Word: deftly
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...minimal, and is generally established in no more than one or two minutes. With a general context for their past lives and current conditions, the film delves right into the music, leaving the studio performances as the true embodiments of emotion and personality. Eliane Elias expresses understated elegance with deft and shimmering touches of twinkling piano, contrasting with Puente's cheeky, overt showmanship as he, impish and seemingly carefree, works magic on the timbale. Trueba masterfully mixes styles and personalities; he conjures up a spread of sensations from the jarring fiery rhythms of the flamencos to the infectious, but more...
...disguised by a spell that made her friends and family believe they'd known her for years. What first seemed like a clumsy way of adding someone to the cast turned out to be both a great spoof on how aging TV shows meddle with their casts and a deft exploration of identity, as Dawn - like many 14-year-olds before her - dealt with her discovery of her inner nature. Or take the starkly realistic handling of the death of Buffy and Dawn's mother, which happened suddenly and unfolded with a moving but unsentimental realism unknown to most...
...long poem, “Time’s Fool.” Like all the readings organised by the Woodberry Poetry Room, his performance was recorded, and will join the set of recordings, beginning with Tennyson, which are stored in the Lamont library. The sonorous Oxford intonations and deft formal turns of first lyrics he read seemed to place him very nicely in this grand tradition. The slightly diffident, and much more down-to-earth, manner with which he introduced his work—“yeah, well, so that was the pitch to Hollywood?...
...according to city licensing officials, the Grille, primarily by virtue of deft legal representation and restrictions on the Cambridge and Massachusetts agencies responsible for overseeing it, has managed to elude the clutches of the Cambridge License Commission and Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC), despite a plethora of underage students found drinking there in stings conducted over the past decade...
...secretary of state, just back from the Middle East after his first tour there as a civilian rather than a four-star general, was very much up on the first-night reviews of his performance. The liberal New York Times editorial was glowing: "a deft diplomatic debut," it said, noting that Powell "moved nimbly through his meetings" with Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, and that he "gained new credit from his unpretentious diplomatic style". The Times concluded that while much remains to be done in that troubled region, "he is off to an impressive start." By contrast, the conservative Washington...