, working skillfully over the Prince Odysseus to bind his gash, and with a rune they stanched the dark flow of blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Adaon rode easily and skillfully; head high, an open smile on his face, he seemed to be drinking in the sights and sounds of the morning. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Matt hastily returned to his chair by the front door while Ralph quickly and skillfully drove his car under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “De Roos has positioned himself in the situation very skillfully,” he said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Talking with me privately, one group of Nigerian officials told me how skillfully the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She waited until the man felt the knife point before she jabbed it skillfully, about a quarter of an inch through his shirt into the skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A stretcher on wheels was there, and the soldier in white was lifted out of bed skillfully and rolled out of sight in a matter of seconds. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She plucked the birds, laid them on the ground, and skillfully cut them open with her ulo. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of the dyed quills Grandma used so skillfully, Ten Snow had sewn the bag with trade beads bought in precious packets at the company store. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She did this quickly and skillfully without a single glance in the mirror. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But she could see his delicate, wrinkled hands, skillfully tying the figures in his lap together with a red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z This room had several tables, skillfully made, carved and delicate. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know the penalty for poaching?” he said as he worked his dagger skillfully to skin the rabbit. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The older shrew appeared out of a reed bed, balanced upon a large floating tree trunk which he propelled skillfully with a long pole into the side of the bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z What happened next would depend on how skillfully the other man’s dæmon could fight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Norte Chico chiefdoms were almost certainly theocratic, though not brutally so; leaders induced followers to obey by a combination of ideology, charisma, and skillfully timed positive reinforcement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a heavy badger, his adversary moved lightly and skillfully. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He took one branch in hand, reached for another nearby, and skillfully tied the supple ends together. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With that he killed man after man, so skillfully that not one uttered a sound as he died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Fuzzy Bandits used theirs to skillfully tie those vines around the robot’s leg and around her new foot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But the bricks had been laid a little too skillfully, and the wood work was not as brittle and chipped as it should have been. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The audience laughed, deep down, from the bottom up and, as suddenly as Malcolm had stirred it, so, skillfully and swiftly, he deflected it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then your anger was skillfully controlled. It had eloquence. Why was that?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He sewed skillfully, and the calluses on the tips of his fingers were so hard that he pushed the needle through the cloth without a thimble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not very skillfully done, but Winston’s standards in such matters were not high. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was dribbling a basketball through the chairs, weaving skillfully through the inanimate defenders, the fantasy of crowd-choked arenas lighting up his mind’s eye and his ear filled with the applause of phantom thousands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All hands ashore went about skillfully getting up a meal. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor felt, as she had the day before, that the conversation was being skillfully guided away from the thought of fear, so very present in her own mind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z By uniting the small power of small sums, by skillfully manipulating it, they could achieve a consolidated financial power. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from large-scale cave art, the people of the Upper Paleolithic also produced small, hand-sized drawings and carvings in bone, horn, or stone, skillfully cut by means of flint tools. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprang up on it and walked it about, rolling it very skillfully under his feet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It is so rich in ingredients and skillfully blended that guessing the exact recipe would be hopeless. Tortas, Comforting and Carefully Considered, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z For its first half, “Heathers” is skillfully sloppy fun, as it arranges the cool kids for vivisection with dopey blue jokes and prancing choreography by Marguerite Derricks. Theater Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ Brings Back Guilt-Free Mayhem 2014-04-01T13:23:48Z Brusatte skillfully brings dead dino bones to life as he shares — no, gushes about — his personal journey as a young fossil hunter and the people he’s met along the way. When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z His did this more skillfully after the audience uprising, which seemed to shake and sharpen him. Mike Daisey on Shakespeare and His Own Failings 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “As a contemporary vocalist, there’s almost no one I can think of in the world that sings as skillfully as she does,” he said in an interview. Nina Simone Saved Ledisi’s Life. Now She’s Paying Tribute on an Album. 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z For Gypsy Rose Lee, it was a language that came easily, and Abbott skillfully gives us the behind-the-scenes story to tell us why. 'American Rose': Baring the dark side of the dazzling life of Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-27T20:59:06Z Although the dialogue sometimes verged on screed, it’s hard to think of a current scripted series that has more skillfully portrayed our knee-jerk instinct for outrage in these times. ‘American Crime’ is back and is still the only network show that really goes there 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Ash Carter, a writer and editor, and Sam Kashner, the author or co-author of several books, have skillfully handled things in 14 chapters and a coda. Let Us Now Praise Mike Nichols 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s Ms. Atwell’s show most of the time, and she skillfully gets across Eva’s intrepidness — her delight in her newfound skills combined with her constant sense of being overwhelmed by situations she never imagined. Television Review: ‘Restless,’ With Charlotte Rampling, on the Sundance Channel 2012-12-06T23:19:05Z The real Werner von Braun shows up, too, playing Nazi generals “as skillfully as he played his cello,” a knack the rocketry pioneer nimbly redeploys at the end of the novel. Review | Love suspense? Here are 5 new thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Words were his tool, employed skillfully to explain, to invent, even to protect. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z Throughout, Schreier skillfully gives a gliding flow to elegantly shifting formations. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Soulful Ballet to Stevie Wonder 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “In each of these movies, there are moments, scenes and sequences that are so precisely and skillfully designed to make us feel unsettled, horrified and afraid,” Clayton said. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Roumain skillfully folds gospel, funk, jazz and contemporary classical idioms into the score. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But they successfully navigate around the-Black-woman-therapist-as-modern-wise-woman type by revealing her flaws, hinting she has a few unhealed wounds she bandages by skillfully tending to others. OK "Ted Lasso" fans, time to have a conversation about our dear, wonderful Sam Obisanya 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Even in the Met’s two-story-high Great Hall, the two pictures read clearly, vividly, particularly “Resurgence of the People” with its more organic composition, toothsome colors, and skillfully managed use of painted light. A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Goliath theme, capturing both the fortitude and suffering of Ukrainians, and the country’s leaders have skillfully provided material to advance the narrative. In wartime battle over imagery, so far it hasn’t been close 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “The Old Drift” is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism. Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Han, who will be at the National Book Festival, skillfully conveys the zeitgeist of the contemporary American public high school, with teens dating across culture and race. Jenny Han’s new YA novel and other best kids’ books for September 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z By reshaping the partisan uses of television and skillfully employing it to sell conservative messages, the two men reshaped American politics for the next five decades. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z In his solos, Mr. de los Reyes, bald and bearded, often appeared to be adopting technical ideas from tap dancing, but he skillfully incorporated these borrowings into a passionate flamenco style. Review: Sonia Olla Flamenco Company, Passionately Blending Cultures 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Eleven dollars seemed a bargain, too, for five jumbo prawns bedded on skillfully made saffron risotto. Picolinos, an Italian restaurant in northwest Seattle, offers several dining experiences under one roof 2010-04-29T20:08:00Z Though Ms. Saariaho can skillfully deploy huge orchestral forces, her essence is perhaps most vividly revealed in chamber works like “Maa,” which marshals the full ensemble only in the seventh and final movement. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z The war scenes and their aftermath are involving and emotionally sound as well as skillfully shot and edited. 'Lost Shoes' finds its target eventually 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Chariandy handles this skillfully, by traveling at once inward, into the intimate lives of his characters, and outward, connecting the diasporic community to a wider world of postcolonial migration. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z J. W. is one of three main characters whose stories are skillfully interwoven. Movie Review: ‘Easy Money,’ Directed by Daniél Espinosa 2012-07-10T21:45:24Z Filmed in the close-knit community of Barrow, Alaska, this debut feature from its native son Andrew Okpeaha MacLean skillfully embeds a simple story within a complex, transitioning culture. 'On the Ice': A shiver runs through tale of a seal hunt gone wrong 2012-03-01T23:09:01Z Beatles fans — and Lennon aficionados in particular — will revel in John's descriptions of the musician's approach to the recording process, which Bergen skillfully redeployed in his courtroom strategy. Inside the untold story of John Lennon's legal war with a Mafia-connected label owner 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Korf’s skillfully orchestrated music is rich in wordless tunes that Ms. Sciubba sang with beguiling delicacy on various “ah” sounds. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z Life doesn’t proceed as methodically as in the screenplay of a skillfully plotted commercial film. ‘2 Autumns, 3 Winters,’ Homage to the New Wave 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Kaisho’s food is fresh, seasonal, skillfully prepared and full of nuance. Moo shu tacos? Asian fare goes global at Kaisho in Bellevue 2014-03-13T20:18:53Z Any college town would be lucky to have someone willing to work as hard, and as skillfully, to document its working-class demimonde. | ?Total Badass? and ?Hell on Wheels': Sport and Grim Reality 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z Mr. Sheppard’s arrangements skillfully wove ever-changing textures with one group of players while allowing individual soloists to stand out. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z Pounded millimeters thin, the meat was coated in fine breadcrumbs and skillfully fried, though I found myself reaching for the salt and pepper shakers. The Fat Hen: A cozy nook for the brood in the Ballard 'hood 2012-05-31T20:13:04Z The document, which critics of the plan describe as convoluted and skillfully worded, does not specify any dates for construction or even mention demolition. Moscow Cultural Landmark Is Seen as Threatened 2009-12-15T05:03:00Z In these dutiful charcoals of men and women, Schiele skillfully imitated the anodyne realism preferred by academies all over the Western Hemisphere. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Here’s how to exercise that right and responsibility skillfully when you buy a new or used car. 12 ways to haggle a lower car price 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The special effects are top notch, the dialogue is smart and the action set pieces are among the most skillfully executed of the year, surpassed only by those seen in "Mission Impossible: Fallout." Top 10 blockbuster movies of 2018: Ranking the year's major action films and franchise behemoths 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z And this might be tiresome if the digressions weren’t so good, so fully realized and meticulously, skillfully rendered. This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The young producer skillfully brings together elements from 90s house, ghetto-style hip hop and tribal music, and has so far gathered a considerable amount of positive reviews from local and international media. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z Leon listened in to the lessons, sat down and played them more skillfully than his brother and was soon recognized by his first teachers as a major talent. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z But this seeming artlessness skillfully blends many kinds of storytelling, from observation to fantasy. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z And it is onstage when Mr. McClure skillfully replicates the moment in a moviemaking sequence. Theater Review: ‘Chaplin: The Musical’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theater 2012-09-11T02:00:17Z But at some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts. Review: In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z But here they’re used so skillfully that the effect is soothing rather than alienating. | Public Chicago 2012-01-27T19:45:00Z In this dream, every vehicle — and cyclist and pedestrian — proceeds unimpeded on any route, as the rest of the traffic skillfully avoids collisions and even eliminates stop-and-go traffic. Morality in transportation: How will autonomous vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists will share the road? 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Sunwoo skillfully used the sustaining pedal to play with layers of overtones. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-05-10T20:38:46Z But despite the informal setup, dishes are skillfully and impressively plated. Choice Tables: Buenos Aires for Those Who Shun Steaks 2010-03-04T20:35:00Z Musically, this “Passion” is a faithful and acoustically lively account, skillfully performed by 10 singers and 17 unseen musicians who play the nave’s acoustics like an instrument in itself. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z With its expressionistic, skillfully lit pastels, “My Father’s Dragon” appears, at first, to be a high-tier cartoon for young sophisticates, as one might expect from the Oscar nominee Nora Twomey, who previously directed “The Breadwinner.” ‘My Father’s Dragon’ Review: Apocalypse Howl 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Walking these meaner-than-ever streets is Ross Carver, a veteran police inspector who does his work skillfully and conscientiously. Review | A deliciously dark tale of paranoia and consumerism run amok 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z And yet one had to wonder what McGahn, who had skillfully outmaneuvered those who had tried to get Trump thrown off the New Hampshire ballot, really felt about his presence in the campaign’s antiestablishment tableau. Trump’s own Beltway establishment guy: The curious journey of Don McGahn 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z At times, the empty cathedral’s natural reverb — which Bocelli sculpted more skillfully as the program progressed — felt like part of the music. Perspective | Andrea Bocelli’s Easter performance reaches millions, even with no fans in attendance 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z His music here, which embraces a total chromatic idiom, is skillfully crafted and impresses as the product of a man with a good ear. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z His translator, Frank Wynne, skillfully renders the tough-guy slang, the police jargon and the irrepressible zip of a narrative that unfolds, despite the copious gore, precisely and methodically. ‘Irène,’ by Pierre Lemaitre, a French Crime Novel 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z They’re skillfully adapting some of the devices honed in live performance over the years — namely, techniques to break the fourth wall and lure spectators into the show. Perspective | With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But Stone skillfully carries through on this captivating tale’s promise to treat a host of serious topics seriously. The Explosive Y.A. Novels Fans Have Been Waiting For 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Others see him as an artist who skillfully caters to an art market where the hyper-rich go to have fun while investing their money. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In snippets from Bergman films skillfully used to illustrate the shadowy line between art and autobiography in many of them, Ms. Ullmann’s face registers an astounding emotional transparency. Movie Review: ‘Liv and Ingmar’ Documents a Relationship’s Highs and Lows 2013-12-12T23:47:55Z King skillfully juggles history and everyday life, all the while keeping the specter of that fateful day looming in the background. What our writers love this week 2011-12-09T18:25:46Z Mr. Braugher, currently starring on the television series “Men of a Certain Age,” skillfully manages to keep the noble Simon from coming across as too saintly. | 'The Whipping Man': Candles, Matzo, Wine and Some Unusual Hosts 2011-02-02T03:30:37Z The film skillfully interweaves several strands to tell a true story with a happy ending. Movie Review: ?Under African Skies,? About the Paul Simon Album ?Graceland? 2012-05-10T23:19:38Z Ballet traditions are skillfully reanimated, along with clichés. The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z We manipulate the manipulations of ‘reality’; skillfully depicting a society already living outside its own reality. Art Review: Gretchen Bender’s Work Is Displayed at the Kitchen 2013-09-05T23:02:42Z “The Notebook” is a skillfully made movie, with sequences that may haunt you after you leave the theater. ‘The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier),’ From Janos Szasz 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s a brisk, efficient piece of storytelling with a skillfully modulated sense of vertigo as Margot begins to realize she knows next to nothing about the man she is dating. ‘Cat Person’ and Other Tales of Discomfort in a Debut Collection 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z If not as brawny as the work of the most macho of metal-smiths, the skillfully constructed piece can’t be dismissed as women’s work. Review | In the galleries: The unique perspectives of the Washington Women’s Art Center 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Plenty of horror films aim to pay homage to their classic cinematic forerunners, but few ever so skillfully balance referencing the old while carving out interesting new turf. A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Harriet Burden’s rage, turbulence and neediness leap off these pages in a skillfully orchestrated chorus of voices both dark and brilliant. ‘The Blazing World’: charting an artist’s turbulent inner life 2014-04-09T20:15:27Z Given the skillfully jokey tone of Mr. McGrory’s writing, of course she is talking about Buddy, not about her scared and confused future husband. Books of The Times: Brian McGrory’s ‘Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man’ 2012-11-28T21:00:37Z In particular, Kristen Stewart skillfully navigates difficult emotional territory in her role as Alice’s passionate, combative daughter Lydia, who stands steadfastly by her mother through her quick and devastating deterioration. EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Stewart: “People think I don’t care, but no one gives more of a F*** than me” 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Lee does this by skillfully fading discrete genres into each other over the course of its two hour and 35 minute runtime. With "Da 5 Bloods" Spike Lee triumphantly reflects with Black experience of the Vietnam War 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Luckily, Ms. Tolmaire and Mr. Alexander are highly likable, and the script weaves its plot developments and revelations skillfully. Theater Review: ‘Plenty of Time’ at Castillo Theater 2013-04-18T22:03:34Z His scenes with Mr. Beck bat around a few ideas about class and wealth, while Ms. Moggie skillfully alternates between fatigue and sass. Review: In ‘The Gravedigger’s Lullaby,’ Death Is His Living 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The challenges of their latest small-scale musical, which is skillfully assembled but rarely inspired, probably begin with the troublesome task of translating a road movie to the confining medium of the theater. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z Volker Ullrich, a distinguished German journalist, reintroduces Adolf Hitler, his fantasies and designs, and his wartime relationship to Germans, in “Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945,” the second volume of his skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing biography. Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z One just wishes this boldly funny hipster comedy was a bit more skillfully structured and evenly paced to maximize its many assets. 'Appropriate Behavior' an uneven but fun dating adventure 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z That said, Wang’s piece has the elements of an enormous score skillfully accordioned into the shape of a much smaller one. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z There’s a hasty violent scene that answers few of the questions proposed so skillfully at the book’s beginning. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Nutt, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a reporter for The Washington Post, skillfully recreates a story that started years before she arrived at the family’s doorstep. Review: ‘Becoming Nicole,’ a Young Boy’s Journey Into Girlhood 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z McNaughton's 2019 painting "The Resistance," on the other hand, is a bewildering, ambiguous and skillfully rendered tribute to Goya's "The Third of May 1808," a work I would speculate that relatively few Trump fans recognize. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z This is partly a matter of form: the show skillfully borrows images and sounds from those films and others. "Mr. Robot" and the Angry Young Man 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Sally's also suspicious that Matt, a decade older, is hiding a wife someplace, yet Paulsen skillfully alternates between hope, suspicion, despair and glimpses of fondness for Matt. Review: 'Talley's Folly' is a charming revival 2013-03-06T02:44:09Z Nonetheless, the images skillfully exploit photography’s ability to freeze time to create a photo narrative. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Its rigors, skillfully navigated by the performers, were matched by the abusive focus on bitterly dissonant double stops in the last quartet, “Ergma.” JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z In fact, the actor skillfully plays with that well-known persona to the benefit of the story. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can’t tell you the twists in ‘The Undoing.’ But even they were shocked by the story. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In a book that skillfully combines culinary history with reports from some of the city’s most tasteful arrondissements, he adopts the conceit of a historian’s walking tour, conflating past with present in gorgeous style. France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The stylistic juxtapositions in the score emerged as pulsing, skillfully wrought extensions of Bernstein’s embracing musical voice. City Opera Faces Hard Times With Daring 2010-12-18T23:20:19Z The book skillfully describes the variety of Thompson customers, from bootleggers and bank robbers to businesses that sought to quell rising labor unrest. Best young adult and children’s books for July 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z There are so many parallels, and the show’s layout and wall labels skillfully tease them out. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z While on the show, Cardi's big personality and witty one-liners quickly made her one of the franchise's most beloved characters, which she skillfully parlayed into her music. How Rapper Cardi B Rose to Number One 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z He skillfully mixed fact and fiction not only to juggle astronomy and astrology, but also to ensnare the enemies of the state. The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science 2012-06-25T16:52:34Z No matter how skillfully a director translates live performance, something is lost in translation. How Robert De Niro Learned to Become ‘The Comedian’ 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z There are a lot of spinning plates, and Mbue balances them skillfully, keeping everything in motion. An Immigrant Family Encounter the 1 Percent in a Debut Novel 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But it skillfully employs history to tell a contemporary tale of “duped men, brainwashed into believing they are freedom fighters when their path is the dead end of terrorists.” Essential Arts & Culture: Sneak peek of the new Marciano, Obama's library, Tennessee Williams in dance 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Hamilton’s straightforward documentary skillfully interweaves reminiscences by members of the group with re-enactments of the burglary. In ‘1971,’ Stolen Files Reveal Spying on Antiwar Activists 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Hill’s flair for orchestrated tumult is here augmented by some skillfully contrived suspense. ‘Southern Comfort’ and 'Hearts and Minds' on DVD 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Throughout this skillfully written piece the four vocalists punctuate their singing with sounds from a few instruments, including a drum and a sea conch. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘love fail,’ performed by Anonymous 4 2012-12-07T21:17:10Z “Us Kids” skillfully handles a sensitive subject and prudently connects the Parkland students’ stories to those of Black students whose experiences with gun violence rarely garner similar national attention. ‘Us Kids’ Review: They’re Not All Right 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It's skillfully done and understated, rather like the tone of the franchise. Jeremy Renner is a shot in the arm for the Bourne-again franchise 2012-08-13T11:56:30Z The writer-director Kent Jones skillfully portrays Diane’s gradual awakening to her burnout and inability to forgive herself for past mistakes through journal entries and some dream sequences that look like abstract acid trips. The Year Women Over 50 Reclaimed Their Right to Be Seen 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Traister is certainly not the first writer to delve into these questions, but she skillfully advances the conversation with this book. ‘All the Single Ladies,’ by Rebecca Traister 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z For the majority of its intermissionless 165 minutes, this “Seagull” is handsome and skillfully rendered, but curiously bloodless, much like the stuffed specimen at the play’s end. