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Sentence Examples This is where she is at her best, with simple song structure and deft musical hooks reeling in the listener. Great footie players are deft at faking their way offsides without getting caught. Both arenas require the deft verisimilitude of the stage actor, the ability to squeeze a tear from the old dear in the back row. He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice. Quick and sharp, with very good individual skills and deft, innovative plays, he strikes fear in the opposing team's defenders. Mountain goats have low centers of gravity, strong calf muscles, and extremely deft feet. Tharoor's deft and incisive mind is displayed to advantage in the piece on Nirad Chaudhari. There's little ambiguity about the adroitness of the guitarists' noise making, and their deft improvising takes the album in sundry directions. Also contributing to the album's strength as a complete piece is the deft sequencing. Flickering light on moving leaves was rendered with deft touches of white, while a palette knife created rich textural effects. Her deft hands fashioned countless beautiful things, from colourful quilts to crocheted tablecloths. As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy. On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars. He really is a criminally under-appreciated author, with an amazingly deft command of English. He's a lithe, 7-foot centre, 250 pounds and agile, a deft passer on the low block. The exercise is designed to separate the dim from the deft, the brains from the buffoons, the clever from the clodhoppers. But then, the sensitivity of the subject is such that it requires deft handling. It is said that you can recognise the deft hands that fashioned a doll by looking for telltale signs and shapes on it. It proved a deft way to celebrate a desire to innovate while staying within the bounds of tradition. As a one more deft stroke of his phraseological felicity, Vajpayee has pulled off a statement that hones itself to everybody's satisfaction. Show More Sentences The author shows a deft hand at describing the fighting without relying on blocks of first-person accounts. There is something about the Hitchens family that breeds controversialists with deft pens. Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands. It is very cinematic, and the camera moves fluently under his deft direction. In other words, we know nothing about our deft and masterful artist except for his name. Here you can make up your own look, going effortlessly from casual to classic with a few deft additions and accessories. But Prato does a deft job in making the transitions between interview subjects appear seamless. Women carrying babies, dancing in groups, peeling fresh pineapples with a few deft movements. Following a goalless first half, the home side opened the scoring after 51 minutes with a deft finish from ten yards. The deft script introduces a number of new characters economically and to good effect. Finally, he employs his deft touch with light, sweet pop to capture the essence of this album. His deft movement to the right to push clear the fiercely driven shot was goal keeping of the highest standard. It was a deft bit of footwork but hardly respected the position of their rivals who are the main sponsors of the competition. In one quite amazingly deft movement he too contrives to wiggle into the minute room. Then, with a quick and deft movement, Viktor slapped Erik hard across the face. With one deft movement, he opened the book and flipped the pages until he found what he was looking for. He stepped swiftly across the floor of the study, unlatching the window and throwing it open in one deft movement. It was a triumph for de Gaulle's strong will and his deft political footwork. A quick swerve of his hips, a deft little hand pass and then a darting run to collect the return. As the Camaro started to pull in front of her, she used deft footwork and gear-shifting to gun past him! Show More Sentences We were even regaled by a lovely Thai dancer whose deft hand movements and graceful demeanour enthralled the group. He reaches out a hand and with one deft, delicate dart of the fingers rotates my book to face him. If it sounds unbearable, then my deft skill at description remains tip top. With a less deft script, this could have been a thuddingly dull motion picture, but Steers finds the right balance between irony and pathos. I was impressed by how deft the copy was, how effortlessly it compressed so many ideas. If you order these dishes, the host will buy you the desired amount and the deft hostess will cook up unexpected tastes. His skills as a piano tuner, an accomplished violinist and a deft assembler of harmoniums stood him in good stead. Lexi balled up a napkin and bounced it off his forehead with a deft flick of her wrist. Adding a touch of thrill to the programme was a magic show by students who amazed visitors with their deft skills. Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns. With one deft stroke, he placed himself in charge of redrafting a new set of laws. Otherwise, the dying hot air balloon and giant bird sequences benefit most from Herrmann's deft musical touch. The comic elements included in the play needed to be handled with a deft touch rather than a heavy hand too. The pianist augments many of these mid tempo pieces with lilting harmonics, a deft right hand, and well-placed chord clusters. With a fine and deft delicacy, nature and landscape are imbued with a soft surrealism, edging towards an alchemic, almost spiritual symbolism. He was served plenty of deliveries which were straight and full, and he duly flicked them away with deft wristwork. He possesses that deft and delicate touch that can transform interesting prose into mesmerising poetry. A handsome young man, the cheekbones and almost delicate slope of his nose are modeled with deft passages of brush. For all his good running and putting of runners into space with deft passes, one of his primary jobs is to kick points. Another deft bit of prose, this one by Shakespeare, also captures the optimistic spirit of the season. Show More Sentences I would have thought that that was a deft piece of understatement of what he was actually