Word: deftly
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...microscopic depiction of a wart. In his Four Books on Human Proportion, he analyzed anatomy with all the rigor of Euclidean geometry. Yet with the pricking of his pens and burins, he tried to capture all the sensual volumes that the Italian sculptors revealed in marble with the deft chipping of their chisels...
...courtroom controversy into a lawyers' scramble for headlines. And when that happens, the search for truth may be sadly neglected. This is the disturbing conclusion of The Trial of Jack Ruby (Macmillan; $7.95), by Professors John Kaplan and Jon R. Waltz of Stanford and North western universities, a deft and read able analysis that depicts a legal disaster-a world-watched trial in which the defendant drew the ultimate sentence of death while his lawyers were busy boosting their own egos...
Whenever the jokes, out and in, started wearing thin, a production number bounced onstage. The music was infectious, the staging deft, and the singing bearable. The Choreography Committee had a sense of humor. The tunes were surprisingly good, and even if some were stolen, they were stolen with taste, the same way Anthony Newly does it. Arrangements a la The Fantasticks and chord progressions from jazz standards...
...FOUNDERS, by P. H. Newby. This deft, witty novel about a meek man who must learn to hate recalls the searing, epigrammatic satires of Henry Green...
Bloody well develop it. And so he does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...