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Kuhns skillfully weaves in historical details about the times and the Shaker movement in "A Simple Murder." Eleanor Kuhns' 'A Simple Murder': A Shaker mystery 2012-05-23T20:18:11Z In the first Ms. Srinivasan skillfully adapts solo choreography by her teacher, Sri C. V. Chandrasekhar, for all three dancers, demonstrating a feel for the interactive possibilities of unison and counterpoint. Dance Review: ‘Being Becoming,’ by Malini Srinivasan, at Fringe Festival 2012-08-13T21:34:16Z The colour palattes are clearly defined, nostalgia skillfully used, order and buttoned-upness displayed in the house as well as the dialogue. Have you been watching ? Marchlands? 2011-03-03T11:43:27Z It’s a surplus of sad TV, and not merely the two-Kleenex-per-episode kind practiced so skillfully by NBC’s Emmy-winning drama “This Is Us,” which returns for its third season on Sept. 25. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Having been a fan of the series since the age of 15, Charles got to meet the current Time Lord, actor Matt Smith, and skillfully wielded the sonic screwdriver. Prince Charles does Dalek impression on visit to Doctor Who set 2013-07-03T13:32:38Z Part of the way the novel avoids melodrama is its effective use of multiple perspectives, which results in a rich mosaic of voices that skillfully encapsulates the complexity of family. One Family, and One Multigenerational Curse, in the Texas Borderlands 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z But “Rise of the Robots” doesn’t need any more examples; the human consequences of robotization are already upon us, and skillfully chronicled here. ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’ 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Expressive brushwork and skillfully structured composition took center stage. 'Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Collection' at LACMA 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Harper Lee Sues Agent Over Copyright on ‘Mockingbird’ Harper Lee, who skillfully chronicled courtroom drama in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is tangled in a legal drama of her own. Harper Lee Sues Agent Over Copyright on ‘Mockingbird’ 2013-05-06T18:44:54Z “All Dancing! All Singing!” smoothly accomplished what Depression-era movie musicals did so skillfully. Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Journalists have done a lot right — they have pointed out lies, dug out what’s really happening, skillfully explained and analyzed. Perspective | Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z This skillfully written murder mystery centers on an ambitious teenage gymnast and her family. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z And they skillfully illuminate the tug of war — between youth and age, optimism and cynicism — that swirls within Mr. Sondheim’s score. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z “It’s the same old bootstraps story, an American dream artfully told, skillfully sold,” she wrote. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Deuce’ Series Finale and an Early Hitchcock 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s an undeniably intense dish that shows how energetically and skillfully Mr. Orkin colors outside the lines of Japanese cuisine. Restaurant Review: Ivan Ramen 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The duo skillfully deploys the hardware and software of electronic dance music, even as it eludes genres and warps standard patterns. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z As an artist, Mr. Cattelan is known for skillfully subverting the expectations of his audience. The New Museum Is Offering Strange Stories for Trying Times 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He mourns that “it sometimes seems as if the movies are more mediocre than ever, more craven and cowardly, more skillfully manufactured to pander to the lowest tastes instead of educating them.” Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z He is also skillfully managing a fractured and often vicious media sphere where there is little agreement on what matters most, and where some are out to get him. Perspective | Dr. Fauci symbolizes everything about the Trump-era media climate 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Berry catches the honesty of the horrific revelations, but he just as skillfully shows us the consequences of denial. 'Festen': Shocking revelations and a 4-star review 2011-05-06T19:58:49Z Instead, he skillfully programs an ecosystem of signs that sully the boundaries between art and earth. | Doug Aitken 2013-02-05T18:51:42Z If you are going to conclude an important inaugural concert with a shameless showpiece, well, picking this skillfully written, dazzlingly orchestrated and colorful score was the way to go. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Her character designs are skillfully consistent and refreshingly diverse, as is appropriate for a story set in New York City. Cat Girl? A Kinder, Gentler Superhero Comic 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z I also adored hula hooping, and still admire all who can skillfully move a hoop up and down their body. A(nother) year of the fit life; lessons learned and enjoyed 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Foster bears some physical resemblance to Armstrong, the air of imperial invincibility that Armstrong projected so skillfully is missing. Review: ‘The Program,’ a Docudrama on the Fall of Lance Armstrong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But Mr. Oliver hasn’t changed his methodical, slow-burning attacks, usually spending each episode skillfully dissecting one topic with plenty of zingers. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Shameless’ and ‘Last Week Tonight’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Mellencamp’s skillfully turned songs are mostly country-inflected rock, with hints of gospel, blues and, yes, zydeco folded into the mix. ‘Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,’ From Stephen King and John Mellencamp 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z An English-inspired garden runs between three neighboring townhomes, and a hillside property demonstrates how to skillfully combine native and ornamental plantings. Clippings: More plants to love, more gardens to visit 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Of all the lessons I learned there, I'd put "how to skillfully tie a dark cardigan around your waist" right near the top of the list. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Salter skillfully uses rhyme and meter to, in effect, slow that progression. Frank Bidart, Mary Jo Salter and Mary Jo Bang: Poets on desire and politics 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Pearl’s back story and Frankie’s journey are skillfully interwoven so that parallels appear, driving the reader forward to several surprising revelations. The Teenage Ghosts in Laura Ruby’s National Book Award Finalist Never Sleep 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The brothers’ rivalry forms a skillfully interwoven subplot to the main action. Martin Cruz Smith brings us wartime Italy in ‘Girl from Venice’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Law’s script skillfully weaves in the notable biographical details through his monologues. Review: In ‘Turn Me Loose,’ Raw Jokes That Still Sear and Bite 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet Catlett was as much a neoclassicist as a modernist, as she demonstrated by skillfully simulating soft fabric in hard metal or stone. In the galleries: Conversations between mother and daughter, teacher and student 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The band moves deftly and skillfully among these styles, creating their own unique brand of Americana. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Jan. 4-10: Los Lobos, Seattle Pop Punk Festival and more 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z In scenes like a conversation between a skeptical Josiah and two young Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mr. Cheshire skillfully writes about the burdens and silver linings offered by faith and other inheritances. Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Still, the mesh of past and present crimes is skillfully woven — even if, on occasion, overly stretched by family dynamics. A buffet of darker themes, skillfully served as audiobooks The documentary skillfully blends such history with gorgeous contemporary performances. Camels, monkeys and lions at the ballet: Marius Petipa was just getting started 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Melchor has an exceptional gift for ventriloquism, as does her translator, Sophie Hughes, who skillfully meets the challenge posed by a novel so rich in idiosyncratic voices. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Though the aesthetic conflict it poses between a ballet couple and a modern-dance couple who swap partners was antiquated in 1988, the piece is skillfully made. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z Mr. Miller shapes his menus so skillfully that it’s hard to imagine wanting more. Restaurant Review: Huertas in the East Village 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z As Henry transforms over the course of "Annette," Driver changes his look and his demeanor skillfully, but it feels like he is expending considerable energy for nothing. Adam Driver is impressive, but can't save Amazon's audacious & sexy rock opera "Annette" 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Or maybe it’s just an old-fashioned argument about authenticity, skillfully executed. Critic’s Notebook: The ‘Nashville’ Soundtrack as Co-Star 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Appropriately, a whistle-blower named Gabriel Thompson, played skillfully by Brent Sexton, takes center stage. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 9: The Whistle-Blower 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z With emotional delicacy and a lightly expressionistic visual style, Rockwell brings both Inez and New York to life, skillfully setting one woman’s hardscrabble personal story against a larger political backdrop. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Like “Broadchurch,” “The Missing” skillfully portrays the pain and panic associated with such an occurrence, to an almost unbearable degree of emotion and realism. ‘The Missing’: A smartly conceived treat for mystery fans It is also a joy simply to marinate in work that is so skillfully produced, so exacting in the stories it chooses to tell. Object Lesson: Two images, two photography roads taken 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z But the choreographer, Veronica Cendoya, skillfully utilized the familiar themes of soccer — the aggression, the melodramatic injuries, the hysterical glee and moribund despair — to create an amusing, inventive piece. Let’s Get Physical: A Berlin Dance Festival, Serving All Audiences 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z He skillfully conveys the cruel, mocking tone that the SS officers and guards often used with prisoners as a way of reinforcing their power. A Novel About the Death Camps, Brought to Vivid Life in Audio 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The headliners, of course, are the monsters, and Mr. Diez, a former effects specialist, skillfully blends viscous textures with cheesy digital flourishes. Review: ‘Stung’ Stars Giant Wasps That Attack the Rich 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z But my job is to condense and capture the essence of an event as skillfully as possible. Joe Berlinger and His Feel-Good Tony Robbins Film 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The music, mostly for a chorus of female voices, skillfully blends busy counterpoint and evocations of ethnic folk music. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z For "Pines," he learned to skillfully ride his motorbike, which he kept and still rides. Gosling at ease in every role except movie star 2013-03-20T16:53:12Z Nonetheless, follow him and you’ll soon be immersed in a skillfully woven story of acceptance and forgiveness. It’s a Dog’s Life — or Is It? 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Now 80, Lüpertz’s hand is definitely strong, well-trained, and experienced — he skillfully transports his influences into his own fully formed landscape, his own universe. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Her appeal is emotional rather than aesthetic, and she knows how to control dramatic tension as skillfully as any of the Bourne movies. Stephenie Meyer swaps vampires for Jason Bourne in ‘The Chemist’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Siskind, who also directs, skillfully helms her gifted young cast in an emotionally engaging evening that is certainly heartfelt. 'All My Distances Are Far' dives into the turbulent waters of teenhood 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The zippy “Blood Meal,” which is free on YouTube, is an even better piece than “Topside” because it so skillfully maps a familiar world where an invisible danger lurks everywhere. ‘Blood Meal’ Review: Just Us, Locked Down in a Dollhouse 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Hooligan Sparrow,” which Ms. Wang also shot and skillfully edited, has the pulse of a mainstream thriller but without the pacifying polish and tidiness. Review: In ‘Hooligan Sparrow,’ a Chinese Activist’s Hair-Raising Defiance of the State 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Readers may expect a morbid story line, but Jones skillfully fuses tragic events with amusing dialogue, keeping the story lighthearted. Review: Darynda Jones' debut novel is divine 2011-03-04T15:41:11Z Patrick skillfully builds tension as Drew, fearing both police violence and catching Covid, works his way through the throngs. In a Marathon of One-Act Plays, Boundaries Are Pushed and Pulled 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Hicks skillfully hits all his marks in this hugely challenging Shakespeare role, but you feel he is delivering a carefully thought-through performance rather than bringing us deeply inside the character’s despair and confusion. