The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. From LearnThat.org. [Claude Bastiat (1801-1850).]
Fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Here in Canada you profited long and skillfully from the fact that London had learned that lesson. From Wordnik.com. [Union Or Harmony] Reference
Rankin skillfully juggles all the plot lines, tying them together in a logical and satisfying conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection Men: Summary and book reviews of Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin.] Reference
Goldstein skillfully demonstrated his talent for locating humour in the gap between the familiar and the alien. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Rose once again skillfully blends past and present with a new set of absorbing characters in a fascinating historical locale for this gripping second in a series. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorist by M. J. Rose: Book summary] Reference
Folks with ancient roots in such torpid if beautiful places as Savannah and Mobile know that insanity practiced skillfully is a local art form to be treasured, not despised. From Wordnik.com. [Silliness about Latinos] Reference
McCain skillfully deploys that story by seeming not to exploit it. From Wordnik.com. ['White Tornado'] Reference
The people who surrounded Gorbachev skillfully played up these fears. From Wordnik.com. [The Kremlin Plot] Reference
The film demonstrates skillfully that there's no such thing as normal. From Wordnik.com. [Documentaries: The Weird Wide Web] Reference
When he talks he has skillfully exploited new ways to find audiences he seeks to reach. From Wordnik.com. ['In The Van Of History'] Reference
As the press conference unfolds, I am amazed how skillfully the teenagers conduct themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case of the Calamitous Cannabis] Reference
He said that successful presidents have all skillfully exploited the dominant medium of their times. From Wordnik.com. [A New Open-Source Politics] Reference
This is a very skillfully made corporate product, but I wonder who, exactly, will be fully satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Grow Up Already] Reference
This skillfully sidesteps the basic question: why shouldn't the Internet be taxed like everything else?. From Wordnik.com. [Why Not Tax The Internet?] Reference
Crawling along in the mud, Alexei Makhov has already skillfully eluded the snipers in the field behind him. From Wordnik.com. [JOIN THE RUSSIAN ARMY] Reference
But he recounts stories and skillfully paints scenes that could easily have appeared in popular spy novels. From Wordnik.com. [Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...] Reference
Your reporting team skillfully exposed the underbelly of a process that has lost touch with any human reality. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: A VICTORY FOR GEORGE W. BUSH] Reference
But the ideas are so skillfully embedded in frat beats and new-wave bounce, the casual listener might easily not notice. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchy From The U.K.] Reference
Running for president might be the best thing for him -- but the worst thing for the GOP majority he so skillfully built. From Wordnik.com. [With Powell Out, Will Newt Run In '96?] Reference
In 1998 he and his friends skillfully lobbied Congress to provide funding for his organization, the Iraqi National Congress. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall Of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong] Reference
A lot of the novel is like this, a freewheeling comic monologue, part satire, part whine, socially acute and skillfully vicious. From Wordnik.com. ["As Husbands Go," a new comic novel by Susan Isaacs] Reference
But the Clinton campaign skillfully deflected questions, and the story disappeared altogether from the news for more than a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitewater Media Arc] Reference
Behind the scenes, he skillfully helped to avert a potentially damaging succession battle when Thabo Mbeki was chosen as his heir. From Wordnik.com. [Madiba Magic] Reference
The film skillfully addresses the issues of ostracism and crime among French Muslims while managing to be thoroughly entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [Making New Waves] Reference
Historians may someday decide whether -- if world leaders had responded more skillfully -- a larger crisis might have been avoided. From Wordnik.com. [A World Meltdown?] Reference
But the government's case was sloppy, and Brenneke's lawyers played on the jury's doubts so skillfully that Brenneke was acquitted. From Wordnik.com. [Making Of A Myth] Reference
She so skillfully evokes Eva and her world that a female hulk with a prison record becomes real, sympathetic and ultimately lovable. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Book Bag] Reference
Now any article that a Time Warner magazine runs on Steve Case or AOL -- no matter how skillfully executed -- may appear under a question mark. From Wordnik.com. [Big Media Gets Even Bigger] Reference
Nearly all of them are telling us pretty familiar war-is-hell narratives, even if those narratives are skillfully rendered in a technical sense. From Wordnik.com. [All Pain, No Gain] Reference
"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but for the most part we, our country, our government has not adapted," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Clumsy Leadership] Reference
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