Word: deft
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...raindrops, this necessitates holding an umbrella over your head. Easier said than done. Take, for example, the Plympton Street sidewalks by Adams House, where sign posts are ingeniously situated close enough to the building preventing an open umbrella from passing, let alone two umbrellas traveling in opposite directions. Thus deft wrist movements and hurdles over a few parked cars come into play...
...Nelson, a deft passer with an uncanny knack for creating goal-scoring opportunities will also return at midfield, and Hal Martin is another versatile returning player...
...hands at following the vagaries of the party line, Mikhalkov and El-Registan had little trouble in composing a deft change in the banned stanza about Stalin. The new last lines...
...bicameral parliament. After abolishing the National Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...Naturally, they get tripped up a lot, but they get used to it and go bouncing off to school (as Ana does) without moral qualms or regrets. It is this ability to be both right and wrong about even such matters as death that Saura has caught in this deft and strangely touching film...