Republican strategist Charlie Black said Pence has shown some political deftness.
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Mr. Carson tries to broker these differences with chameleon-like deftness.
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But Pruitt isn't showing particular political deftness to counter his bad judgment.
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A teenage reader will absorb the deftness and sophistication of the telling.
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It's a family affair, and documentarian David Gelb captures the delicacy with deftness.
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The estate sale business requires a deftness for both appraising and handling people.
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The deftness and nuance of Mutu's project, taken in this light, becomes particularly provocative.
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It's a testament to his deftness that he makes this raunch sound utterly wholesome.
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The deftness and nuance of Mutu's project, taken in this light, becomes particularly provocative.
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The president signaled early on that military might, not diplomatic deftness, was his thing.
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And this approach works with varying degrees of deftness, depending on which film you're watching.
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It's macabre but comic, demonstrating a deftness with which Cardboard Computer handle weighty subject matter.
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In his first narrative feature film, the director A.B. Shawky demonstrates deftness with an inexperienced cast.
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New technology has given us the tools to approach and mitigate these challenges with confidence and deftness.
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It also means some finicky deftness because of all the chopping and the number of sauces: two!
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In fact, even the title Call of Duty: Ghosts connotes precision, silence, deftness on a supernatural level.
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With both works, you're seeing a filmmaker growing in deftness with using the tools that he has.
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That style could have felt too heady and gridlocked, if not for the deftness of Mr. Okazaki's designs.
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Similar deftness may be needed again as Britain approaches the next Brexit deadline at the end of October.
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No, that's right, but anyone that's gotten to that level understands, to use your word about Bezos, deftness.
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Sampha's Process serves up a good illustration of the Powerbeats Pro's deftness in handling more nuanced and gentler productions.
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He answered my questions, but I mostly got tales about Denninger's deftness with a harpoon during his glory days.
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With a Coke can, Riley crystallizes an image of the superpower of capitalism, which is its deftness with misdirection.
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But at other points he showed a deftness that Mr. Trump often lacked at his own debate last week.
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A gem among many rocks, his deftness has made him a well-respected artist to emerge from the scene.
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Mildenberger was a heavy underdog to Ali, whose hand speed and deftness at avoiding punches were at their peak.
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The magic and deftness of Dovey's prose swiftly dissipates, and the scenes resemble something out of an academic text.
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Mental health has turned into a commodity in the music industry, but Marie writes about it with a deftness.
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The deftness of the art, however, is in the more distant figures, smaller and smaller, without losing their individuality.
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It will demand sustained pragmatism and political deftness from a prime minister who has hitherto shown little evidence of either.
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It surges with energy and light, is full of grand themes and shows, for Schumann, a certain deftness in orchestration.
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I am not tired or angry; I am soft inside, watching my kindergartner handle her fragile grandmother with such deftness.
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An untrained artist from Copenhagen shows off a deftness with tone and mood combining archival images and scenes from nature.
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It's Jackson's life outside the investigation, which Dunn explores with deftness and levity, that really brings the book to life.
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The linchpin of the proceedings is the birthday girl, Anna, played by Cate Blanchett with wit, grace and physical deftness.
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Also, he was a very subtle but effective manipulator of people, a trait he exercised with great deftness and effectiveness.
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The Spirit Art Gallery received rave reviews when it opened, and various news publications praised the drawings for their deftness alone.
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He fires guns with uncanny accuracy; that same physical deftness makes him a smoothly efficient horse thief and a prodigious dancer.
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Eight months into the job, Mr. Mattis has exhibited a political deftness that has eluded other members of Mr. Trump's cabinet.
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He did more than shout and scream; with rhetorical deftness, he got the crowd more engaged and excited than any other speaker.
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When I was this weary, I'd do various mindless things to get myself ready for the day, which necessarily demanded physical deftness.
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The steering is direct and communicative, with the quite-large Stinger pivoting around corners with a deftness characteristic of smaller sports cars.
