deftness

But a dog, clutched by the neck from the back, can never be a match for two men, gifted with the intelligence and deftness of men, each of them two-handed with four fingers and an opposable thumb to each hand.

Such an affair as the present, staged with a deftness that was almost beautiful, lay beyond her powers and those of her friends.

West, the well-known Brooklyn educator, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the lad's deftness in English composition, and his struggles with mathematics.

He liked the deftness with which her hands worked the pie dough, the quick way she moved between stove and table, yet mingled with this admiration was a slight but distinct hostility.

He struck me as stupid, and yet the deftness with which he worked with his one hand seemed to belie his stupidity.

Tartar, with a wave of his hand and the deftness of a cat, had already dipped through his scuttle of scarlet runners without breaking a leaf, and 'gone below.'

An' I'd better niver ha' had a son, as is like no other body's son for the deftness an' th' handiness, an' so looked on by th' grit folks, an' tall an' upright like a poplar-tree, an' me to be parted from him an' niver see 'm no more."

Sympathetic deftness might be thought of as social intelligence.

And yet, thanks to his laserlike precision in skewering nonsensical topics with humour and deftness, now you do.

So a certain deftness in international diplomacy could well make the difference between the country making a successful transition to an interim government, with democratic elections to follow, or it descending into a bloody civil war.

like basketball games without star players, lacking "deftness, flair, and

Again, as is customary with Carroll's writing, inclusion of these issues is done with a deftness of touch that never detracts from, or jars with, the storytelling.