Sentence examples for deftly applied from inspiring English sources

Fancy dress, makeup deftly applied by your mum or that moustache you tried to grow?

A big, bold, velvety wine that wraps ripe fruit and deftly applied oak around a luxurious structure.

The "not in my backyard" creed, so deftly applied to public works, has been given a new kicker: "and not in yours either".

For the man's lacerated forearm, a tourniquet deftly applied by the elder of the rangers, who told the man how lucky he was: "The artery wasn't severed".

Cono Sur's trusty staple generally does the trick, and it's on particularly good form at the moment, supple and succulent with raspberries and a deftly applied lick of savoury oak.

In 1994, with some deftly applied pressure from Louisiana's senior senator at the time, J. Bennett Johnston -- Betty Hertzog's cousin by marriage -- Congress created the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.

They hired Apurva Pande and Chinmaya Misra, a young couple and principals of the design firm CHA COL, after seeing how deftly the design team had applied a modern overlay to their own 50-year-old bungalow in Culver City, Calif.

The charming piano and brass arrangement brings a bruised nobility to Bon Iver's "Flume", while the interlacing violin lines applied to Talking Heads' "Listening Wind" deftly evoke the refracted sensibility of a newly politicised terrorist summoning the strength to act.

X-rays of the scene, in which the saint stands transfixed in a multitudinous landscape, find a completely worked-out drawing, across which Bellini applied the skin of paint as deftly as if he were pulling a blind.

Here, a nylon bomber jacket "applied" to a coat over a black-tie outfit deftly interprets the unselfconscious, random art of layering during a big city winter.

Their new album, Overdrive, was released in April, and guitarist Naoko Yamano described it as "inspired by 70s British hard rock and American rock"; the songs they played from the record deftly wove those traditions into their pop-punk designs, even as they applied distinctly doomy riffs to songs about food and green tea.