To be publishable, a book must also be skillfully and compellingly written, and it is the rare academic who worries much about writing style.

In his love songs, description of beauty, happiness of being together, and grief of separation is skillfully written.

"Stone Work" is Mr. Jerome's most intelligent and skillfully written book to date.

Susan Dworkin has written skillfully about the complex moment in time when Ms. Myerson won the title.

Does this reaction to a skillfully written, strongly delivered speech sound unduly suspicious?

Swift's characters aren't the well-rounded, "flesh and blood" characters you usually find in a skillfully written novel.

In our review last year, Christopher Hitchens called this "a compact and skillfully written book."

A skillfully written work in an uncomplicated Brahmsian style, it is more charming than edifying.

Although Hayes's book is thoughtful and skillfully written, it rarely breaks the boundaries of magazine journalism.

The symphony is indeed a wailing protest, but it is also strong and skillfully written music.