doing. Over-cheesiness is avoided through a deft handling of plot and characterisation, which keeps everything moving and alive. In its deft social commentary and layered, intelligent prose, the novel is assured and engaging. She covers this with deft skill and a versatile voice that can sweetly caress or swoop with camp theatrical grandeur. He was a strong left-handed batsman who scored all around the wicket, but had a preference to square cuts, hooks and deft leg glances. I got extremely paranoid that some deft pickpocket had my number and it was only a matter of time before my wallet was boosted. She has developed a penchant for painting her immediate surroundings and has proven to be a deft limner of the domestic interior. All that was left then was a deft lob over the advancing goalkeeper and the City goal machine had struck yet again. His deft touch and ability to extract humour and absurdity from the ordinary extends beyond directing movies. The works are known and celebrated for their witty banter and deft socio-political critiques. It is a deft balancing act, measuring blank vacancy with an equally manic intensity. His free arm moved to the pouches on her belt, his fingers deft and nimble as a squirrel as he purloined some component. His use of opaque versus open areas and his deft use of patterning versus flat color is especially noteworthy. It is largely because of his deft directorial abilities and light writing touch that the movie succeeds. The two of them wrote the show from scratch, ensured they got all the best lines and threw in deft ad-libs as required. With room to operate, Leonard mixes up romance, gunplay, and deft character sketches according to his well-used recipe, and the concoction is a lot of fun. In performing these youthful works, the Angeles String Quartet played with such deft skill, there was an abundance of dulcet adagios, energetic allegros, and gracious minuets. His deft hand with makeup and eyebrow grooming has made him somewhat of a Hollywood legend. What at first seems simply a deft homage comes to assume a dismal complexity. The Red Squadby E.M. Broner An octogenarian feminist channels her youth in this deft mystery. Show More Sentences Mike Forshaw sealed the game with two late tries, the first following up a deft Lowes grubber and the second a neat angled run after collecting a pass from Shontayne Hape. And his whiplash-inducing plots, with their constant twists, fused populist entertainment and deft societal commentary. Konah watched as his mother's deft hand wove in and out in an ornate pattern, transforming even the beautiful soft rose-coloured silk into something far more lovely. No one since Garbo has been so deft at ducking fans, especially most of the writers and critics prophesizing with their pens. She manages to get off some funny lines and deft observations of the lookist culture, but you have the feeling they came from her co-workers at the magazine. Instead the wearer will buy them flatpacked from a vending machine and assemble them instantly with a deft bit of folding, tucking and the odd tug on a cord. With deft fingers, she carefully sculpted the whitish-gray mass into a semblance of a man, a fat, chunky man with sagging limbs, but a man nonetheless. Rosy's C-Melody sax beautifully sets the scene, but when Schneider takes over it becomes a deft execution of robust slide trombone at its tailgate best. Johnson plays the innate clumsiness and discomfort that we'd expect to accompany a recent bodily acquisition like this with apparent ease and deft comedic mannerism. True suspense and deft plotting are subverted in the name of needlessly convoluted conspiracies. With such deft touches, he simultaneously invokes Australian ideas of mateship, individuality, colonial innocence and a mood of melancholy sacrifice. In one deft sequence, Carrington sits outside Ham Spray House, draped in a blanket, watching the loves of her life pair off into new relationships. He caught it with a deft flick of the hand and then examined the ring. With a deft flick of his fingers he tossed the bhaji onto the plate and as it bounced up high into the air, he struck it with perfect timing across the room with his knife. If you can sit back, enjoy the scenery, the touching humour, the deft performances and the clever send-ups of American monoculture, this is one brilliant, meandering ride. Despite having the better of the play throughout the game, East Fife could not find the kind of deft of touch they desperately needed to put the ball in the back of the net. A deft chess player, Schwarzenegger had maneuvered her between the proverbial rock and a hard place. These preferences often serve to clarify, but a less deft handling leads to tercets like the following, their force buried under prepositions, pronouns and modals. A deft combination of old and new materials as well as natural and artificial lighting juxtaposes chic modernity with a setting that embodies the spirit of the collection. Ever graceful, serene and undemonstrative and always truthful to Mozart her deft passage work, sensitive phrasing and attention to detail showed her to be a true artist. Show More Sentences The recognition then, I thought, was that the end work of art may be made of meant causes and unmeant causes interwoven in a deft and subtle fabric. Henman attacks Sanchez's serve from the outset and gets the first break of the match with a chip and charge, a deft volley and an impressive smash. He divides his skills between the Highland pipes, the smallpipes and various whistles, with deft accompaniment on guitar, bouzouki, harp, fiddle, piano and cello. Hooper steers a deft course through the theories and arguments, covering difficult, controversial territory clearly and never losing the non-specialist reader. The Briton takes the second with a deft drop shot to nose ahead again. Those deft at collage, pencil-sketching and cartooning had a great time. He may well try, like some deft and charming poker player, to rope us back into another round and to assure us that he will protect us from the cheater. It was a wonderfully woozy night, and she DJed with a deft touch, moving in and out of the vinyl grooves, merging sundry vibes and keeping the headspace at a nice high. The combination of expressive painterliness and deft realism characteristic of Sargent's painting was admired internationally and imitated by many lesser artists. His deft critique of the British media scene is supplemented by useful points of comparison with the situation in America, France, Italy and Sweden. Eyeing a green-banded swallowtail fluttering above him, Samson takes a running leap and with a deft swoop of his net catches the iridescent butterfly. She can switch roles as quick as a chameleon but this one was something that needed a little more than a deft flick of the wrist and a witty turn of phrase. With a deft flick of the reins, the policeman wheeled his mount and together they stood their ground, motionless, man and horse looking down at that ill mannered citified pup. It is a deft sketch of significant features, images, and idiosyncrasies of time and place, but, like the characters that people it, is never a fully-fledged portrait. Uday is a screaming crazy who lacks his father's deft administrative touch, incisive analytical skills, brimming compassion, and sense of restraint. Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous. With a huge white canvas on the easel before them, artists were called, one by one randomly, given a minute to convey his idea by a deft stroke in his chosen colour. Affairs of the heart are not encouraged, although sexual dalliances can be handled with deft precision by those intimately, although not actually, involved. When Ford again tried to reach for Grace, she spun away from him, decking him with her elbow and then knocking his feet out from under him with a deft kick. With one deft blow, William broke every bone in the man's body. Show More Sentences The man caught it with a deft flick of his hand and pocketed it silently. She also demonstrated a deft skill in reporting on daily activity. These were posed on the air last week in a deft piece of cross-promotion. In her hands, the premise became a deft and intriguing piece of work. Dundee's skills were evident as languid Sara turned the Aberdeen defence, Caballero played devilish deft passes and the diminutive white booted Novo proved a nagging menace. The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches. His famous sketch of the Vitruvian Man, representing the proportions of the human body, linked art and science in a few deft strokes. The mikvah and other rituals may be easy targets, but Heller uses a deft scalpel to dissect them. They were not only expected to be able to perform formal surgery, but also to be deft at cutting hair and trimming beards. In the Baba Yara stadium game, the Ghanaians used a deft trick, the deep-lying forward. Because of this task, surgeons were deft at removing arrowheads from their patients' bodies. Ransome concludes that Wilde succeeds precisely because the literary criticism is unveiled with such a deft touch. In his deft and wise book, Haass tackles such questions front and center. This deft, delicately wrought story is Murakami at his best. Olaf was early a well-thewed man, goodly to look at, of middle height, and wise and deft of speech he was at an early age. Thankfully, he's a deft touch at lobbing his tot around like she was a leather skin bundle of joy as he messed around during a half-time break at a game in Northampton. A good debut by professor Paul McEuen who showcases some deft writing skills along with a cool plot to give us a smooth technothriller for jaded fans of this sub-genre. These colonies expressed concern about the consolidation of Carthaginian power on the peninsula, which Hasdrubal's deft military leadership and diplomatic skill procured. Malcolm Chisholm's reward for his deft touch with the nation's hospitals should be a keelhauling, but is actually a cushy berth below decks as communities minister. Examples from Classical Literature To see no puny thewless race, but men in sinewy strain, and deft achievement grand. And all this efflorescence of sacred splendour was created, little by little, by her deft fingers. Are not my arms as strong, my hands as deft, my wits as keen, and my soul as true? Griswold lifted the sick man, and his companion, deft and steady-handed, administered the stimulant. One and all, the children of Banonga were deft with their fingers, and none so deft as samba. With deft fingers she centered the green tie of her shirt-waist and stuck a fresh handkerchief in her left coat pocket. Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head. A deft cut on the shoulder paralysed the Tartar's sword arm, and a breaststroke brought him to his knees. He is a deft swindler, and I have gazed with blank innocence while he rooked some courageous simpleton at tossing. Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the deft sun-assaulter, he That frighted thee so oft, is fled or dead. She eyed it critically, her deft fingers manipulating the neckband. I am afraid that, deft as he was, he would have lost in a fair race. It looked odd to see Constance with a needle, but she was deft with it. A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed. This cast, under the surefooted guidance of director Jonathan Church, tells the tale with a deft certainty. With deft fingers she unshipped this, took it with her, reeling out the wire as she went, thus keeping, in a way, in touch with the kite. Architect chucks indie pop, electronica and orchestral swooshes into the pot to produce alluringly smooth soundscapes to accompany his deft melodic touch. He liked to see her deft movements, and she watched him too now and then with that maternal spirit of hers which was so amusing and yet so charming. It reminded him, together with the deft way in which she hurried, without haste, without flurry, of their first evening in the shack, nearly seven years ago. He was a good workman himself, quick and deft, and it had always been a point of pride with him that no man should do any of his work for him or outwork him. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of deft? Words that rhyme with deft What is the adverb for deft? What is the adjective for deft? What is the noun for deft? Translations for deft Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words defrosting defroster defrosted defrost defrocking defrocked defter deftest deftly deftness defunct defund 4-letter Words Starting With d de def