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Viewers will notice how skillfully “Prime Suspect: Tennison” reflects modern issues — such as workplace gender equity and police brutality — within a story that’s set 44 years ago. Perspective | Summer TV 2017: ‘Snowfall,’ ‘Prime Suspect’ are a good place to start 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It was bracingly tense, conveying not only the terror of her feelings of intrusion but also the violence of everyday life, something the credit-sequence of the show does so skillfully each week. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Bonded by Rage 2010-10-25T15:23:00Z In “Miracle Cure,” Rosen skillfully blends scientific, political and economic history to trace the development of antibiotics and how they underwrote the modern pharmaceutical trade. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z For the solo show’s narrative segments, Marmo draws extensively from Bruce’s recordings, published work and court transcripts, skillfully woven into a conversational monologue. Lenny Bruce's fire and fury light up Theatre 68 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It has been selected and skillfully organized by Karen A. Sherry, the museum’s former associate curator of American art, who is now the curator of American art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z A forgettable presence for most people, Doug becomes, for the audience, a skillfully drawn, three-dimensional tragic figure through Rawley's colorful procession of customer transactions blurring with the hero's Fellini-esque projections of memories and fantasies. 2 quirky comedies have Seattle premieres 2011-09-22T21:28:06Z The new nation, an idea still in progress, would inevitably call for reassessment, flexibility and innovation, and Feldman skillfully navigates the zigzag path of Madison’s recalibrations. James Madison’s Zigzag Path 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Tipping a barista who has skillfully prepared your fancy latte makes more sense to us than tipping a worker who rings up a can of soda. Tipping etiquette and norms are in flux − here’s how you can avoid feeling flustered or ripped off 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a tense and skillfully filmed scene, but for a show that presumes to explore the moral complexities of American governance, it takes a pretty conventional approach to some of its portrayals. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 5: Who’s the Real Hero? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Numerous gunfights, combat set pieces and fight scenes are muscularly staged and skillfully supported by Todd E. Miller's editing, though the sheer sound volume grows repetitive and wearying. Review: 'Expendables 2' fleet-footed and engaging 2012-08-14T14:44:10Z Canadian filmmaker Steven Silver skillfully captures the serious sense of excitement and danger, but the movie falls short on providing much ethical context or perception of why these guys do what they do. 'The Bang Bang Club': Film shot with focus on guts and glory of combat photography 2011-04-28T20:07:17Z At this juncture, Jackson skillfully depicts the Beatles, Lindsay-Hogg, and their crew as they race against the clock, hoping to salvage something from that previously misbegotten month. Peter Jackson's "Get Back" docuseries is a mesmerizing feast for the eyes 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z But except for one brief quotation, the music is Ms. Berkson’s, including a motet setting of Psalm 130, sung in unintelligible German, that skillfully weaves delicate counterpoint with dense chromatic harmonies. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z As they do, Rifkind draws skillfully from multiple sources, expanding her sympathies to include them all — wives and lovers, too — in her melancholy narrative. The Unknown Hostess of 1930s Hollywood 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “The different strands of the narrative are skillfully braided.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In celebration of television’s most powerful women, here’s a look at some of the characters and their skillfully selected styles. From Claire Underwood to Cookie Lyon: Reading the power wardrobes of TV’s power women 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The hardening part was once skillfully addressed by an actor I was about to have crazy sex with, with a sanguine: “Forgive me if I do, forgive me if I don’t.” The Secret Actress on sex scenes: my co-star warned ‘forgive me if I harden' 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But the revelation that he was stillborn, directed skillfully by the filmmaker Liz Garbus, allows the viewer to experience a raft of emotions that make the final revelation all the more heartbreaking. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Ms. O’Sullivan also has a playful side, skillfully wolf whistling and at one point leading the audience in a chorus of “meows.” Review: Camille O’Sullivan, Proclaiming Ferocious Truths at Irish Arts 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Turner skillfully uses some modern-day analogies, but her great accomplishment is to immerse readers in 12th-century Japan in all of its gore and glory. Best children’s and YA books for March 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z But his work burst with generous humanity and possessed a sure grasp on the power of intimacy — something these productions skillfully bring to the fore. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Dialogue scenes, conventionally and skillfully done, are punctuated by Leda’s concert flashbacks, music-video-type interludes with sound and lighting effects and busy projections. Theater Review | 'Sounding': Swimming in Murky Waters Infested With Death and Life 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z Kurt Behrendt, an assistant curator in the department of Asian art, is responsible for this marvelous travelogue, and skillfully guides the multiple strands of an epic story to what may be their ultimate destination: here. Art in Review: ‘Buddhism Along the Silk Road’: ‘5th-8th Century’ 2013-01-31T20:38:36Z Leire Salaberria’s skillfully composed illustrations, painted in luminous washes of green and orange, include visual clues to a subplot that children will enjoy sniffing out. When First We Practice to Deceive 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z She paints skillfully, carefully, with a kind of idealizing detachment. Are those model buildings or a painting? For artist Amy Bennett, the answer is both 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Segal skillfully makes Gary likable, yet just weird and intense enough to keep the audience off-balance. Review: America Ferrera stars in edgy 'Bethany' 2013-01-22T19:41:08Z Mr. Canellakis’s dark and sinewy tone and fiery virtuosity added depth to two Bulgarian folk songs he skillfully arranged for cello and piano. Music Review: ‘Look and Listen,’ at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery 2013-05-20T20:43:17Z In this case, the book is deliciously witty, bawdy and full of loopy appeal — and written mostly in skillfully wrought iambic pentameter yet. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Candlish skillfully portrays Fi’s friendships with other wives in her South London neighborhood, where the author herself lives with her husband and daughter. Review | A good-hearted mother faces the ultimate betrayal in the twisty novel ‘Our House’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z What Dee Rees did so skillfully was to portray the leading characters as ordinary people trapped in a situation not of their making. 'Invisible no longer': women in film on the female directors the Oscars must celebrate 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z And skillfully made as they are, such visual polemics probably won’t age well. Review | In the galleries: ‘Finding a Path’ is framed as a dialogue between two nature artists 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z His later, skittish, tartly modernist scores skillfully combine neo-Classical structures with a vigorous but free use of 12-tone techniques, as in the final movement of his 1962 Symphony, generally considered Fine’s major statement. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z On the contrary, “Tears of Amber” — though overlong and lacking the magical delights of Segovia’s previous book — is a skillfully rendered tale, at once heartbreaking and heartwarming. Review | Acclaimed Mexican author Sofia Segovia returns to her U.S. audience with a story of World War II resilience 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Abrams skillfully threaded that very needle with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” nicely teeing up that threadbare franchise for the brilliant director Rian Johnson to send it into genuinely novel and reinvigorating territory. ‘Batman v Superman’ broke records at the box office. But that doesn’t justify its existence. 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z “He has in every case skillfully chosen the tools that are instrumental to the project instead of those that might only celebrate the architect as artist,” the jury said in its citation. David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Maintaining an unrelentingly gleeful grip on the film’s tone, Mr. Sigurdsson skillfully whips absurdist comedy and chilling tragedy into a froth of surging hostilities. Review: An Icelandic Suburb Hides Deep Dysfunction ‘Under the Tree’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The Blackwoods — Christian shooting, Michael directing and producing — skillfully set their documentary to Monk time, rather than cutting up his flow into bite-size pieces. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Working with nurses who patiently, compassionately and skillfully completed my treatments and answered my endless questions brought a close bond among us. Perspective | Ask Amy: Upcoming beach house vacation causes stress, not excitement 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z "Never Have I Ever" also skillfully interweaves Devi's identity as the daughter of Indians immigrants through the heart of the story. Mindy Kaling's smart teen sex romp "Never Have I Ever" may be her best series yet 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The filmmakers, largely forgoing a soundtrack, skillfully manipulate stillness, silence and anomie to unsettling effect — at times evoking the ambient dread and decay of, say, Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion.” Review: In ‘Hard Labor,’ a Brazilian Couple’s Unsettling Struggle 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z If it is skillfully and traditionally made, it can keep for days without losing energy or effervescence. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z That I arrived at this moment in the book with my heart in my throat speaks to how skillfully Yovanovitch narrates her life story. In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z They were running, skillfully, on caffeine and adrenaline; the Black Keys, when they took over, burned diesel. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z As he skillfully barreled a tiny sedan through the narrow colonial roads, he told us stories of the slaves who laid the stone streets and built the grand neo-Gothic Catholic churches by hand. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Rather than a harness, acrobatic actors skillfully bear the princess aloft. Review: ‘The Light Princess,’ a Musical at the New Victory Theater 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z With Melia, Bayard skillfully draws a heroine whom readers understand better than she understands herself, without making her aggravatingly obtuse; he then allows her to develop over the course of a book. There’s a glut of bunnies and dead moms in children’s books 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Lurking under the blackberries is a nice witbier, with notes of honey and spices, that the brewers skillfully balanced with the fruit’s natural sweetness. Beer of the Week: Hardywood Park Virginia Blackberry 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Using these events as a narrative armature, Mr. Harbach skillfully constructs a story with startling depth of field. Books of The Times: ?The Art of Fielding? by Chad Harbach - Review 2011-09-05T22:32:00Z Directed by Christopher Randolph, this drama is a skillfully acted set of three interwoven monologues, two of them spoken by men who are, if not exactly villains, certainly far short of heroic. Review: In ‘The International,’ Those Who Treat a Massacre as Entertainment 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Hardly one to boldly go anywhere, he prefers to cautiously follow and skillfully pander. Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Directed by J. J. Abrams 2013-05-15T17:31:02Z Ms. Jensen’s transcription of “The Holy Presence” was skillfully wrought. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Kitchen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The speaker skillfully walks along the tension between irony and hope, resignation and a desire for release. Best poetry collections of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z All of this is skillfully keyed to the score, which sounds somewhere between Tchaikovsky and Ravel in orchestral color but doesn’t have much drive. ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate) 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But the characters are based on historical figures, and the script skillfully draws them together in a way that's quite affecting. 'City of Life and Death': Drama approaches Nanking massacre from both sides 2011-07-07T19:25:05Z He seems too big and adult at first but skillfully transforms into a smaller, more frail and childlike character. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Howrey skillfully weaves these questions into an often funny story that grows poignant in its final chapters. Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z They were quarried and skillfully carved out of a porous volcanic rock called toba, beginning around A.D. Rapa Nui Is Remote. And Then There’s Its Isolated North Coast 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Yet the novel is skillfully crafted, never buckling beneath the weight of its ambition, with an unflagging sense of humor that prevents the story from straying into self-seriousness. A Multitude of Hauntings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Two “Orphic Hymns,” by Louis Karchin, represented a more conventional singing style, with elegant vocal lines and skillfully layered harmonies. Music Review: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn 2013-01-25T22:12:21Z But director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell, who originated the "Saw" series, also use silence quite skillfully to build real fear and suspense. Capsule reviews: `Hop,' `Source Code' 2011-03-30T15:37:20Z But even on purely musical terms, Handel’s endlessly inventive and skillfully wrought score deserves a full hearing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z Out of this raw material, Dobbs has carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Weiner skillfully shows that subversion, the dissemination of disinformation and military interventions were standard fare in the competition between Moscow and Washington, and he enlivens his story with vivid portraits of the main characters. The Rivalry That Forged the Cold War 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Or so Madeline Miller tells it in "The Song of Achilles," a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer's tale of the Trojan War, "The Iliad." 'Song of Achilles': The love story behind Homer's epic tale of war 2012-04-25T20:12:07Z “Shimer skillfully reconstructs the history of how both Washington and Moscow got into the business of election interference in the first place,” Timothy Naftali writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Bayes' admiration is echoed in a sheaf of reviews of Breaker's work, and in my own experience watching him skillfully, hilariously cavort through several New York shows. Lauded Broadway actor Daniel Breaker joins Intiman cast of 'A Doctor in Spite of Himself' 2010-09-01T20:42:00Z “Kominsky” is a fine series, but it bested “The Good Place” and “Barry,” both of which are more creatively adventurous and skillfully realized. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z He skillfully employs the art of abrasion that he mastered on HBO’s “Entourage.” ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ is the Latest in the ‘Yay, Rich Jerks’ Genre 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z She has researched how Europeans and Americans skillfully reassembled shards with adhesives, putty, twine, silver and gold. Antiques: Repaired China, the Potter John Bennett, Schoolgirl Rugs 2013-01-17T22:21:55Z His numerous works — a sizable body of skillfully fashioned, traditionally structured scores, written mostly in a pungently chromatic harmonic language alive with intricate contrapuntal writing — do not turn up today as often as they deserve. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z A reader can only applaud the author who has so skillfully preserved them in such loving, precise detail. A Brutal Heritage Finally Revealed 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z This skillfully skewed mimicry turns out to be a blessing and a curse. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The writer and director Robert Eggers skillfully torques the tension with shrieking music, eerie silences, shock cuts and one hard-charging goat but never breaks the skin of his sleek surfaces. A Sundance Festival Sampler 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z While not wildly original, his jack-in-the-box surprises are skillfully, tautly executed. ‘V/H/S/99’ Review: Death on the Way to DVD 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z While most of these discussions center on the 20th century, Masur, an associate professor at Northwestern, skillfully establishes that “America’s first civil rights movement” started as far back as the late 18th century. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z All of it had been acquired by casino cash, skillfully laundered.” John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler’: a corrupt judge and a lawyer bent on stopping her 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “Victoria” is skillfully put together and skillfully danced, but it’s hard to see the point. Review: Queen Victoria in Toe Shoes? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z They are boxing connoisseurs skillfully pursuing a parallel craft that replaces conflict with camaraderie. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z All of the actors conduct themselves skillfully — hitting their marks and tearing through the sometimes awkward idioms of a translated script — without being entirely convincing. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z Inspired by nature, from predatory birds to writhing snakes, the designer skillfully folded exotic prints or fanciful feathers into a fashion lexicon that included plaid and tweed from his family’s Scottish heritage. 2010-02-11T21:30:00Z But the sashimi turned out to be exceptional, skillfully chosen to bring out contrasts in texture and fat, and the nigiri was very good as well. Las Vegas, Off the Eaten Path 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Eyre’s production convincingly stakes a claim not only for Ms. Cattrall as a skillfully pliable actress but also for the bubbly pleasures forever on tap in “Private Lives.” Theater Review: Kim Cattrall Stars in ?Private Lives? - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:49Z A miscellany of smaller Mozart pieces, composed between 1782 and 1789, were skillfully combined into an ad hoc suite, resulting in one of the highlights of the evening. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z A professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, Aslan wields words skillfully and speaks elegantly; his ideas are perfectly suited for the internet-video age. Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The slow second movement, a Siciliana in the form of a double canon, unfolds in skillfully written counterpoint. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z It skillfully outlines the permutations of betrayal he experiences, and not only as they concern Amir’s ill-advised statement to a reporter at the hearing. ‘Disgraced’ asks provocative questions about being Muslim in America 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But it was darkly fascinating to watch her relentless femininity — her excuse me’s and pardon me’s and God bless you’s — and how she skillfully wielded it on behalf of a mostly male administration. Perspective | Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Snider skillfully draws a wide arc, with throbbing brass accents and slashing chords driving up tension. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Lutz describes him as “a master of diplomacy in internal politics”, skillfully balancing the country’s tribal factions and political interests. Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Hollandsworth skillfully blends a disturbing murder mystery with the history of the Lone Star State when it was just 40 years into statehood. America’s original serial killer: Skip Hollandsworth plunges the dark history of the Lone Star state 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Simon's nine-piece band skillfully navigated the swath of musical territory Simon explores in his music, from Africa to Brazil to Peru to New Orleans to Memphis and, of course, to New York. Musician Paul Simon doesn't let on if he's the retiring type 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Yeun skillfully captures the intriguing yet unnerving nature of a professed firebug. The top 10 movie scene-stealers of 2018, from Awkwafina to Hugh Grant 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In a sense, those fight scenes, skillfully choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, are but a metaphor in service to a parable of freedom and love. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Actual settings of “Hallelujah,” by Handel, Bach, Johann Schein, Mozart and Mussorgsky are skillfully folded into the score by Mr. Eotvos, who integrates the borrowings into his own atmospheric, modernist language. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “Fill the Void,” a compelling and skillfully made domestic drama, is a rarity, a film that’s both set within, and emerges from, a devoutly religious world. ‘Fill the Void’: A girl’s life unravels in a tight-knit world 2013-06-20T21:48:38Z As our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, observed, “Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light.” New in Paperback: ‘My Year Abroad’ and ‘Amoralman’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Gender-fluid Taylor is an interesting construct, and the role us skillfully acted, but "they" seem to be whatever the writers need for each episode's story line. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Shorto moves beyond nostalgia skillfully, as he so often does, and touches on the paradox that the city is both the beneficiary and the... Amsterdam, Revisited 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The Left Hand of God introduces a vast variety of secondary characters as well, most of them skillfully developed, intriguing and as realistic as an epic fantasy character can afford to be. The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - review 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z With a fanciful, skillfully written score, the piece presents a beguiling present-day story of a group of hapless archangels having trouble recruiting a young woman to bear God in human form. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Moore skillfully turns him into a benevolent demagogue, with a special gift for delivering anti-freeway rants. 'Grassroots': Power to the people behind comedy set in Seattle 2012-06-21T20:22:04Z The ’s Summertime Classics program “Strike Up the Band,” on Thursday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, while stopping well short of that extreme, skillfully avoided any hint of Russian triumphalism. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-07-02T20:37:00Z Meals were traditional and skillfully prepared Brazilian cuisine, including, most deliciously, tapioca crepes, tropical fruits and bracing coffee for breakfast and a different homemade dessert every lunch and dinner. Leaping Caimans and Tasty Piranha in the Wild Amazon 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Hart skillfully weaves that history into the primary story. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Keeping the focus on her actions and reactions, Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years. Blanche Wiesen Cook Concludes Her Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Bay’s narration of all this is seamless, skillfully recounting the granular details while offering judicious glimpses of the bigger picture. ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Schick, who more typically wields percussion mallets than a baton, but who is part of the growing list of percussionists-turned-conductors, oversaw skillfully balanced performances of those works and the pointillistic, partly electronic “Déserts.” Music Review: More-Than-Full Var?se at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-21T22:35:00Z Lalani’s tale is a lyrical lullaby, a homage to Filipino folklore, and a skillfully made story that reminds us that even the ordinary can do extraordinary things. She’s Seeking Power, But She’s Not Power-Seeking 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In “Blurred Lines,” she writes about another instance of on-set harassment, skillfully showing one woman’s complicity in another’s oppression. Review | In Emily Ratajkowski’s ‘My Body,’ we see the picture from her point of view 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Bolden skillfully follows Douglass as he finds his voice as a speaker, writer and newspaper publisher who breaks away, during the 1840s, from the pacifist secessionism of his abolitionist mentors. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z It's a very ceremonial dish, particularly as you watch the waiter skillfully carve it table-side from the carcass, and are instructed on the correct placement of condiments on the pancake, etc. At DaDong in Midtown, Modern Art and Lame Duck 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The show skillfully reminds us that Blagojevich’s TV appearances a decade ago were meant to curry favor with the public—a fact that Trump himself remarked on, in his inimitable, racially gross way. “Public Official A,” Reviewed: The Sins of Rod Blagojevich Are the Sins of Our Time 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Fluidly capturing the trajectory of a ruinous obsession, the writer and director, Sara Colangelo, skillfully fudges the line between mentoring and manipulation, and between nurturing talent and appropriating it. Review: The Disturbing Obsession of ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Though the movement was skillfully and convincingly done, the dance remained an illustration, not quite achieving its own imaginative life. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z Both meat and shellfish were skillfully cooked and came with nicely browned Brussels sprouts on the side, but the overworked mashed potatoes can’t compete with those grits. Seattle’s Manhattan serves fine cocktails, classics with Southern accent 2013-07-11T22:32:45Z A half a dozen surfers caught substantial waves and skillfully rode them toward shore. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The story, skillfully mined from Mr. le Carré’s labyrinthine book and set in 1973, is a pleasurably sly and involving puzzler — a mystery about mysteries within mysteries. | 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy': ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Gary Oldman - Review 2011-12-09T00:00:43Z Stripped of the fraud component, what you have is an extremely skillfully executed painting, beautiful and with a heck of an interesting story behind it. Faking it: Does the forged Vermeer that fooled Goering belong in a museum? 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Maine mines laughs from the expected incongruities and hypocrisies, but she skillfully avoids cheap shots. