0 clever and skilful, especially in getting what you want: --
1 intelligent and skillful, esp. in persuading, sometimes without being completely honest: --
His politics was an artful blend of high-minded patriotism and malicious gossip about his opponents.
Chemistry's disciplinary focus on artful practice, in other words, was carried by the very structure of its synoptic tables.
These often generate extended repair sequences which include code switching, laughing, and artful variations in pitch, volume and voice quality.
Change comes about, then, by the artful reconfiguration of existing resources.
The music makes them coincide exactly, creating an artful and meaningful simultaneity.
How do we explain this artful interplay of voices and sub-varieties in the radio advertisement, clearly representative of many others?
The process of versification was however also involved in these changes as well as the phrasing of the source and some seem artful in nature.
These may be useful shorthand, but they do not do justice to that ' artful dance ' which is hegemony in practice.
Sustaining legitimacy is the most difficult part of governing because it requires the most artful engagement with the public and elites.