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Still, with his pinstripe suits and white-shoe deftness, he represented a steady and low-profile contrast to Trump's whippetlike campaign manager.
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Although the Flemish Hoefnagel never knew his Croatian counterpart Bocksay, he responded to the inscriptions with a matching degree of deftness and play.
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And Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, the reigning Olympic champion, performs with deftness, creativity and emotion that may be unmatched by any previous skater.
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For one thing, the robot dropped the cube eight out of 10 times in testing—hardly evidence of superhuman, or even human, deftness.
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Created with the deftness of a craftsman's concentrated focus, the works on display are architectural feats bending gravity and with a surprisingly futuristic bent.
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Williams played down the number 22, while also noting the remarkable achievement of 18, with the same deftness as she hit her drop shots.
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You should sample its mixture of bacchanal and gall, and revel in Farhadi's dependable deftness, as he sketches and frames his collection of characters.
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Mr. DeVos, who cultivated political allies with the deftness of a senior statesman, had also served as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Removing a pearl from an oyster requires deftness and a keen eye, both of which Mr. Fardan's grandfather was reputed to have in abundance.
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Spot is so unprecedented and so befuddling in its deftness that even Boston Dynamics isn't totally sure what the robot will be good for.
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Former prosecutors say that cross-examination will be long, painful for the women, and require deftness from Ms. Rotunno, whose natural forcefulness could backfire.
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The deftness with which Mr. Bourne (aided by the arranger Terry Davies) makes Herrmann's musical moods and cues serve his story gives sustained delight.
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Here, realized with a deftness of language and keen sense of narrative, are 15 of the best long reads published in T this year.
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But its setting and themes—an exploration of a post-Brexit, dystopian U.K.—will require a great deal of storytelling deftness to hit well.
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Still, though, the speed of the craft and the deftness of his control make watching Luke's victory from Dubai an exhilarating — if slightly nauseating — experience.
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It's not sloppy or at all under-powered, it just doesn't have the sharpness and deftness of cars that take the "Sport" moniker more seriously.
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Yes, partly because it boasted a surprising deftness and charm, but mainly because it took in more than a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide.
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Swans are in elegant residence on the lake, and a paddle on the river takes kayakers under bridges and through a fish weir (deftness suggested).
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Reminiscent of Opdyke's earlier work, they display a deftness that may be due to the artist's 12 years of experience working as an architectural model maker.
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The feeling of falling in love — which one can neither easily find nor effortlessly fall out of — is surveyed throughout seven major sections with agile deftness.
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The pair served up skilled and entertaining tennis in the second set, Maria drawing gasps of admiration from the crowd for speed and deftness at the net.
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While the Jag doesn't display the deftness of Macan in the twisties, F-Pace is among the most compelling crossovers an enthusiast can toss into a turn.
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The royals will have to utilize all their deftness for talking with dignitaries, while delving further into issues they champion, such as children's development and climate change.
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Or can the students now attending elite private schools and universities and conferences at MIT use their deftness with the master's tools to dismantle their own house?
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Until an overly complex last section, she manages the trick well enough, rendering the atmospheric setting precisely and the psychology of her characters with deftness, strength and subtlety.
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Bear's deftness of phrase and metaphor is simply lovely, even when he's writing about (in "Blood Music") the world literally dissolving into a posthuman group mind of smart cells.
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But Linda O'Dell, one of the victims, recalled Ms. Daly's deftness, at a time when victims of rape were often re-victimized by the law enforcement procedures that followed.
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She also talked about her closeness to Indian culture, including her deftness in the nation's dance moves, which she picked up at the White House State Dinner for India.
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In theory, it might be possible for OPEC to stabilise prices in a narrow $50-60 per barrel range but it would require exceptional deftness and a lot of luck.
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He handles it with a card dealer's deftness, searching its surface for divots, notches, ridges—any irregularities that will lend his fingers the purchase they need to clutch it fast.
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A new interactive chart from Twitter reveals just how the billionaire real estate mogul — and his deftness at the 140-character rhetorical firebomb — dominates conversation on the social media platform.
