| You still get the glorious harmonies, of course, and the dextrous guitar playing still stands out, rather than being submerged underneath the raised volume. |
| Ibbotson is dextrous with pace and suspense, accessible, always amusing, and a treat to read aloud, and the book is both joyously light-hearted and profoundly good-hearted. |
| Apart from the huge variety of dice games, there were many games of dextrous skill such as knucklebones. |
| The frustration is just like when you get popcorn kernel stuck somewhere in your back teeth and your tongue is not dextrous enough and your fingers are too grimy. |
| Yet he makes up for these frail qualities with his heightened intelligence and dextrous ability to climb tall trees. |
| The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous. |
