Wong Kar-wai

Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

Chinese Director

Harry S Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

American President

Yasmine Hamdan

When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening.

Lebanese Musician

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

English Novelist

Sun Tzu

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Chinese Philosopher

Joan Halifax

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

American Activist

Sergio Ramos

Harry Kane, for example, is a really physical striker but also really skilful. He surprises lot of defenders, but he won't surprise me.

Spanish Athlete

Orison Swett Marden

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

American Writer

Pele

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

Brazilian Athlete

Jamie Redknapp

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

English Athlete

Use 'skilful' to describe talent in complex tasks, where training and practice are evident.

Skill Context

'Skilful' implies admiration for someone's exceptional ability in a particular domain.

Positive Connotation

Best used with verbs that involve action, suggesting competence in performing tasks.

Action-Oriented

Highlights the excellence of the result, often in manual or artistic work.

Quality Work

Emphasizes precision and careful attention in creating something intricate or complex.

Attention to Detail

Implies cleverness or intelligence in the way something is done.

Clever Execution

 after years of hunting with the pride we discussed it earlier to three years and so they're regarded as adults they learned in that entire time how it's done and the lionesses are very very skillful and they're very very good at helping and they just know what to do you'll have individuals that will know

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 you might have experienced quite a lot of difficulties that is why he is so skillful while still very young so if they lose their mothers while they're still young leopard they they can be very much solitary and they've got to do everything just by themselves so with the help of the mother they can

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 They're always approximations. The question you have to ask is whether a model tells you more information than you would have had otherwise. If it does, it's skillful. This is the impact of the ozone hole on sea level pressure, so low pressure, high pressures,

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 after years of straddling these worlds between environment and climate and psychology, that this actually is a missing ingredient in our work that can exponentially accelerate our capacities to be creative and resilient and capable and skillful and courageous

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 and the first dance floor. He made sculptures so lifelike that Hercules mistook them for actual men. Though skilled and celebrated, Daedalus was egotistical and jealous. Worried that his nephew was a more skillful craftsman, Daedalus murdered him.

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 and this skillful spotted cat spoiled the chances of catching the prey due to his youthful impatience life in the bush is never easy the unsuccessful hunting activities of husana we took place during the week has just confirmed

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 What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune. The musician's skillful manipulation of every part of the process from lungs, to lips, to the mouthpiece,

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 Success is heavily dependent on skillful collaboration. Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic.

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 the mail doesn't seem quite so skillful oh dear luckily she can put things right

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 The male doesn't seem quite so skilful. Oh, dear.

Skilful

Very good at doing something that involves special ability or training.

Often appears as...

Done or made very well.

Often appears as...

Skill Context

Positive Connotation

Action-Oriented

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