Sentence examples for deftly shaping from inspiring English sources

Mr. Masur's experience in leading these symphonies was immediately apparent in the lucid interpretations he elicited here, deftly shaping melodic lines and highlighting orchestral colors.

But he survives by using his light tenor with poise, deftly shaping the performance with an exacting attention to the tonal colors of the German text.

But at the Upper East Side party Ms. Zomorodi attended, the stylist "who shall remain nameless" worked intently, deftly shaping another guest's blond bob, with little small-talk.

The Asia Society is addressing peregrination and devotion directly in a deftly shaped exhibition called "Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art".

Through Nov. 17 The first New York gallery show by the San Francisco-based artist Arnold J. Kemp is a small, deftly shaped thematic installation.

The elegiac theme of the slow movement, which can sometimes seem endless, was lyrically compelling and deftly shaped, without ever sounding manipulated.

I began as an unsightly chunk of almond paste, but a baker's skilled fingers deftly shaped me into a small, marzipan pig.

The movie is a little too tight-lipped: Téchiné leaves more than he should to the deftly shaped plot and the perfectly cast actors who embody it.

Working from photographs of the shoes from the Costume Institute, Mrs. Hernandez had deftly shaped, in plaster, models of each shoe, complete with buckles, bows or flowers.

Michael Johnson, the Olympic track gold medalist and Baylor graduate, said he felt that mentality on campus, not from the track program, which Clyde Hart deftly shaped into an unlikely power, but elsewhere.

The peeler, which he ordered in bulk from a Swiss company, had no electric cord, no battery; it was just a wide, deftly shaped handle with a well-made blade and a little side barb to facilitate certain cuts.