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Filmed on location in the close-knit community of Barrow, Alaska, this debut feature from its native son Andrew Okpeaha MacLean skillfully embeds a simple story within a complex, transitioning culture. Movie Review: ?On the Ice,? by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Is Set in Alaska 2012-02-17T01:08:58Z “Don’t Think Twice” skillfully compresses character sketches of all six members, with some receiving more attention than others. Review: ‘Don’t Think Twice’: Mike Birbiglia’s Smart Comedy 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He skillfully weaved all of the elements — eyewitness accounts, expert analysis, fast-breaking bulletins and what viewers saw with their own eyes — into a compelling narrative. Three men guided millions through horror of Sept. 11, 2001 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The Oars crew also included four oarsmen who skillfully navigated our huge rafts through the rapids while carrying the entire group’s food, tents, mats, supplies and gear. A grand six-day adventure running the Grand Canyon rapids 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z And the pianist skillfully refined his touch to convey Beethoven’s chaotic outbursts or reflect his withdrawals into solemn introspection. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival The Globe- and Oscar- winner climbs inside of Ailes pugnacious, piggish personality as skillfully as one might predict. Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, sleazy and malevolent, still haunts us in "The Loudest Voice" 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z She copes skillfully with the wartime rationing system and draws on an unsuspected resourcefulness after her father applies too much force in warding off an unwelcome visitor, a slimeball his granddaughter is carrying on with. ‘Women Crime Writers’ review: Well-known and unfairly forgotten favorites 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z As Richard Burke’s score skillfully stitches together Schubert compositions and his own modern music, Ms. Tharp defies, teases and embraces 19th-century ballet conventions. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z They're a joy to watch as they skillfully fling Shakespeare's sophisticated repartee, in what Beatrice's uncle Leonato refers to as "a skirmish of wit between them." Review: Buoyant, zestful 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2013-02-20T00:16:04Z As Hammer skillfully shows, this was both an old story — a continual battle within Islam — and a new one, now part of an international struggle in which superpowers send missiles into desert outposts. Meet ‘The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Mukoda skillfully captures these Tokyo women who, nearing the end of the 20th century and at a time of economic prosperity in Japan, continue to struggle to improve their standing. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z She skillfully wields the matter-of-fact language of newspapers, freeing it from specificity and opening it up to new interpretations that we must forge ourselves. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Still, Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others, and her depiction of aging is viscerally affecting. If the Bleak South Dakota Plains Don’t Break Them, Their Family Just Might 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies,” Ramona Ausubel writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Her finding Terry and figuring out where she was meant that her story could develop away from the boys and skillfully fleshed out her background. Stranger Things 2: just as potent a second time? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z “Evolution behaves much like a gardener,” Hanson skillfully shows, “saving only the most successful experiments.” Thor Hanson’s ‘The Triumph of Seeds’: new life, tiny package 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Why this has to be is the gentle mystery that propels “Good People,” a Manhattan Theater Club production that also stars Tate Donovan and is directed with a skillfully slow hand by Daniel Sullivan. | 'Good People': Been Back to the Old Neighborhood? 2011-03-04T03:09:46Z Krasznahorkai executes these staccato sentences as skillfully as his signature expansive ones, and witnessing such a distinctive writer deviate a bit in sentence style is an unexpected pleasure of this new book. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z His railing against “left-wing opposition groups,” and his charges that the attacks on him were “revenge on behalf of the Clintons,” skillfully rallied the Republican base. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Blessedly short on theatrics, “The Keepers” skillfully walks viewers through the many details of the case while following Schaub and Hoffman’s progress. Review | If serials are the new way to solve mysteries, maybe ‘The Keepers’ can help close the case of Sister Cathy 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as in “3/D #1,” the multiple levels are actual, and not just skillfully simulated. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch This is the America of opportunity, with one wave of immigrants replacing another as they climb higher on the ladder of success, but Momplaisir skillfully reveals why this ladder is missing a few rungs. Inside a House in Queens, a Dark Side of the Immigrant Story 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Her songs were terse, scrappy and so skillfully phrased that they sounded like conversation, despite the neatness of their rhymes. Loretta Lynn Didn’t Pretty Things Up 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z And daydreams, she writes, return her to her “unalloyed self again” — an idiosyncratic self she pours so skillfully into this brightly original book. The innovative, beguiling reflections of Claire-Louise Bennett's 'Pond' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In the lost Jerusalem that Hoffman so skillfully and sorrowfully rebuilds, the permeability of boundaries — be they ethnic or aesthetic — was not a threat but a proud and defining characteristic of urban life. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “The Witch” is skillfully wrought and imaginatively conceived. ‘The Witch’ and Five Hedy Lamarr Films Come to Disc, Casting Spells 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z More than once while reading “House,” I thought of James Joyce’s “The Dead,” another kaleidoscopic fable of family life that skillfully mixes perspectives. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Smith “skillfully braids interviews with scholarship and personal observation, asking, ‘How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?’” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Among mainstream news organizations, The Post has done as well as or better than any other in reporting the Trump story directly, skillfully and well. Perspective | Four years ago, I wondered if the media could handle Trump. Now we know. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The video skillfully breaks down sequences and focuses on expressions or gestures that might be missed in a live performance. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Szifron sets the scene skillfully, starting with a dark and stormy night that inaugurates an equally foreboding initial exchange between waitress and customer. Review: ‘Wild Tales’ Explores the Blurred Limits of Morality 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Becca and Howie are complex bundles of feeling, and Ms. Kidman and Mr. Eckhart bravely and skillfully communicate some of that feeling to the audience,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in December. Video: Hard Work of Comedy and Straight-Shooting 2011-04-16T02:23:01Z Not the least pleasure in Denver was that Tchaikovsky’s marvelous score — skillfully paced by the conductor Adam Flatt and sounding good in the modernized, handsome Ellie Caulkins Opera House — was played uncut and without interpolations. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z "Us" also benefits from how skillfully it is crafted. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z When Arya stumbles through the castle halls and chambers, trying to regroup after a bash to the head, the show shifts into horror mode, wielding silence as skillfully as the din of the battle outside. "Game of Thrones" recap: "The Long Night" arrives at Winterfell, at last 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z On its face and unexamined, that statement could be a perilous, risible gambit, but Mr. Jarecki navigates skillfully through the complexities of his relationship with Ms. Jeter, partly by immediately addressing his own privilege. Movie Review: ‘The House I Live In,’ Directed by Eugene Jarecki 2012-10-04T23:11:01Z Instead, it made clear how skillfully she asked questions. Barbara Walters’s Farewell and Legacy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “What if my first line had been good?” he wonders, before skillfully skewering his use of physical jokes for an audio-only work, then his transitions and the absence of a theme. 5 New Comedy Specials to Remind You of the Old Normal 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z It is an author’s note, a statement of purpose—subtly and skillfully absorbed into the art of storytelling. Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions in "The Sun Also Rises" 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Here, clichés like the oppressive house, controlling employer and vulnerable heroine prove far more complex than they appear, having been skillfully reimagined for this anguished, haunted story. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The creative team is packed with veteran talent, resulting in an exceptionally slick and skillfully assembled musical. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Even so, by skillfully replicating the juxtapositions posed by Martin’s back-and-forth POV, the show has managed also to replicate his ultimate, rather un-Tolkienish subtext: There is nothing unique about the savage horde’s savagery. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Mr. Henze also skillfully integrates set pieces into the framework with no loss of dramatic tension. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z Most of all, Arnett skillfully and humanely captures the agony and confusion of surviving a loved one’s suicide. ‘Mostly Dead Things’ captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Like other sculptors who skillfully repurpose construction materials, Steinkoenig combines brute power and graceful forms. In the Galleries: Music and art collide with a pop Florestan’s aria, too, disappoints after a skillfully broody orchestral introduction darkened by the veiled sound of horns. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Ideally all this music deserves a more sumptuous orchestral sound than the Liège Philharmonic can conjure up, but François-Xavier Roth balances refinement with drama very skillfully. Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit; Les Eolides; Les Djinns; Symphonic Variations ? review 2011-07-14T21:45:01Z Each nugget disperses on contact with your tongue, like the most skillfully formed nigiri. Tel Aviv Restaurant With Local Ingredients, Global Influences 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The paradoxes that existed for both the slavers and the enslaved are skillfully examined. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Debut Novel Mingles History and Fantasy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And Ms. Kirkman does not disappoint, telling a story about seeing a younger man days after her separation that she skillfully ties back into her skewering of parenting smugness. Jen Kirkman Finds Material in the Single Life in ‘I’m Gonna Die Alone’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Schreber documented the first and second breakdowns in his book, “Memoirs of My Nervous Illness,” but he never recovered from the final one — the premise of Pheby’s skillfully rich novel. A Novel That Delves Into the Mind of a Famous Schizophrenic 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z What follows is a thorough, skillfully assembled chronology of the life and times of this all-around man of letters and public gadfly whose historical novels are widely regarded as his finest achievements. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The personal stories are woven together skillfully, often intermingling in the same tiny stage space. Scandal in the Second City: Two Remarkable Shows From Chicago 2012-06-27T12:00:43Z The ensemble, skillfully conducted by Bob Belden, addressed the challenges of the music with clear focus. Wallace Roney Plays Wayne Shorter at Parker Jazz Festival 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z But, while still a world from the mature works, it is a skillfully, entertainingly told story with depth and resonance. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z But as I watch them execute their own trigonometric calculations to skillfully, passionately combat their foes, that word lights up on my screen, too. Cultural Studies: Sleep Can Wait. The Birds Are Angry. 2011-04-28T21:23:56Z Though the animation can veer into the sentimental, it’s more often skillfully done and absorbing. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z This impressive collection, which the designer labeled “heroic and gallant,” caught skillfully the incoming menswear mood: part military, but without the rigidity that implies. Special Report: Fashion: Mad Men! Romancing the Suit 2011-01-21T18:31:16Z Under the direction of Jonathan Butterell, Ms. Blazer, a terrific singer with a gift for quirky comedy, skillfully inhabits this vivid and engaging character, drawn with only the brightest crayons from the box. 'Inner Voices': Judith Blazer Seeks Divine Clarity at 59E59 Theaters 2010-04-07T21:51:00Z However, her skillfully wrought score would have benefited from a more polished and tighter-knit performance; untidy playing sometimes blemished this rendition. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in Its U.S. Premiere 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z In the 12 wide-ranging stories of her latest collection, “Days of Awe,” A. M. Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies. Flawed, Fragile, Hungry Human Bodies: A.M. Homes’s Stories Get Under the Skin 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z I imagined that the film might skillfully edge toward the precipice of sentimentality without tumbling over, and that I would likely shed a tear or two as the end credits rolled. I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A few of us are serious food lovers who enjoy the nuances of skillfully crafted seasonal cuisine, while another few are less informed about food beyond chain restaurants. Hey, Mr. Critic: Pleasing Foodies and Regular Joes 2011-05-06T06:20:08Z Her sense of self, carefully constructed of external validation, begins to crumble when a young woman pops up who plays the game more skillfully than she does. An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s a role player of a performance that executes the game plan skillfully, occasionally with panache. N.B.A. Pros on the Big Screen: Can These Stars Act? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Ran skillfully deploys these extremes of color, volume and pitch, yet the overall somewhat chilly impression is one of poise. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z This conversation takes place at a casual garden party, one of the most skillfully edited scenes in the movie. 'Greenberg' Review: Depressed Ben Stiller Gets the Girl 2010-03-19T00:20:00Z And yet, it is also satisfying to witness Benz skillfully connecting a troubled history to its corresponding present. The Legacy of Slavery in Two Novels of the American South 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z “Leaf skillfully engages with larger social issues while steering clear of the kind of sermonizing that too often seeps into similarly themed dramas,” she added. Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Eventually, Miguel realizes that Héctor is his real ancestor, and the movie sprints to a conclusion that’s as skillfully engineered to produce waterworks as the montage at the beginning of “Up.” “Coco,” a Story About Borders and Love, Is a Definitive Movie for This Moment 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z From the few facts available about the man, Brooks skillfully imagines his life and how it intertwines with that of narrator Bethia Mayfield, the daughter of a preacher, and her family. Brooks' new novel set on Martha's Vineyard 2011-05-05T16:13:10Z The Chinese composer Tan Dun first attracted attention with skillfully wrought concert works in which ancient Chinese folkloric instruments and techniques mingled in potent collusion with a Western avant-garde vocabulary. Music Review: Evoking Forbidden Love and Flying Ancient Armies 2011-08-14T21:21:17Z Interweaving her own experience as a student of Bishop’s in the 1970s, Marshall skillfully discerns echoes between Bishop’s public and private writing. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The 2013 show, touring through the end of this month at the Kennedy Center as its respectable Broadway tenure ends this Sunday, is skillfully written and lightly performed. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Battle moves skillfully between these images, keeping alive our interest in the men even as the music pounds on with relentless intensity. Dance Review: Night of Tributes and Performance, Too 2010-12-02T21:44:00Z She does this far too thoughtfully and skillfully for it to seem trendy or polemical. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The camp promises a vision of wholesome sisterhood that seems unaware of the complexities of young girls’ lives, a vision Kim Fu skillfully complicates in her new novel, “The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore.” After a Camping Trip, Five Girls’ Lives Are No Longer the Same 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In “Men,” he skillfully manipulates moods and subverts expectations without achieving the unsettling, hallucinatory clarity of his best films. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z He skillfully weaves scientific findings with stories of people, events, and the natural world, using clever analogies and metaphors. How Elastic Is Your Brain? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The unexpected appearance of his supposed father begins the unraveling of what he thought was his sunny suburban reality; the movie skillfully explores celebrity culture and the surveillance state. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Nashville’ and ‘The Four’ 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Crain skillfully evokes a recent past when the unprecedented access fostered by the internet still felt like a promise of liberation. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In “Dog Company,” Patrick O’Donnell skillfully tells the tale of the 68 soldiers who made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion, assigned the grim task of destroying the gun emplacements. ‘Dog Company’ details vital, valiant D-Day battle 2013-01-02T22:43:52Z Like a lot of Tarzan stories, this one teems with striking flora and fauna, much of it skillfully computer generated, some of it captured on location in green, green Gabon. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Suddenly, she started to play a game of standard seduction, skillfully striking a series of conventionally flirty poses, as if to say “Come hither” and “Don’t you want me?” Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z And it’s impressive: the teenage artist not only skillfully edits Schongauer’s midair tangle of demons-and-saint, but sets it against an invented seascape. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In this warm wood-paneled room, traditional and modern items are skillfully mixed to create a funky look. Guest Bedroom Decorating Ideas 2011-01-05T21:50:04.657Z Hosoda skillfully alternates between Suzu’s naturalistic home life and the fantastical, beautifully designed U. But where “Belle” truly shines is in the way it shows how kids deal with death and violence. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Their skillfully told stories are meant both to inspire empathy and change policy. What is it like to live on '$2.00 a Day'? New book examines deep poverty in the U.S. 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z As ever Mr. Crialese works skillfully with an integrated professional and nonprofessional cast. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z The book skillfully deals with generational conflict and what it means to be a young black man in America. New in Paperback: ‘The Overstory,’ ‘Country Dark’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Miles skillfully guides the reader across this complex terrain. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Crossman and Hammer skillfully show how the violence central to Carter’s meandering life led to a boxing career—and how quickly boxing took him from pariah to hero and back again. “The Hurricane Tapes”: Will a British Podcast Solve the Hurricane Carter Case? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Based on what you just said, let’s do a case study with the Second Piano Concerto, because it is both incredibly popular and skillfully composed. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Pop flies were trickier; I caught the higher ones sometimes with the help of my face, but I was better at grounders, which I scooped skillfully with the aid of my shins. Motherlode Blog: When a Game of Catch Is All a Father Has Left 2013-06-16T12:28:06Z Some works were abstract, some skillfully done tributes to favorite cartoon characters, bands or movies. In Melbourne, a Thriving (and Mostly Free) Art Scene 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Or maybe J. Crew just skillfully rode the wave. The J. Crew bridal dress is dead. But the casual wedding it inspired lives on. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z This installment proves satisfying as it skillfully maps its heroine’s journey of self-discovery to the mysteries of space exploration. 'Shiv' connects the everyday and the metaphysical at Boston Court 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Her chief asset, she says, is her immunity to the hairy-chested Hemingway legend; instead, she focuses on “what formed this remarkably complex man and brilliant writer,” skillfully covering an enormous range of rich material. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “American Crime” is a depressing story told so skillfully that it’s almost impossible not to be happy to see it unfold. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z I noticed on the brow of a nearby hill a large shade tree with its main trunk skillfully removed about one third of the way up. Considering trimming or getting rid of an old tree? Not so fast. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Mounk skillfully puts Germans and Jews on his analyst’s couch. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z "Belgravia" doesn't transport us into a dream as easily and skillfully its predecessor did. "Belgravia": Where "Downton Abbey" meets Dickens, except with a more dashing, less hungry orphan 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Eventually, I realized that precious few of the people I wanted to interview about the techniques that my ancestors had used skillfully in big-house kitchens and had applied creatively to slaveholders’ rations were still living. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The novel bounces between three different timelines, and Wharton skillfully navigates between each. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The sequence is powerful and skillfully filmed, but the dread and horror it injects into the story seem superfluously melodramatic. 2010-01-15T04:05:00Z The latter highlights another Hynes skill — identifying and skillfully utilizing the talents of others to execute his vision. Blood Orange blends guitar, poetry and the cello to explore his black identity 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z As someone who plays guitar more enthusiastically than skillfully for soul-restorative purposes, who regards his record collection as an encyclopedia of moods and who has songs constantly running through his head, I relate. A Movie Date With My Younger Self 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Set in the late 19th century and skillfully translated by David Brookshaw, this is the first novel of a trilogy about the last days of the “so-called State of Gaza.” A Fable of Mozambique, Its Bloodshed and Myths 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z And she managed her bel canto athletics skillfully. D.C. theater’s ‘La Sonnambula’ finds its footing after an unsteady awakening 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It was funny, bright and skillfully hosted by "Glee" star Jane Lynch. Emmycast with Jane Lynch presiding was a winner 2011-09-19T10:54:16Z From a vast amount of raw material, he has “carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z If not, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences needs to find the 21st century equivalent of Crystal, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope — hosts who skillfully presided over the Oscars for years. Listen up, Oscar-show planners: ideas to make it better 2014-02-20T19:27:48Z In the meantime, the site was occupied by the homeless and drug users, as well as a cadre of enterprising surfers who skillfully rode the waves as they broke through the derelict pilings. The rise and spectacular fall of Venice Beach's Pacific Ocean Park 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Today, as a trailblazing drag queen performer and recording artist, Aviance still begins his sets offstage, skillfully timing his entrance as the crowd’s anticipation builds. The renaissance of drag queen legend Kevin Aviance 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z She wrote in the introduction: “It is the well-thought-out and skillfully crafted details in a garden that distinguish a mundane design from one that sparks the imagination and pleases the senses.” A new compendium of garden elements It is a detailed account, lovingly rendered in Kukuk’s occasionally awkward but enthusiastic artwork, and skillfully told in Rappaport’s clear and accessible prose. Picture Book Biographies of Women Who Made History 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z P. O’Connell Pearson skillfully presents the contrasting experiences of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a handful of the unemployed men who joined the CCC. Review | Four new books to help your kids laugh and learn 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It's a double-edged sword for a character, but the actor wields it skillfully. Chris Rock a rough, raw, rare diamond in 'Top Five' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Their exchanges didn’t reveal anything new about Ms. Winfrey, who skillfully played her host, pretending to be caught off guard by mostly banal questions. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: A Timid Beginning 2011-01-18T12:08:34Z They’re generous and skillfully cooked, but they’re often upstaged by the appetizers and pastas and occasionally by the vegetables they share their plates with. Alfred Portale Writes a Second Act, in Italian 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z You’ll hear about it soon enough; for now I would only point out that “Forever” skillfully opens up a philosophical can of worms: What if our most mundane days really are our best days? Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Instead Hader and Berg have skillfully managed to delay Barry's inexorable plunge into depravity by dangling the false hope of normalcy in front of his face. