As with the dextrous ventriloquism in Vernon God Little, Gabriel's living and very beautiful voice carries this convulsive novel: a girl's "buttocks locomote in denim"; a Burger King sign becomes "a delicate graduation of reds from hot capsicum to dry blood"; high intoxication itself is "a glycerine Tibet where you whirl under stars, arms outstretched, free of yourself".
Before he and Neil Armstrong left the moon, Buzz Aldrin accidentally damaged a crucial circuit breaker, spreading fear about the possibility of the engine failing to start, and them being stranded (it was fixed with the dextrous use of a felt-tip pen).
Some balanced the white with black.
Bilal, one of the dextrous four-year-olds with a saw, reflects on the effects of his hard work: "My hand is hot because I've been using it so much".
Loved by readers for the dextrous way she combined scholarship with sound advice – her recipes, succinct but never vague, are difficult to muck up – she left behind at least a dozen books that might reasonably be called classics, each one fat with recipes, history and stories.
Interestingly, though, while Brown may – with his outre appearance and jokey delivery – have once identified with ODB, this is a rather grittier street narrative, more reminiscent of the dextrous tales of Raekwon than those of his exuberant bandmate.
So with an ambient track imbued with the dolor of a summer storm, "aiwtdipms" shows us a new side of the dextrous producer.
Behind the penny loafers and songs about commas, there's a bold band that can balance dextrous originality with an innate pop sensibility.
Mandeville's involved "the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician" — in modern terms, legislation, regulation and taxation.
