In them, he has seized the high ground of principle while deftly delivering a partisan stiletto.
Here the speech was boiled down to a narration, written by Lawrence A. Rosenwald and deftly delivered by Janet Bookspan.
The references to black folk art and to Mr. Holland's own life in the exhibition (supported by a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation) are deftly delivered, and there is even a potential performance element.
I like to think of him as the midwife of the team, deftly delivering the ball out of scrums (large clumps of forwards), rucks (large clumps of forwards) and lineouts (long lines of forwards that degenerate into large clumps of forwards) and into the waiting hands of his teammates.
In the film, Lyle directs a languorous, appraising gaze at a young woman he's just met, and deftly delivers the best line in the picture: "If I felt half as good as you look, I'd go out and kill myself while it lasted".
The novel's conclusion, which ought on the surface to offer hope and a chance of betterment and freedom for some of its more deserving characters, is so deftly delivered as to leave us in no doubt that, in capitalism's perfectly calibrated machine, the elevation of any one individual will result only in the oppression and exploitation of others.
With humor, charm, well-crafted songs and maybe a little too much rhyming dialogue, "The Fantasticks" deftly delivers an age-old message about learning to see without filters, to reach a goal without guile.
Deftly, he delivered a challenge to Hutton that was almost an affront.
It is difficult to describe exactly how "Healing Wars" functions, how deftly it delivers a diverse assortment of historical anecdotes and turns physical movement into an extension of each subject under discussion.
The exhaust notes are deftly tuned to deliver optimum, but not deafening, amounts of burble, howl and wail – critical aural components of any cruiser-style motorcycle aspiring to compete for the hearts, minds and ears of the "loud pipes save lives" Harley crowd.