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z This slightly meta moment is the first of many in a film that skillfully navigates vulnerability, brainy insights and artistry. ‘Stutz’ Review: An Actor’s Tribute to a Therapist 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The surviving Beatles have skillfully released new projects, like remixes of their old albums that include studio outtakes and Jackson’s “Get Back” film, usually timed to appeal to nostalgic fans around the holiday season. A new Beatles song is coming out. Here's how that is possible 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The only problem with the action is it’s so skillfully done that you’re frustrated that there isn’t more of it. Review: 'When Evil Lurks' calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Maryk, in Lacy’s fine performance, seems by turns honest, shifty, competent and foolish; Clarke, playing a government interrogator for the second time this year after “Oppenheimer,” keeps Greenwald’s deeper motives skillfully under wraps. Review: 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' is a gripping swan song for director William Friedkin 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z At the New York Times, where she first gained widespread attention, Lorenz skillfully penetrated burgeoning online communities and explained their strange rites to people who wouldn’t know Tardar Sauce from Garfield. L.A. tech reporter Taylor Lorenz falls down the influencer rabbit hole 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “Joe skillfully led our work to responsibly transition to a clean energy economy while always putting the needs of consumers first,” the governor said in a news release. Joseph Fiordaliso, who championed clean energy as head of New Jersey utilities board, dies at 78 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Raban skillfully uses the work of different historians to put his father’s ordeals in context, coming to a better understanding of what he endured and how it shaped him. 30 books we can't wait to read this fall 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team, praised Willis for "skillfully" using Meadows' own statement against him. “Criminal motivations”: Experts say Fani Willis just “skillfully” used Meadows’ words against him 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z For years, Russia’s central bank has skillfully shielded the country’s economy when crisis has loomed, drastically raising interest rates, restricting money movements or taking over ailing banks. Drastic Economic Moves Highlight Russia’s Wartime Bind 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z In the days since then, intense speculation has surrounded General Surovikin, who skillfully pulled out Russian forces from Kherson amid Ukraine’s counteroffensive last year and has often been dubbed “General Armageddon” for his ruthless tactics. A Missing Russian General is ‘Taking a Rest’ a Top Lawmakers Says 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “When the Blue Jays aren’t involved, I’m a Mariners fan,” explained Taylor, skillfully straddling both sides of the recent rivalry. The baseball world converges in Seattle for the MLB All-Star Game 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Additionally, they found that some of the stone tools in the cave were Mousterian, a Middle Paleolithic culture that is known for its skillfully crafted flake tools. Oldest ever Neanderthal art illuminated in new study 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z "The lawyers for Trump & co. l have been largely ham handed and ineffective. Meadows's lawyer, by contrast, former DAG George Terwilliger, has kept him totally out of the limelight and steered him skillfully," Litman tweeted. Legal experts: Mark Meadows may have outplayed Trump — and Jan. 6 indictment may be “imminent” 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He said Russia was reacting "hysterically" to any action undertaken by Ukrainian forces and singled out two units who "skillfully, decisively and effectively defend our positions, destroy the occupiers and, most importantly, move forward". Ukraine's Zelenskiy welcomes 'the news we have been waiting for' 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z However, I have learned to skillfully use the complement of sensory and motor functions that I have, and over the years I’ve continually adjusted to an ever-changing new normal. Here’s What Causes Motion Sickness 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z “So I think it was used very skillfully and assiduously,” he said. Harrison Ford praised de-aging in 'Indiana Jones.' He's in no rush to relive his youth 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z This skillfully made third-century sculpture, about three feet high, depicts the Buddha in human form. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But I was impressed overall at how skillfully it dodged its landmines. Review: Musical 'Six,' about Henry VIII's wives, is unapologetically revisionist. That's why it's successful 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But it’s a welcome development, too, because this tonally unique series, which has skillfully walked a fine line for years, was running out of a particular kind of runway. In ‘Barry’s’ final season, a twisted show reveals the biggest twist yet 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Sternbergh skillfully reveals information so that at various points in the novel the reader must reconsider whom they’re rooting for and why. What would you do to save a marriage? Take Adam Sternbergh's 'Eden Test' 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It is — skillfully, entertainingly and at times almost overbearingly so. Review | ‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’: A masterfully manipulative war thriller 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z It skillfully portrays the forms of entertainment, manner of dress, daily routines, and moral code of the Heian nobility at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s power. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The documentary skillfully juggles Telkes’s science and sex, but the portrait it paints is ultimately one that cannot be constrained by gender. TV show illuminates forgotten story of female solar energy pioneer 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z In addition, the author skillfully deconstructs the second Mrs. Wilson’s 1939 memoir, the first book of its kind penned by a former first lady. Review | Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The former president has skillfully persuaded many supporters to metabolize critiques from opponents, investigations by law enforcement and impeachments by Congress as deeply personal attacks on them. ‘The Circus Continues’: For Trump, Legal Woes Resurrect Old Habits 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “Trump very skillfully tapped into something that was there, a real softening in that support,” Kriner said. A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine erupts as Reagan’s example fades 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z It also had creator Neil Cross skillfully combining the grimness and violence of modern European mystery stories with the old-fashioned flash and action of a loose-cannon cop movie. Review: Deft performances elevate snappy thriller 'Unseen'; Idris Elba is back as 'Luther' 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Inspired by a true event in Strasbourg’s history, Hargrave skillfully transports readers to the early 16th century, when a mania afflicted hundreds of women who danced nonstop for days. 10 noteworthy books for March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z He skillfully used social media, an ecosystem of troll farms and online propaganda outlets to paint a picture of himself as a straight-talking patriot who was prepared to achieve Russia’s military objectives at any cost. Prigozhin’s Feud With Russia’s Military Leaves Questions About Battlefield Results 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Makkai skillfully weaves the past through the present with remembered scenes and conversations. Down the true-crime rabbit hole with novelist Rebecca Makkai 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Donald Trump, Mo explains, skillfully uses white male rage as a tool to radicalize his followers into attacking and undermining pluralistic democracy. Republican identity politics: Authoritarianism — not individualism — is central to GOP 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Show host Trevor Noah skillfully played the role of a fan, instead of serving snark from the stage, moving through the audience “like a floating Chinese balloon,” he said. Grammys Moments: A rap tribute for the ages, Beyoncé triumph 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z A former inmate himself, Mr. Prigozhin, understood prison culture, skillfully combining a threat of punishment with a promise of a new, dignified life, according to rights activists and families. ‘Very Dangerous People’: Russia’s Convict Fighters Are Heading Home 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z The Clippers drained three after three while physically and skillfully dominating the Lakers. LeBron James scores 46 points as Clippers rout Lakers 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Director Kimille Howard skillfully wrangles focus and lends a mythic quality to Dawson’s spartan studio, but there are frequent dead zones and a few too many loops and lapses in the script. Review | An impresaria rediscovered in ‘The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson’ 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z With a few quick strokes, the two athletes skillfully lobbed their swords back and forth, carefully twisting and stretching while dodging the other’s attacks. Athletes in wheelchairs parry and lunge in fencing competition in Va. 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s a lot going on in Turnover’s current music, but the band mortars the pieces together skillfully. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z He fought poverty and racism and skillfully navigated New York’s power structure as pastor of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z That production was performed by the show’s creators, the Q Brothers Collective, an uber-talented Chicago group that occupies that rare tier of theatrical performers who can skillfully act, sing and rap. Can ArtsWest and Seattle Rep offer improvements on ‘A Christmas Carol’? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z It's a pathway that Trump very skillfully exploited, and it's a page he took from Adolf Hitler's playbook. "Poison Ivy" author Evan Mandery: "Elite colleges are harmful to society" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “The Republican Party needs leaders who will confidently and skillfully present a persuasive coherent vision of who we are, what we stand for, and what we will do,” the letter stated. Republican infighting roils Congress as midterms fallout continues 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Maybe, in a few years, this franchise can make a truly fresh start; this movie efficiently and skillfully lays the groundwork for that. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ review: Sequel pays tribute to T’Challa while forging its own path 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z As her world caves in and her pain takes hold, her creator’s parallel plotlines skillfully intersect. Review | In ‘Trespasses,’ an affair can be fatal during Ireland’s Troubles 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z It skillfully employs the tools of science, technology and psychology to increase the lethal force of combat units. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Now the will to spread false narratives skillfully online has spread to governments, and the technology to doctor photos and videos enables purveyors to make disinformation more believable. Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The structure of the book affords Shapiro plenty of room to build out her characters’ destinies and inner lives, which she does skillfully and with precise attention to detail. Review | Dani Shapiro’s new novel explores a subject she knows well: Family secrets 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “We learn to respond more skillfully to difficult experiences, and that can lead to a greater sense of peace and calm,” Baer says. How to make friends with your inner critic 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z His first touchdown — a 75-yard bomb that he skillfully corralled over his shoulder — gave Washington its first lead since Week 1 against the Jaguars. Dyami Brown’s two-touchdown day a bright spot for Commanders in loss to Titans 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Analysts say Ms. Meloni skillfully played up her own working-class roots and her party’s stance outside the traditional political establishment. Far-right Meloni on path to power in landmark Italian vote 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “The Man Who Died Twice” picked up where its predecessor left off and proved to be another skillfully constructed and brilliantly entertaining tale packed with intrigue, humor and adventure. Review | The Thursday Murder Club is back in action and as entertaining as ever 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In Kindred, Butler skillfully retools the classic genre convention of time travel. Octavia E. Butler’s Legacy of Time Travel 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z “China is pretty skillfully for now balancing its interests to maintain relationship with Russia,” said Gabuev. For Putin and Xi, Ukraine war creates wrinkle in ‘no limits’ friendship 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Politicians do not campaign on substantial issues but on skillfully manufactured political personalities and emotionally charged culture wars. Can we stop pretending that America is a functioning democracy? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The Youngkin administration skillfully kept the Petersburg initiative under wraps until the last minute and, as The Post reported, caught Democrats flat-footed. Opinion | Youngkin’s overture in Petersburg is a masterstroke 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Many other members of Freud’s rescue team had a long acquaintance with the physician, and Nagorski skillfully weaves their reasons for helping him into the narrative. Review | How Freud escaped the Nazis, with the help of well-connected friends 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The game that his young paperboy read about in the newspaper came after a string of seven draws in which Fischer skillfully parried Spassky’s attempts to cut into his three-point lead. Hail the conquering American! Marking 50 years since Fischer’s epic win over Spassky 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z |
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