Garth, with her sleeves turned above her elbows, deftly handling her pastry—applying her rolling-pin and giving ornamental pinches, while she expounded with grammatical fervor what were the right views about the concord of verbs and pronouns with "nouns of multitude or signifying many," was a sight agreeably amusing.
" Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned.
Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions.
" Standing at a table in the centre of the stage, with his friends grouped about him, he delivers that inimitable, rambling, character monologue so famous in "A Magnolia Flower," at the same time that he deftly makes juleps for the party.
The tick tried this, that, and the other course, and got as excited and as anxious as the boys themselves, but time and again just as he would have victory in his very grasp, so to speak, and Tom's fingers would be twitching to begin, Joe's pin would deftly head him off, and keep possession.
27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes.
John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together.
" BBC Culture's Nicholas Barber gave Happy End five stars, however, saying "75-year-old Haneke proves that he can still generate tension more deftly than most horror directors half his age.
Rid, a professor in security studies at King's College London, is a fine chronicler of the debate, deftly recounting the hope, hype, and fears that have accompanied our thinking on automation.
The speeches deftly deployed the classic figures of oratory.
Having deftly outlined the gloomier forecasts, Kirby and Davenport lay out how to avoid submission to, or substitution by, machines.
She captures a passing mood (melancholia she can turn in her hand "as if it were a small planet," impossibly blue) as deftly as she conjures her cat Cairo ("an Abyssinian runt with a coat the color of the pyramids") or a childhood memory ("a skate key on a cherished lace from the shoe of a 12-year-old boy") or a sad, post-Sandy Christmas in the Rockaways.
The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match.
Taking a deep breath of the clear air, Maggie deftly took a bag from her pocket and started to pick, stopping every now and then to straighten her back and enjoy the familiar view.
Lu Xiwei, head of the CNR unit that will deliver the subway cars, also deftly fended off — in polite English — a pack of Boston reporters who wanted to compare the base salaries of his company's China workforce to US blue-collar workers.
The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match.