There is no job so slow that a better, more skillful performance of it would pass unnoticed and unappreciated; not in a free society.

Now 49, he drops into serious competition from time to time, but he could not buck Karpov's skillful performance.

The opera was performed in 40 cities over the next ten years, largely thanks to Velluti's skillful performance.

Clearly, the ear had to do a lot of imagining to realize that these were in large part very skillful performances.

Mr. Cheney did erase some doubts after his skillful performance in the vice presidential debate.

Overall, however, the production is undercut by other, less skillful performances and dubious plot contrivances.

"She turned in a really skillful performance; the problem was the direction," he said.

The skillful performance of motor acts that involve complex movement patterns.

His is a skillful and ambitious performance but, in this context, often a less than fully effective one.

On the whole, Mr. Gerstner gave a frank and skillful performance.