He handles the debate with humour and deftly characterizes the various birds.
From birdlike twitters among the violins and piano, the work moves through six deftly characterized movements of surging energy, jazzy vivacity and airy open-chord expanse.
Soy-milk containers, beer cans, tattoos and cool books are all a part of Ms. Gangloff's lexicon, in which a community, rather than an individual, is deftly characterized.
A compact sequence of four deftly characterized sections and an ending that looks back to its beginning, the work brought out the supplest, most affectionate playing the violinist Cho-Liang Lin and the harpist Bridget Kibbey could muster.
I had mixed feelings about the Sonata in F (Op. 54) — a departure from the printed program, noted in an insert — in which a deftly managed, elegantly characterized first movement was wedded to a tumultuous but unfocused Allegretto.
Kygo (real name: Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll) has put his personal spin on everyone from Marvin Gaye to Ellie Goulding, deftly reworking their hits into house ditties characterized by languid pacing, pop melodies, and simple, stripped-down beats.
The closing Andantino was particularly striking: Ms. O'Connor shaped and characterized each variation thoughtfully, and the string players moved deftly through Mozart's playful changes of spirit.
In addition to making the most of his sudden notoriety, Mr. Choi deftly managed to capitalize on the same voter disaffection with taxes that has characterized other races this year, most notably the Republican gubernatorial primary.
His acting style was characterized by unbridled exaggeration and pronounced mannerisms; his signature gesture in which he deftly flipped a cigarette high in the air and caught it between his lips was adored by his intensely devoted fans.
The poet Philip Larkin, for instance, deftly avoided the encroachments of middle age — "This loss of interest, hair and enterprise," as he characterized it in "Continuing to Live" — by insisting that he had never been youthful in the first place.
