Another painting he created at this time, The Fortune Teller, shows a young woman deftly removing a man's ring as she pretends to read his palm.
The designer, Peter Swift, deftly adapted the principles of Japanese garden design to suit the British climate.
The First Lady cleverly chose a silk shift dress by Mumbai-born, New York-based designer Naeem Khan, deftly combining a western silhouette with a skirt embellished in exotic silken embroidery that would not have looked out of place on a Rajasthani maharaja.
They deftly discussed the double standards of sexism (Palin "upset" to be thought of as sexy, Clinton upset that she was considered a harpy, a shrew and a boner-shrinker) and made it obvious that it didn't matter if any ol' woman made it to the White House, but rather the right woman.
I am briefly transported to Pigalle, where as a tour guide I once watched, helpless, as a group of uncontrollable teenage Mexicans in my care melted deftly into various bars, strip clubs and brothels, and I know Maurizio is fighting a losing battle against seal lust.
The granddaddy of these movies would have to be the Boulting brothers' I'm All Right Jack, from 1959, which deftly played industrial dispute as an Ealing comedy.
She has played deftly on disillusionment with mainstream politicians, high unemployment and a flat economy, campaigning as the candidate who stands up for the neglected against the tired and smug establishment.
4-H offers organic projects, too (deftly treading a path through the culture wars that dog so many fields in America, including science).
First, that she could have done more had she wielded her handbag more deftly.
And some artists manage deftly to straddle the divide.
Yet such overt humanisation is exactly what is needed in the aftermath of a human-instigated tragedy.Management at Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa have echoed the approach deftly.
