Less deftly handled, the treatment of such a subject could have fallen into a number of traps.
She affectionately portrays archivists as magicians that deftly distinguish between detritus and artifact, capturing history before it disappears because of a broken link or outdated software.
Softly, deftly, music shall surround you...
They closed a show where the evening wear had moved deftly away from red carpet shine and glitter.
The story is interspersed with digressions on the lives of Bach and Casals, which deftly reveal how contemporary politics shaped their music, and buffeted their careers.
Mr Huckabee's ideas on health care are considerably sounder, and he sells them deftly.
Mr Perino, a professor at St John's University in New York, deftly sets the drama of the Senate hearings within the wider cultural and political ferment.
LAST December, in a canvas tent erected on a building site in rural east Mississippi, Haley Barbour worked the dirt-floored space as deftly as Sonny Rollins on a saxophone.
From the beginning, she had clipped a mouse's ear or prepped a rat for a skin graft as deftly as if she had always worked with animals.
When it passes, he deftly removes the vent’s protective grating and crawls inside.
She deftly rolled the hems a few times so I could stand.
But even though Canadians post fewer letters than they once did, state-owned Canada post has deftly avoided obsolescence.
Inflation was low and steady as the Bank of England, freed by Mr Brown to set interest rates in order to hit an inflation target, deftly steered the economy.
Mr Edano, who like Mr Kan is dressed in blue overalls to give the uniform-loving Japanese a sense of workmanship, is deftly trying to reduce the risk of panic around the country.
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