Examples of deftly

• All of the actors handle the dialogue deftly.

• They must act deftly if they are to regain control over the region.

• She deftly managed not to step on the cat.

• This overview deftly utilises and weaves in many of the other writers' analyses and interpretations, but it also stakes out positions of its own.

• He deftly rejects ' a polarity in which contextual readings and formal analysis are seen as mutually exclusive' (p. 17).

• The 1838 report, for example, deftly interweaves statistical information, anecdote, and prescription.

• The six individual essays deftly link architectural and urban issues to contemporar y film treatments.

• The musical evidence is deftly treated with a judicious sense of what is required to lead the non-specialist through the argument.