Word: deftly
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...only the HFA’s event organizers had been as deft as Kwon-taek’s film in balancing the inspirational and educational components of the screenings...
...Zhao] has traveled abroad relatively little and speaks no English. Yet he is at ease with foreigners and has a reputation as a deft, and occasionally witty, diplomat. After he became a member of the Politburo in 1979, he surprised many Chinese, long bored by tight restrictions on dress, by appearing in public in a Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. LIKE MOST OF CHINA'S PRESENT LEADERS, ZHAO WAS BRUTALIZED BY THE RED GUARDS. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce...
...Eagles blue-liners paled in comparison to the tests she recently faced against top international competition, as Vaillancourt used her blinding speed and deft passing to make mince-meat of the Boston College defense...
Eight minutes and two Harvard penalties later, freshman Jon Pelle intercepted an errant RPI clearing effort along the righthand boards, then—before the Engineers caught out of position in the transition could recover—fed Johnson, perched just beyond Martin’s crease. With a deft touch to his left, Johnson brought the puck onto his tape, then tapped home his second score of the evening and fifth of the season with 8:06 remaining in the frame...
...learning more about life from one another than from their course work was a global hit, thanks, in part, to De France's performance. It earned her a César (France's Academy Award) as best new actress. In the same year, she also showed she had a deft comic touch in the French romcoms Irène, the story of a lonely, uptight woman's search for love, and A + Pollux, as the elusive love interest of a man determined to find and claim her for good. "It wasn't planned that way, but being in three films...