skillful

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Drew Sensue-Weinstein’s sound design, which included adroit use of reverb on voices and instruments, dovetailed with Gabriel Crouch’s skillful conducting, which brought out the score’s transparent, early music-style radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

“He emphasized materials in a very skillful way. His lighting creates spatial depth. You get a different idea of what the architecture consists of.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

But McKenzie, the son of Southland dairy farmers, has been resilient, selfless and, as ever, highly skillful.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

They had found their sweet spot: spiky power pop buffed into a commercial sheen by Roy Thomas Baker, the producer famous for his skillful work on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

He mopped his brow with the cloth that Ethyne had embroidered—his name surrounded by a series of skillful knots.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill