be skillful

Williams’s concert works tend to be skillful but less imaginative than his film scores.

The survivor told police that he "believed the suspect to be skillful in drawing."

His other advice is that people should "try to be skillful in responding to undesirable behavior from others. Just because you might reject 'appeasement' in a given situation doesn't mean you need to start yelling, curing, or screaming. The better you get at calmly and effectively asserting your opinion, the more results you might see."

“He will likely be skillful at managing the government or the party, but it is unclear how skillful he will be with diplomacy or security issues,” said Jeffrey Hornung, a political scientist at Rand Corp.

“Whether thou’lt walk soon I know not. This I know. We must teach thy hands to be skillful in many ways, and we must teach thy mind to go about whether thy legs will carry thee or no. For reading is another door in the wall, dost understand, my son?”