And she had an extraordinary deftness and lightness of touch, plus a great facility with language. |
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If you want a memoir where you're swept along by verbal deftness and narrative skill, look elsewhere. |
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They require tact and a deftness that neither government has shown much aptitude for or inclination toward. |
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With a deftness of touch reminiscent of Chaucer, Map achieves a high degree of realism through the pretense of reporting direct speech. |
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A post-graduate in music and law, he handled the only percussion instrument to be featured with deftness of a master. |
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With the deftness of one who has studied more than a hundred different works of art, her hands moved to feel the corded muscles of the athlete's neck. |
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Military strength is part of that power, but so is diplomatic deftness. |
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But there is much satisfaction in seeing a modern classic performed with such deftness and humour, and recognising the universality of its underlying themes. |
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Donnelly was about fifty years old, had lost his deftness with the balehook and revolver, and ruled by headwork. |
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For another, he has taken Norwegians aback with the deftness by which he has pulled his trio of disparate parties together. |
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That has seen off the risk of a general strike. For all their tactical political deftness, these agreements carry an economic cost for Spain. |
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This deftness increases its efficiency in avoiding many useless loops between its burrow and the fishing place. |
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Although simple in appearance, in all its dimensions the dish demonstrated deftness of touch. |
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The real achievement of Le Amiche might be the deftness with which Antonioni handles the stories of eight different characters. |
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Her writing on books and the arts has been impressive in its breadth, depth, and deftness. |
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The show gave the excavator loaders a chance to display their deftness as these dream machines went through their routine drills to the sound of music. |
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Supporters and foes commend Pearson's deftness at getting things done, her ability to buttress her passions with an armload of facts. |
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In a magnificent tribute to the equestrian tradition and their roots, these two institutions mounted an impressive display of precision harmonising with deftness involving 150 horses. |
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former French finance minister who took the IMF's helm in November 2007, has shown a boldness and political deftness his predecessors lacked. |
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He could play rapid wit and foolish garrulity with an equal deftness. |
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Moreover, Ms Merkel showed during her own EU presidency last year a deftness for compromise that is lacking in either Mr Sarkozy or Mr Brown. Trilateralism has been tried before. |
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As far as the creation process may seems to be easy, once the right deftness and experience is acquired, some tips and secrets are preserved during years and come down from age to age, determining the real brush quality. |
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Wolfgang appealed Franciscan monks by his deftness with the organ. |
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The representative of the duration of the ancient works, it is also at the same time the illustration of the deftness, the creativity of the artisans and the veritable symbol of the knowledge of life. |
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Briggs outlines his progress from copyboy to head of a nationally renowned news agency with a practised deftness aided by headlines and hair-raising tales aplenty. |
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