1.   A deft hand serves one as well in poetry as in baseball.

2.   A real sushi chef slices with a deft hand and forms rice cakes with a quick, magicianlike back-and-forth motion of the hands.

3.   But a deft diplomatic hand at the State Department was occasionally required to sort out conflicting hotel requests from different delegations.

4.   But the deft hands that have created so many goals for so many others over so many seasons seemed to have lost some of their creative qualities.

5.   His deft directorial hand with television commercials won him three Clio awards.

6.   She detected the deft hand of Gavitt behind all this.

7.   The difference between major concern and minor irritation rested in the deft hands and peripheral vision of Anthony Mason.

8.   The weapons here are the press conference, the satellite television interview beamed to the Arab world and TV messages shaped by deft Madison Avenue hands.

9.   With deft hands, he quickly transformed the bucket of greens into a pretty bouquet, explaining the steps as he went.

10.   Critics credit good scripts and the ability of directors like Antonio Mercero to weave in with a deft hand issues that concern Spanish viewers.