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I move out of the store with Karmakar to sample the food, and am fascinated by the deftness with which a cook is turning over the paddus on a frying plate.
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As cult leader Patti Levin on The Leftovers and stern educator Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale, the veteran stage and screen actress has brought dimensionality and deftness to these characters.
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It's hard to look so deeply into other people's lives that you really understand them, except perhaps through fiction, and that is what Montemarano has done here, with deftness and subtlety.
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In a world where athletics departments and the NCAA monitor everything from food intake to class attendance of athletes with the deftness of the FBI, why do millionaire coaches get a pass?
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The Leftovers dealt expressly with death, grief, and the unmovable space between, and Leder directed the finale with a grace note that proves her deftness for the subject and for endings in general.
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Unfortunately, the show has a propensity for treating subject matter that demands deftness and nuance with a hammer-headed simplicity—like its stereotyped depiction of Muslims as the architects of all this suffering.
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Ebola, which killed thousands in West Africa, needs close contact to spread — it doesn't have the deftness of a respiratory disease like Covid-19, which can move with a mere cough or sneeze.
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It&aposs large, but there are only two burners and balancing or shifting a pot or pan around takes both innate deftness and delicate attention to detail, neither of which describes me, categorically.
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And running through all these paintings is a deftness of touch and style put at the service of a larger question, which is, how does one want to present the self to the world?
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In a narrow sense, the strategy was successful: trust companies have evolved into something more akin to wealth managers, pitching themselves to prospective clients as firms with the deftness to navigate China's choppy markets.
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Rosenbaum compared Bergman's "fluent storytelling" and "deftness in handling actresses" to the "skills of a Hollywood professional like George Cukor," and in Bergman's earliest films one feels the touch of an unusually engaged classicist.
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If he does the commish a favor, however … With a mixture of desperation and deftness, Chuck constructs an elaborate Rube Goldberg device of quid pro quo exchanges among the city's most privileged and powerful.
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As directed by Jenn Thompson for the Actors Company Theater (a troupe that specializes in older works and is presenting this as its first new play), the cast members handle the script with deftness.
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No commercial success or comedic deftness will justify the message that a show born from controversy and nearly felled by racism still deserves a chance to prove its alleged good intentions at this political moment.
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That high-velocity deftness—it's a combination of both speed and quickness—is something that Anthony Davis remembered fondly from earlier this season, before the Pelicans dealt Smith to the Sixers for two second-round picks.
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Even so, Cunningham is a writer who knows exactly how to cast line after line with a deftness and grace that summon the truth from the depths of the past up to the surface, at last.
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Inebriation levels notwithstanding, Doherty's songwriting has never really dipped in quality: the newest songs have all the wit, observational deftness and charisma that helped propel the Libertines to era-defining heights a decade and a half ago.
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It's that Trudeau displayed an impressive deftness at picking up on left-wing social issues, the kinds of things his father also emphasized, and highlighting them in a way that made him seem compassionate, thoughtful, and open-minded.
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As president, Bush showed considerable deftness and prudence in foreign affairs, leading a broad international alliance to victory in the first Gulf War and helping to ensure order, rather than chaos, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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It is worth pausing to admire its sheer, dazzling craft, the deftness of its tonal shifts — from polemical to playful, from humorous to horrific, from blaxploitation to Classical Hollywood and back again — and the quality of its portraiture.
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Debbie (Betty Gilpin) and Tammé (Kia Stevens) share some beautiful moments of vulnerability in Season 2 The deftness of its depiction of harassment in Hollywood only highlights what makes the show so powerful, through both its seriousness and silliness.
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And, he has pointed out, the tattoo is on the same right leg as he uses to kick the ball into the goal with such deftness and regularity as to make him an important part of the England squad.
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These are all familiar themes; what made season one work so well was the subtlety and deftness with which showrunner Dave Kajganich blended them all together as thematic texture that never overshadowed the drama of the plot at hand.
