The title story, the one about the television, is a fine example of Mr. Earley's deft, unassuming methods at work.
The very ordinariness of these moments, and the indefinable point at which they crack and spill into something out of the ordinary, and thence into threat, are a horribly deft introduction to the Haneke method.
The wine, technically deft and made in the Champagne method, is the very opposite of the fat California style that is heavily fruity, weighty and mouth-filling.
In three deft articles, she examines the dubious methods of the police in securing the conviction of Muhammad Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, for masterminding a 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian parliament building allegedly by planting evidence and torturing him into confessing.
Not that its methods are anything but agile and deft.
In the art of Chinese brush painting, a great deal can be conveyed in a few deft, eloquent strokes, as Yuan demonstrates when he teaches his students the classical method for painting a lobster.
As in Russia under Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Nazarbayev has blended deft economic policies that have drastically raised living standards with soft authoritarian methods like police repression of dissidents.
His books and DVDs demonstrate a revolutionary (to me, anyway) method of working dough, which involves less desperate flour-dusting and more deft, controlled flinging.
But while not spectacular, they are wonderfully deft and will be a revelation for viewers unfamiliar with Bernini's working methods.
In some ways, such a deft and supple novel can't help but voice confidence in its own methods, or at least find redeeming value in the devices of fiction.
For this particular "painterly sort of style," she explains, Ryland used a speed-paint method that dramatically reduced the overall time to finish, as well as producing a stellar the detailed yet deft timelapse spectacle. .
