0 skilful/skillful, quick and neat -- khéo tay
Tim was praised for his deft handling of the situation.
Largely owing to this deft intertwining of popular and clerical elements, the collection, one of many such lives of saints, gained immediate and enduring popularity.
A cleverly constructed sentence, finely wrought witticism or deft turn of phrase needs nothing to clarify or punctuate.
How we theorise architecture often entails a diminution of the unexpected and counterintuitive in favour of deft generalisation.
However, in his reference to the disputes within that eld he offers a more deft analysis of the _uidity of opinion.
Within this lm, these paired scenes are not unusual for their deft but comprehensive reminder of the conventional, theatrical, and culture-specic signication of gender.
She was very deft with the cervical cap, and answered lucidly and quickly whatever the doctors asked her about it.
Englund shows himself a deft ethnographer in his analysis of kinship.
The deft technique of applying intellectual stucco maintains a smooth pace, drawing the reader along to know how the story will unfold.