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Whereas the inner lives of Stephen, Alison, Liz's parents and the victims of the pub shooting are rendered with deftness and sympathy, Liz remains something of a cipher; her fears, desires and grief — if she has it — remain opaque.
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The work is novel less for its output than for the peculiar skill set demanded to produce it: deftness at trawling the depths of the internet on one hand, and an acute understanding of contemporary tastes on the other.
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Any comprehensive tax reform will drown Capitol Hill in an onslaught of corporate lobbying, and require a deftness and level of policy expertise that barely exists on the Hill these days, and certainly doesn't exist in the White House, to maneuver.
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But Miike choreographs and executes the proceedings with such deftness and enthusiasm that the movie feels like a standard revisited by a particularly inventive jazz pianist: the changes are familiar, but the variations set them in an exciting new environment.
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Be the Cowboy is an accessible meditation on selfhood, and just as a self is often multiplicitous, so is Mitski's masterful use of various genres—ducking and diving, though always brought together by the devastating deftness of her lyrical hand.
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"The missteps arguably go back to the 1980s, when Sears became too diversified and lost the deftness that had once made it the world's largest and most innovative retailer," Neil Saunders, a retail analyst at GlobalData, wrote today in a note to investors.
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To the spectators, who included Rod Laver himself in the front row of Laver Arena, Federer also delivered his trademark blend of deftness and punch, flowing to the ball wherever it bounced and then striking it with precision and a dash of venom.
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As the researchers write: AllenAI has never before encountered the unique phrases in Iconary, yet our preliminary games have shown that our AI system is able to both successfully depict and understand phrases with a human partner with an often surprising deftness and nuance.
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As anyone who spent the '90s playing SNK fighting games would probably tell you, those big red buttons need to be able to react quickly, they need to have a certain feel to them, and there needs to be a deftness to the touch.
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It requires a deftness dealing with scandals and gaffes and accidental blunders, an ability to know when you have a wrestling move that justifies getting down in the mud and when you're better off sitting on a top rail and acting superior to the pigs.
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Instead, you probably know a lot of these songs, and, aware of that, Kirlan Labarrie plays them with confident deftness, making it work by creating an off-the-cuff, more personal vibe, like you're right there in the room watching him fiddle with Traktor on a laptop.
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But the jungler made his presence and his skills known in the match against Royal Never Give Up. He played Skarner with deftness, getting his team out to a quick two-kill lead and keeping one step ahead of RNG's spicy jungler MLXG through the rest of the match.
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There's also the fact that Goethe, unlike Werther, was a great writer, and at the heart of this beautiful novel lies Goethe's great late poem about his infatuation, the "Marienbad Elegy" (with the original German helpfully placed beside the English, which shows the deftness of David Dollenmayer's translation).
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It takes real deftness and smarts to excavate that meaning from Alan Moore's original work (even as he has disavowed any of the work that has taken up the Watchmen title and story, and in fact left comics writing altogether after a lot of shoddy treatment by the business side).
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They did exactly what I told them to do, blocking out racist, misogynist and anti-immigrant comments, hiding anyone who didn't support Black Lives Matter, all with such deftness that I had no idea that a candidate who ran a campaign on exactly those values had gained enough popularity to win the election.
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Part of the trick is that something like a lidar unit requires additional compute power attached to the back, and all that extra weight muddies the control algorithms: Just as a horse moves differently with a human on its back, Spot must adapt to a heavier payload to maintain its famous deftness.
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But there were tributes, of course, to Kobe Bryant's basketball might: the five N.B.A. championships, the 81-point game, the deftness and grit of the kid who was drafted right out of his Philadelphia-area high school and who became the hardwood heir to — and texting buddies with — Jordan, the finest player of an earlier generation.
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Look at his old columns for the Catholic Herald—since deleted, but nothing on the internet is ever really gone forever—and it's all drearily familiar: Protesters are bad, the left are bullies, the media is biased, everyone's mean to me—and they're all delivered without a moment of deftness or play and in the grim throttled tones of any moldering and moribund conservative hack.
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